Pig Farming Terminology
Pigs are extensively farmed, and therefore the terminology is well developed:
- Pig, hog or swine, the species as a whole, or any member of it. The singular of "swine" is the same as the plural.
- Shoat, piglet or (where the species is called "hog") pig, unweaned young pig, or any immature pig.
- Sucker, a pig between birth and weaning.
- Runt, an unusually small and weak piglet, often one in a litter.
- Boar or hog, male pig of breeding age.
- Barrow, male pig castrated before puberty.
- Stag, male pig castrated later in life, (that is, an older boar after castration).
- Gilt, young female not yet mated, or not yet farrowed, or after only one litter (depending on local usage).
- Sow, breeding female, or female after first or second litter.
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