El Cerdo Mangalica - corrected the link

Here's the correct link to "El Cerdo Mangalica". When I made this last post, I got it wrong.

I really like the antique drawings at the end of the presentation, showing that Hungarians, in the 1800s, were leading the way in modern farming technology: farrowing houses and automatic feeders.



An English-lanaguage book full of this stuff is Harris on the Pig - from 1870. if you read it, it is clear that confinement has been considered the ideal way to raise pigs for at least 130 years. If you click and read the text, for example, you'll see that crowded dark barns (with fresh air) are the best for fattening hogs - because they "do not require much exercise":


Harris on the pig breeding, rearing, management, and improvement By Joseph Harris

Here's an old-school farrowing house, along the lines of the one Mr. Toth includes in his presentation:


Harris on the pig breeding, rearing, management, and improvement By Joseph Harris