Coal??

Greg1959 · Feb 12, 2014

Why do my hogs love to eat coal? They love it. Heck, they eat it like a kid eats candy.

I've heard it de-worms them...

Greg

Paul from MI · Feb 12, 2014

I don't know, but my cousin Rich used to throw some in the hog pen every day. They just gobbled it up.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 12, 2014

I'm not sure either. Coal is mostly carbon. Sugar contains carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, carbon and the two ingredents in water. Never eaten carbon. Only guessing it's pig's rock candy.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2014

It's soft enough for them to like chewin on it. It's also an old farm cheat's way of adding weight quick to a load of hogs, prior to loading them up for sale!

todd hamilton · Feb 12, 2014

it should make their gas smell better

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2014

For the minerals perhaps ? Why does a dog eat grass ?

dgasper · Feb 12, 2014

My FIL fed his hogs coal. They made squeaky crunchy sounds as they chewed it.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 12, 2014

When I was a kid Dad had an old wood & coal tank heater. He would dump the ash and charcoal out of it and the hogs loved it. I think it was for the mineral content if I remember right. Of course age and memory sometimes don't agree.

rodgernbama · Feb 12, 2014

I had almost forgot about seeing my dad and granddad give hogs coal when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it was for worming them. Probably because of the sulfur in the coal.

Alan K · Feb 12, 2014

Maybe the gas could be used as fuel? lol

Dieselrider · Feb 13, 2014

Here is some info from back in the 40's on the subject. Hope it downloads for you if you want to read it. The coal didn't seem to have much effect on outcomes.
PDF on feeding coal to pigs

ohiojim · Feb 13, 2014

around here they use to put the hog pen on an old spoil pile, would also feed coon and muskrat carcase's to the hogs, we had on old sow once that would catch and eat a chicken if it got to close

Two Dogs · Feb 13, 2014

I think a dog eats grass to make them upchuck. Maybe an upset stomach. I've noticed my dogs doing that all my life. TDF

Mike M · Feb 13, 2014

Must be fine for them as I have heard a hog won't eat anything that's bad for them ?

John Fulton · Feb 13, 2014

Reminds me of the old joke about one "ol boy commenting about his buddy"s hound dogs:
" Them dogs looking mighty poorly, what do you feed "em?"
"Turnips" sez the other "ol boy!
"Turnips? I didn"t know a dog would eat turnips!"
"Well they didn"t for the first 6 weeks!!"

Nancy Howell · Feb 13, 2014

Why does my dog love to eat horse poop?

PJH · Feb 13, 2014

I'm reminded of a story about a butchering in our neighborhood. The wimmin all raised cain because one guy had fed coal to his hogs. They were trying to clean the casings, and the coal made it harder, or maybe even impossible, to get them pretty and white.

There's a lot of things I wonder about hogs, and I raised them for years.

Brown Swiss · Feb 13, 2014

I think hogs eat anything, I give them the ashes out of the furnace.

Trkr · Feb 13, 2014

We had a dog that ate horsepoop.Use to lap it up like it was ice cream.I thought it was because of the molasses in it.

Tim(nj) · Feb 13, 2014

I'm assuming you're giving them bituminous? This area is all anthracite. Not sure they'd like chewing on that!

Anonymous-0 · Feb 13, 2014

Mine eats cow poop, but even better she loves to roll around in it. My vet says it has something to do with them descending from the wolf, they could then smell like a the pray animal, not a wolf, amd have better luck hunting.

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