General discussions with Dave

In your discussions with Dave, you elicit a little more information about his farm. He tells you about his clever way of keeping feeding costs down using the scraps from the school tuckshop, and how these also help to feed his pet pigs. Pet pigs!! You didn’t know this before.

Suddenly there are more issues to discuss with Dave.

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Question

You advise Dave that Swill feeding is illegal and includes: (more than one answer may be correct)

Answers

Option 1

The feeding of food that contains meat and meat products

Option 2

The feeding of food that contains meat by-products

Option 3

The feeding of milk and milk products

Option 4

The feeding of non-meat bakery products

Option 5

The feeding of untreated cooking oils from restaurants

Feedback

The feeding of pigs with food items containing or having been in contact with meat, meat products and meat by-products is called Swill feeding, and is illegal in Australia. In Queensland, it is also illegal to feed Swill to poultry and other livestock. Swill may contain serious exotic diseases that could devastate our livestock industries. The rules around Swill feeding apply equally to pet pigs and hobby farms, as they do to commercial piggeries.

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Reflection

What is your advice to Dave regarding swill feeding to both his pigs and poultry?

Feedback

Some answers could include:

Use commercial feed with appropriate labelling that is species suitable
Feed only quality assured feed to pigs and poultry and ask your feed supplier for a vendor declaration
Do not feed food scraps

More information: Swill feeding factsheet (PDF)