My Guinea Hogs are Better

The Cowlick Sisters at about 4 months old.

Everyone who uses Craigslist has their routine searches. Among mine are Vws, diesel cars, and American Guinea Hogs. I search American Guinea Hogs on Craigslist because I wake up and feed a small herd of them everyday and am interested in selling some of our piggles (older than a piglet, younger than a pig). I also like to peruse other folks ads.
This morning I searched to see if our ad was still up and found a number of people advertising for American Guinea Hogs in our area. Their ads ranged from detailing farm practices and philosophies to just stating date of birth and cost of the pigs for sale, but one thing was the same throughout: their pictures were terrible. I felt a surge of competitiveness when I saw out of focus pictures of black pigs in mud. I'm not real tech savvy, but I can take some pictures, especially when it comes to showing off my pigs (and trying to sell them).
I've decided to post a few pictures of our beloved American Guinea Hogs, so that I may share with the world the beauty of this entertaining foraging heritage pig.
P.S. These pictures aren't fair--we haven't had rain in two months, so the ground that our pigs are actually on does not look like the lush green grass pictured, but they're not on bare dirt either.

The beginnings of the herd on this property early in 2011. There were six from the original litter (there are two sows and a boar at our other farm) and we traded two girls for a boar. That's who you see here: the boar with his nose in the air on the far left. They were rotated around a 3/4 acre field all winter 2010-11. This space is now planted in onions.

Back in the day (remember these pigs came over from Guinea on the same ships that brought Africans to the U.S. as slaves) used to call them 'yard pigs' because they had free range of the yard and could be trusted not bite or harass anyone (our program follows that any one who does bite or harass, or to the opposite, doesn't like belly-scratches, is eliminated first). These two are as sweet as they get, right here on the driveway in the front yard in 16' hog panels and a little A-frame house to sleep in. There was enough green grass to keep them busy so that they didn't push their panels like they can when they get bigger and bored.

Some Guinea Hogs have great thick black coats, some don't. We like the ones that do. Our boar is an exception to the previous caption and this one, but we keep him around for his baby-makin' material.

New babies! This picture was taken just a few days ago. These piglets are 3 weeks old today and since there is only five in the litter (Mama was bred in her first heat), they are getting plumper and more rambunctious all the time! They are so fun to watch.

Gettin' a snack from Mama Pig.

This picture was taken in October and we still have the bulk of these pigs for sale. They are about 5 months old and come from two litters. For more pigs, meat, or pets, I highly recommend the American Guinea Hog.