Made some more cull decisions. I have quite a few babies left to place, and then I'll be deciding on some of the sows. I've pretty much culled all the boars for now. My new boar Cashew is growing like a weed. His coat is super thick and kinky like his dad's. Too bad he's a broken roan, but since his dad is TSW, well, we're halfway to all roan, LOL.

Seriously I doubt I'll ever see the end of the dreaded white spotting gene in my lifetime, but I couldn't find really good roans to start with, I had to take what I could find to start with, which was a so-so roan and a couple really nice brokens. So yeah I get too many blotchies, but overall I think we're doing OK.

Still working towards a good showable brindle though. I showed the brindle Chicory when she was a tot. The judges seemed to think her brindling was OK, but DQ'd her for the tiniest spot of white on one foot. Well her dad, Dosh, is the closest I've gotten to a good brindle but had a white blaze. When his coat turned out nice, I just HAD to keep him. He's sired some nice pigs since then and not all are mismarked. I still say there's some genetic tie between excellent coats and mismarks, LOL.