Pig feed, greens, chickpeas, cartwheels, pig sprouts, apples, potatoes, etc.; especially love sweets, and studies have found that un-nursed newborn piglets love sweets.
Expanded Information:
Pig's Habit:
Pig's Habit:
1. Feeding behavior
The feeding behavior of pigs includes feeding and drinking, and has various age characteristics.
2. Arching Characteristics
Pigs are genetically gifted with the ability to arch over the soil, and arching over the soil to forage for food is a prominent feature of pig feeding behavior. The pig's nose is a highly developed organ, and the sense of smell plays a decisive role in earth-arching for food. Although in the modern pig house, the pig also shows the characteristics of arching for food, every time the pig tries to occupy a favorable position in the trough when feeding, sometimes the two forelimbs will step in the trough to feed.
If the trough is easy to access, individual pigs even drill into the trough, standing in a corner of the trough, like wild boars arching for food, arching along the trough with their muzzle, stirring up the food, throwing it all over the place.
Group-fed hogs eat more and faster than single-fed hogs and gain more weight. Pigs feed 6~8 times during the day, 1~3 times more than at night, each feeding duration of 10~20min, less than 10min when feeding restriction, any food (free feeding), not only feeding time is long, but also can show the hobbies and personality of each pig.
The number of sucking times of piglets per day and night varies according to their age, about 15~25 times in the range of 10%~20% of the total time of the day and night, and the amount and frequency of feeding of large pigs increase with the increase of body weight.
In most cases, drinking is done at the same time as feeding. The amount of water consumed by pigs is quite large, piglets need to drink water after birth, mainly from the water in breast milk, piglets drink about twice as much as the dry material when eating, that is, the ratio of water to material is 2:1; the amount of water consumed by adult pigs, in addition to the composition of the feed, depends greatly on the ambient temperature.
Pigs on mixed diets drink water 9 to 10 times per day and night, while those on wet diets drink water an average of 2 to 3 times. Pigs on dry diets need to drink water immediately after each feed intake, free range pigs usually alternate between feeding and drinking until they are satisfied, and restriction-fed pigs drink water only after they have finished eating their feed. Piglets can learn to drink from an automatic waterer before the age of one month.
3. Defecation
Pigs do not defecate or urinate where they eat or sleep, perhaps by ancestral nature. Wild boars do not defecate and urinate by their dens, presumably to avoid detection by enemy animals.
Under good management, pigs are the cleanest of domestic animals. Pigs are able to keep their sleeping beds dry and clean, and are able to defecate and urinate at a fixed location in the pen away from the bed. Pig feces and urine is a certain time and area, generally more in the food and water or lying down, choose the dark and damp or dirty corner of the feces and urine, and by the neighboring pigs.
It has been observed that growing pigs do not excrete during the feeding process, about 5min after satiation began to excrete 1~2 times, mostly excreting feces first and then urinating, also excreting before feeding, but mostly urinating first and then excreting feces, in the interval between the two feedings, pigs mostly urinate and rarely excreting feces, the general nighttime excreting feces 2~3 times, the morning of the largest amount of excretion, the pig's nighttime excretory activity time accounted for the day and night time of 1.2%~1% of the total time, the pig's nighttime excretory activities. The nighttime excretory activity of the pig accounts for 1.2%~1.6% of the total daytime and nighttime time.