Show heavy pigs grow faster the birth weight of pigs has bag an important bearin bearing 9 on the gains they make in weight for or the first six months the united states department 0 of agriculture found after observing 1420 hogs bogs at its experiment station at miles city mont during the five year period beginning in 1927 1027 and ending to in 1831 1931 the department found that the pigs varied in weight at birth from one and a half pounds to four pounds with most of them weighing from two and anu unu a half to three pounds |