041147 Farmer's Hog Tops Scales at 1600-PoundsNovember 19, 2004Hubbardsville, NY - Bob Peterson has one big pig on his hands. The hog named Norm, after the character on "Cheers," weighs an estimated 1,600-pounds, stands four feet high and measures seven feet from snout to tail. Norm lives on Peterson's Madison County farm in central New York. The retired state trooper from Connecticut says the three-year-old hog may be the world's biggest pig. Heather Sweeney, a livestock specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension in neighboring Oneida County, says a three-year-old pig normally would top out at 500 pounds. Word has spread among Peterson's farmer neighbors, and scores of them have showed up to get a look at the big pig. Peterson says Norm will never wind up as bacon. The pig has become a mascot for his farm and Peterson says the huge porker will live out the rest of his life without being sold for meat.
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