What is a shoat ring?

Question

ok i have a show pig, and i found a box of "shoat rings" outside. they had a picture of a pig on the front, and I'm wondering what they are? google didn't help :/

Answer 1

http://www.buyhardwaresupplies.com/?t=5&...

It looks like this....

When used on hogs or bulls in the nose, it can be used for control or to keep them from rooting about.

"Ringing the hogs" was one of the not-so romantic interludes around the farm in those days. That has a nice sound to it, doesn't it? Ring the hogs. Kinda like "ring the bell," but it was more like "Ring around the Rosie" when it came to catching free-running swine and gifting them with a not-so-beautiful but efficient anti-rooting adornment, a ring in the end of its nose."

Or for fastening things:

While relatively few are used these days for actual hogs, hog rings are still used in a wide variety of applications, such as:

    * automotive seat covers

    * fencing

    * netting

    * mesh

    * chicken wire

    * strain relief applications

    * preventing ropes from unravelling.

    * closing mesh or plastic bags of produce like oranges, onions, potatos

    * closing the ends of sausages

Hog Rings are used for a variety of fastening applications. They are also sometimes called crimp rings or shoat rings.

Answer 2

They are nose rings for the pigs.

Answer 3

A shoat is a ring that's put through the septum of the nose in order to tie up the animal whether it's pig or cow or whatever.