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pigsty
Sign in to saveAlso known as piggery, swinery, pig sty, sty for pigs, pigsties, pigpen, pigpens, pig sties
right|thumb|Pigsty – Museum of Country Life in Wallonia in :w:Saint-Hubert, Belgium|Saint-Hubert (Belgium) thumb|Pigsty in Vampula, [[Finland]] thumb|Model of toilet with pigsty (see pig toilet), China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25–220 CE
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- Terminology
- Family farm hog pen
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right|thumb|Pigsty – Museum of Country Life in Wallonia in :w:Saint-Hubert, Belgium|Saint-Hubert (Belgium) thumb|Pigsty in Vampula, [[Finland]] thumb|Model of toilet with pigsty (see pig toilet), China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25–220 CE
A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs as livestock. Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. There are several reasons that pigs, generally clean animals, create such a living environment: Pigs are voracious eaters and will eat all the plants in the enclosure until there is nothing left to control erosion. The pig will naturally root and dig for food in the enclosure, further disturbing the soil. Pigs do not regulate temperature by sweating which means that they must be provided with water or mud in which they can control their own body temperature.