Grazing pig
The term pasture pig covers various breeds of domestic pigs that are particularly suitable for grazing . Typical characteristics of the grazing pigs are their robustness, frugality, their instinct to look for their own food, digging and a trunk adapted to it .
history
Up until the 18th century, pigs in Germany were mainly kept outdoors and fed acorn- fed. By inadvertent crossbreeding with the wild boar, the animals still resembled the wild boar and were ideal grazing pigs . In the 19th century pigs were kept in stables, combined with the crossbreeding of English pig breeds . As a result, the pigs changed their shape and characteristics.
In Germany, for some time was the so-called German pasture pig obtained, but around 1975 extinct is. At the beginning of the 1980s, attempts were made to cross- breed different pig breeds (back- breeding ) to obtain pigs that again had the characteristics of a grazing pig. An example of this is the Düppeler pasture pig . However, these backbreeds do not have the gene pool of the extinct breeds.
See also
literature
- Hans Hinrich Sambraus: Color atlas of farm animal breeds. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 3-8001-3219-2
- J. Hammond, I. Johansson, F. Haring: Handbuch der Tierzüchtung, Paul Parey Verlag, Hamburg and Berlin 1961