Pig Care

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Summary: Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain how to care for 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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by otsinoh

Those pigs are so cute! I didn't know what a pig pile was before! Good info!

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by otsinoh

Those pigs are so cute! I didn't know what a pig pile was before! Good info!

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Pig Care

So owning your own pigs just like owning any animal, dog or chicken or sheep, there is a lot of care that needs to go into these animals. Whether it is mucking them out everyday or once a week or once a month depending on what your sanitation needs are and how many pigs you have but definitely the food requirements are definitely a plus just by any animal. They grow incredibly rapidly so that food needs to increase with their growth weight. Clean water, clean bedding; you've heard of a pig pile. Well pigs survive in the winter but they need clean and fresh bedding and in the cold they will pile on top of each other hence the name pig pile to keep warm. So definitely you need to keep an eye on there. Are they eating regularly, like they normally do so that they are healthy and just keep an eye on their living conditions and you will hopefully have healthy pigs.