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Article: THE PIGS AT THE TROUGH.(NEWS)(Column)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2002
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Byline: Robert Reno
If pigs are allowed to determine their own diets, experience shows they will eventually eat themselves into a state of stupefying and useless obesity.
This is one reason sensible hog farmers know that their pigs must be fed with great care because, contrary to popular supposition, they have exceedingly small stomachs. Properly nourished, though, pigs grow more rapidly than any other farm animal. It takes only about 300 pounds of relatively inexpensive feed to achieve 100 pounds of on-the-hoof weight gain in growing and fattening pigs.
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