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what do you put in your piggy feeders? Why

My real question, does higher energy food last longer in the feeders? I could fill them with eggs or meat, I could fill them with grain. Do they go through the grain faster because there is less energy in eating gone grain, or does it last just as long as eggs or meat?

Thanks

Posted 4 months ago by Oakland Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • 1 food (any type) = 1 unit of filling for the feeders
    so it's best to feed them grain
    Posted 4 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, it isn't like distilling where you get more bang for your buck from potatoes. Grain.
    Posted 4 months ago by LokiPDX Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain, Grain, Grain, Grain. Or whatever crop I have a surplus of.
    Posted 4 months ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use mainly zucchini and secondly broccoli. They're not much used in recipes so it's nice to have something to use them for.

    Anything you put into a piggy feeder just becomes 1 unit of pig food, so any special characteristics of that food are wiped out. So, to answer your question, no type of food will last longer than any other type.
    Posted 4 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When you put crops into the piggy feeder, do the piggies make plops? I have always used grain because I have tons of it.
    Posted 4 months ago by >^.^< Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No plops from feeder crops.  Stick with the grain (unless you are just looking to get rid of some crops).
    Posted 4 months ago by Malus Agricola Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Drink a gurly drink before squeezing chickens for grain. 
    Posted 4 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do eggs, only because I have 15 egg trees on my street. 
    Posted 4 months ago by Retribution Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Squeeze my chickens to fill the feeders. Grain!
    Posted 4 months ago by Sayuri Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 4 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I put meat in my piggy feeder - have an abundance of it.. so empty the collector and feed the piggies.. what goes in ~ must come out...
    Posted 4 months ago by MzMunchken Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I use grain unless I've been away for a while then all the feeders get meat the first time (if they were all empty when I got back lol)
    Posted 4 months ago by DustyHat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like to feed them allspice--makes for spicy bacon!
    Posted 4 months ago by chilirlw Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain or meat from me. Usually meat, because I usually gather it more than grain.
    Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I usually put beans, cherries, allspice, eggs, and bubbles, mostly because I have those trees, but I don't really need them right now. Free, plentiful, and fills the feeder :)
    Posted 4 months ago by SaSa Jack Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain, it's cheap and my chickens are right next to my pigs!
    Posted 4 months ago by Infinite Duck Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain, every time

    I too keep my chickens next to the feeder
    Posted 4 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • spinach
    Fast to grow, doesn't sell for very much,  and I don't have to squeeze any chickens.
    Posted 4 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Chalk up another vote for grain. I keep a couple chickens on my street strictly for feeding the pigs and incubating butterfly eggs. I hope one day the feeders get the same treatment as the stills but I imagine there are a lot more higher priority changes that need to be done first.
    Posted 4 months ago by Mithax Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain. Beans if I'm out of grain and am in a super hurry.
    Posted 4 months ago by Georgia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Purple, for all of the reasons that WindBorn does spinach.

    *hides face and shakes head at shame of having drugged out piggies*
    Posted 4 months ago by Squiggle-Squee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain, and only grain.
    Posted 4 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain and sometimes allspice if I am out of grain
    Posted 4 months ago by Zooo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have almost always done 1/2 grain and 1/2 whatever I have lots of and am not using. The piggies produce meat longer if they get more than just grain...or something. When I fed only grain, they would sometimes stop producing meat? It was months and months ago, something might have changed...but that's what caused my feeding style and I still use it =]
    Posted 4 months ago by Bunnykins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I feed my piggies 100% authentic, name-brand Soylent Pink.

    No, no. No need to know what's in it. It's completely healthy.
    Posted 4 months ago by Kiachan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I mostly use grain, because it's fast and cheap, but I have also used rice, zucchini, and cucumbers because I grew a lot of them. Very rarely I will use planks, they are easy to get but they sell well, so not necessarily the most economical choice. Once I used meat, but frankly, that kind of creeps me out. 
    Posted 4 months ago by Dirge Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain - it's cheap, fast and I can easily replenish with chickens. Unless, of course, lag or spamming forces me to feed them allspice.
    Posted 4 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain lol apart from that one time i added a stack of awesome stew oh what a waste
    Posted 4 months ago by Richelle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The finely chopped bodies of my enemies. Piggies are great at that sort of disposal.
    Posted 4 months ago by Captain Daisy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain. You jjust get so much of it.
    Posted 4 months ago by Avnas Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't have feeders. My street has an abundance of trees, my pigs have survived just fine eating from the trees, which are watered and petted regularly.
    Posted 4 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Spinach and purple. I hope they enjoy it.
    Posted 4 months ago by nekomaki Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I put allspice because I have so much.
    Posted 4 months ago by Lorris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I used to grow zucchini specifically for my feeders so I could keep it separate from my foodables and my distillables. Then I went on a cubi-buying rampage and now it is spinach all the way. Quick, cheap, nutritious.

    My biggest feeder mistake? I was playing nearly asleep one night at one or two a.m. and I dropped in a whole stack o' sno-cones. I almost cried. I started hitting Ctrl-Z! "Nooooooo! Give them baaaaaack!" I am glad no one witnessed this up close and personal.
    Posted 4 months ago by Mistress*of*Fishies Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Zucchini. What to do with it? I go on crop routes and have tons of Zucchini when I'm done. Not to many recipes call for Zucchini yet everyone likes to fill up the gardens with it. So my piggies get fed Zucchini.
    Posted 4 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • grain or whatever else I have that is plentiful -- beans, cherries.  If the feeder is empty I'll put at least one meat and one egg in.  At one point I had over 2000 eggs so my piggies got eggs.
    Posted 4 months ago by MontytheGeek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I grow corn exclusively for feeding my piggies.
    Posted 4 months ago by Imagination Subscriber! | Permalink