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Develop your garden.
Livestock Gardens
Keeping any form of livestock requires careful consideration. You must ensure that your garden or plot of land will adequately meet the needs of the animals you are planning to keep.
There are many choices, some of the more usual are chickens, hens, goats, and rabbits. The following brief guides are design to help get an understanding of the basic upkeep and care requirements for your livestock gardening plans.
You should also seek professional advice from suppliers in your local area, they will be able to help you with any specific questions that you may have.
Keeping Pot Bellied Pigs - Feeding
Pigs will eat a lot of food ! It is essential that they have a balanced diet to maintain their level of health though.
You can buy ready prepared pig food mixes from suitable suppliers, this should be the main part of your pigs diet, as the feed will contain all the important minerals and proteins that you pig will require. You will also be able to gain valuable advice about other aspects of looking after your pet pig from your local supplier.
On average you should feed your pig at least twice a day. A general guide is piglets should be fed on a free-choice basis (as many times as they want) or at least 2 cups of pig feed from 3 weeks old (or as soon as pigs will nibble on it) until 1 year old. At about 1 year you may need to decrease the amount slightly. This will depend on your pigs metabolism and activity level.
Avoid feeding your pig dog or cat food. They do not have the proper nutrients for your potbellied pig and the protein level is too high. Dog food can be used as an emergency replacement feed, if you have no other feed available, but should only be used for a short period of time.
Use a feed that is low in protein, 12% or 14% and has as little fat as possible.
You may want to supplement your pet pigs diet with some fresh leafy vegetables. Leaf lettuce with a couple of carrots cut up, will make a suitable meal for the pig. Use fruit in limited amounts though, because the high sugar content can make your pig overweight very quickly.
Food amounts should be cut down proportionally if your pig is able to graze and gain most of its diet in that way.
Water: Make sure your potbelly pig always has access to clean drinking water.
