The life of our Berkshire stud muffin, El Guapo, is fraught with choices.
Berkshire, Tamworth, Ossabaw or cross?
A Berkshire beauty getting some shade in a hut below.
Another Berk in the wallow.
An Ossabaw socializing.
A Tamworth in her brood pen.
This one does not like you to come near her babies…zoom lens on these week old piglets!
Any way El Guapo chooses, he is the king of our hog operation. And it is exhausting work!
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