How to Feed Sunflowers to Swine

Swine are wonderfully useful creatures. In addition to providing humans with meat, including bacon and ham, they can be rototillers as well. Place a hog or two in a field and they will till it and fertilize it for you. They are simple to keep because they will eat almost anything. Hogs will not only eat sunflower seeds, but also the flower head, stem and roots if given the chance.

Things You'll Need

  • Knife or clipper
  • Sunflowers
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Instructions

    • 1

      Harvest your sunflowers during the peak of their blooming period. Use a knife or a clipper to cut the heads off the sunflower stems.

    • 2

      Shake the flower heads into a bucket to release the seeds, using your hands to scrape out as many of the seeds as possible.

    • 3

      Add the seeds to the swine's normal daily food ration in moderate amounts. How much you feed your swine depends on how many seeds you have. A handful in the feed bucket is not an unreasonable amount.

    • 4

      Cut down or pull out the entire sunflower and feed it to your swine whole, including the stem.

    • 5

      Let your swine loose in your sunflower patch, surrounded by a temporary fence, if you want them to eat the seed heads and clear the land of the stems. A swine will eat almost anything and will consume the whole of a sunflower plant if given the opportunity.