I always use a combination of unmollassed beet and vegetable oil for weight gain. You should be trying for steady and continuous weight gain rather than fast. Putting on weight very quickly can have its own problems, as can making major changes in feed suddenly
LOL! Hadn't heard about this before. The thing is, he clearly knew the rules and decided to try and get around them, I don't see how you can have much sympathy that it didn't work.
I do think planning laws, and the way the local authorities can make their own rules in this country are...