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Piggy Facts:
A full grown pig can drink up to 14 gallons of water a day!
It only takes about 160 days to raise a pig to a market weight of 220 pounds!
It takes 875 pounds of feed to raise one pig to market weight?

 

There are many uses for pigs!
Of course there is delicious ham and bacon.  But there is a wide variety of other uses for pork by-products.  Did you know that pigs help you clean your floors?  Check out some of the cool uses for pork by-products! These are just a few of them.
Floor waxes crayons cosmetics chalk plywood glue buttons
lubricants shoes fabric dye upholstery putty hair brushes
antifreeze bone china insulation glass matches lots more!

 

Here is a neat way to weigh your pig
without using a scale.
Use this Formula: pigformula.jpg (7033 bytes)
To measure the heart girth, place a measuring tape around the pig just behind the front legs. Measure your pig's heart girth.
Measure your pig's length. To measure the length, place the measuring tape down the pig's backbone from the ears to the base of the tail.
Do the math and believe it or not, it will equal the pig's weight within 3% of its actual weight.

This young pig weighs 67.5 lbs.

 


Before there was Ivory, Dial and Lever 2000, this would have been your choice! In fact, pigs are still used to make these modern day soaps in the form of tallow.  Really! Read the label.
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