Duped: told tiny pig would stay tinyand make as good a house pet as any dog or cat.
The Big Problem With Mini-Pigs
Daisy Mae, a Vietnamese potbellied pig, lives as a pet with her owner Sarah Davis in St. Paul, Minnesota.
PHOTOGRAPH BY VINCENT J. MUSI, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
PHOTOGRAPH BY VINCENT J. MUSI, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Since 1998, the number of "mini-pigs"—a catch-all term that characterizes just about any small-breed pig—in the United States and Canada has risen from 200,000 to perhaps as many as a million.
How big do micro pigs get?
Kune Kune pigs sits
Kunekune pig at Dudley Zoo
Micro pigs offspring will vary in adult size just as you would expect of any animal or indeed human and it’s true some Micro pig breeders will have smaller breeding stock than others.
This blog is designed to help increase awareness of eventual adult sizes of micro, mini & tea cup pigs and answer our most frequently asked questions.
Micro, mini or tea cup are all names for the same thing, miniature pigs.
These miniatures should always be much smaller than the Worlds Smallest Domesticated breeds of pigs like the Kunekune or Pot Bellied pig hence the different names given to them.
Micro pigs are ‘Micro’ when compared to normal pigs however the majority of people just don’t realise how big pigs can get due to most pigs becoming Pork at such an early age. The large Pink pigs you see on most farms are pretty much piglets themselves as slaughter weight of about 200 lbs is reached at around 16 weeks of age.
The largest pig recorded was called ‘Big Bill’ who weighed in at 2552 lbs. He was 5ft tall and 9 feet long.
Videos of Fully Grown Micro pigs can be seen at Petpiggies YouTube channel, Click here
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