When I was in college, my apartment complex one year was across the street from the university swine unit. It wasn’t that big, so usually the smell wasn’t that strong. I didn’t mind my swine neighbors as much as some of my human neighbors. Also, I took animal science that year. It was a very easy walk the day we took a field trip to the swine unit!
Nah, disagree. I grew up on a chicken farm. The ammonia in chicken manure smells bad, true, but pig waste smells too much like human waste, and is way worse. Going by a big pig farm is like going into a human outhouse after a diarrhea epidemic.
My experience with pigs agrees with all of this. My pigs had access to the pasture and the lower level of my barn. They would always poop in the far end of the barn, away from their sleeping stalls, and would make a new mud wallow every couple of weeks.
I’ll throw in a another observational anecdote. I have seen no evidence for the supposed cleverness of pigs. When we first started raising pigs I threw a few bowling balls into the pasture and hung a heavy chain from a beam for them to “play” with, I was told this was important. They were never touched.
In my experience, when encountering a new object, a pig will first try to eat it. If it proves inedible, they will try scratching against it. If the object satisfies neither of these requirements, it is ignored.
I forgot about minks. There’s a mink farm near here and when the workers come into the store, fresh off the farm, the smell is horrible.
When we moved to the quickly developing 'burbs way back when, there was a recently abandoned mink farm quite near by. Still smelled from a distance. (Took quite a while for someone to develop it. I always wondered if buyers walking on it to check it out got a good whiff.) Anyway … the same guy that owned that place started a new farm much further out. Which just so happened to be near the area we picked berries in the summer. So it just kept on giving …
And turkeys best them all.
Basically, shit stinks. A lot of shit in a small area stinks really bad. Maybe composting or some sort of industrial digester could be an answer.
Pigs are vile, filthy creatures…disgusting! They will eat anything…anything!
I suspect that this is in part due to our feeding them any garbage we have on hand.
They will eat tumors off of other pigs, dead pigs, other dead animals, and if their young die, they eat them…and sometimes they will kill their offspring if they’re feeling a bit peckish! They’ll even consume dead human bodies…‘Criminal Minds’ did a pig farm episode several seasons back and it still freaks me out to think about it. All they found was 100+ pairs of shoes in the pig pens…everything else, even bones, were consumed by the swine!
I’m with the Jews (and Muslims) on this one and I don’t eat pork or anything flavored with pork! :smack:
Her name is Snow.