A Swineherd is a person who looks after pigs. The term has fallen out of popular use in favour of 'pig farmer'. Pig farming today is still carried out in a manner that can be compared to that practiced in Roman times. Marcus Terentius Varro recommended waiting until sows are one year and eight months old before mating them and recommended continuing to breed them until they were seven years old. Today sows can be mated at six or seven months, but it isn't recommended to breed them more than thre… (More on Swineherd)