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Minnesota's largest...boar.

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Agreed, Sam, it is a... big one.

[delamna.livejournal.com]

A big boars' backside is not what I want to see at the top of my friends' page. I mean, exceptions can be made, and obviously have been. But it is a suspiciously clean boar. If I were a boar and people took pictures of my suspiciously clean backside, I'd take steps.

Why is it in a pen, anyway? Is it for a show or contest or something?

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

Showing pigs is very common at state/county fairs. All livestock including pigs are kept in pens like this on farms and then at the fair grounds during the fair.

To show a pig, you, your pig and other people and their pigs are all coralled into a large arena area and you thawp your pig with a stick like a riding crop to get the pig to move around while the judges look at the livestock. You are judged both on how well you handle the animal/general presentation but also on how the pig looks. Big but porportional is good. Anyway, the audience is mostly people who will buy your hog for slaughter. One can make pretty good money for a pig. $300-$500 usually.

[delamna.livejournal.com]

I got stuck on "you thwap your pig with a stick" for a while, because that... I dunno. If you're completely urbanised, that's just ludicrously funny.

But once I'm over the image, that's rather interesting. It's like sheepdog contests! Without the sheepdog dying at the end; it seems a bit bittersweet for the pig.

Thanks for the info! :)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

He looks cleaner in the photo than he was -- he had hay all over him. :D He's either there to be shown for a potential prize, or just as an attraction because he's The Biggest. :D

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

You just know that when its stud days are over, that pig is gonna end up onnastick.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

That's a heck of a brass bag.

[never-ender.livejournal.com]

Is the world's largest there? At our fair we had the WORLD'S LARGEST (and also next to it the world's second largest, how mcuh does it suck to be THAT pig?)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, only Minnesota's Largest was there. Minnesota probably can't admit a larger one exists :D

[maleficently.livejournal.com]

You HAD to take the picture from the REAR, really?

I'm awake now. Really.

Someone go fetch the brain bleach!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I just walked up to the pen and he was sitting down, and I couldn't tell which end was which, and then he stood up and BAM.

TESTICTACULAR.

*is five*

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I CAN SEE ITS BUM!

Re: *is five*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

The bum is not what first leapt out at me.

Almost literally. I was behind him when he stood up. YOW.

Um.

[dangomango.livejournal.com]

Well that's certainly very. Very.

[bluebombardier.livejournal.com]

JESUS CHRIST. SADDLE UP AND RIDE OUT.

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that bodes well or not for the hog's life? Like, does that mean they'll keep him around as a novelty or if after fair someone is just gonna pay alot to have bacon for dinner?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Apparently he can demand very high stud fees, so they'll keep him around I expect.

Oink!

[aunty_marion]

Oh, that's just ... boaring.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

SOME PIG.

[winterthunder.livejournal.com]

THE TERRIFIC, RADIANT, HUMBLE PIG!


...


Whoa, blast from the past. In four part harmony, no less.

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

Someone told me that beasts that are put on show are usually sold for meat. Will being the largest save his bacon?

(It's probably a load of gammon anyway. If he's really the largest boar in Minnesota I would have thought the stud fees would have made him worth keeping - unless he's turned nasty; keeping a savage boar could be a rasher choice than selling him, but I suppose it depends on what's at steak.)

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Ooh. OOooh again, and OOOH. Oh yes, Ooh. Still, I have to admire your comment....

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

THank you. I suppose it was a bit punful.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

You really went the whole hog there, didn't you?

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

Maybe I did pig out a bit.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

They must loin up to hear you make puns! :D

[londonbard.livejournal.com]

Thanks for not giving me the chop for hogging the comments! Sorry I couldn't reply at once, something reminded me to trot down to the supermarket for some meatballs and I was away for a while.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Aww. I like pigs. Baby ones are especially cute.

My husband had to help move one once and he reports that they can be quite scary close up.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

He seemed pretty friendly, but I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley, no.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I'm now envisioning a pig in a trilby and trenchcoat, mugging people with a gun in his trotter.

I blame Miyazaki.

[bloodanna.livejournal.com]

If they're raised well they tend to be easy-going things (well, except for their fondness of goosing people *laughs*).
You do have to be careful of the mother pigs though as they will try and kill you if they believe their babies are in trouble or if they're just really cranky that day.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

On our way out of the fair tonight I heard a woman say to her male friend, "Why did you have that hot dog? We were just looking at the little baby piglets and then you ATE ONE."

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Wait, THAT'S Michelle Bachman?

Sorry. Politics won't leave my brain today.

That's an impressive beast, though, no matter which party it's aligned with.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Wait, THAT'S Michelle Bachman?

Nope, her balls are bigger.

(Actually I have no clue who she is or if she is ballsy at all, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass. :D )

[gypsylady.livejournal.com]

Oh, you NEED to read about Michele Bachman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann). She is batshit crazy and a hoot and a half to listen to/read about. She proves that Minnesotans are more independent minded than any other states' citizenry. Including Texas and Vermont in that list...

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Heh. And there was something about swine flu at the fair in the paper this morning.

Please Step Away From The Boar.