What's a nice girl like me is doing in a place like this ?
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 ?
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
asaraink, why are you making this a racial issue ?!
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