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Thread #75395   Message #1325163
Posted By: Cruiser
12-Nov-04 - 09:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: it's about as much use as.......
Subject: RE: BS: it's about as much use as.......
"Worthless as teats on a boar hog"

A gilt that is the daughter of a boar possessing few, misplaced, or malformed teats is genetically predisposed to the same undesirable characteristic. Hog breeders will keep gilts with at least 12 well-placed teats and will not keep others as brood sows for farrowing.

So, teats on a boar and the sow are important in brood stock.

Cruiser

Oh, to the question at hand: about as much use as a milk bucket under a bull's prepuce (unless that is all you have and need semen for artificial insemination, but I will leave THAT chore to other "handymen" and I'll handle the milking of the cows).