Recent years have seen great strides made in maintaining active numbers of traditional pig breeds at viable levels. And the ...

Borrowing a page from the dairy industry, researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station found that a slow-growth diet meant more piglets and healthier and longer-lived momma pigs.

Domestic pigs reproduce through a breeding process that is closely managed on farms around the world. During mating, a male pig, known as a boar, mounts the female, called a sow, in a behavior driven ...

The Mangalitsa pig built an empire's food supply, then vanished almost entirely within a generation. The breed's unlikely ...

His farm currently maintains around 150 pigs, including 40 breeding sows. A sow has a gestation period of around 114 days, ...