Feeding traditional pigs

[Greenbeast]

Looking for advice on feeding traditional breed pigs. We have 7 different breeds here so anything breed specific is no good.

In the past we have fed everyone a sow ration, then we switched to a grower/ finisher ration for young stock.
It is slightly more expensive but also complicates the collection frequency and storage (I.e. One type always runs out out of sync with the other, etc...)

I have read that is not really worth it unless you are using modern fast growing breeds but my OH is hard to convince, so I need good info.

 

[foobar]

I've heard people feeding a sow ration to everything - the traditional breeds are slower growing anyway so they easily get over-fat on the higher protein grower/finisher feeds.

 

[Old Boar]

I used a coarse mix "general" ration mix, made for cows I think. It had peas, sweet corn, barley, oats, all sorts of stuff. I fed it to everything, and they loved it and did well on it. My feeding plan was to feed enough so they were busy for 7 minutes and then looking for more. I bought it in dumpy bags of 750kg, and got through over one a week but I did have quite a few pigs...
I did not count what they were eating in the fields.

 

[Greenbeast]

Currently feeding 6 ton of locally milled pig ration

 

[caveman]

I feed Heygates beef feed as I can't store more than one variety of four tonne loads of bulk feed and don't wish to feed the more expensive pig feed to young cattle.
As said. Not being so strong, it doesn't over fatten slower growing coloured pigs.

 

[case 5140]

Give ours beef/lamb nuts, look well on them