Our four IPP sows that are available!

Biscuit(fate) $2k open, $2.5k bred

Oatmeal(fate) $3k open, $3.5k bred

Dottie(pepper) $1.5k open, $2k bred

Dos(snowflake) $1k open, $1.5k bred

Payday(snickers) (boar that’s not listed yet, but is who the option of them being bred to) $2k


First one up is Biscuit, this one was a hard choice as she is my personal favorite gal, as well as being the mother of two of the best IPPs I’ve ever seen, Trojan, and Oatmeal(who is also available). I had planned to let her just retire on the farm because she is a little over 5 years old, but I’d really love to see her kick out a few more exceptional babies if someone out there has got a great boar to pair her with for her last few litters.

Underline of 7/7 with no defects
1 Wattle

She is a bigger gal, hovering around 450 or so and therefore a bit big for an IPP sow, but still smaller than a Berk or other standard sized breed. And she is docile and gentle as can be.

Her 3 draw backs, are her size, age, and that her last litter was 14 but she squished 7 of them weaning out only a litter of 7. She’s been paired two seasons in a row now with a boar that’s had manly issues so she hasn’t had a litter in a year. Her litter of 4 for her first litter was a similar issue, we thought she was a dud, but it was actually the boar, and so she got bred much older than we would have preferred for her first litter.

She can go as is now as an open sow, or in about a week or so I plan to put her in with Payday, after that her value will go up as a bred sow, so keep that timeline in mind if you are interested in her as an open sow.

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Next up, Biscuits daughter, and Littermate to Trojan. Oatmeal. From a herd impact standpoint this gal is the hardest to let leave, as she’s the best conforming IPP I’ve got.

7/7 underline with no faults
0 wattles

She is quite large for an IPP sow also and hovers around 400-450, but maintains muscle definition better than her mother does.

She had a poor first litter and squished all but 4, but from then out has done pretty stellar, also paired with a dud boar season before this one, so missed a farrowing but is currently bred, and won’t be available to leave until she farrows and weans this litter, her due dates is any day now.

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Dottie. This gal is definitely a bit more round(which is actually the shape I’m starting to look more for in my sows because 1. That lard pig shape is where the best feed conversion comes from, and 2. That’s where the best fat comes from, and fattier pork means better cured pork, which is what I’m best on a homestead scale hog. So 🤷‍♂️).

6/6 underline, no defects
0 wattles

Her problems are she is a bit more protective of her piglets if they make noise then most of my other gals, so catching piglets and returning piglets after evals is best done with her not in the same pen, so keep that in mind, the rest of the time though she is a big baby and loves attention. And final deal would be her first two litters we’re not big, and then paired with a dud boar for third try, so hopefully this litter she is about to have is of a more acceptable (to me) size. She is about spot on weight wise for an IPP sow, hovering around 350.

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Dos here is a project sow. I was tempted to not sell her and just cull instead, but she is doing an amazing job with her current litter of 12 that are 8 days old and she hasn’t lost a single one yet(knock on wood). Her first litter was not so good. She had 11 and lost 6 of them, so that and her underline put her close to the chopping block.

As I’ve mentioned multiple times on FTT, she has a trash underline. 6/7, plus a pin, one of them looks snipped in half(but seems to still be producing milk 🤷‍♂️) and one set of udders dividing membranes seems to have given out.

And to top it off her snout is borderline acceptable to me.

2 well attached wattles(hence the name).

All in all not a perfect sow, by any means. But like I said she’s a project, her mom had a stellar growth rate, temperament, and mothering ability, but trash snout and underline, so she was paired with a boar that had a nice build, and better than hers underline, and perfect snout hoping to make the next generation better, and then do the same again. Good growth rate, and litter size are as important to me as a perfect snout so I wanted to make sure I save those good attributes. The plan was to breed dos to a better boar for 2-3 litters, and save the best as her replacement and keep going on the chain improving.

She’s proven with this current litter that she’s got enough decent traits to put out a couple more litters, but my recommendation would be to get her from me bred to payday again cause this litter looks great, retain the best from them, maybe breed her once more, and then send her on to the processor or retain her for feeder piglet production.