Here’s Alex at home in his favorite mud hole.
Alex, short for Alexander Behemoth, is an American Guinea Hog. He loves to root around in the dirt and dig holes. His pig pen looks like a mine field! When you add water to turn his holes into MUD holes, he’s just as happy as a pig in …well, you know…mud.
Alex weighs about 150 lbs, just the right size for a small homestead. He shares the pig pen with Sweetie and Rachel. Sweetie is currently “with pig”, and should give birth to at least six piglets in early August. The gestation period for pigs is 3-3-3, short for 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days.
Alex, Sweetie, and Rachel eat primarily food scraps…well, not actually scraps, we cook up a big pan of rice each night and add potatoes, banana skins from the morning’s smoothie, raw duck eggs, and any veggies or leftovers that we have in the fridge. We add a cup or two of Hog Food pellets to supplement and provide extra minerals. The three little pigs eat well!
The meat from American Guinea Hogs that are raised organically is very tender and sweet, and has a lot less fat than hogs that are raised on commercial feed alone.
We should have piggies to sell in August…check it out!
Happy Homesteading,
T.