Know your farmer. Know your food.
Here at Hood's Heritage Hogs we believe that our future depends on preserving our food heritage. Every time a breed or variety is lost, valuable genetic diversity disappears forever. Red Wattle Hogs are critically rare numbering less than 1000 animals. It sounds wrong, but to save them we must eat them. If there is no demand for Red Wattle Pork the RW's will disappear. Please help us save the Red Wattles and save our family farm heritage.
Each Red Wattle sports two fashionable fleshy, kidney shaped dangles at the corner of each jowl. Around here they’re known as “Piggy Bling”. We think other pigs look funny without them!
What are they good for? Well they make it easy to tell RW’s from other pigs. They make little kids giggle when they touch them. They are great conversation starters. Oh and they gave the breed their name.
What purpose do they serve to the pig? None. There is no useful function for the wattle.