Every city needs a hero, a mascot. There's a gentle giant in Fair Park, snoozing the day away. Once seen, he's never forgotten.
Every city needs a hero, a mascot. There's a gentle giant in Fair Park, snoozing the day away. Once seen, he's never forgotten.},{ "name":"Editor Picks", "component":"17105533", "insertPoint":"4", "requiredCountToDisplay":"1", "watchElement":".
A fan keeps a cool breeze going, and his bed of hay provides a soft place for endless hours of naps in the shade. Fairgoers are continuously amazed at all Boris has to offer, just sleeping. Some children run to their parents. Adults gasp.About a week before the fair opened this year, we grabbed a few minutes with Daryl Real, senior vice president of livestock at the State Fair of Texas. We wanted to glean insight into the most-whispered-about character on the fairgrounds.
Boris can eat 20 pounds of feed in a day, which is typically corn- and soybean meal- based. So it'll be mainly ground corn, but have some soybean, and also, his feed is vitamin packed. It's got everything that he needs, a complete diet.Pigs are actually extremely gregarious animals and they like people. After a little while though, they're going to go rest. We all like people, and then we want to go be alone.
Unfortunately, my employee who has been working for me for a long time, who loves to take care of Boris, has to clean the pen multiple times a day because somebody always thinks it would be really cool to feed him a funnel cake or a corny dog. Most people are pretty respectful, though, and there are actually two layers of fencing, so there's a fence for him and there's a little buffer fence to keep people back so that they can't do that as easily.
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