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Anonymous-0 · Nov 14, 2011

Been seeing all the posts about the price of hay and thought I would pass along and idea in case it hasn't crossed your mind. I pay 2 dollars and 50 cents for a pickup truck load of bread once a week. I get 2-3 feedings out of that for cattle, and have some all week long for chickens. Cattle will even leave grain when they see me pulling in with bread. Of course there are lots of other choices too - I know a farmer in Ohio that gets the same kind of deal on potato chips for his hogs. This does require an investment of your time to open the packages.

jackinok · Nov 14, 2011

Be careful where you post this,knew a old boy once who got in serious trouble fattening hogs on scraps from a resurant. Knew another who had problems feeding bread and those hostess pies to his hogs. I truly couldnt really say what laws they were breaking,but they had problems somehow. Kind of a strange deal about feeding people food to animals.Probably not healthy enough!LOL Just FYI.I honestly dont know what it would hurt unless its something about passing diseases along somehow. We used to buy many years ago old bread and stuff that was molded for hog feed,but there was some kind of ruckus raised and they quit selling it. Cant say what the deal was though.

tjdub · Nov 14, 2011

> Be careful where you post this,knew a old boy once who got in serious trouble fattening hogs on scraps from a resurant.

I saw an episode of Dirty Jobs (w/ Mike Rowe) several years ago where he worked on an operation like that. It must not be illegal in all states if they featured it on a TV show. I can't remember what state they were in (Nevada maybe?). It sure was disgusting! Looking at what they had to filter out of it made you wonder who the real hogs were.

I had a neighbor that fed old bread to hogs a decade or two ago. He bought it by the ton and the packaging was removed. I think he only did it for a year or so and decided it wasn't profitable.

RayP(MI) · Nov 14, 2011

Well, years ago, when I was in elementary school - and that was years ago, we had a farmer that came in and picked up the plate scrapings from the lunchroom. Guess that would be frowned upon now.

jackinok · Nov 14, 2011

who knows with all the rules and regulations nowdays. I THINK ,and dont qoute me ,but it seems like your supposed to reproccess it to kill bacteria or some strange thing. Simonella ,botulism and all that jazz,that can be in it,and you could pass down the food chain. Its crazy but every day or two there seems to be some strange new sickness going around. I think the human race will finaly regulate itself into starvation on of these days.

RGMartin · Nov 14, 2011

I think it is a pre versus post consumer thing.

Table scraps are supposed to be cooked.

We used to feed cheese trimmings and out of date code packaged cheese from a packaging facility/wholesaler to our hogs. Serious weight gain.

jimont · Nov 14, 2011

Years ago, I ran a mobile feed unit and ground tons of day-old bread,cakes and pastries for two beef farmers who had access to local bakeries. Sure hated to see some of those fancy cakes going to cattle.

37chief · Nov 14, 2011

My brother would have tomato growers dump the culls, from the packers. The cattle liked them. They would bring them by the dump truck loads. Cows will eat just about anything. My Grand Mother told me they would burn the stickers off cactus, and the cows would eat it. Stan

NW Ohio Tim · Nov 14, 2011

I think it's a federal law that you can't feed unccoked garbage to hogs. It was to stop the spread of Trichinosis.

If you watch the Dirty Job's episode about the guy in Las Vegas, they dump all the scraps into a big cooker, it's steaming when they dump it back into the truck to feed it to the hogs.

With that being said, there is a definition of garbage. If I remember right, bread and chips and candy that comes from manufacturers ready to eat aren't considered garbage. If you have to cook it for people to eat, like meat and gravy and stuff, you have to cook it again before you feed it to pigs.

I wouldn't base my operating plan on what I just typed, since it's from old memory...... but it's a rough guidline to start from.

I always wondered what the pork tasted like from that guy in Vegas...... I'l stick with corn & soybean meal.

BCnT · Nov 15, 2011

we fed slop to our hogs and they tasted alot better than this sterile lean excuse for pork nowadays...we cooked slop in clawfoot bath tubs over wood fires...never knew of any law requiring it to be cooked but the city banned us hauling it...used to eat in the finest resturants in Galveston at least 3-4 days a week...head chef knew us and appreciated us disposing of their scraps...in turn they'd fix us anything for lunch we asked for.
hogs favorite treat was days we picked up from Star Dairy...they loved that out of date ice cream.

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