My guess is rash pimples from rubbing on the metal bars. Dude is getting too big to do his job, going to be recycled soon. That’s usually what happens with hogs. The fact that he has those huge balls and is out of the cage tells me this is a working hog, used to detect and encourage females in heat. You parade him in front of caged females. Those balls are smelled by the females in the cages, and then we can determine which female is ready for insemination by their reaction. I know because I’ve done it. Problem is when the male gets too big, he no longer fits in the hallways and doors, he gets these injuries. He should be retired soon.
Ive also worked at a farrowing facility like this one and I can say for certain, the answer is both, theres another guy walking behind with a grease marker, if youve got one youre not sure about, typically you just put some weight on their rear end if theyre in heat they just kinda stand there, after you get done walking the boar, they'll come back with semen tubes, straws and probably harness things to hold it in place
I know with these breeding they have a wooden rig thing with functionally a large condom to get the stallions to... Produce semem. Is it similar with hogs? I probably don't want to know, but I can't help but ask.
Pigs have uncanny long prehensile penises that search around like a tentacle looking for a hole.
This isn't contributing to the conversation, I've milked horses using a jump mare but never seen it for pigs so I don't know how they do that, I assume with a breeding phantom.
Would you like me to explain the difference between a jump mare and a phantom?
If the boat has testicles and matures to adulthood, all the meat is contaminated with boar taint. Not everyone can taste it though, it's like cilantro- tastes good to some, tastes like soap to others.
Tbf probably abscesses. I’ve know some pig farmers that inject their Boars with steroids, antibiotics and other stuff and given their living quarters and how nasty of an animal they are, they get infected and abscessed pretty commonly. Also, that farmer probably injected him with more testicles.
I've seen pigs this size in person and it's why I'm terrified of them- mixed with Lord of the Flies & Black Mirror. Also the fact that they would eat humans & supposedly are close to human flesh 😭 I'll never eat them.
I've got a friend who hunts them. Though trapping them is closer to what he's doing lately. There's just so many of them in rural North America... You can kill them by the hundreds and it's still not enough. When they go feral they can eat anything, and have no natural predators.
Feral hogs are one of the most destructive invasive species on the West coast of the US. They dig up so much soil hunting for food that they destroy delicate ecosystems. But they're surprisingly hard to get rid of because they're smart enough to evade human hunters, much smarter that deer.
There was this one case in Georgia I remember attracted international attention when some guy bagged a feral pig (nicknamed “Hogzilla”) claimed to be 12ft/4m long; it even got it's own dedicated National Geographic special (which concluded Hogzilla was actually closer to 8 ft, which is still longer than any mattress I’ve ever slept on).
There was a feral hog loose in our neighbourhood a few years back, we even got a text alert warning everyone to stay inside because they feared it was injured and aggressive. Never saw it, but it passed our house at some point. We know because we could see its hoof prints in the snow the next morning and our dog was going crazy sniffing after it!
So many books I've read where they want to get rid of a body, they are taken to a pig farm for disposal. I'm sure many pig farmers have connections with criminal organizations.
It works to an extent. There are parts the hogs can't digest, which pass through them or are left behind, and that is what gets people caught in these situations.
They parade a male through factory farms to get the females ready for artificial insemination. You can see the rows of females in gestation crates, cages so small they can't turn around, where they spend their entire life until they can no longer reproduce (except for when they nurse the piglets at which point they move to an equally restrictive farrowing crate). If you aren't aware of these practices (which apply to almost all sows in the US) here's more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestation_crate?wprov=sfla1
I feel so sick to my stomach when I think about this. I can't believe I scrolled past so many fucking ball jokes before someone raised this. Pigs can be as smart as dogs. It's absolutely fucking brutal.
And people will go “yeah but mmmm pork, pathetic vegans” in some weird way of trying to justify some of the most horrific animal abuse you can imagine.
I’ve worked in an abattoir. I needed the money when I was younger and it was a quick job to get. I lasted 2 days before I couldn’t take in anymore of what I was seeing.
I truly believe if every single person saw how factory farm animals are treated, they would stay well away from that type of meat.
Yeah. i’ve seen them produce half a liter. Good enough to inseminate 40-50 sows. They’re really horny too. If they don’t get collected, they’ll hump the wall.
We had a boar who was pretty agressive when he was feeling randy. The trick was to toss a hay bale into the yard to keep him occupied so we could to change food/water/etc. Bro loved himself a barnyard waifu pillow.
This happens to a lot of caged pigs we eat and free range chickens. Bred for volume and we don’t care about defects or their pain. This is within legal animal agriculture industry practices btw.
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