red wattle pigs?

[ohiogoatgirl]

read an article in a magazine on red wattle pigs.
anyone have some?
i'd like to find a good breed that's hardy and good foraging and good mother.

thanks!

 

[sevenmile]

heritagefarmsnw.com

I have communicated a time or two with these folks.....but have never found the time to make the 40 or 50 mile drive to see them.

When you come out to get some pigs from them, you can bring along some Large Blacks or GOS or Tamworths for me. And some Holmes County baby Swiss Cheese.....

 

[bucknercrestfarm]

We got our first red waddle and will be bring her home this week im so excited! but they are sooo hard to findi. ask other breed breeders we got ours from a birkshire breeder!

 

[sevenmile]

Congrats!
What is your plan? Are these for breeding or eating?

 

[Calliopia]

My dad just started breeding them. He's doing Red Wattles and Duroc/RW crosses. We're over by DC though.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

i want to have a few for breeding and raise some for meat and sell some piglets.

 

[LovinLife]

I'm in VA and have come acrossed two red wattle gilts for sale. I want them real bad but I would like to breed them. How will I ever find a boar?? I would hate to get the two girls and have to process them because I couldn't find them a BF!

 

[sevenmile]

I'm in VA and have come acrossed two red wattle gilts for sale. I want them real bad but I would like to breed them. How will I ever find a boar?? I would hate to get the two girls and have to process them because I couldn't find them a BF!

If you can afford them, I would say buy them. You don't need a Red Wattle boar immediately. Any boar can do the job while you look for a RW boar.

My own preference is to keep purebred (registered) breeding stock (Chester White. Hamp, Tamworth , and now a Berk) to produce crossbred litters to take advantage of F1 hybrid vigor, and do the Purebred breeding for selling breeding stock, showing at Fair, and for replacing sows.

Good luck in your search!