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What's a nice girl like me is doing in a place like this ?

Do pigs eat their own filth ?

I am a city girl and I never even been to a farm ! ( I was seek when we had the school trip ) so I have got no clue if pigs really eat their own filth , and if so why do they do it ?

 

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Pigs are clean animals! They have a place which they use as a toilet which is well away from the places where they eat or drink.

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/farmpiggies.htm

Despite common beliefs, pigs prefer a clean environment (they wallow in mud to cool themselves but if given the choice of mud or sprinkler systems, they will elect for the clean water). If given enough room, pigs will defecate in one corner of a pen and sleep in a different corner.

http://www.iacuc.arizona.edu/training/swine/hand.html


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I was late for work this morning, because I got stuck in Zeno's paradox

Contrary to popular belief, pigs are actually cleaner animals than cows, sheep, goats etc. Pigs will not defecate near the area where they eat (if they can avoid it), unlike cows and other farm animals that defecate wherever the urge strikes them.

Pigs cannot sweat, and the only way they can cool off in the hot summer is by wallowing in mud. For this reason pigs are considered dirty animals.


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What's a nice girl like me is doing in a place like this ?

WOW I did not know that pigs are so great , thanks !


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pigs are filthy...they eat anything im telling you..pigs are so nasty that when they eat snakes the snake is naughing in there insides and letting all of that poison in their system. but yet the pig is still tearing that snake up. now when the farmer sells that same pig to someone that person will consume that poison in their bodies from what the pig ate. DO NOT EAT IT..GOD said NOT TO anyways beacause its bad for you and its a sin if you DISOBEY him.


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I have a pig, and she will eat many things, but she will not go potty near her food.  I move her pen around and one of the first things she does is look around to figure the best place for her potty, and it is always in a place that moves away from the pen, and usually the furthest from where I will approach the pen.

I know that pigs can be mean to each other if they are overcrowded and they will lie in their shit if they can't turn around or move because of crowding ( which is really wrong!) but they don't lik it.

the problem with my pig is she will step on her food. If it gets too dirty, she won't eat it, and so there is some waste.  I heard elephants create alot of waste in a similar manner.

That comment about not eating pigs is great, but I think pigs should not be eaten because they are noble, smart, kind and loving, and you can always use them to get rid of the body. 

PS it takes 351 p.s.i. to open a macadamia nut and my pig eats them like popcorn. she can eat anything, why would she eat shit? or snakes? 


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