Wooly Pigs and Meat Quality

What Wooly Pigs Does to Ensure Meat Quality

Besides breed, we carefully control diet, method of keeping, age at slaughter, pre-slaughter stress and ripening of the meat, according to the Austrian system.

Those practices result in meat very high in flavor, monounsaturated fats and antioxidants - so that the meat can keep long and cure well (if you choose to cure your meat). Our pork's monounsaturated fat melts pleasantly on the tongue.

Our pigs are outdoors most of their lives. Sows usually farrow indoors. All have shelter if they want it.

As per the advice of Austrian farmers and food scientists, we avoid finishing on feed high in polyunsaturated fat, like corn or soybeans.

We do what we can to reduce or manage slaughter stress, whether it be on the farm, during transport or before slaughter.

We try to use slaughterhouses that allow our meat to ripen properly. That's particularly important for the older animals.

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