Colorado Mutle

Meat of the Colorado Mutle is of exceptional quality in color, flavor, tenderness and marbling.

The Colorado Mutle is a non-recognized breed of swine under development by Andre Houssney of Jacob Springs Farm. Andre took over the breeding program of Mark Cortner and continued to develop the concept.

Breeding Goals

The basic breeding goals of this project are to produce the highest pork quality by obtaining the best meat qualities from two breeds: the Red Wattle renowned for it's tenderness and flavor and the Mulefoot, famous for it's red meat and "kobe-beef"-like marbling.

Secondary goals are to restore some rare characteristics of heritage breeds (good forage ability and good mothering) with modern improvements in fecundity, achieved with limited out-crossing with animals of other breeds including "old spot" and commercial breeds.

Currently boars are being raised from the 6th generation of crossing, selection, and back-crossing.

Physical Traits

Mutles mostly have wattles (from the red-wattle heritage) have the syndactyl ("mule-footed") trait and are a variety of colors including black, red, mahogany and spotted.

In the future, selections to stabilize the color may be made, however it is not currently a priority.