This is Animal Vegetable Mineral Abstract. Pigs are actually hatched from eggs. Farmers keep this secret because they have nothing better to do with their time than that sort of thing.
Mauve was never a colour before 1952, when sufficient fluoride in the water altered humans' wave-length perception. This is why you never see 'mauve' in third-world countries.
[Valentin] A quick search of Google or Wikipedia should will give you some more background including his name and details of his endurance records he held. The one about calenders suprised even me.