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The Poland China is a big pig - in fact, the largest hog in recorded history was a Poland China. His name was Big Bill and he weighed over 2,500 pounds at his heaviest. Gloucestershire Old Spot . Last, but many would argue not least, is the Gloucestershire Old Spot - also called the "Spotted Pig". Old Spots, like the Poland Chinas, are.
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RingMaster Power User Posts: 59 Joined: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:00 am Location: Sioux Falls, SD by RingMaster » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:43 am Personally, have never seen a pure white hog out of crossing these two breeds. If I had to guess, expect 3/4 blue butts, usually get 1 or 2 hamp colored pigs out of a litter
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Profitable Pig Breeds For Pig Farming Unlike most other livestock, pigs have only one main commodity that they produce - their meat. In fact, pork is the most popular meat product in the world. If you are interested in raising pigs for financial gain, it's important to choose the right pig breed to maximize your profits.
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#2 · Jun 28, 2007 we AI gilts all the time with success. The smallest litter we have had is 9 pigs. The largest gilt litter was 12. Unless you know her lineage, there isn't really a way to know if you will get blue butts or what. If you breed her to a york, you may get blue butts and whites.
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Marketing Selection of Breed 4-H pigs may be chosen based on what the family farm is already raising. Other students will choose from a local 4-H pig breeder, or branch out and experiment with a new breed that seems to have the right rate of growth.
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Crossbred feeder pigs are the best beginner pigs. The best pigs for a beginner to raise are crossbred feeder pigs. These piglets have been bred specifically for meat production, so they are hardy and fast growers. A crossbred piglets is normally a maternal line sow, think of the white breed pigs, crossed with a terminal line boar, think of the.
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These blue butt piglets, a mostly white pig with a smattering of grey spots high on the back and around the tail, are the most popularly raised piglets. They grow faster. While it's true that large confinement type pig farms also like crossbreeding, don't let that keep you from getting crossbred feeder pigs.
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Start with a 50-60 pound feeder pig and plan to keep it on full feed (free choice feed) and plentiful water. With full feed, a high quality commercial type feeder pig will finish (grow to slaughter weight and condition) in 4 months. These are some of my feeder pigs at 10 weeks old. The biggest 5 in the litter are weighing 50 pounds each.
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Blue Butts are derived most commonly from breeding Yorkshire or China Poland boars to Hampshire Sows, about 70% of the resulting offspring have the blue butt trait. They typically grow very fast and have very good pork. This results from what is known as hybrid vigor, crossing breeding two pure breeds usually gives you a much better overall animal.
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This is Whitney, my blue butt sow. She was part of a group of piglets I bought as feeder pigs. I kept her back as a breeding sow because she had the best growth and was good natured. Get pigs from commercial meat breeds If you are new, start with pigs from this group.
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A very popular crossbred feeder pig in our area (Ohio) is a Blue Butt, which is a cross of a white sow (Yorkshire, Landrace, Chester White) and a colored boar (Berkshire, Duroc, Hampshire). Your local area will have a favored cross. What exactly the specific cross is does not matter, as long as the parent pigs are all full size hogs.
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The American Yorkshire pig is a large animal. It is mainly white in color and has erect ears. The modern animals are muscular with a high proportion of lean meat. The mature sows on average weight around 204-295 kg. And average live body weight of the mature boars vary from 250 to 340 kg. Photo and info from Wikipedia.
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Breed Origin Height Weight Color Image Aksai Black Pied: Kazakhstan: 167-182 cm: 240-320 kg (530-710 lb) Black and White--- American Yorkshire: United States
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Pigs will grow from a birth weight of four pounds to a finishing weight of 250 pounds in five and a half months. Growing pigs to 280-300 pounds will take another month. Using unusual or rare breed genetics, hot weather, having pigs on pasture or in wooded areas or limiting grain will also increase the time it takes to grow out the pig.