enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pig farming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_farming

    Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork : bacon , ham , gammon ) and skins .

  3. Death on a Factory Farm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_a_Factory_Farm

    Death on a Factory Farm follows the undercover investigation of Wiles Hog Farm by the animal rights group The Humane Farming Association (HFA), and the resulting court case against it. The organization received a tip from an employee at the farm that animals were being abused, including a claim that hogs were being hung by chains and strangled ...

  4. Smithfield Foods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods

    Smithfield retained ownership of the pigs. Only farmers able to handle thousands of pigs were contracted, which meant that smaller farms went out of business. [1] In North Carolina, Smithfield's expansion mirrored hog farmers' decline; there were 667,000 hog farms there in 1980 and 67,000 in 2005.

  5. Cooper Farms hosts area legislators - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/cooper-farms-hosts-area...

    Sep. 11—OAKWOOD — During the week of Sept. 2-6, Cooper Farms hosted area legislators on tours of multiple of its locations, such as a sow farm, a hog grow-out farm and a turkey breeder farm.

  6. Mingle and pet the pigs during 'Hog-O-Fest' on a Hart County farm

    www.aol.com/mingle-pet-pigs-during-hog-080831993...

    Tickets for the first 'Hog-O-Fest' in Bowersville are now on sale for an Oct. 12 event. Mingle and pet the pigs during 'Hog-O-Fest' on a Hart County farm Skip to main content

  7. Intensive pig farming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_pig_farming

    Intensive pig farming, also known as pig factory farming, is the primary method of pig production, in which grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds in establishments also known as piggeries, whilst pregnant sows are housed in gestation crates or pens and give birth in farrowing crates.

  8. Gestation crate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation_crate

    Gestation crates, used on modern pig-production facilities, commonly referred to as factory farms. A gestation crate, also known as a sow stall, is a metal enclosure in which a farmed sow used for breeding may be kept during pregnancy. [1] [2] [3] A standard crate measures 6.6 ft x 2.0 ft (2 m x 60 cm). [4] [5]

  9. Horrifically abused pig is transformed by the love of his new ...

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/2016-08-19-horrifically...

    After suffering through unbelievable abuse, this gentle pot-bellied pig has learned to love again. A concerned resident in Lancaster, Ohio, called PETA after they saw the animal struggling with ...