posted 12 years ago
short answer is dont do it, not worth the risk.
here's why- those rascally ravenous pigs will at least try to nurse your cows. sounds ridiculous, i know, but thats how hungry pigs are. the cows' teats will get torn up, big time. not nice at all.
you are much better off sequencing the two, with pigs coming thru a pasture just after the cows. this benefits everything-cows, pigs, pasture.
in nature cows would not stick around where the pigs are, no chance. when we fence them in toegether, it might seem like blissful polyculture, but really it is quite un-natural.
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