Recently, a video showing that a farmer installed an air conditioner in his pigsty in Zigong, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, went viral on social media platforms.Screenshot of Wutong Video

Recently, a video showing that a farmer installed an air conditioner in his pigsty in Zigong, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, went viral on social media platforms. The farmer surnamed Zeng, said that when he was cleaning the pigsty, he found the temperature there was too high, about 37 or 38 C. Since the sow had just given birth to the piggies, Zeng worried the sow and her babies could not stand the heat, so he installed an air conditioner there to cool them down. 

However, regarding this practice, Li Chunmei, a vet of animal husbandry, said that both the air conditioning load and the cost are very high, and the ammonia gas generated by poultry manure would not be easy to emit, which may disadvantage the pigs' growth. Normally, large farms use air coolers or fans to lower the temperature for livestock. 

Zeng said he would also install a mini speaker in the pigsty. Some netizens said he is very tender to his livestock, while others commented that the weather in Sichuan has been scorching hot recently.