List of breeds of pigs

This is a list of domestic pig breeds ordered by origin .

The domestication of wild boars began around 9000 years ago. However, up to modern times, the " domestic pigs " crossed with wild boars again and again, so that no pig breeds in today's sense could develop. The "domestic pigs" of the Middle Ages and antiquity looked more like wild boars than any of our pig breeds today. Most of today's pig breeds are younger than 200 to 300 years, many even younger than 100 years. In the pig production today are mainly hybrid pigs used. The term hybrid breeding describes the procedure in pig breeding rather vaguely. In the narrower sense, this describes a multi-racial cross .

European domestic pig breeds

Belgium Belgian landrace Pietrain Denmark Danish landrace Sortbroget pig Danish bell pig Germany Angler saddle pig Colorful Bentheimers German landrace Meissen pig German Cornwall pig German precious pig German saddle pig The red-colored Husum pig Chaffer pasture pig Göttingen mini pig Hoya country pig Leicoma Munich miniature pig Swabian-Hall pig Schwerfurter meat breed Estonia Estonian bacon pork France Cul noir French landrace Gascon Lacombe Black-footed pig (Porc Noir de Bigorre, Pyrenees) Italy Cinta Senese Croatia Turopolje pig Fajferitza pig Latvia Latvian white pig Lithuania Lithuanian white pig Norway Norwegian country pig Norwegian Yorkshire pig Noroc pig Portugal Iberian pork (Porco alentejano / porco preto) Sweden Linderöd pig Spain Iberian pig Celtic pig ( Porco celta ) Ukraine Myrhorod pig Ukrainian colorful steppe pig Ukrainian white steppe pig Hungary Mangalica pig (also: wool pig ) United Kingdom Berkshire pig British Lop British Sattelschwein (British Saddleback) Cornwall pig Cumberland pig Essex pig Gloucestershire Old Spot Hampshire pig Wessex Pig (Wessex Pig, also called Wessex Saddleback) Yorkshire pigs Large white Middle white Small White (†) Belarus Belarusian colored pig

Africa

• Mukota pig

Middle East

• Forest Mountain
• Kakheti pig

Asia

• Pot-bellied pig
• Seven Streams Pig

Russia

• Aksai colored pig
• Breitowoer pig
• Kemerovo pig
• Liwnyer pig
• Muromer pig
• North Caucasus Pig
• North Siberian pig
• Siberian colored pig
• Urschum pig
• Ziwilsk pig

America

• American landrace
• American Yorkshire
• Chester White
• Duroc pig
• Creole pig
• Poland China
• Minnesota minipig

Australia and Oceania

• Kunekune

Regional assignment not known

• Mini pig
• Tamworth pig
• Grazing pig

See also

• List of breeds of pets

Web links

• www.schweinefreunde.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Wolfgang Weiß, Wilhelm Pabst, Susanne Granz: Tierproduktion , Georg Thieme Verlag, 2013, Chapter 4.1.2 Systematic crossbreeding ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Pig breeds. In: Central Documentation of Animal Genetic Resources in Germany (TGRDEU). Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), accessed on January 3, 2017 .