The LargeWhite is a British breed of domestic pig. It derives from the old Large Yorkshire breed from the county of Yorkshire, in northern England. The...
The Large Black is a British breed of domestic pig. It is the only British pig that is entirely black. It was created in the last years of the nineteenth...
farmers or smallholders. The Small White proved a popular cross with both the Cumberland pig (now extinct) and the LargeWhite, another Yorkshire breed.[citation...
Middle White is a British breed of domestic pig. It originated in Yorkshire, and derived from the LargeWhite and the now-extinct Small White.: 144 It...
waste when kept on a homestead. Pigs have been farmed to dispose of municipal garbage on a large scale. All these forms of pig farm are in use today, though...
Landrace, Danish: Hvid Dansk Landrace, is a Danish breed of pig. It is of medium to large size, white in colour with a long body, fine hair, a long snout, and...
The LargeWhite Ulster, or Ulster White, was a breed of domestic pig. Primarily bred for bacon production, it was the favoured breed of farmers in the...
The Welsh is a breed of domestic pig native to Wales. It is a largewhite breed known for its hardiness in outdoor (extensive) farming, its long, pear-shaped...
British breed of pig. It originated in the English county of Berkshire, for which it is named. It is normally black, with some white on the snout, on...
celebrated in cities such as Bologna for their meat products. The pig has a large head, with a long snout strengthened by a special prenasal bone and...
The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy (/ˈkeɪvi/ KAY-vee), is a species of rodent belonging to...
White. The Chester White was first developed around 1815–1818, using strains of large, whitepigs common to the Northeast U.S. and a white boar imported from...
The LargeWhite Italiana is the Italian strain of the British LargeWhite or Yorkshire breed of pig. It is the most numerous pig breed in Italy. It is...
Development of Pig Production advised farmers to increase profitability by focusing on just three breeds of pigs — the British Landrace, the LargeWhite and the...
breed of pig which is predominantly white with black spots. It is named after the county of Gloucestershire. The Gloucestershire Old Spots pig is known...
American breed of large domestic pig. It is the most numerous pig breed in the United States.: 14 It derives from pigs of the British LargeWhite or Yorkshire...
A feral pig is a domestic pig which has gone feral, meaning it lives in the wild. The term feral pig has also been applied to wild boars, which can interbreed...
A peccary (also javelina or skunk pig) is a pig-like ungulate of the family Tayassuidae (New World pigs). They are found throughout Central and South...
Guinea pigs, also known as cavies (Cavia porcellus), have been domesticated since around 5000 BCE, leading to the development of a diverse array of breeds...
There are hundreds of breeds of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus). Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References...
(Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa...
in the nursery rhyme A pig who eats up the pancake in the fairy tale "The Runaway Pancake" Beast of Dean, an abnormally large wild boar said to live,...
The Tamworth is a British breed of domestic pig. It is the only red-coloured British pig.: 700 Its origins are unknown, but it appears to have developed...
the first Soviet pig breed to be developed. It derived from cross-breeding of pigs native to southern Ukraine with imported LargeWhite boars. It was officially...
the pig industry in Britain, and established a policy of concentrating production on three breeds only: the Welsh, the British Landrace and the Large White...
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