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Animal Farm Persuasive Speech

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“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, & happiness.” Agriculture is a big role in our lives, we need agriculture to live day by day. Do you think without pigs we could live? Pigs make up some of our human resources, like bacon for food. The production of swine is a big role in agriculture as well, they help to produce food for our everyday living. Swine are one of our resources of agriculture when swine are produced they are marketed and packaged to be shipped to stores. Have you ever learned about raising and marketing pigs? Well if not I’m going to tell you a little more about it!

Farrowing is activated when the piglet reaches it’s last stage of maturity approximately one …show more content…

When they are born they have to stay at a ninety degree temperature, which can be held with a heat lamp, or in some cases they have heaters in the crates the piglets are in. Baby piglets can not produce their own heat when they are born, their body heat kicks in about two weeks after they are born. Therefor, up until then they rely on you to keep them warm by using a heat lamp. One week after birth baby piglets are creep fed, this is so the piglets can wean from the sow. Creep feeding is high-quality feed that is fed readily. This mixture meets the piglets nutrition needs. When baby piglets are weaned, they weigh around fifteen pounds which leads them to be successfully weaned, regardless of age but by the amount they are eating. It is important when weaning baby piglets to have a dry, heated, well-ventilated, well-insulated house for pigs weaned early. After being weaned don’t start the piglets in large groups, you need small groups of twenty to twenty-five head per pen. Allow three to four square feet of space for each pig. After being weaned sort all pigs according to size and

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