shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’
when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu
Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.
EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.
This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.
This is your average adult pig.
Big ole’ pigs.
Wild boars can feed people for a very long time! I believe this one was 1800 lbs. (largest piggy ever was about 1,984 lbs)
I NOW KNOW WHY WILD BOARS WERE SO DANGEROUS IN THE DARK AGES HOLY SHIT; RICHARD III I TAKE BACK ALL THE TRASH I TALKED ABOUT YOUR HOUSE CREST GOOD GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING.
Fun fact:
You need special spears with a cross brace for killing boar because they’re so fuckoff tough. If you stab a charging boar through the mouth it will simply keep charging at you. Hence the cross brace.
So princess mononoke wasn’t even exaggerating their depictions of wild boars. Good to know.
The world record for the biggest pig goes to Big Bill who topped out at an astounding 2552 pounds or 1158 kg He was due to be exhibited at the Chicago worlds fair in 1943 but broke a leg and had to be put down. Funny thing about pigs is that, historically, we bred for massive hogs, just great big guys, but it was around the early 21st century that we started shifting domestic production of pigs to make them smaller and leaner. Big Bill can be seen as a symbol as the last of the big pigs. He’s also the reason I have this pin on my battlevest:
