- Because most pig aren't pink!
Do you think you know all these playful pig fun facts? Did you know that most pigs are brown or black and not pink?
- Pigs like to sleep nose to nose.
- Piglets love to snuggle to stay warm or burrow down into hay to keep warm.
- Pigs have sharp tusks that help them dig and fight. Sometimes farmers take them off to avoid injury to people or other pigs.
- A domestic pig can live for up to 20 years.
- The Pig is the twelfth symbol in the Chinese zodiac representing honesty, fortune, virility, and happiness.
- Pigs drink lots of water, up to three to five gallons per day!
- A pig’s squeal can be as loud as 115 decibels, or three times as loud as a jetplane.
- Piglets can be trained to learn their own names at just two weeks old! This is one of the cutest of the playful pig fun facts.
- Beyond pork, we also get lard, leather, glue, fertilizer, and a variety of medicines from pigs.
- Approximately 105 million pigs are raised yearly to be killed in factory farms for consumption.
- Pigs are usually black, yellow, or brown, though some are pink.
- In Europe, pigs diets are barley-based.
- Female pigs without babies are called a gilt and mother pigs are called sows.
- The relatively short, stiff, coarse hairs of the pig are called bristles. (These hairs were actually used to make paintbrushes for a time.)
- Pigs are also known as hogs or called swine.
- Pigs are mostly peaceful animals but if a mama pig thinks her babies are being threatened, she will act aggressively.
- A mama sow about to give birth will look for sticks, leaves, and hay to make a cozy nest and pile for itself.
- Newborn piglets weigh about 2.5 pounds when they’re born.
- Pigs have large heads, round bodies, and short legs.
- Newborn baby piglets will leave their nest to go to the bathroom only hours after they have been born.
- Pigs are omnivores, meaning they eat plants and animals.
- Piglets each have their own teat and will search for and use it every time they nurse.
- Because of their amazing sense of smell, pigs can be taught to hunt for things like valuable truffles or even landmines.
- Domesticated pigs, especially small ones, are popular as pets. It’s estimated that there are 250,000 to one million pet pigs in the United States. Do you know anyone that has a smaller size pet pig?
- Mother pigs sing to their babies in grunts while they are nursing. This is such a fun addition to the playful pig fun facts.
- Piglets are able to open their eyes right away when they are born.
- Pigs are smart animals, comparable to a three-year-old kid. (This makes them even smarter than dogs!)
- A pig has 44 teeth.
- Pigs are social animals who create close bonds with each other.
- Pigs roll around in the mud to cool off and help them regulate their body temperature.
- Pigs are one of the most talkative farm animals and because of this, scientists have created a database to name the grunts of pigs like “reunion,” “huddling,” “surprise,” “waiting”
and “running” and “fighting. - In the wild, pigs eat leaves, roots, fruit, rodents and even small reptiles.
- Domestic pigs in the United States eat diets of mostly corn.
- Piglets are super sensitive to the cold.
- A feral pig is a domestic pig that now lives in the wild. Feral pigs are mostly found in the Americas and Australia.
Did you know all the things on this playful pig fun facts list? Tell me something that’s not on the list in the comments!