Black Alpine Pig

In mid-May, a supplementary import of Alpine pigs from Austria was successfully completed. After two and a half months, the animals were distributed from the quarantine station of the Goldau Zoo to the breeding farms. One sow remained in Goldau as a show and breeding animal. The import primarily served to broaden the genetic base of Swiss breeding, but also to strengthen the "red factor". As historical documents by Prof. Anderegg (1898) and Johann Jakob Steinmüller (1827) show, red Alpine pigs used to be found in the mountainous regions of Central Switzerland, the Oberhasli and around the Oberalp and Lukmanier Passes, which are now to be re-established.