Mini Pigs Are a Lie

In this video, we discuss the 2000s phenomenon of teacup pigs. They're also called mini pigs and micro pigs. Many celebrities purchased mini pigs during the height of their popularity - but are mini pigs even real?

[iregretthis]

My pig is around 40-60? (I haven’t weighed her in a while) pounds. She is roughly the size of a bull dog fully grown. She stayed small, and pigs can, but it is rare, and it is actually a form of dwarfism in pigs. Mini pigs (at least as far as I am aware) are any pig under 350 pounds, which is a big range. So the term Mimi pig is more of a marketing gimmick than anything, as they are only ‘mini’ in comparison to large meat pigs.

[bbyjscx]

Love your channel dude! Logan Paul's pig was recently found abandoned and reduced along with another dead pig that was also allegedly his. He is an absolute creature of a person.

[yeet]

Honestly shout out to Paris Hilton for keeping her pig instead of abandoning it

[tarnishedgaming]

In 2016 we bought a teacup potbelly pig and after having him for a while we figure it out that he's just a wild boar 🐗 has black hair black skin big tusk and weighs 200+now no regrets though he's still the cutest damn thing ever he a good boy.

[zakmackay]

My understanding of mini pigs was small for a pig. Which is still a very hefty animal. Farm pigs are really very large so even if you halve their size its still a lot.

[Sarena]

The word ‘tea cup’ is misleading but mini pigs are real, an actual pig is huge, I don’t think people realise how large a pig really is. The ones people keep as pets are really small in comparison, however on their own they are still big animals.

[drowl]

first thing i thought of was " man they call it mini that aint mini that is a baby pig"

[teamninjabug]

The growth stunting is how the teacup pig is made to keep it the size of a piglet, it doesn't apply to the mini pigs as a whole. Mini pigs like the potbellied are as the association described; even when well-fed, they will stay that 70-150lbs size. They were bred that way and were not the result of neglect. The 'mini' comes from the fact that they're mini compared to actual meat pigs which are the huge 600+pound ones. Mini pigs are still big dog-sized animals.

[zacharyhenderson]

I'm back in the '70s and '80s. Everyone wanted a pot belly pig. They naturally stay relatively small, compared to most farm breeds. There are also breeds of pigs, like the kune kune among others, which don't go bro. Quite as large as others. Having said that, they are still big, massive

[SharkNinjaBlueStar]

I would say the answer would be "kind of." There are breeds of pig that are smaller when fully grown than your standard barnyard pig, but that's not really saying much when your normal pig can weigh up to around 600 pounds.

[citrus_sweet]

I've always lived relatively close to farms and I remember on one school trip they took us out and I tried to pick up a piglet. Couldn't do it. I asked one of the workers if he could too and he couldn't either. Once, a few years ago, I went to a rodeo and they had a piglet race and one of the pigs escaped the corral and I just straight up couldn't pick them up so I had to kinda push it back towards its buddies which took forever because they're so heavy and stubborn. And these were all babies. I'm not even going to mention the adults which are practically living mini-boulders.
I can understand why someone would want a manageable little piggy because they're so intelligent and very cute but I think the best case scenario would just to watch the babies at the local farm run around unless you have a big plot of land and can afford a pig I guess.

[raccoontrashpanda]

Those pictures of fully grown pigs still look pretty small for a pig. I'm pretty sure they are mini pigs if they are really fully grown as regular size pigs get to twice that size or more.

[MermaidMakes]

A key part of the puzzle to “are mini pigs real?” is knowing how HUGE regular sized pigs are. Pot bellies are “small” by domestic pig standards….. but larger pig breeds are GIGANTIC.

I’m glad you differentiated between mini and teacup. I wouldn’t call any pig mini, but there are much smaller pigs than what you’d see raised on a farm for meat.

[scrunglenut]

kunekune pigs are actually legitimately bred to be small because the maori and other pacific island people have been breeding them for millenia to survive in small spaces. they are one of the recognized breeds of minipig. males can get up to 400lbs, but females are usually around 150 at full size and fed well.

[revol_]

Pig: * does not have enough minerals and vitamins in diet to build a proper skeletal structure and grow *
Humans for no reason: AW CUTE

[TheToneBender]

Why can we breed dogs to be as diverse as they are, but not other animals?

[childofcascadia]

In the 80s I know someone who kept real potbelly pigs called Lon I pigs long before the "minipig" craze. Full grown and fed a normal pig diet they were about 100-150 lbs. Smaller than a farm pig, but they werent house pets like a 50 lb dog. They were strong, solidly built creatures that can be kept on smaller plots of land than a bunch of farm hogs require. The person I knew was vietnamese and imported them from vietnam.

Heres the kicker, they are all black and they have a very specific build. They also only stay small if they are actually purebred. 99% of "potbelly" pigs outside of vietnam nowadays are mixed breed and likely to grow huge.

And today even in vietnam they are severely endangered so good luck finding one. But yes, they do exist.

[danr.]

This is literally the first ever ad break I didn't skip. Dude put a video to keep us occupied while he advertised smth. He broke the code.

[bestaqua]

Smaller pigs are a thing. Mini pigs are not .

[catalin]

I mean, a Vietnamese Potbelly pig is around 100 pounds when fully grown, they are pretty small and friendly and ridiculously small when born.
I always imagined those are they pigs people are buying or a close cousin of them but apparently people are just buying underfed normal pigs that get to 500 pounds...