Rare Heritage Pig Breeds 

Here in Germany Magalitzas are not that uncommon among homesteaders and small farmers. We used to have two Magalitza x Turopolje sows. Magalitzas and Turopolje are similar, hairy heritage breeds. Just as Bob said, they're great on pasture and very hardy, so they used to stay outside all year (with an open shelter of course), and we have very snowy and cold winters where I live. To anyone interested in this breed: the meat is VERY different from what most people are used to in pork. Here they're also called "Speck-Schwein" (=Bacon Pig) because their meat is very fat. Now, in the olden days, that was needed to get the calories in during winter. That's also why they are no longer widely used, most people want lean meat. But the meat is exceptionally tasty and I've heard that the fat is somehow healthier - probably along the lines of your "grain fed homestead video (have no data on it though, sorry). Another thing to consider, is that these pigs have relatively small litter sizes - at least compared to more commercial breeds. Ours usually had 4-6 piglets each. "Normal" pigs will have twice that. And they take longer to grow. So, less piglets, longer growth and less weight than conventional breeds. So when marketing, you should always sell it as a speciality. It took us a while to get the marketing right, because people at first were put off by the high fat content. After tasting the meat, almost all of our customers would become regulars and pre-order almost a year in advance :) Just some more inside information if anyone is interested :) Greetings from Germany

Loved the interview, what a great farmer!! Loved how he's using the deep litter method for farrowing, and it was interesting to hear about these 'new for me' rare, heritage breeds. I'm happy that you found a respectful method to share the information with us that the farmer was happy with. Tell him thanks for us. :)

Great video, glad you respected "Bob's" wishes. Blessings!

excellent job on the censorship on the guest, some people like to stay private, nothing wrong with that, great vid again.

What adorable piglets!! The color variation within a litter is amazing!

glad you were still able to post this video! didn't mind the privacy stuff at all :)

Pigs!!! Great video, especially as we are considering which variety we are going to buy and breed.

Dan, I'm loving these videos where you visit farms/homesteads and learn about these "homesteading breeds" of animals. Particularly this one as we just started homesteading last year and I'm going to be getting my first pigs this year. I also live in Iowa. :-) Keep this up!

I liked hearing about the deep litter method & it totally makes sense. I've watched alot of videos on growing pigs on pasture & how they like to keep their sleeping areas clean...made me appreciate them more! Loved the curly coats & really enjoy seeing the movement on trying to preserve heritage breeds of all kinds of livestock. Thanks for the great editing and you can always just show the livestock & farm while people are talking...not an issue for me to see faces. :)

Loved the information. Please thank "Bob" for allowing you to teach us about these rare breeds.

Gee, he has a facebook page and a farm website and he's worried about being anon???? Seems a bit like a horse and barn door sort of situation..... not so effective on facebook if you don't like to show your face.... But, to each his own.

I'm so glad that you could edit enough to still post this video. Very interesting breeds!

That was neat! And have never seen a wooley pig before. Loved those adorable piglets too, so cute!

Real good information in your video! Thank you for taking the time to save the video. We have a Red Wattle pig. It is one of the easiest animals to take care of on our homestead. We have a few videos on it on our RU-vid channel Natural Living Homestead. Keep up the great work you do on your channel!

:D Frozen sperm to bring back a heritage breed! THAT is interesting. Thanks again, Dan!

Great info! And I feel your pain on your video/Vlog experience...thanks for sharing

nice

Thank you I loved that video even with all the editing you had to do. Those hairy pigs are amazing!!

Good Video!! I never knew there were so many different breeds of pigs.I Thank you and Bob for making this video possible. I always learn a lot from your videos each time I watch.

Great video! But I thought it was cool that you give the Breeder his privacy after the fact. Very cool of ya!

Such an interesting video!! Thanks for sharing! Those piglets are just extremely adorable!!! Such pretty colors too!!!

That deep litter method may work with small 250 to 350 lb sows but when the sows grow to 450 lb to 600 lb and fall over on the pigs he will find he looses too many to smothering and crushing. I always found I needed to keep my sows until the size of her litters got below 8 pigs born alive. Once sows got to the larger sizes it stressed them to learn the farrowing crates so for me it was easier to start out using them even though they do make for a lot more work on the caretaker. You have to water and feed each sow and clean out her crate and that is a lot of work. But every live pig you can raise is money. Hope this helps new raisers but HEY, whatever works for you!

That place was very cool and you did a great job respecting their privacy. Thank you for sharing!

As a Hungarian it is funy to hear and see how American farmers/breader call the magalica mangalista or mangalitsa. I know hungarian is one of the hardest language to learn and pronounce. So it is called Mangalica. By the way it is realy good to see that our famous pig bread is all around the world. Thank you for your awesome work🙏

Only a small correction, those pigs are Mangalica pigs, we called them like that in Hungary, not Mangalista. But pretty nice to see them oversaes too :) For sure amazing animals with very fast groving and really teasty meat.

Hopeful this breeder maintains purebred lines of the rare breeds so they don't become lost to cross breeding.

Excellent video man! Really cool stuff about the daddy pig from the '60's. I might know a couple places to get a couple Mangalista's but all this pigs looked fantastic!! And of course Little Buddy not wanting to be sniffed. - Mike

Still a great video, love the info shared. Happy Sunday 🌻🌻

This was a great video. I miss these kind of videos you used to do. Wish you had kept doing them. I'll take my own council what it means to be a man. Good luck in life.

I've been searching the last hour for this video lol. I needed to send the video to my son's. we're fixing on buying pigs. so we are researching. thank you so much. phew. i can rest now lol

as soon as he mentioned one breed of pig I immediately thought of Mark Baker having to fight for his pigs not too long ago this farmer I think did the right thing and the video still turned out great thanks for sharing

It may be because the fact these pigs are rare, he feared theft. There are bad people out there that will do anything for money. I enjoyed the video anyway. The fact that you added privacy pixels had no effect on the information we received. Good job!

Hell of a video brother. Much love from Indiana

That video is so cool! I don't know much about pigs, but my husband (a chef) just got a red wattle hog that he split (1/2 for home and 1/2 for the restaurant) and I'm hoping that he can get some footage of the sausage making and curing. He took a bunch of pics of the cuts and the marbling was amazing! If this farmer says that the red wattle chops aren't as good, I'm going to have to have him get a Mangalista next (I know there's a farm nearby that has them). The chop I had was amazing!

cool pigs. My sister is considering purchasing some after she moves into her property.

Thanks for your work on these breeds.

Do you have any more information about the hairy Hampshire pigs?

great video and good of you to respect Bob. Those piglets, so cute!

Kind of a bummer that this gentleman felt he would have such a fear of people here on RU-vid, so many of us truly want to *know* about these animals. Not to cause harm. =( I know that there are fools with the intent to cause trouble, but those are few & far between. I am glad you were able to provide a bit of information, even if it wasn't nearly as much as you wanted to at the beginning. For that, I thank you.

Another very interesting and informative video.

"Bob" has pigs for sale? You will not be able to find him.

Awesome set up he has. Very interesting.

There's a farm near us that raises red wattle pigs and Scottish highland cattle. We get meat from them whenever we can, and I have to say that they have some really good meat from these breeds!

Good stuff. Good job dealing with the change.

Your kid at 2:12 looks just like the kid who sat at the back of the train on the polar express.

Loving your channel! Keep it up!

This is the first time i see a POODLE PIG! haha

Fun video. We raise red wattle pigs so we are familiar with pigs.

Very educational. Thank you.

Pigs can be grown in the smallest of yards by using wood chips you can have no smell no flies extremely healthy environment for your pigs Justin Rhodes has some great content about doing this method as well as using pigs to clear forests. Cheers enjoyed your video thanks 🙏🏻

thanks Bob lotta great information

great video, however a slight disagreement about "deep litter" comment. when you have a sow that's only 300 lbs, crushing isn't a problem regardless of bedding. when you have a 2 yr old landrace that weighs 5-6 hundred lbs, no piglet is gonna crawl out of that suffocating mass. I still don't use crates, just giving you more information

I've just started noticing how adorable pigs are! lol Now I want a pet piggy!

love all the pig breeds

Really good info, thanks for still sharing. I would have though the word of mouth advertising would have been good for him. I dunno. Anyway, looks like he has a really important thing going on there and soooo thanks Bob! Thanks both of you. Janice

I have a heard of wild hogs on my farm and I am worried about trying to raise my own and keeping them from the wild herd.

He probably was warned that ARAs will pounce full force. It's quite awful if you end up targeted. So I can see why he'd not want to put himself out there. That being the case, he better get off FB. PETA and their minions have shut a few farm pages down. They've shut groups down. It's ridiculous

Bravo to you for respecting privacy but I really wish people would think about things BEFORE they agree. Such a pity.

Isn't it funny how many of us suburban, young, but not too young, guys get a few years into the rat race and decide that there must be something better. I moved out (not as far as you) and got into permaculture and we also now homeschool.

Well done even with the extreme editing.

I'm not one to snitch but... dude sounds exactly like the guy from the 4 Kids and a Farm YT channel .

Great info! Thanks.

Great video!

Awe the babies are so cute.. When I get my farm I want two.. I could never butcher them. My husband use to say we would never be an eatable farm. I said that is what a grocery store is for.. Do you have to keep them warm in the winter?? I have no clue about pigs. Two yrs ago almost came home with a micro mini pig. I held back was so cute. Does this man sell babies??? Thank You for taking us with you..

Great video

I'm interested to see what happens with the pigs in a few years

I find it odd that the person trying to expand his farm wishes to remain anonymous.

I'm trying to find mangalitsa in PA but can't find anyone that will respond.

SOOO ADORABLE!!!

wow great video too bad would really like to hear more about Bob's work

Bob in witness protection?

It's not mangalista...

Lil Buddy is Awesome!

Awesome video! ty vm

does "bob" approve of you using the footage you did show?

That was "Some Pig!"

Mahalo for sharing ✨

hampshires have disappeared in the UK, they were developed into the Wessex saddleback & what few remained were slaughtered during WWII

I'm hungry for bacon now lol

I'm so mad about my pig I need one I'm so sad wow

More pigs, less talk.

mangulica its original name its from croatia they are fat pigs with nice fat in meat i bread them here in croatia, mangulica and berkshire cros looks good

The animals are so sweet, just hate that the reason is for breeding them is to eat them. The baby piggies are soooo cute, how precious!

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Alllllll about ur taste bugs isn’t it! Not about the poor innocent animals! Just let them live their lives😢🥺🐽

is your sister single? =) lol sorry

I'm so glad that you could edit enough to still post this video. Very interesting breeds!