Bolted Lettuce

[Daughter Has Pigs]

Please don’t reply unless you are 100% certain, these little piggies are the world to my daughter.
I have bolted romaine lettuce. There seems to be two camps, and they both seem to be of amateur level knowledge so I am looking for someone who knows for sure: can her piggies have the stems and leaves of bolted lettuce?

 

[Eriathwen]

Yes it's safe to feed, I have given mine bolted lettuce quite a few times. The red leaf I grew this year all bolted and they got all of them. Bolting just makes it taste bitter, the leaves are tougher, but it is still edible.

 

[Daughter Has Pigs]

Yes it's safe to feed, I have given mine bolted lettuce quite a few times. The red leaf I grew this year all bolted and they got all of them. Bolting just makes it taste bitter, the leaves are tougher, but it is still edible.

Stem too? Its about 3 feet high

 

[Sarah from Chucklebunnies]

Stem is fine, but if it has flowers please remove them. Usually they get picked before that happens though.....

 

[teddymouse]

It is safe to fed it all, my herds get s them all the time as l grow far too many, between the piggies and chooks they eat the lot.