On our farm, and every other farm that was owned by our people of my ethnic background, sows were purchased when they were very young. Why always females and not males. The meat must be tastier???
I've heard(never tried it)that wild 'boar' is tasty. Why not domesticated boar?

OT: We had a crazy cow. Some kind of a Jersey breed. She was always escaping and taking off into the woods. She tried to run me down once, but I managed to jump up on the wagon. Anyway, my dad brought home some ducks from the stockyard and that stupid cow actually ran over them and what a bloody mess. I hope she was reincarnated as a gnat.