Will pigs lose weight if they feed on sweet potatoes or not?

1. Sweet potato is a crop planted in a large area in China, with a relatively large output. In areas where sweet potatoes were planted before, many inedible sweet potatoes were used to feed pigs.

Not only sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves and sweet potato vines can also be used as green feed for pigs to promote their digestion.

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When the weight of pigs reaches 120 kg or more, sweet potatoes can be used for fattening. In the past, raising pigs, corn was expensive and sweet potatoes were cheap. Many people add a lot of sweet potatoes to feed pigs in order to save feeding expenses.

2. But the nutrition of sweet potato is relatively simple, with more starch and dietary fiber and less protein. If only sweet potato is used to feed pigs, it will cause long-term nutritional deficiency of pigs, leading to weakened disease resistance, easy to get sick and poor meat quality.

Therefore, when fattening pigs, we should not only use sweet potatoes, but also add other compound feeds. Generally, when feeding pigs with sweet potatoes, it is necessary to cut the sweet potatoes into small pieces and mix them with feed after cooking.

Three. Problems needing attention

Try to cook the sweet potato before feeding it.

Sweet potato itself contains a lot of dietary fiber. If eaten raw, it may cause indigestion in pigs and diarrhea in piglets and suckling pigs. Generally, sweet potatoes are fed in the late stage of fattening. Sweet potato is easier to digest after being cooked, tastes sweet and increases palatability.