vue - Hog Farming: "Saving Little Pigs" circa 1950 Union Pacific Railroad
more at http://quickfound.net/links/agriculture_news_and_links.html How to raise healthy pigs. Shows sow giving birth, describes proper procedures. "An 'On the Farm' motion picture produced under supervision of the Agricultural Development Department, Union Pacific Railroad." see also "Modern Trends in Swine Production" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcqxI7a6wSM Public domain film from the Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_farming There are various methods of pig farming depending on the method of management adopted. Variables include: - Money or capital available - The type of animals kept - Local requirements and market conditions - The level of management skills... Pigs (hogs in the United States) can be farmed as free range, being allowed to wander around a village, kept in fields, or tethered in a simple house. In developed countries, farming has moved away from traditional pig farming and pigs are now typically intensively farmed. Today, pig farms are significantly larger than in the past, with most large-scale farms housing 5,000 or more pigs in climate-controlled buildings. With 100 million pigs slaughtered each year, these efficiencies deliver affordable meat for consumers and larger profits for producers. Individual farm management focuses on housing facilities, feeding and ventilation systems, temperature and environmental controls and the economic viability of their operations... Use as food Almost all of the pig can be used as food. Preparations of pig parts into specialties include: sausage, bacon, gammon, ham, skin into pork scratchings, feet into trotters, head into a meat jelly called head cheese (brawn), and consumption of the liver, chitterlings, blood (blood pudding or black pudding) are common... Pig farming terminology Pigs are extensively farmed, and therefore the terminology is well developed: - Pig, hog or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural. - Shoat, piglet or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig. - Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning. - Runt, an unusually small and weak piglet, often one in a litter. - Boar or hog, male pig of breeding age. - Barrow, male pig castrated before puberty. - Stag, male pig castrated later in life, (that is, an older boar after castration). - Gilt, young female not yet mated, or not yet farrowed, or after only one litter (depending on local usage). - Sow, breeding female, or female after first or second litter. Pigs for slaughter - Suckling pig, a piglet slaughtered for its tender meat. - Feeder pig, a weaned gilt or barrow weighing between 18 kg (40 lb) and 37 kg (82 lb) at 6 to 8 weeks of age that is sold to be finished for slaughter. - Porker, market pig between 30 kg (66 lb) and about 54 kg (120 lb) dressed weight. - Baconer, a market pig between 65 kg (140 lb) and 80 kg (180 lb) dressed weight. The maximum weight can vary between processors. - Grower, a pig between weaning and sale or transfer to the breeding herd, sold for slaughter or killed for rations[clarification needed]. - Finisher, a grower pig over 70 kg (150 lb) liveweight. - Butcher hog, a pig of approximately 100 kg (220 lb), ready for the market. In some market (Italy) the final weight of butcher pig is in the 180 kg (400 lb) range. This for have hind legs suitable to produce cured ham. - Backfatter, cull breeding pig sold for meat; usually refers specifically to a cull sow, but is sometimes used in reference to boars. Groups - Herd, a group of pigs, or all the pigs on a farm or in a region. - Sounder, a small group of pigs (or wild boar) foraging in woodland Pig parts - Trotters, the feet of pigs (they have four hoofed toes, walking mainly on the larger central two). Biology - In pig, pregnant. - Farrowing, giving birth. - Hogging, a sow when on heat (during estrus). Housing - Sty, a small pig-house, usually with an outdoor run or a pig confinement. - Pig-shed, a larger pig-house. - Ark, a low semi circular field-shelter for pigs - Curtain-barn, a long, open building with curtains on the long sides of the barn. This increases ventilation on hot, humid summer days.
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I think a lot of American industries sacrificed quality (and compassion) for the sake of profit. I've seen how modern pig farms operate, animals are treated like objects and not sentient beings. My grandma used to raise pigs for food, but they were treated and raised with respect.
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WOW!! The RAILROAD back in the FIFTIES took way better care of Pigs and Piglets - than ANY modern piggery today does!!
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Honestly love the standards they had, obviously the pain factor is an issue, but even then the pain was minimalized. Should a pain medicine been used? Yes, but that requires money, and for what they had on hand I say job well done.
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This is abuse what if they were going through that pain?!
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Great video! Thanks for posting :)
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Hog Farming: "Saving Little Pigs" circa 1950 Union Pacific Railroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS6NfrUEiWQ #hogs #HogFarming
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i wish this is farming today so sad that the piggys most piggys fath is to be slatreded why to stuf your self what is the point if we need to eat eat but pepole wast so much for no reason whene you thow away a steaks you thowed away a cows life :.....(
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Thank goodness for factory farming! Were the methods depicted in this video the sole means of hog production, hard, economic realities would force a tenfold increase in pork prices. Those sentimental dolts predisposed to lamenting the plights of nameless sows in far away farrowing crates might yet be moved to sensible silence upon considering the prospect of paying $150 (USD) for a canned ham.
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These animals have it over most pigs today--they can enjoy the sense of real ground and feel the warmth of sunshine. Most pigs today are incarcerated in cement cells and force-fed corn for 6 months before slaughter--about 50 billion per year. If we don't respect the animals we kill for our own survival, we should not be surprised if its deadly viruses don't respect human life.
I love the idea of midwifery. It's heartbreaking to see unattended piglets struggling to break off a stubborn umbilical cord and then being unable to reach its mother's milk. I would like to see more evidence of the mother being able to attend to its own piglets. Few people understand how devoted mother pigs are to their yoiung. This film regrettably makes the mother seem unnecessary and even dangerous to its piglets--far from the truth. -
Is this some kind of documentary
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Thank you for sharing this.
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Fuck you fuck piglet stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Scavenger of the farm. Unclean meat. Go vegan for best health!
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