Piggery

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 shelter. In developed countries, farming has moved away from traditional pig farming and pigs are now typically intensively farmed. Today, pig farms are much larger than in the past.

Individual farm management focuses on housing facilities, feeding and ventilation systems, temperature and environmental controls. Some procedures and treatments are known to stress the animals and producers should consider the animals' welfare, health and management in correspondence with accepted husbandry skills

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.

• Curtian-barn, long, open building with curtains on the long sides of the barn. This increases ventilation on hot, humid summer days.