00:01 - Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Paul York, I'm

00:03 - from Rome, Pennsylvania, and I have a little program I do.

00:07 - It's called "Pigs and People."

00:10 - "And I have people ask me why "Pigs and People.

00:16 - "Well, the truth of the matter is we're more alike than we want to admit."

00:21 - If you take a pig and hold it up by the front legs, this is what you have.

00:27 - Look at my t-shirt.

00:29 - Turn it around, Todd.

00:31 - Here you go. See?

00:34 - Front legs, pigs. Not only that, internally they are the same with us.

00:43 - They are one of the smartest, clearest and

00:46 - most beneficial domesticated animals we have.

00:52 - The smartest. They have the ability to balance

00:55 - their own diet through instinct given the choice.

01:00 - We know how, but do we? Oh no, we don't know how.

01:05 - Okay, make and reach for it. The higher you

01:08 - make and reach, the more chances you are set.

01:11 - Okay, going back to pigs. First off, you're going to learn some terms about the pig.

01:18 - First, you have the bore. That is a male he's used for just breeding.

01:24 - Then you have a barrel, which is what this guy is right here.

01:28 - All they do is eat and sleep like that.

01:31 - Okay.

01:34 - Then you have a kill. That is a young female that hasn't given birth yet.

01:40 - Then you have a sow. That is a mature pig that has given birth to literal piglets.

01:46 - The litter being the group. The group of piglets could be from 6 to 16.

01:54 - Although I had a sow pig had 22 one time, and she only had 16 mammary glands.

02:02 - And like people, a newborn baby pig will feed every two hours.

02:08 - So if you don't have a nipple for it, they can

02:12 - make all kinds of noise. They are not very quiet.

02:17 - If you're working with pigs, it's nice to have a set of earplugs,

02:21 - because they can squeal as lot as a jet plane taken off.

02:25 - So it's much more pleasant if you have a pair of earplugs.

02:30 - He knows right where they are.

02:37 - Give a good swat on the nose.

02:40 - He gets out running really.

02:44 - Okay. Going on, the newborn piglet is born at two pounds, about this pig, right?

02:52 - Six months, this is what they look like. They have a very rapid metabolism.

02:57 - They grow really fast. One year in a pig's life is equal to 9 to 13 in a human beings.

03:04 - So that gives you an idea. They always asked, how can you keep a pig from growing?

03:12 - That unless you start it, it's got to keep increasing its size.

03:18 - I had saw pigs away as high as 1200 pounds back in 1965.

03:26 - We sold a pig to the University of Pennsylvania

03:30 - at Philadelphia for Heart Lung Research.

03:33 - She was nine years old and she weighed 1233 pounds.

03:41 - Eight foot long, two foot wide and four foot high.

03:47 - Okay, gives you an idea. All right.

03:50 - Now, the most important part of the pig is the nose.

04:01 - The nose controls what the pig does.

04:04 - They get smell their enemy up to three miles away.

04:09 - If you're paying attention to this pig, if you watch which way it turns its head.

04:16 - If it turns its head left, it'll turn left. If it turns right, it turns left.

04:22 - The nose controls what the pig does. See that? Okay.

04:29 - Hey, you want that? See? See?

04:37 - That's how you teach the pig where to go.

04:40 - That little ridge there is very tenures full of nerves, but it is tough.

04:45 - I've had them take cinder blocks out of a barn with those very tough.

04:52 - Okay, talking about the nose.

04:54 - I have a friend that was involved in a horrendous car crash.

04:59 - He had a total facial reconstruction.

05:02 - Now, when you go up like that back up with it, making back up, making back up.

05:06 - Let's see if they can make it back up.

05:10 - This is a teenager. That's why he's not cooperating with us.

05:14 - Okay, now.

05:18 - So he had this horrendous car crash, and he had a total facial reconstruction.

05:24 - And they transplanted a one-inch square piece

05:27 - of nasal membrane from a pig it is face.

05:30 - So he could retain the ability to smell.

05:34 - And he loves to tell me how he could smell food a long way off.

05:40 - Again, folks, down there on the table, there's recipes and free information.

05:46 - You can help yourself. Okay.

05:48 - Now, going up the head, you had the eye.

05:52 - If you go to a die doctor for laser surgery on your eye,

05:57 - they will use a pig eye to set the machinery up,

06:01 - because the pig eye is most like a human beings.

06:07 - The longer I go, the closer it gets, and

06:10 - the scarier gets that how much we are alive.

06:13 - Now, remember, I said, if you held it up by the front legs, all the organs,

06:18 - are the same as us, pound for pound, they weigh the same.

06:24 - Brain, heart, lungs, stomach, and so forth.

06:30 - Okay.

06:35 - And he made me get from the pig as class as pork.

06:40 - It could be your hand, it could be your pork chops, it could

06:43 - be a roast, it could be your crown pork, it could be sausage.

06:48 - And bacon, that favorite thing we hear so much

06:51 - about, if you ever had chocolate covered bacon,

06:55 - it's pretty good. My wife makes about six pounds every Christmas.

06:59 - Okay.

07:01 - On the products we get from the pig, eyeshadow and lipstick, oh my.

07:09 - If you use any skin product that has land

07:12 - on it, it will come from the fat of the hog.

07:16 - Don't kid yourself, it's a healthy product.

07:19 - Another product we get from the pig is jello.

07:23 - Oh, I'm not eating jello anymore, huh?

07:26 - That's another healthy product, okay.

07:33 - Other by-products, we got glue, pig skin gloves.

07:41 - The football or famous pig skin, glass, matches, plastics, soap, chalk,

07:51 - food for our pets, are we antifreeze, and

07:54 - also heart lows, heart lows has been 70 years.

07:59 - That's, that's old news.

08:01 - But we do have a product up and coming, it's called pig dust.

08:06 - They scrape the cells off the bladder or pig

08:08 - and if you know anything about the bladder,

08:11 - that's an organ that regenerates itself to get rid of our toxins.

08:17 - They dry it, they call it pixie dust or pig dust.

08:21 - They can spray it on a burn patient and the body

08:24 - will regenerate its own skin without a graft.

08:28 - The lowly pig who would have thought they had redrew all digits

08:32 - with them same cells.

08:35 - We had a marine in 2003 and Iraq lose all the muscle masses on one side of his body.

08:42 - They sent him a Pittsburgh and the young man was able to run in 2005.

08:48 - Pretty amazing stuff. Who would have thought the lowly pig?

08:52 - Now, going on.

08:56 - We also get helpful drugs.

08:58 - I'll rip off a few here.

09:04 - That's our option to treat your thyroid gland, estrogen,

09:08 - the female hormone, epinephrine, natural insulin, and cortisone.

09:14 - These are all by-products to pig.

09:16 - We get over 40 different types of medicine from one pig.

09:20 - A lot of them you don't know.

09:25 - That they came up with something new comes out of the

09:28 - stomach of the pig to help to treat pancreas problems.

09:33 - Another by-product from the lowly pig.

09:36 - Okay, going on, Todd, we're ready to flip.

09:42 - Okay, there.

09:44 - This is the size.

09:45 - Check this out.

09:47 - This is the pig you want now.

09:49 - If you look at this drawing, you'll see at the

09:51 - top of the page you've got sprigley wines there.

09:55 - That's what a pig can see.

09:57 - A pig cannot see behind its ears.

10:01 - Who else can't see behind its ears?

10:05 - We let mom check behind our ears, huh?

10:08 - Think about it.

10:09 - Okay, now.

10:11 - That shape there.

10:13 - If you want to put a pig in your freezer, that's the shape you want to look for.

10:18 - That shape will cause the animal to dress choice.

10:24 - That means 70% of its lightweight will be usable cuts.

10:31 - As you see right here.

10:34 - Now, that's not counting the by-products.

10:36 - That's just your usable cuts.

10:39 - One reason pigs are so popular that you yield

10:42 - a lot of meat for the time you feed them.

10:45 - And the time they grow.

10:49 - Again, so you can see all the major cuts.

10:54 - 70% of the lightweight, you'll have a choice carcass.

10:59 - All right, time.

11:00 - Now we're going on.

11:01 - We have the nine popular breeds we used today.

11:07 - The one on the top left is Chester White, which we can be quite proud of.

11:14 - It's originated to state of Pennsylvania.

11:17 - The farmers in Chester County wanted a certain type of animal.

11:21 - So they kept selected by breeding it until they got what they wanted.

11:26 - And they needed to Chester White after Chester County.

11:30 - Then you have a doroch down here, which is the brownish red.

11:37 - He originated in New Jersey, which incidentally holds the game per day records.

11:45 - The doroch red cable usually gained faster than any other color.

11:51 - Then you have the spotted hog there that originated in southwestern Ohio,

11:56 - which incidentally holds a Genesis book of world record.

12:03 - Hey, remember what I told you?

12:06 - Same spot as yesterday.

12:09 - They picked their spot to do their number one and two.

12:13 - Not like a dog all over the yard.

12:15 - And a pig will not eat it so sick.

12:19 - They until they get their belly full and what do you think they do?

12:24 - They take a nap. Who's that sound like?

12:28 - Yeah, think about it, okay?

12:30 - Now.

12:33 - Each breed has their own different characteristics.

12:36 - If you look at the pictures, you can see the difference in the colors.

12:40 - New York Shires still known as the Mueller breed.

12:46 - All the other breeds are imported.

12:49 - Which exception of three I mentioned, they started here.

12:55 - All right, the next one.

13:01 - That's it. Okay, any questions about the lowly pig?

13:07 - They can run at 35 mile an hour for a short period of time.

13:13 - We ran this guy for a couple of hours. He would die a heat stroke.

13:17 - Who else can die a heat stroke?

13:19 - A pig does not have any sweat glands.

13:25 - Hence, that's why you see him laying in the mud and water

13:29 - holes to take advantage of Mother Nature's cooling, okay?

13:33 - The younger the animal, the longer it can run at 35 mile an hour.

13:38 - And they are born with a set of teeth they lose just like feet.

13:50 - Okay. And they're the only animal that has the

13:53 - ability to morph its skull to survive in the wild.

13:56 - If this pig got loose for three months, two or

13:59 - three months, his head would change entirely.

14:03 - He'd end up looking like a furrow pig.

14:07 - To help him survive in the wild.

14:10 - The only animal that has the ability to do that.

14:13 - Okay. The very intelligent.

14:17 - We're working with this guy. Like I said, he is a teenager.

14:21 - He does not want to follow our instructions or our suit to teach you to sit up and beg.

14:29 - A 30 pounder, I'd have him sitting up and begging in no time.

14:34 - Okay.

14:39 - Any other questions about the lowly pig?