Before I started pasture raising pigs I wondered why they enjoyed the mud so much. After doing a little research I found out that pigs have very few sweat glands. So to be able to cool off in the heat they will wallo in mud.
The moisture evaporating off their skin cools them down just like us when we sweat. The mud also acts like a sunscreen. Pigs can get a sunburn. It usually only takes for them to get sunburned once and they realize how importing the mud is to them.
Our bore Floppy and his girls made a huge wallo in one of their pens. The mud in that wallo I was damn near waist-deep.
Another benefit of the mud is that it helps keep away the biting insects like horse flies.
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