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by shakna 105 days ago
Pigs are adapted to singular survival. A stressed sow will often eat the piglets. And that stress can be being a mother for the first time.

There are a lot of environmental factors, like snuggling for warmth being unsafe.

But by and large... Pigs give birth in numbers. They can afford for half to die, and still proliferate. They don't need to be 'good parents'.