Employees supported themselves as best they could, using the wards as pigsties and chicken coops.

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"The fox is guarding the henhouse, " says Karen Hudson, president of Families Against Rural Messes, an Elmwood, Ill. group that does battle with industrial-size pigsties and chicken coops.

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M. (AP) Using the cover of darkness, feral pigs have learned to outsmart even the most seasoned hunters as they set about on their nightly terrors, rooting up crops and suburban gardens, harassing native wildlife and turning watering holes into pigsties.

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