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China is the major producer and consumer of pork all around the world. In China, pork production has accounted for more than 60% of meat production for a long time. Nowadays, the pig industry has gradually shifted from decentralized and extensive breeding to intensive large-scale breeding, promoting production efficiency. At present, as people's demand for the quantity and quality of pork is increasing, China's pig industry faces the problem that the output and quality of pork can not meet people's daily needs. With the rise of artificial intelligence technology in recent years, deep learning technology has been developed rapidly and widely used in image and audio recognition, natural language processing, robotics, bioinformatics, chemistry, finance, and other fields. It is also an essential tool in developing precision livestock farming. The body condition, behavior and health status of pigs could directly affect the income level of pig farms, so through using deep learning technology, we can quickly and accurately acquire the relevant information about pigs, and carry out precise management to improve the feeding efficiency and welfare levels of pigs. This paper expounds on the research progress and application status of deep learning technology used in target pig detection, pig image segmentation, pig body condition and abnormal monitoring, as well as pig behavior recognition. Then we put forward the improvement strategy of deep learning technology used in the process of pig feeding, which make it easier for researchers to understand. At the same time, we summarize and analyze the data sources and datasets, application scope, and model optimization of previous works using deep learning technology in pig breeding. In the field of data sources and datasets, mobile computer vision systems are currently more suitable than systems with many fixed cameras when they are applied in pig houses, therefore, further research could focus on how to use deep learning technology to mobile computer vision systems. Deep learning technology requires a large amount of data to learn data features, which is a massive disadvantage for pig applications. To get pre-training weights suitable for agricultural data sets, a large number of public datasets and a unified dataset standard suited to the pig field should be established. In terms of application scope, due to the short application time of deep learning in the process of raising pigs, many critical occasions are not involved or seldom involved in existing research, so the application scope of deep learning should further expand. In model optimization, optimizing the model to meet the needs of practical application scenarios is the direction of future research. Optimizing the model to achieve a better balance between size and model performance requires further study. Optimizing the model to locate the start and end time of the behavior in unclipped video and recognize the behavior of target pigs is the challenge in identifying the behavior of pigs in future. China's research on deep learning is at the top level, so the application prospect of deep learning in pig farming is highly expected. Combined with the actual production scene of pigs, deep learning technology will significantly contribute to the development of precision livestock farming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]