UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa) · 1915 · 53 citations · 0 references
AgricultureAnimal SciencesPhysiologyAnimal NutritionNutritional PhysiologyRuminant NutritionAppetiteAppetite AssessmentAppetite RegulationSwine NutritionSwine PhysiologySwine WelfarePhysiological CharacterizationSwine Nutritional Health
The pig is farrowed with a fairly definite set of specifications for development all wrapped up in their mystery in a two to three pound bundle of throbbing, active "stuff." And yet before the pig sought the outer life apart from the womb of his dam, these specifications were enclosed in the minutest bit of protoplasm, the impregnate ovum resulting from the union of two germ cells, one from the male and the other from the female.