Hello- Cearbhall
I operate both Cearbhall Homestead, a 40 year running self sufficiency homestead that provides our food supply for our family, plus a little extra that we sometimes sell, and the very first mobile butchery in the state of Texas, Cearbhall Home Slaughter Services LLC. The butchery has been actively rolling for 10 years this coming February, and we're not stopping any time soon!
We were introduced to Red Wattles through the butchery, we encountered them on other farms. As a mobile butcher we got to see all the farms, all the pigs, and the insides of all the pigs (yes, every breed is different and has it's own internal characteristics)
It was so that we fell in love with the red wattle pig for how it cut out on our tables. The beautiful, rich red meat, and the fabulous cuts it produced. So after some time to really rebuild our pig pens to something more functional, we drove over 5 hours to go get our first set of pigs. We have never looked back and will never keep commercial pigs again.
Our original sow, big mama, is still with us and still happy. We have eaten our original boar, and replaced him with a boar from Cedar Break, who was registered. Learning about RWPP, we got big mama registered also, as we knew she was purbred but undocumented.
We have not only seen her parents and uncle's and aunts, we've slaughtered numerous numbers of her cousins, and can verify on all levels they are not crossbred.
We look forward to helping the registry grow, and look forward to many more generations of pigs, both breeding and eating. With a 40 year background in goats, we are not unfamiliar with proper breed selection practices, and also participate in ADGA & AGS Nubian purbreds.
Welcome! It's wonderful to hear how you came to fall in love with Red Wattles.