Pineywoods Rooter

Pineywoods Rooter
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): no data[1]: 127 
Other names
  • Gulf Pig
  • Pineywoods Guinea[2]
  • Swamp Hog
Country of originUnited States
Traits
Hairblack
  • Pig
  • Sus domesticus

The Pineywoods Rooter is an American breed of small feral domestic pig distributed principally in Louisiana.[3]: 580 [4]: 171 [5] It may also be known as the Gulf Pig or Swamp Hog.[6]: 267 

It is not among the heritage pig breeds listed by the Livestock Conservancy;[7] in the Ark of Taste of the international Slow Food Foundation it is treated as a synonym for the Guinea Hog of Alabama.[8]

Use

Feral pigs of this breed from Louisiana were used from 1949 at the Hormel Institute of the University of Minnesota, in St Paul – with feral pigs from Santa Catalina Island, Guinea Hog feral pigs from Alabama and Ras-n-Lansa pigs from Guam – in the development of the now-extinct Minnesota Miniature or Hormel breed of miniature pig.[3]: 652 

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Guinea Hog. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Archived 18 June 2026.
  3. 1 2 Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
  4. ↑ Janet Vorwald Dohner (2001). The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds. New Haven, Connecticut; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300088809.
  5. ↑ Breed Data Sheet: Pineywoods / United States of America (Pig). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2026.
  6. ↑ Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2020). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (sixth edition). Wallingford; Boston: CABI. ISBN 9781789241532.
  7. ↑ Conservation Priority List: Pigs. Pittsboro, North Carolina: The Livestock Conservancy. Archived 18 June 2026.
  8. ↑ Guinea Hog: Ark of taste. Bra, Cuneo: Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità Onlus/Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. Accessed March 2026.
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