He tried and failed, tried and failed,* to squeeze dairy from a sow’s teat. And now, he is going farmyard Jane Goodall — Lee plans to live in a barn for week-long stints, gaining, nay earning pig ...

When it comes to pigs vs hogs, ... If you’re sitting in a tree stand looking to procure some wild pork for the table, a pig—boar or sow—of about 100 pounds is just what you want.

Pigs are supposedly smarter than the average barnyard animal, but the one that broke through a frozen pond on Thursday clearly did not grasp the physics of a 500-pound sow walking onto a one-inch ...

A study published in the International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation looks at a little-researched factor in pig farming: the libido of boars and the impact this ...

But according to animal welfare advocates, it is making life a lot more bearable for millions of industrially-raised pigs. Country View Family Farms’ sow facility an hour west of Harrisburg, ...

In tests up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit, sow respiration dropped from 100 to 120 breaths per minute to 26. “We are cooling the sows down so that they’re far more comfortable,” Stwalley said. Stwalley, ...