On the seventh day of Christmas…

Pigs, glorious pigs.

True or False.
     A pig is an odd-toed ungulate.

False. 
     A horse is an odd-toed ungulate.
     A pig is an even-toed ungulate.

Fascinating.

Next, we have a few pig facts for the Holiday.

—The largest pig was a Poland-China hog named “Big Bill.” He weighed a portly 2,552 lbs and was so large that he dragged his belly on the ground. He had a shoulder height of 5 feet and a length of 9 feet.

[9 feet, my bloggette friends–9 feet.  From the tip of your nose to the end of one outstretched arm is about 3 feet–so hold out both of your arms and then add 3 feet.  That. is an enormous pig.  I saw a big pig at a state fair once–it had its own building.]

—The scream of a jet engine taking off measures ~130 dB.
A ticking watch is ~20 dB.
A chainsaw is ~105 dB.
The scream of a frightened pig can measure ~115 decibels.

[The moral of that story is to make sure you don’t stand next to a jet engine, a chainsaw, or a screaming pig without ear protection. Or at all.]

This will be the final fascinating fact about pigs.

–Pigs are the only animals, except for humans, that can get a sunburn.

[Who in the world did that research–and–how in the world did the pigs communicate that they had a sunburn, hm?]

True or False
     A pig can lift a bowling ball.
     A pig knows what a fulcrum is.

You decide.