Raising Pigs for Food

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Summary: Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain the basics of raising pigs in this free online video.

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Tia Pinney Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is involved ... read more

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Raising Pigs for Food

So pigs were historically known to be used in or were used because of their incredible ability to root up and use their nose or snout to find food and it is called rooting through the soil. They have an incredible ability to smell and so a lot of farmers would use these pigs to till up their soil before maybe they would seed or they will turn over a piece of unusable land and pigs will till up and turn it over so it can be used. Pigs are also used to find mushrooms in manure piles and they would root through the manure piles to find these mushrooms. These really expensive sought out mushrooms that only pigs could find for a while. So they really do, although it could be a nuisance of rooting up fences, they were really used historically and still today because of their ability.