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Show STIRRING UP SLEEPY SWINE Sow That Does Not Exercise Never Does Produce Good Pigs Make Them Get Out and Hustle. Some sows, like some people, are Just naturally lazy and inactive. They spend their time lying about and sleeping, while their more ambitious sisters are up and hustling about. Ask any hog man who has kept his eyes open what kind of a litter such a sow begets. Invariably he will tell you a email, weakly bunch of pigs with no strength and no vigor. The sow that does not exercise never does produce good pigs. Mismanagement will sometimes make the whole herd inactive. This of course, Is true where the sows are given all they want to eat and kept confined in close quarters. It will pay the herdsman to observe ob-serve his herd pretty carefully and to get after the sows that are sleepy and inactive, and make them get out and hustle. Feed them but little inside in-side and let them get out and hustle for their feed in the manure left by cattle, for instance. Or scatter feed about outside in the yard where they will have to root around to get it. Anyway, adopt some measure that will waken them from their lethargy f you want to get good pigs. |