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We raise Pot-bellied pigs her in the islands and there were 14 sub-species in Vietnam in the mid 80's.  Now they list 4 sub-species.  The Swedish Agricultural has bee assisting Vietnam with pork production by introducing large breed hogs to cross with their indigenous pot-bellied pigs since the 1990's.  So today, the indigenous pot-bellied pigs are only existing in mountainous Vietnam and Thailand and facing extinction.  In America, They were imported as zoo exhibits and cost 3000 dollars or 5000 per pair in the early 1990's.  So many people in America crossed them with hog breeds,too. 

The Lea or Leavitt line of pot-bellied pigs is small because Keith Leavitt specifically imported small (25-50 pound)pinto types to fill the demand in early 1990's.  Some of the serious breeders have blended Leavitt Lines into their Con Lines (the 120-150 pound types0 to bring down the size.  Pure Leavitts average 35 pounds full grown and have a different conformation than the Con type.  Several of the pigs are 25 pounds as adults.  The Leavitts are small and have only 2 to 5 babies in a litter compared to the Con which can have 12 to 15.  You feed a min pig pellet which has no hormones and is exactly like a complete horse pellet.

The truly small sub-species of Pot-bellied pigs still exists from private breeders.

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