What kind of pig?

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This guy showed up at the house Thursday afternoon wandering around outside our pig pen. I rode around and asked neighbors if they might know where he came from, or had seen anything and no one had a clue. We didn’t see him Friday, and Saturday he was in the pen when I went to feed, and has been there since. Hasn’t caused any issues, if he stays around we will likely fatten him up for slaughter. Does anyone have any idea of possible breed or if he is possibly feral. My girlfriend has a couple pot bellies that are her pets, that’s all I’ve really got experience with.
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Bailey Boat said:
Be cautious of any diseases he may be carrying so he doesn't infect you other stock. I'd make some kind of quarantine arrangement until you feel comfortable integrating him.....
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While he seems to be more pet we are not allowed to remove any live feral pigs, even healthy looking piglets, from our pen alive due to swine brucellosis and a few other diseases. It’s a fluid transfered bacteria that will run thru a farm in the blink of an eye. They can also carry diseases that can infect other animals and even people ... if you don’t know his history be careful.
 
Looks like a bacon pig to me.

But as others have stated be very careful, maybe have a vet come out and check it out.
 
He's in there now, feed him up. When I was younger and dumber a friend trapped some feral piglets and gave me a few of them. I raised two black sows and a red boar. I kept them separate for over a year but the boar got too big for his lot so I but him in the big lot with the sows. They would eat anything that hit the ground, deer scraps, fish carcasses, stray cats, neighbors dog heck they even caught a buzzard and ate him. Both the sows eventually had 8 piglets each and got really protective and mean. At this time I had a toddling daughter and my wife said the hogs have to go!!It was summer and I really didn't know what to do with them at that time of year. I called the ag extension office and talked to our county rep and he said as long as they didn't have their tails docked(?)I could sell them person to person straight off the farm. He said they were not considered feral since they were raised in captivity. I stuck them on CL and sold them all before lunch the following Saturday.
 
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