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Can pigs eat water lily leaves or tubers?

 
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Can pigs eat water lily (Nymphaea odorata) leaves or tubers?
 
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According to google;
The fragrant water-lily has both medicinal and edible parts. The seeds, flowers and rhizomes can all be eaten raw or cooked. The root can be boiled to produce a liquid which can be gargled to treat sore throats or drunk to treat diarrhea. The rhizomes were also used by Native Americans to treat coughs and colds.
So I would say yes
 
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Local folk wisdom says that 'you can't poison either a bear or a pig'. Accordingly, my partner's experience is that pigs won't eat anything that would hurt them.
Could be my partner has just been lucky for all the years he's had pigs. Could be that we don't have yummy but poisonous-to-pigs plants around here - - -  Or maybe the old timers knew something about pigs and bears.
 
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A. Steward wrote:Can pigs eat water lily (Nymphaea odorata) leaves or tubers?

I'd run them through some rats first, they can eat rats.
 
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But medicinal usually means not good for a staple food.  You could overdose on it, and a pig might be able to--or might just ignore it.  The leaves and seeds would be fine, but the huge tubers wouldn't, I think.

I'm going to try giving mine a little bit of whatever tuber I can find from our water lily plants here when it's spring and see what happens.  

Sid Deshotel wrote:According to google;
The fragrant water-lily has both medicinal and edible parts. The seeds, flowers and rhizomes can all be eaten raw or cooked. The root can be boiled to produce a liquid which can be gargled to treat sore throats or drunk to treat diarrhea. The rhizomes were also used by Native Americans to treat coughs and colds.
So I would say yes

 
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Some water lilies are edible and staple in Thailand so I assume that pigs can have them too.

The only Aquatics I have seen been fed to pigs here are Eichhornia crassipes (Water Hyacinths) which grows in abundance and Duckweed.
 
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"forages well on the rice straw and water plants of its native area."--wikipedia entry on the potbellied pig.  just ran across this.  they get to 110 lbs approx. at full weight.
 
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