Home of the Northeast's First Guinea Hog Breeding Farm
Breeders & Buyers: Our breeding stock's lineage and photos are posted further down this page. We can air ship piglets to you. Print the general guidelines.
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March 2010 - Spring is certainly teasing us with temps in the 60's! From here forward, we are streamlining our herd. We are concentrating on preserving the lines we have and the development of traits suitable for our farm and climate.
Please continue to email and/or call us if you are interested in Guinea Hogs. We receive literally dozens of emails a week and would like to reserve your hogs in the order in which you contacted us.
If you own guinea hogs and are not a member of the AGHA or have hogs in your area that look like any of ours, please contact us. We are looking to expand our lines and we would like to talk to you about perhaps a swap or an outright purchase of your herd. Our goal is to do the best we can to reclaim the breed and to help other farms join in the preservation of this American Original. Thank you!
Red Piglets at our Farm!
We chose to raise the American Guinea Hogs at Sullbar Farm out of a desire to do our part in preserving what was an integral part of our country’s farm history. Also, a breed such as the endangered American Guinea Hog could be of critical importance in the swine industry if parasite and disease resistance suffers in other varieties, especially commercially raised hogs. In many areas, genetic diversity should be maintained to help meet the potential challenge resulting from changes in production resources and market requirements. We are proud to own foundation breeding stock of American Guinea Hogs. At present, there are only about 600 registered Guinea Hogs in the U.S.
American Guinea Hogs are easily raised on any size farm. Our mission is to introduce them to area farms and share the genetics with like minded breeders. We hope to educate people new to livestock farming, as well as existing small-scale farmers that they can homegrow their meats in an environmentally friendly and humane way in as natural a setting as can be attained all the way from piglets to porkchops. Guinea Hogs are an extremely rare breed that are noted for their manageable size, docile nature and their ability to produce outstanding meat grazing a variety of pasture, forage and mast. The American Guinea Hog functions as a rototiller and composter and can also help clear scrub brush in wooded areas. They are a productive way to utilize otherwise non-productive areas of any property.
A note to potential owners/breeders: The American Guinea Hog Association's promotion of the breed as a small sized, docile hog and the "cute" faces of the piglets have attracted some people to these hogs looking for pets. Or course you can keep your hogs any way you choose but we cannot stress enough that the breed needs to continue to be promoted as an all-around, easy-care, low maintenance meat hog just as they were prior to factory farming. A sure way to send the guinea hog into extinction is to create a fad by promoting them as pets. These hogs were kept by farmers because of the traits mentioned above but they went on the dinner table when matured. What kept them viable was their usefulness and as with all farm animals, they must have a real purpose in order to survive.
Do you have questions about or an interest in owning guinea hogs?
Please let us know if you have serious interest in owning and promoting the American Guinea Hog. We would be happy to let you know when our piglets arrrive. If you need any other information, we will gladly help you.
September 2009 - We spent the weekend at the Tilly-Foster Farm Museum in Brewster, NY, about 40 miles north of NYC. We gave a talk on guinea hogs to the farm's visitors. The interviews were filmed for hopeful inclusion in a cable and/or PBS special on rare farm breeds. Tille Foster Farm owns 4 guinea hogs.
November 2008 - We also attended the ALBC's first Swine Initiative in Columbia, MO on Nove 7th & 8th. We met guinea hog breeders from Iowa, South Dakota and Missouri, other rare breed organization reps, heritage meat companies and more.
September 2008 - We attended the annual American Livestock Breeds Conservancy conference in Scotts, MI from 9/18 - 9/20. This was an informative conference with multi-species farming as its focus. There we met with other guinea hog breeders from Minnesota, South Carolina and Missouri.
Contact us by email (preferred as easier to track!) or call us at 603-487-2137 - leave a message. We welcome visitors by appointment, please. Thank you!
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