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The popularity and the history of pig industry had prevailed since the early past. Pig industry is one of those highly profitable livestock industries and the one that needs more care and concern when it comes to maintance. There are various thinys that someone should take into consideration when planning to stat it´s bussines based on pig industry.

One of the must check thing is about the pig breed, because there are various varieties of pig breed that are available and each of them has special feature and some of them posses remarked charateristics.

Pigs are popular part of the ancient culture and today´s economi, they´re omnivorous mammals wich are highly adaptable and social in nature pigs (an be both a great contributios to the biodiversity as well as a challenge o farming).

The latest pig farming methodologics have pared the way for the estinction of the traditional pig varieties and have given way for the emergence of new varieties of pig which are mainly grow up for the purpose of meat.

Guinea Hog, Iberico, Konekune, American Yorkshire, Russian Wild Boar are few of the pig breeds. 

Hampshire Pig

The Hampshire pig is a domestic swine breed characterized by erect ears and a black body with a whitish band around the middle, covering the front legs.

The American National Swine Registry notes this is the fourth "most recorded breed" of pigs in the United States, and probably the oldest American breed of hogs. It is believed to have derived from the Old English Breed, found in northern England and Scotland.

Hampshire hogs are noted for being well-muscled and rapid growers, and for exhibiting good carcass quality when used as meat animals. When used as breeding stock, the sows of this breed have been praised for their capacity as mothers, having "extra longevity in the sow". Hampshires are good tempered; they do not grow as fast as many cross-breds, but they do grow faster than Yorkshires.

Duroc Pig

Duroc pig is an older breed of American domestic pig that forms the basis for many mixed-breed commercial hogs. Duroc pigs are red, large-framed, medium length, and muscular, with partially drooping ears, and tend to be one of the least aggressive of all the swine breeds. They also have an excellent rate of gain.

Durocs have considerable variation in color. An acceptable color may range from a very light golden, almost yellow color, to a very dark red that approaches mahogany. The red is a very practical color that suits pork producers, and since it is a solid color there is no concern about fancy points of proper markings. Durocs have a medium length and slight dish of the face. The ears should be drooping and should not be held erect. 

Pietran Pig

Pietrain, Belgium, the village from which the breed takes its name, was the birthplace of the breed. The exact origin is unknown but the local breed was "brought to the fore" during the difficult period of the pork market in 1950-51. The breed became popular in its native country and was exported to other countries, especially Germany.

The breed is of medium size and is white with black spots. Around the black spots there are characteristic rings of light pigmentation that carries white hair. The breed is commonly referred to as being of piebald markings. The ears are carried erect.

The Pietrain is very popular as a terminal sire in two of Europe’s largest pig producing countries, Germany and Spain. 

Landrace Pigs

The Landrace breed was developed in Denmark by crossing the native pig with the Large White.

This cross was then improved on during years of testing and breeding under strict government control. The Danes refused to export live pigs until World War II, when the best specimens of the breed were exported to Sweden. The progeny from these pigs eventually reached England and Ireland.

Landrace have white skin and are free from black hair. They are a lop-eared pig with a long middle, light forequarters, and excellent ham development. The major faults with the original Landrace were leg weakness, splay legs and nervous disorders such as porcine stress syndrome (PSS). PSS still occurs in some strains.

IBERIAN PIG

The Iberian pig, is a traditional breed of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa Domesticus) that is native to the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian pig, wohse origins can probably be traced back to the neolithic, when animal domesti cation started, is currently fourd in herds clustered in the central and southern territory of the Iberian Peninsula ( Portugal and Spain).

The numbers of the Iberian breed have benn drastically reduced since 1960 due to several factors the outbreack of african swine fever, the value animal fts and the massive introduccion of more efficient foreing breeds.

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YORKSHIRE

Also called large white, breed of swine produced in the 18th century by crossing the large indigenOus white pig of north England whit the smaller, fatter, white Chinese pig. The well  freshed Yorkshire is solid white whit erect ears.

Although originally a bacon breed, the Yorkshire rose to rpominebce in the lean-meat vategory during the 20th century in the United States.

The boar is used considerably as a sire of crossbred litters out of coloured dams. The Yorkshire is probably teh most midely distributed breed of pig in the world.