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  2. Pig - Wikipedia

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    The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.

  3. Sty - Wikipedia

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    The pig will naturally root and dig for food in the enclosure, further disturbing the soil. Pigs do not regulate temperature by sweating [2] which means that they must be provided with water or mud in which they can control their own body temperature. A large-scale enclosure for raising pigs is generally called a hog lot. Unlike a sty which ...

  4. Sus (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Pigs do not hunt, but will readily eat carrion, eggs, and other animal foods that they can find. As livestock, pigs were once fed all manner of mixed household food scraps (called "slops"), but on large modern farms are now fed mostly corn and soybean meal [16] with a mixture of vitamins and minerals added

  5. 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

  6. Dogtrot house - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of West Louisiana in Leesville includes the Alexander Airhart Home, a dogtrot house. [18] The LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge includes a restored dogtrot house built by Thomas Neal Sr. from the 1860s to the early 1870s in Rapides Parish. The home was lived in by descendants of Mr. Neal until 1976, and was moved to the museum in ...

  7. Sanctuary's Kind Treatment of Senior Pig in Their Care Is ...

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    The pig receives the best care there and they even recently gave a sneak peak into the little niceties that Henry likes best. Henry had a long and difficult journey before arriving at The Gentle Barn.

  8. Ohio Woman, 75, Killed and Partially Eaten by Neighbor's Pigs ...

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    An Ohio woman was mauled to death and partially eaten by two pigs near her home on Christmas Day, according to reports. Rebecca Westergaard Rigney, 75, was found dead with "injuries to her legs ...

  9. Elderly Ohio woman, 75, mauled to death and partially eaten ...

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    An elderly Ohio woman is dead after she was attacked — and partially eaten — by her neighbor’s pigs in a horrifying Christmas day tragedy, according to police.. Rebecca Westergaard, 75, was ...