Pigs A.K.A. Bacon Seeds

We have raised a few different breeds of Swine to help us figure out what personality traits we prefer & what body types we prefer.  First, we had to decide if we wanted Bacon Pigs or Lard Pigs.  Bacon Pigs are long, lean, & get big fast.  They give you a lot of meat & great bacon.  But…big pigs are more dangerous than small pigs & Bacon Pigs tend to get aggressive as they get older.  Lard Pigs are generally small, very round, & have way more lard than Bacon Pigs.  In our experience, they are also sweeter & more docile.  So no breed is perfect & you have to live & learn.  In the picture above: the black pig is named Keven Bacon (we name all of our male pigs that).  He is an American Guinea Hog, which is a Lard Pig.  The 2 tan looking pigs are Gladys & Tammy.  They are Gloucester Old Spot - Tamworth pigs, which are 2 different breeds of Bacon Pig.  We were hoping they would be able to cross breed & make us babies somewhere in between their sizes & temperaments.  Sadly, that didn’t work out.  We have had some Oassabaw Island Hogs & Mulefoot Pigs at other times.  Mulefoot has been our favorite so far.