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  2. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Pigs are naturally omnivorous and are generally fed a combination of grains and protein sources (soybeans, or meat and bone meal). Larger intensive pig farms may be surrounded by farmland where feed-grain crops are grown. Alternatively, piggeries are reliant on the grains industry. Pig feed may be bought packaged or mixed on-site.

  3. Animal husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Cattle feedlot in Colorado, United States. Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.It includes day-to-day care, management, production, nutrition, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock.

  4. Intensive pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Pigs have a limited tolerance to high temperatures and heat stress can lead to death. Maintaining a more specific temperature within the pig-tolerance range also maximizes growth and growth-to-feed ratio. Indoor piggeries have allowed pig farming to be undertaken in countries or areas with unsuitable climate or soil for outdoor pig raising. [8]

  5. FarmVille Prize Pigs: Everything you need to know - AOL

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    Pig Chow itself can be earned by posting a request to your news feed or by purchasing it with Farm Cash. You can also craft some in the Craftshop if you have the necessary bushels to actually ...

  6. Pig farming - Wikipedia

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    Pigs are extensively farmed, and therefore the terminology is well developed: Pig, hog, or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. Shoat (or shote), piglet, or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig [23] Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning

  7. Feedlot - Wikipedia

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    A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

  8. Zillow predicts hottest housing markets of 2025: See which ...

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    Zillow's top 10 hottest housing markets of 2025. The primary reasons Buffalo was number one again, according to Zillow? Job and wage growth, relative affordability and demand that outweighs supply.

  9. Pig slaughter - Wikipedia

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    Pig we get from Arby’s in 1983. Photo by Jaan Künnap. Pigs are slaughtered at different ages. Generally they can be divided into piglets, which are 1.5 to 3 months old; the fattening pigs, intended for pork and bacon, which are 4 months to one year old; and finally the older pigs, such as sows (female pigs) and boars (uncastrated male pigs).