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Danish Protest Pig
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Danish Protest Pig

Place of Origin Denmark
Origin The Husum Red Pied (German: Rotbuntes Husumer) is a rare breed of domestic pig with the nickname Danish Protest Pig (German: Husumer Protestschwein and Danish: Husum protestsvin or danske protestsvin). It originates in North Frisia in Southern Schleswig in the beginning of the 20th century, when Danes living in the area under Prussian rule were prohibited from raising the Danish flag and kept and displayed the Protest Pig instead. Due to its red colour, its broad white vertical belt and a trace of a white horizontal belt resembling the colours of the Flag of Denmark, it was made a symbol of their cultural identity.

It was probably created out of Holsteinian and Jutlandian marsh pigs, the English Tamworth pig and red variants of the Angeln Saddleback. It was recognized as a breed in 1954, but after a last birth in 1968, the breed was considered extinct.

Only in 1984, pigs fully corresponding to the descriptions of the race were seen again. Associations of breeders continue to breed it and to register existing pigs of this race. Breeding populations exist in the Berlin Zoological Garden, the Hanover Zoo, the Tierpark Arche Warder near Kiel, in the ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen, in Dalmsdorf (Mecklenburg), Hof Lütjensee and on the Archehof Blumencron. The Dortmund Zoo and the Tierpark Krüzen house small populations too. At the moment, around 140 specimens are alive worldwide. The German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein supports preservation of the breed for its cultural value.
Purpose Meat
Characteristics The breed grows to a height of about 92 cm (36 in) and weighs up to 350 kg (772 lb). Skin is red coloured with broad white vertical belt and a trace of a white horizontal belt.
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