swine industry first presentation

• What are two other mammals that pigs are most closely related to?

  .hippopotamuses,

  peccaries,
• Pigs are non-ruminant, even-toed ungulates and belong to the suborder
• what rooting behavior is.

  When they use their snout to move or underneath dirt,soil and other materials.
• There are four toes of each foot, only two of each is functional.
• Pigs have coarse and sparse bristly hair coats with a small number of sweat glands as a result, they are vulnerable to heat stress.
• They prefer swimming or rolling in mud and wallowing as behavioral means of thermoregulation.
• What type of digestive system do pigs have and why is this beneficial when raising them on farms?

  They are non- ruminant, monogastric, omnivorous animals. This is beneficial to the farmers for the fact pigs would eat anything. They can eat scraps of food and so much more.
• What does the term “prolific” mean?

  They have a large litter, they have many piglist born when pregnant
• What are 3 advantages of pigs being prolific?

  More livestock (7-12 piglets per pig every year)

  2.Short gestation (114 days)

  3.Early maturity (6-9 months)
• What does this mean and what is the average dressing percentage for hogs?

  Dressing percentage refers to the weight Of the carcass without inside organs
• They are prolific (they have a large litter) with shorter generation intervals as females have 7-12 piglets each year.
• About how long is a pigs gestation time period

  114 days
• Early maturity for a pig is 6-9 months
• How high is there dressing percentage

  65-70%
• What's the size of their litter.

  Size of 10-12
• What can their maneuver be used for?

  Used as fertilizer, for agriculture farms and fishponds.
• How many production methods are there?

  four
• what production is this? Sows are bred using actual boars or semen from artificial insemination.

  Piglets are weaned.

  Sold to other farmers once they reach 40lbs.

  feeder pigs
• What production is this? Weaned pigs are raised to market weight. Diet consists of high nutrition in shortest period of time.

  Pigs usually housed in smaller facilities to maximize accessibility of feed.

  Finishing
• What production is this? All-encompassing farm

  Pigs are bred, farrowed, and fed to market weight.

  Less need to transport hogs to other growers.

  Farrow to finish
• What production is this: Highly specific operation to produce purebred hogs.

  Offspring must meet specific breed qualifications to be registered.

  These organizations help maintain specific genetic lineages.

  Purebred
• china has the largest pig inventory in the world with 406.5 million pigs,
• Hog farms that focus on taking pigs to their market weight

  All but purebred
• They belong to which suborder?

   belong to the suborder Artiodactyla
• What is the average age and weight for hogs going to market? 

  6 months old 270 pounds