SC - period pigs, fatter or not?

[Decker, Terry D.]

> we came to the following consensus...
> 1. when I say free range, all Imean is not lot fed. Ras wasnt sure I was
> including herded piggies, which I was (ahhhh....language!)
> 
The difference as I see it is foraging as opposed to grain fed.  For most of
"period", pigs were foragers, with possibly a little grain feeding before
slaughter.  

> 2. period pigs are a different shape than modner lot fed pigs. 
> 
Have you taken into account the introduction and inter-breeding of Chinese
pigs in the 18th Century.  If I understand the few comments I have read
correctly, these pigs were fatter and had a different shape that were
brought into the European breeds at that time. 

> Ras, did I get that right?
> --AM
> 
Here we go again. :-)

Bear
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