Darlene Jorgens

We want to use a pelletizer in a two-fold manner.

First we would like to use it to make grass/weed pellets to feed into a pellet stove. We’ve seen a video of someone that was making bricks with a unit that he made and that is would work would work for burning, but not for animal feed so we need something smaller like pellets.

We also want to pelletize comfrey as animal feed. So a pelletizer that would process both is what we are most interested in.

Does anyone do this on a small scale? What products do you use? Have you made a pelletizer?

Money is an issue so a new small-scale pelletizer for 5k is out-of-the-question. Thanks.

Thank you for your useful information. We've pastured pigs about 10 years ago and used electric fencing along the perimeter. Although we don't want to breed pigs anymore we prefer pasture-raised.

I will be looking through your links tomorrow, when I come in to break from the heat...

Thanks again.

We recently purchased some acreage of which approximately 1.5 - 2 acres is old overgrown pasture now covered in dogbane. We were thinking that we could make a decent sized pig tractor and allow weaner pigs to till the soil for us and make that section useable again. However, I have read that dogbane is toxic to cattle, horses, etc. Can anyone tell us if this will work with pigs? We don't want to use pesticides but I'm concerned about the toxicity of the dogbane.

If we hack down the weeds, will the roots that the pigs have access to still be toxic or is it just the plant?

Any knowledge/experience would be helpful.