Feeding without bought-in feed

In short

• A fattening pig from 25 kg to slaughter eats roughly 300 kg of grain and meal, roughly 1.5–3 kg a day, with 5–10 L of water.
• Protein in the ration: 16 % up to 60 kg, then 13 % to slaughter. Maize has only roughly 8.5 %.
• Protein from the homestead: peas, field beans, lucerne, clover, whey. Soya only heat-treated, never raw.
• A premix (roughly 3 kg per 100 kg of ration) is the one purchase that always pays.
• Never meat, swill or kitchen scraps. It's illegal in the UK, Ireland and the EU, banned or tightly regulated in the US and Canada, and the main road for African swine fever.
• Potatoes are cooked and the cooking water thrown away. 4 kg of cooked potatoes replace roughly 1 kg of grain.

What's inside

Chapters

1. What a pig needs
2. What "without bought-in feed" means
3. Grain from your own fields
4. Protein without soya meal
5. Roots, pumpkins and potatoes
6. Grazing, greens and garden waste
7. Whey and milk
8. African swine fever and feed
9. How much and how to feed
10. Growth and feed conversion: is the ration any good
11. Stocks for the whole fattening period
12. Common mistakes
13. Printable checklist

Worksheets

• Ration, stock and water calculator
• Ingredients for my fattening
• Growth, conversion and grain replacement calculator
• My recipe and ration
• Weighing and feed log
• Feed cost sheet for fattening
• Pig feeding calendar