Category: Pigs

A litter of newborn piglets is one of the greatest pleasures of raising pigs until you notice that the mother’s eating them!  Do pigs eat their babies? Sows do eat their babies. If a piglet...

Whether you have pigs as pets or are breeding pigs to generate an income, seeing your pig struggle to walk is stressful. I have a small piggery on my smallholding, and it went well until my...

We were so excited when we added pigs to our homestead, and the children thoroughly enjoyed looking after the little piglets and adult pigs. One night my husband and I sat at the table eating a...

  When I heard Lisa scream next to the enclosure where we keep the breeding sow, I knew it was something serious. As I came around the corner of the house, my daughter ran to me in tears....

  We dedicated much of our 6-hectare small-holding to raising free-range pigs for ten years. Although we had a few challenges along the way, our pigs were generally happy, healthy, and...

  Pigs can survive in a wide variety of different habitats. Its ancestor, the wild boar, lived in almost every corner of the earth, except for arid deserts and cold, alpine regions. This...