US farmer 'eaten by his own pigs' A pathologist was unable to identify a cause or manner of death, the newspaper reported. The remains will be examined by a forensic anthropologist at the University of Oregon. Terry Garner was "a good-hearted guy" who cared for several huge adult sows and a boar named Teddy, said his brother, Michael Garner, 75, of Myrtle Point. "Those animals were his life," Michael Garner said. He had all kinds of birds, and turkeys that ran all over the place. Everybody knew him. Michael Garner said one of the large sows bit his brother last year when he accidentally stepped on a piglet. "He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind," the brother said. Domestic pigs are not typically known to be as aggressive as their feral cousins, but "there is some degree of danger associated with any animal," John Killefer, who heads the Animal and Rangeland Sciences Department at Oregon State University in Corvallis, told the newspaper. While pigs "are more omnivorous than other farm animals, (such as) cows," Killefer called the case highly unusual. Most pigs are raised until they reach a market weight of between 113 kilograms and 136 kilograms, while breeding female pigs rarely weigh more than 181 kilograms, Mr Killefer said. Source: agencies