Title: How To Select a Show Pig | Purina Animal Nutrition
Headings: How to Select a Show Pig: Tips for Choosing a Champion
How to Select a Show Pig: Tips for Choosing a Champion
Keep these tips in mind when selecting your show pig for the season:
1. Your show pig breeder is your partner
2. How to select a show pig
Target show goals
Soundness
Overall show pig design
Show pig health
3. Develop a show pig feeding program to maximize potential

Content: Show pig health
The pig you want to bring home should be up and active with bright eyes, and healthy skin and hair. A healthy pig will also utilize nutrients more efficiently, which can help your show pig look and perform its best in the ring. Be sure to ask about prior health history and medications the pigs have received. 3. Develop a show pig feeding program to maximize potential
After carefully selecting your show pig, feed to maximize their genetic potential. You can buy the best pig money can find, but if you miss opportunities with nutrition, you won’t meet your show day goals. Nutrition is like an athlete in training. You don’t see professional athletes at fast food restaurants. They have dieticians to formulate their nutrition and individual meal plans. Show pigs are similar;