Thread:CaerndyKM/@comment-28844152-20160727072833

So... my question is: Does the temperature of their ears and noses tell you something about their health (like cold ears of cows and horses = fever)? Should they be warm like the rest of the body or cold? Or is it just adapting to outside temperatures like our ears and noses?

Two years ago I was helping on a small farm and they had two pigs that should turn into sausages later in their life. They didn't know anything about pigs, I think, they couldn't even tell me how old they were. The girly was pretty small and the older boy was also far from being grown up. He was regularly coughing, so he was sick. And one day when I fed them I noticed that the girl had cold ears and nose and the boy's were warm. When I asked the farmer about it, he didn't know if that had any meaning. Some days in the morning the boy would also have cold ears.

Since then I'm wondering if the boy was really sick with fever or if the stable was too cold for the little girl. It was May then and on some mornings it was just a bit over 0°C.

If you could solve this mystery that would be awesome and I would be grateful forever. 