I was going to upload this in pieces with further text and it’s already too wordy and something like 1 am.
But I haven’t drawn in years and apparently decided to spend a few hours drawing literal pig-horses.
This is half a subspecies contest entry and half an intense desire to draw boar piglets manifesting while attempting to have an idea.
Ultimately even if fluffies with tusks does nothing for anyone, I’ll have to recycle the orb of fluff foals somewhere because they amuse me.
Anyway, these are adorable and I love the chirpies just being literal balls.
this is absolutely part of the inspiration for their shape.
I was wondering why your preview clip of the foal reminded me of wild boar piglets. That big floofy chirpy is cute. 
So fluffies with more pig DNA than normal - I can see that working.
Exactly what i was thinking about when i saw em
PIGLET FLUFFIES
I would love to imagine their chirpies make less of a peeping noise and more of baby piggy snorts/grunts 
these lil tuskies are so cute!!
This would be a cute Fluffy to seee drawn would it be bad if they didn’t have smarty’s born to this mega adorable Sub species ??
When I was coming up with reason why micro-wild pig fluffies that eat anything wouldn’t oust fluffy herds and become the dominant species (aside from the fact fighting rings tend to not let their stock leave alive) I figured having them be a little territorial and tending towards the family group wolf pack or corvid social structure might be a solution. So most groups would be just mum, dad, some adult children that haven’t left the nest, and mum’s current litter. (higher foal survival rate but waaaaay lower birth rate)
So to avoid significant advantages over a standard fluffy, I’m think it could still create a smarty, but a smarty is going to end up severely disadvantaged and almost always alone. I imagine these guys to be a bit stubborn like a pig so other tusked fluffies probably wouldn’t take well to a smarty and likely to kick them from their family group quickly.
But like, as fluffies in general run with communal head canons and people picking and choosing what they do and don’t use, if someone wanted them to be a smarty-free subspecies they’d be welcome to.
I just think an extremely round and durable smarty would be extremely kickable to humans and I respect the fun in that as much as I respect the fun in just letting them be cute.
I like your small family groups idea better as it’s more fluffy like, but to suggest another way to keep their numbers down, would be to follow wild pig social structures, which are matriarchal family groups led by a single matriarch, with fertile and barren sows and their piglets.
Male piglets leave the group when they become adults and either live in small separate loose knit groups or on their own.
When it’s breeding season, the boars fight each other, sometimes fatally. According to the wiki, bite based injuries to the penis is common. The winner gets to chase then eventually mate with the female group; afterwards he leaves.
So to keep your Tuskies from supplanting feral fluffy herds, there is a high attrition rate of the males, either to each other during mating season or to predators/environment when living alone (note that a boar tuskie losing its genitalia also counts as a loss in this case as it can no longer propagate the species). Although they’re tougher fluffies, they’re still fluffies, so aren’t a match for proper predators like bear, wolves, mountain lions, etc.
I considered the sow groups, but was worried unattached males might give them the potential to be too prolific, (getting into people’s yards and impregnating a regular house fluffy or sneak breeding a regular fluffy herd’s mares could go a long way to making a feral micro hog plague no matter how quickly they’re dying off. However someone having their pet mare suddenly give birth to brown pompoms instead of chirpies sounds hilarious) though having them retain some of their roots of being meant as a children’s toy inclined for families and friendship despite their generations of fighting and murder is a knock on bonus.
Though even without the males being solitary I imagine they still get attrition rates just from originating from fighting rings and wanting space for families. Even outside of being eaten by actual predators.
Like a sturdier fluffy with built in weaponry made for fighting other fluffies I imagine can do some damage against a couple of fluffies, but they shouldn’t be invincible or unstoppable. So a fluffy herd would still have an advantage with raw numbers to overpower it.
(funny you should mention missing genitals though, because I was thinking a brown fluffy that doesn’t mind eating poop would probably get litterpal’d by a herd, and thinking there is no way these things wouldn’t be prone to biting off genitals or growing out it’s tusks and stabbing something if it didn’t want to be somewhere, heck actual piglets are born ready to stab each other with their faces. It’s not like fluffies are going to be doing the kind of delicate surgery to actually fully remove a continuously growing face spike vs standard teeth extraction or horn removal that doesn’t usually keep growing… hell humans thinking it’s a standard fluffy, making a litter pal only for the stress to trigger tusk growth could lead to horror show results that could be funny.)
I was thinking a brown fluffy that doesn’t mind eating poop would probably get litterpal’d by a herd
I doubt a sensible feral herd that’s migratory in any way, would take the legs of its litterpals as it forces them to take the legless fluffy with them when they move.
That’s not to say they wouldn’t push lower status fluffies into the role (and probably the herd enfie toy as well), but a small family of tuskies living with a normal herd as the designated nest cleaners sounds reasonable, although as you’d said, they’d probably wouldn’t be able to give rim jobs like a proper litterpal without goring the receiving fluffy.
D’awww, widdle walwus fwuff!
Honestly I’m not too big on subspecies very often but yeah I want one
These are so cool! They kinda remind me of the Yemeni Mule Fluffies I designed awhile back!
Here’s Fedayin, btw!
I like this. I’d also like to see a few dozen of them taking on fluffies. The carnage would be glorious.
I would also like to see this.
(but also contemplating if people would do stuff like installing metal caps on the tusks to make their fluff more lethal.)
Can they breed with normal fluffies?
Originally I’d have said “no” or “they just make standard fluffies” but the idea of regular fluffies occasionally birthing a litter of “poopie” coloured pompoms is becoming increasingly funny to me. (Like gatcha foals you can’t see the actual results until they’re nearly weaned sounds custom designed to piss of regular fluffy mares and fluffy mills.)
Realistically, since they are the result of intense but unintentional selective breeding rather than a genetic rebuild they’d probably breed just fine, maybe with the traits that are inherited being a bit of a scattershot like making a cross between two breeds of dogs or something?
