A Tail of Two Piggies

It was a late summer day in the year 2010. The pigs were busy grazing and we were busy with farm chores. The day seemed normal enough when I came home from my day job. Then I saw him. Bubba was in the sow pen!!! As many of you know, Bubba is our Large Black boar. Bubba is usually fairly content to stay where is placed except when one thing is going on. I got a sinking feeling when I realized that I had just taken a litter of Mulefoot piglets off of their mother the week before. Well, I got a bucket of feed and raced into the pen to try and get Bubba back to where he belongs. He was not really interested in the feed, but, lucky for me, his fair lady, with the funny looking feet, was tired and hungry from the day's activities and was willing to follow the bucket and he was very interested in following her. Well, I got him back into the boar pen, and fixed the two gates that he had to go through to get to his fair lady. I marked down the encounter on my calendar to see if what I thought happened had. Well, she never came back into season, so, I knew we were expecting some very interesting piglets around Christmas time.

Flash foward 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days. It is December 24th and Bubba's fair lady, with the funny looking feet, was in labor. She delivered 5 very healthy piglets with their mother's funny looking feet and their father's big floppy ears. There were 3 boar piglets and 2 gilt piglets.

I have taken some photos of these pigs for you to enjoy. I have not been able to find any photos of this cross. I know both breeds are endangered, but, I have found cross between other endangered breeds, but, not Large Blacks and Mulefoot hogs.