We bought a heritage breed of hog! The heritage breeds are rare and we wanted a pig that does well foraging for most of its food as opposed to one that is penned up and fed just commercial feeds.
We chose a Red Wattle sow named Rosie. (probably because she is red). She is friendly but quite large so not quite what I would call a pet. No, we aren't going to eat her. Rosie is two years old and has been bred to a Red Wattle boar. There should be about a dozen little piglets born around the first part of January. Rosie will be kept in part of the barn and one of the cattle pens this winter so we can keep an eye on her and keep the piglets warm with a heat lamp.
A Red Wattle pig has two wattles hanging from its neck. The wattles don't do anything, sort of like our appendix. They are just distinguishing breed traits.
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