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in all the posts that I read , everyone says pigs will eat most anything . Well heres my problem . My 2 pigs are finicky! , and Im wondering if anyone else has the same problem . I feed them commerical mixed ground food for pigs and I also give them lots of stuff from the garden . Heres what Ive noticed . Anything soft that I give them , tomatoes , over riped bananas , bread , they love . But anything that isnt soft ,they snub . For instints , overgrown cucumbers they love , but dont eat the skin , potatoes , no way , and listen to this . I had a large area in the garden with nothing to put in so I decided to grow lots of extra green beans in that area , thinking pig food ! well , if I throw the whole plant in there they eat the leaves , but wont touch the beans or plant at all . Ive picked the beans and put them in the feed trough and , no way , they dont eat them . Ive tryed to cut the beans up and mixing them in the commerical feed and they spit them out as they eat there corn mix . The only way they seem to gobble them up is to cook the beans first , which makes them soft . then and only then do they seem to go crazy over them . which is making me think that these pigs are finicky and wont eat nothing but softer food . Is this wierd or are my pigs wierd ? Or is it that maybe Im the fault by maybe over feeding them the commerical feed and by doing so the pigs are just being over selective on what they eat ? Any thoughts to this ?