Points to note when raising pigs in summer: do not throw cold water on the pigs

In summer, when the temperature is high, pigs often pant loudly from the heat. Some farmers, worried that the pigs will fall ill from the heat, throw cold water on the pigs, hoping to cool them down and make them feel more comfortable, not realizing that this is harmful and does no good.

Pigs pant from the heat because their sweating is poor, so the heat in their bodies cannot be released for the time being. If cold water is thrown on a pig at this time, the strong cold stimulation makes the sweat pores all over the pig's body contract sharply, the release of body heat is blocked, and the body temperature instead rises abruptly; in mild cases the pig develops a high fever and inflammation of the lungs, and in severe cases it leads to the pig's death. Therefore, in the height of summer, never use the method of throwing cold water on pigs to cool them down. If the weather is hot and the pigs really need to be cooled and relieved of the heat, you can drive the pigs to a well-ventilated, shady place, then splash some cold water on the ground (preferably clean concrete ground) and let the pigs lie quietly on it to rest; you can also dig a pit inside the pig pen, fill the pit with enough cool well water, and let the pigs "wallow in the mud."