Around 4,000 sows and 7,000 piglets died in the fire at a hog farm Saturday.
Thousands of pigs died in a huge blaze that destroyed a hog farm in southern Minnesota Saturday, CBS reported.
Around 4,000 sows and 6,000 to 7,000 piglets were killed in the blaze that began Saturday afternoon at the Cougar Run Farm near the town of Truman.
Crews took around four hours to extinguish the fire that destroyed almost 50% of the farm.
No people were hurt in the fire but the farmhands are reeling from the loss of livestock.
"This is really hard for us right now," Cougar Run employee Kaycee Gebhart told CBS Minnesota. "A truck is replaceable, barns are replaceable, but these hogs are our livelihood and we cared for them every day. They were more than just livestock to us."
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