Sentences with phrase «sick piglet»

So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals by his stronger siblings.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

To figure out if the SADS virus isolated from sick piglets had been the cause of their demise, researchers infected healthy farm piglets with the virus.

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Scientists say separating sick sows and piglets from the rest of the herd helped stop the outbreak of SADS - CoV by May 2017.