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I"m new to the farming world. I have had a couple pigs over the last few years. They feed on garden scraps and very clean garbage. I have a few neighbors who also keep their house garbage for my pigs. I picked up two houses today (one day late) and fed out the pigs. I noticed two small ant-hill size piles of small white worms under the buckets. I can only assume some were in the food, which the pigs ate. I only have two pigs. Can someone tell me A.) how concerned I should be, B.) What signs should I be looking for out of the pigs. C.) Should I not even wait for signs and take action now. D.) Even if I do take action now what type of action would I take? or what type of medication?? Any big of advice would help.
 
Maggots. Very common in garbage as they are fly larvae. You should seriously consider not feeding garbage as disease can be passed easily from hogs to humans and vice versa. And with all due respect you should do more research before beginning any farm enterprise....yes I"ve slopped lots of hogs but it was garden and orchard waste only. The feed costs should always be considered before starting any ag enterprise and never, never feed other people"s garbage to hogs. In the first half of the last century it was common for small towns to feed garbage to hogs but the practice has been outlawed in many places due to the possibility of passing disease from human to hog back to human. If memory serves some municipalities and pork producers cooked the garbage to prevent disease transmission. I"m 53 and been farming all my life, currently on 66.5 acres with 40s and 50s technology and there"s ways to cut your feed costs without the kind of risk you"re exposing yourself to. Research online, or ask your land grant university for help but quit feeding garbage to your hogs or you"re asking for trouble.
 
I don't know about the disease thing, but your hogs will have much more fat and less meat eating trash. I suppose salmonella risk would be higher. Salmonella poisoning makes the flu seem like a minor case of indigestion.
 
Very much agree with Gordy. The REAL danger is something you don't want to expose your family to if you care for them at all.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
 
Towns went away from garbage because they couldn't afford to pay the farmers to pick it up. That's when all the pigeries around me went out, went towns stopped the garbage because of money issues. Although I appreciate everyone's concern, only one of you even came close to addressing my questions
 
REGARDLESS of what anyone says, the Nevada state dept. of agriculture authorizes the use of vegetable and meat scraps to produce pig slop.

There are many pig farmers north of Las Vegas who get plentiful restaurant and store seconds.

Here's the catch: Pig slop MUST be boiled in a vat immediately prior to feeding.

As long as the garbage is boiled, disease is not an issue. However, in your case, it looks like things aren't going so well.
 
not sure what the worms were but we slop ours and have for years but all slop is in a sealed container. Not necessarily garbage just left overs or peelings and such. biggest thing is to feed them a finisher before butchering.I'm still learning but hogs can eat just about anything. About the only thing we don't feed them is large animal bones.
 
Federal Law states...
Sec. 166.2 General restrictions.

(a) No person shall feed or permit the feeding of garbage to swine
unless the garbage is treated to kill disease organisms, pursuant to
this Part, at a facility operated by a person holding a valid license
for the treatment of garbage; except that the treatment and license
requirements shall not apply to the feeding or the permitting of the
feeding to swine of garbage only because the garbage consists of any of
the following: rendered products; bakery waste; candy waste; eggs;
domestic dairy products (including milk); fish from the Atlantic Ocean
within 200 miles of the continental United States or Canada; or fish
from inland waters of the United States or Canada which do not flow into
the Pacific Ocean.


Just in case you were totally unaware. Those white worms were probably maggots....If you were following the law it wouldn't matter what they were would it?
 
I have seen maggots under stuff in barns and feeder pens, where the only feed used was ground corn and grain feed. Anywhere there are animals and manure, you will find flies, as well as their larvae, which is maggots.
 
Aloha,
I remember in the old days, the slop man used to come every Saturday to collect the garbage. We used to keep it in a 5 gallon metal can with a cover and he would empty it into a 55 gal drum on his truck. He washed out the 5 gal can and replaced it for the next time. He cooked the slop and then fed it to his pigs so they never ate raw garbage.

Mahalo,
doogdoog
 
Most likely maggots from flys. Maggots live on wet rotting dead organic material so they will not harm your pigs unless they are dead and rotting. Try going to "the pig site" lots of usefull info on there about raising pigs, deseases and feed programs.Just rememeber the old addage garbage in garbage out. I raise around 50 hogs a year and only feed them ground corn and hog consentrate (which is bean meal and some minerals for they health) during harvest we will give them sweet corn, peas, beans and a few other items from our truck stand but nothing molding.
 
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