Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Adam Ragusea"
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Having grown up on a farm, I know, for a fact, pigs do NOT like to lay in their own excrement. My brother and I used to clean the pens and the pigs would sleep in one spot and poop in another. We would clean the pens and put the straw bedding in their "bathroom". Every pig, in that pen, would immediately push the straw, with their noses, over to their sleep area. Once they have a designated bathroom, they will refuse to sleep there. We tested it out multiple times.
Cows, on the other hand, will do their thing and lay right down in it. They have no designated sleep area, nor do they construct a comfy bed like pigs do with the straw.
I know this from first hand experience.
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My experience tells me that they only lay in their own excrement if they absolutely must. I would suppose that would also mean to cool themselves, as overheating might be a death sentence. That would mean it's a survival tactic NOT a preferred choice. It's like a human drinking urine. They don't normally do it but will, if they must, to survive.
If given a choice, a pig will not sleep in its own excrement. 20 years of cleaning pig stalls has validated this. In fact, my brother and I would amuse ourselves, when we were 10 to 12 by watching them move the bedding from their "bathroom" to the sleep area. They would do it EVERY time. Pigs also like to sleep right next to one another. I would assume that would be for warmth at night and they grow up as part of a litter. Another thing, if you throw some of their food, like whole stalks of corn, into their excrement, they will eat it but they'll only do so when all other food is gone. It's a last resort, which would be a strong indication that they don't like it but will if forced to.
You can always go to the rule of exception but exception are not the rule and that rule of exception doesn't explain the behaviour that I've witnessed all my life.
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