As with everything we do, we spent a fair amount of time researching before we chose our breedstock. We looked for breeds with superior meat quality, good temperament, hardiness in cold weather, good mothering qualities, and tendency to forage and pasture.
Our animals are pastured with lots of room to roam. They have a nice, warm “den” for the winter, but even on the coldest days they like to take a walk around the pasture. In the summer, they eat grass, roots, acorns and whatever they can find supplemented by high quality grain and whatever we don’t eat from our garden. In winter, their diet moves more toward grain.
Tamworths
Three of our breeding sows are Tamworths. 
“The Tamworth is an English breed of hog that was of distinctly bacon-type. The first Tamworths were brought to the United States in 1882 by Thomas Bennett of Rossville, Illinois. The Tamworth was slower in becoming as popular with the American hog producer as the thicker breeds, although there have been some strong advocates of the breed. Tamworth are very deep-sided hogs and are uniform in their depth of side. They have a muscular top and long rump. The ham is muscular with a firm lean rump. Trim jowl,trim underline and depth of side.” Tamworth Swine Association
Large Black Boar
Boris is our breeding boar. He is a Large Black Pig. Large Blacks are a rare breed known for their tender, moist meat and docile temperament. You can read more about them here.
Boris tends to have dominant genetics and sires mostly black piglets regardless of the sow.
Red-Wattle Hogs
When we began this adventure, we did extensive breed research and our first choice was the red wattle hog. At the time we couldn’t find “wattles” anywhere in the northeast. In the summer of 2009, an acquaintance called and said that he’d found some pigs with wattles that he thought we might be interested in…. how could we resist? These certainly are not pure-bred, but they have a wonderful temperament. Our two gilts will be having their first litters this spring with Boris as the boar.
Read more about Red Wattle Hogs here.
Hampshire
We didn’t start out as an animal rescue, but when we were offered Minnie, we just couldn’t resist. Minnie is a Hampshire hog, affectionately called an “Oreo” pig by our boys. Read more about the Hampshire breed here.
Piglets
We often have piglets 
available for sale either for you to raise and slaughter or for breedstock. They are large-black crossed with either Tamworth or Red-Wattle.
Contact us to see what we have available!
Meat
We sell pork by the half or whole animal. We also sell individual packages of pork when available both through the online farmer’s market www.westernmainemarket.com and directly from our farm. If you’d like more information, please contact us.
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