Ground suitable for pigs?

[dottysfarm]

Hi, I am not sure what topic to post this under so hopefully it is in the right place.

I have been planning to get pigs to raise this summer. I will be raising them outdoors. I have found a supplier and am supposed to call him in a couple weeks to pick up my piglets...

However, two nights ago I was laying in bed and thought about the ground around the place I live and remembered all the stuff we dug out of the ground as we tilled for my gardens. I found lots of thick, old broken glass, like maybe old gallon jugs or canning jars...

What does this mean for my future piggies?

 

[dottysfarm]

somebody anybody?

 

[jhm47]

They will root it out of the ground, most likely push it around and chew on it, but I doubt that they would swallow it. Pigs are curious, but not stupid enough to eat things that are bad for them. Of course, there are always exceptions to any rule.

 

[freemotion]

I think I'd just get in there every day with a container and pick up everything they root up. It will be an opportunity to clean it all up, with their help.

A previous owner illegally dumped truckloads of debris from a metal shop on what is now the woods alongside my pasture, and partly in the area that is the pasture. I figure in a few more decades it will all be cleaned up. We find a lot of stainless steel in the crops of our pastured roosters on processing day. The pigs were fine.

 

[dottysfarm]

Great, that will help me out immensly. Thanks for your responses!

I have had bad times with my dog eating things and her having to have surgery and I lost sleep that night thinking about my poor pigs having to go through what my dog did. I think I will plan to go out there on a daily basis and pick up their findings.

Thanks I feel a little relief.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

you can't imagine what kind of things our pigs dug up last year. it was amazing.

and yep i'm with free - pick up as much as you can and keep an eye out for what they find.

as always jhm is right - they probably wont eat it... but if they find glass they might "mouth" on it and cut themselves.

good luck!