Specialized term for pig excrement? [closed]

Solution 1:

Wikipedia has a list of such terms. It does not list a specific words for pigs, so absent evidence to the contrary, I assume there is no specialised term. There are two terms for describing feces of animals in general (using the same Wikipedia list as the source):

Dung to refer to the bulk material and droppings to refer to the individual pieces.

From that same Wikipedia list, it seems manure is only used to refer to horse feces or feces used as a fertilizer.

Solution 2:

The only animal-specific name for excrement I can think of is that of rabbits and hares, whose digestive system produces two types: hard and soft pellets; the latter, which are reingested, also have the scientific name cecotropes. This performs the same digestive function as in ruminants — cattle and sheep — without the extra internal organs.

Other word choices seem to depend on how human use or interact with animal excreta. When used for fuel, the word is dung, and a dung bettle never seems to encounter manure. Small animals, whether birds or rodents, usually produce droppings, but so do cockroaches. Flies produce specks.

Chicken or poultry litter contains chicken droppings along with feathers, uneaten feed, and bedding materials. In some parts of the US, it is used as supplementary cattle feed.

According to Random House, scat is the “excrement of an animal,” but I have only heard the word associated with wild animals, especially those stalked as prey.

If used as fertilizer, there may be regional differences in the choice of dung or manure. Where I grew up in West Texas, manure came, unsurprisingly, from cattle, and if it came from some other animal, it would have to be specified. Does wonders for roses, by the way. Dung was a word I heard from nature programs on television: elephants and camels.

If you are a farmer and you have to clean out a stable or barn, you shovel manure.