Hog Feed

No, I don't, but worm farmers use it as feed. But if you get any positive responses, let me know in a private e-mail.

Chuck: Thanks for the information. I tried to e-mail you but something seems to be wrong with the website. Can you try and e-mail me? I have another questions for you. Thanks, Miller

Hey Miller, Tried E-mailing you too. Will be signing up for Yahoo this week, should make communications easier. My e-mail account here has real weird buffer system. No telling when or if you will get replies. Chuck

I understand the husks. But why the coffee beans themselves. In the area where I am involved in Haiti, coffee is a major cash crop to otherwise dirt poor farmers.

The beans we have are a by-product of the process where they are prepared for commercial use. The beans are "waste" from a cleaning process. They are perfectly acceptable for use in coffee but when they are lost in the cleaning process, it is not commercial feasible to salvage them.

Have you had any luck with your coffee beans as animal feed? What have you done with them? I am working with a customer that has a similar issue. Thanks.

Please let me know if there is any counter-indications to use the coffee pulp as hog feed? How much would be the maximum in the daily intake? Yours, Etienne Adant Guatemala

457 grams twice daily.

That was reminded me during my childhood my lola or grandmother have plenty of coffee plants growing near our house which was then located at mountainuos part of the Philippines or in the vicinity of provinces of CAR region. My grandmother have 4 native black pigs during that time which no need for her to put up a cage/shelter for pigs or fences. The pigs grow free like a wild pig in our community they are free to go anywhere to find grass to eat outside the house, all people just take care of their pigs wihout any farm fences during those years 30 years ago in which one day i noticed that some pigs eating ripe coffee beans fell down from the coffee plants planted by my grand mother when it begun bearing a fruits and was not harvested at a time...i asked my lolo or grandfather then why the pigs eating ripe coffee beans free., my lolo answered me that when we slaughter the pigs the meat of those pigs eating coffee beans is just like the same taste as those wild pigs when properly cooked. The hunters brings wild pigs in our community for consumptions and the hunters are forced to shoot those wild pigs because they are more destructive on plants planted by the mountainers people. Of course now a days, technologies and proper ways of caring of animals was un stop in formulations for more past productions to cover up billions of people eating porks daily. Not eating pork in a week makes my body weak...hahaha...Thanks!

Thank you for sharing that memory and I am glad our discussion reminded you of it! Here in Florida 80+ years ago pigs would be allowed to wonder but their ears would have notches cut in distinct patterns so neighbors knew whose pigs were whose (much the same way cowboys in the wild west would brand their cattle). In that tradition any wild pig on private property is by law still considered the pig of the property owner whereas the property owner has to have permission from the state to harvest other wild life.