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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Pig breeds, Intensive pig farming, Pig slaughter, Ossabaw Island Hog, Mangalitsa, Suckling pig, Razorback, Choctaw Hog, Black Iberian pig, Guinea Hog, Pot-bellied pig, Cumberland Pig, Miniature pig, List of domestic pig breeds, Taihu pig, Large White, Swabian-Hall Swine, Creole Pig, Kunekune, Hereford, Middle White, Jeju Black Pig, Mukota, Fengjing, Red Wattle, Chester White, Mulefoot, Lacombe, British Lop, Oxford Sandy and Black, Meishan, Danish Landrace, Bazna, Pietrain, Duroc, Poland China, Iron Age pig, Woolly-coated grazing pig, Korean native pig, Gascon, Welsh, Swedish Landrace, Estonian Bacon, Kakhetian, Forest Mountain, Latvian White, Lithuanian White, Italian Landrace. Excerpt: Intensive piggeries (or hog lots) are a type of factory farm (also known as an AFO or CAFO in the U.S.) specialized in the raising of domestic pigs up to slaughter weight. In this system of pig production, grower pigs are housed indoors in group-housing or straw-lined sheds, whilst pregnant sows are housed sow stalls (gestation crates) or pens and give birth in farrowing crates. Pigs are kept in large stalls with large numbers of pigs per square metre. The temperature is raised which allows the pig to spend less energy on keeping its body heat at the right temperature so it gets fat quicker enabling the process to be much more efficient. The use of sow stalls for pregnant sows has resulted in lower birth production costs; however, this practice has led to more significant animal welfare concerns. Many of the world's largest producers of pigs (U.S., Canada, Denmark, Mexico) use sow stalls, but some nations (e.g., the UK) and some U.S. states (e.g., Florida, Arizona, and California) have banned them. Intensive piggeries are generally large warehouse-like buildings or barns. Indoor pig systems allow the pigs' conditions to be monitored, ..
