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Jason Jason · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:25 am Post subject: sileage

I travel between Mexia and Hillsboro quite a bit and I have noticed the silage over there.
it is very rank smelling just wonder if anyone has ever tried that and if it worked.
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Colby Thorson · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 2:42 am Post subject:

I highly doubt it will work. There's nothing to eat if it's alfalfa or Bermuda..
Maybe they might mess with grains like wheat or oats but it's doubtful and it's to late in the year to have wheat or oats or rye on the ground.
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hogcaller · Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject:

Pigs will eat alfalfa. We used to turn our showpig sows out on alfalfa after the last cutting of the year. They chew on the leaves and spit the stems out. As for silage, I don't know. Silage is usually made from green chop of sudan or other sorghums. If it has some seed left in it, they might tear it up.

FrankT · Texasboars Legends Club Joined: 05 Jun 2011 Posts: 1754

On the dairy farm as a kid our silage was layered with spoiled produce so that would certainly get them to check it out...guess it depends on what is in it?

Alex Rateliff · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 4:48 am Post subject:

I hunt on a property where they routinely plant sudan. They said the hogs destroyed all but the outer edges of it last year. I don't know if they eat it or if they were just bedding in it because of the shade it provides.

Jason Jason · Posted: Sat May 12, 2012 2:26 pm Post subject:

It has a smell to it worse than sour mashed corn so i just couldn't help but to think they would tear into it. just a thought next time i pass through there I will stop and get a barrel of it and test it out
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ranchmanager · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 11:35 am Post subject: Silage

My guess is if it has alcohol in it they will eat it. Pigs like getting drunk.
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Jason Jason · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:15 am Post subject:

I just drove by the sileage storage and they are completely out. I'll check back later.
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Chuck Davis · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:07 pm Post subject:

I don't know about silage but I saw today what hogs do to standing corn. Just out of Ector ,Tx the hogs are tearing up a big corn patch.
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Scott Sewall · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:30 am Post subject:

I live in hillsboro and I trap hogs all over hill county and I have found that they will eat the corn silage but they don't go crazy over it. They are tearing the heck out of the standing corn right now though. This is the hardest time of the year to catch them in my opinion. I mainly snare them around water holes in the summer.