Piglet Body Farm Analysis

The biggest one was matching the organs with the pictures in the packet. Many times we found ourselves confused on if we were doing the correct thing or not, which is why we had to ask many questions and even go as far as asking our other classmates for help. Another issue that we encountered was with the tools we were given themselves. Although they were very sharp, it was hard to maneuver the blade around the pig. We often found ourselves having to switch equipment to get into the designated place. Another problem was figuring out how deep to go when cutting. The packet was not specific on how deep to cut into the fetal pig. We found ourselves damaging some of the internal organs. Damaging the internals organs affects the entire process of dissection. It changes everything of the dissection because the main point of this investigation is to identify them and not destroy them.

The purpose of the fetal pig dissection was to understand the scientific process of dissection and gain hands-on experience of the internal and external anatomy of the fetal pig. In addition to this, the fetal pig dissection helps students better interpret the relative position and sizes of organs, as well relation between organ and organ system.

Pigs are one of the most similar animals to humans, and can be analyzed to learn about the organ systems of the body. Both pigs and humans are mammals, omnivores, furless and featherless, and their fetuses receive nutrients from their mothers through the umbilical cord as they develop (Field). These

Sus scrofa, or the domestic pig is a member of the class Mammalia and the order Artiodactyla. Since we as humans are also a member of class Mammalia, we have a good deal in common biologically with pigs, although we might not like to think so. Since we have a good deal in common, it is very helpful for us to study these animals both anatomically and physiologically. We do this when we test medicines on pigs, perfect surgical procedures on pigs, and even when we used to use pig valves for replacements in human hearts. Thus the pig is a first-rate example of a mammal and the purpose of this lab is to recognize the specific similarities between the pig and ourselves as humans. To accomplish this we

Imagery of how workers were getting sick when pulling the guts out of the slaughtered pigs that for the most part can only leave readers saddened. “A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities,” (Wiber 350). Wiber tries to establish that these meat products are anything but one hundred percent real meat. Instead they’re filled with artificial fillers made of who knows

Throughout the course of anatomy and physiology, my partner Lena Mitchell and I dissected a fetal pig today. The systems seen in the dissection were, the integumentary system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the nervous system, the urinary system, the cardiovascular system and the male reproductive system. Also, I will go over the functions of the systems and the organs. I will talk about how it was dissecting the pig. Also, about what organs we took out, such as the heart, lungs, liver, kidney, small and large intestines, bladder, stomach, tongue, brain, eyeballs, and the reproductive organs.

On October 4, 2016 we started a body farm lab on still-birth pigs. We were to observe the decomposition of the piglets because they decompose at a similar rate as human bodies. The piglets we observed were a naked and clothed pig suspended in the air, a naked and clothed pig on asphalt, naked and clothed pig on grass, naked and clothed pig on grass in the dirt, naked pig with a gunshot wound, naked pig with a stab wound, and a naked pig that has been burnt. After observing we were to determine what piglets decomposed faster than the others, what succession of insects were on certain piglets, and many other observations.

The first step upon obtaining the pig is to carefully examine the pig to determine its age and

Visualize growing up with a drunken father. Imagine having to clean up every mess he made and dealing with the anger of his drunken state. Place yourself in Martyn Pig's shoes and experience what he had to go through on the regular. He was forced to grow up with a father who only used him as a ticket to a buzz. Martyn Pig was a victim. Even pushing his at home issues aside and out of the picture, he was still bullied ruthlessly by the other students at his school. Martyn Pig is a victim and has gone through unnecessary stages in his life no child should ever have to experience.

Pigs one and two came to the third pigs to warn him about the big bad wolf. So the wolf came to eat the pugs and blow down this home. But this time when he huff and puff to blow the house didn’t move. Than the wolf got tired and went away. Lionel shows us the last pigs was wise in making his home. The decision he made to build that brick effect what was to come in the future.

Instinctual Behaviors Social structure -For pigs the hierarchy is part of their social structure it’s formed at social maturity levels and is developed as fast as when they are a week old. Piglets form a teat and it stays the same as long as they are still in the same group together. Usually the largest pig in the group is the domain in the group. If pigs do not know each other they will fight until their remains one big tough pig that bosses the others which is the dominate one in the pen.Reproduction - pigs have a very high reproductive cycle since they can produce more than two litters of piglets a year. Sows female pigs have a heat cycle of twenty-one days you can tell the sow is in heat when they stand still to having pressure on their back and lower back without wanting to get away. That means she is ready and accepts the boar male pig.It's important to know the signs of when the pigs are in the state of heat and their behavior. It usually takes three to five minutes then separate the pigs and repeat in twelve to twenty-four hours.Mothering - Sows behavior is crucial to the development of growth for the piglet. Before she is ready to give birth hours before the sow nest builds with straw, grass, and other materials in her environment. Nursing is frequent and is good for the growth of the piglets. The milk has an impact on nursing behavior individual patterns are repeated with sows.Feeding - You should feed them good clean food and feed them one time. Follow how much

Initially when seeing the fetal pigs, I was completely disgusted and figured I could not even look at them in the sink, let alone look at them when they are dissected. As my group pinned down the fetal pig and tied it’s limbs out of the way, I began to get more comfortable with the fact. As the dissection progressed, through observing the mouth and the thoracic cavity on the first day and the abdominal cavity on the second day, I became less grossed out. Observing the organs was interesting and I felt like it was a useful representation of what human organs are like, since it would not be ethical to use an actual human to dissect. I learned the difficulties that surgeons have to endure when performing a surgery. I can only imagine the high-pressure

After a long restless night, I was desperate to gaze at them. I brought them outside, but the babies didn't eat the grass which surprised me do to the fact the guinea pigs can eat right after birth, but usually it takes twenty-four hours well, it had been about twenty hours! A little bit later the older brother, Coal, started to eat grass, he was also the first to drink milk. We named the girl Ocean who is black and white, and the boy Coal, who is as black as coal.

Pigs are unable to move in their cages. The baby pig ears, tails are cut off and their teeth are chopped off to prevent them from harming other pigs. They are castrated without any pain killer. The baby pigs are given antibiotics to promote rapid growth. Their body grows, so fast, the legs become crippled. Many pigs are ill, but are kept alive to be shipped off to slaughter to get a profit. The pigs that did not make it to slaughter are shot with a gun to prevent them from eating the farmer’s feed. Pigs are abused by beating them with a gate rod to be moved from one place to another. Most pigs arrive at the slaughter lame or dead from the crowdedness during transporting. Pigs are electrically shocked to move on the killing floor of the slaughtering

Mother pigs spend most of their miserable lives in tiny gestation and farrowing crates so small that they can’t even turn around and forced to get pregnant over and over again, until their bodies can’t handle it anymore.. Males are either killed immediately, or castrated at a young age then kept only for their meat. Piglets, in general, are torn away from their mothers after only a few weeks, tails are chopped off, and the ends of their teeth are snipped off, then the spend days to weeks to months in cramped, crowded pens on slabs of filthy concrete until it gets decided what will happen to them.