Who doesn't love a relaxing mud bath? Our Tamworth pigs certainly do! Mud baths have a number of benefits for our pigs including: 🌡️Keeping the pigs cool as they are unable to sweat 👾Preventing parasites 🐷It is a highly social activity for them 😄Most importantly, they really enjoy it! | Noah's Ark Zoo Farm

Why do pigs love mud so much? Are they just dirty? No! Pigs need mud to regulate their temperature and protect their skin from sunburn. Yes, that's right pigs can get sunburn too 🥹 especially in this Aussie heat. So mud is like their own special homemade suncream! The act of rolling around in the mud like this is called wallowing. Wallowing also helps them in something called evaporative cooling. This is their version of sweating because they don't have functional sweat glands like us! Just lik