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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; Weaner, a young pig recently separated from the sow
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This can often be a problem for some pig keepers as pigs can make short work of green areas and go overboard in their rooting behaviors, even destroying crops and trees. Pigs can also be extremely ...
In Lloyd Alexander's books The Chronicles of Prydain, based on Welsh mythology, the hero is a pig keeper, or swineherd. So he is in the Disney film adaptation The Black Cauldron . The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott 's novel Ivanhoe is a swineherd.
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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.