Pigs

Breed (Origin)

• Description

Aksai Black Pied (Kazakhstan)

• Black and white; Use: Pork

Alentejana (Portugal)

• Black, or golden blond, or russet red; quite small; Use: Pork

American Berkshire (USA)

• Black, with white; Use: Pork

American Landrace (USA)

• White; Use: Crossbreeding, Pork

American Yorkshire (USA)

• White; Use: Bacon, Pork

Andalusian Black: See -- Black Iberian

Angeln Saddleback (Germany)

• Black, with white band; Use: Pork

Andalusian Spotted (rare) (Spain)

• Off-white, speckled with black; Use: Pork

Ashanti Dwarf (Ghana)

• Black, or brown, or pied, or white; Small; Use: ??

Ba Xuyen (Vietnam)

• Black and white; Use: Pork

Baldinger Spotted (Germany)

• Greyish-white, with black patches; Lop-eared; Use: Pork

Basque Black Pied (France)

• Black pied; Use: Ham, Sausage

Beijing Black (China)

• Black, with white markings; Use: Pork

Belgian Landrace (Belgium)

• White; Use: Pork

Belorus Black Pied (Belorus)

• Black and white pied; Use: Pork

Beltsville (USA)

• Black; Drooping ears; Use: Pork

Bentheim Black Pied (rare) (Germany)

• Grey, with patches of black; Lop-eared; Use: Pork

Berkshire (rare) (United Kingdom)

• Variable; Use: Bacon, Showing

Black Iberian (Spain)

• Black; Use: Pork

BN (Belgium)

• White; Use: Pork

British Landrace (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Pork

British Lop (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Pork

British Saddleback (United Kingdom)

• Amalgation of Wessex and Essex; Quite similar to Wessex; Use: ??

Breitov (Russia)

• White; Use: Pork

Calabrian (rare) (Italy)

• Black; Use: Salami

Calascibetta (Sicily)

• Black to white; small; Use: Salami

Canadian Landrace (Canada)

• White; Use: Crossbreeding, Pork

Canadian Yorkshire (Canada)

• White; Use: Crossbreeding, Pork

Cantonese (China)

• Black and white; Use: Lard, Pork

Caruncho (Brazil)

• Black, or red-yellow, or spotted sandy with black, or white; Small; Use: Lard

Casertana (rare) (Italy)

• Black, or grey; Use: Pork

Chester White (USA)

• White; Use: Pork

Co (Vietnam)

• Black; Small; Use: Pork

Danish Duroc (Denmark)

• Red; Use: Crossbreeding, Pork

Danish Hampshire (USA)

• Black, with white belt at front; Use: Crossbreeding, Pork

Danish Landrace (Denmark)

• White; Use: Pork

Danish Large White (Denmark)

• White; Use: Production of gilts and sires

Dermanski Pied (Bulgaria)

• White, with Black spots; Use: ??

Dian-nan Short-eared: See -- South Yunnan Short-eared

Dorset Golden Tip (rare) (United Kingdom)

• Light red, with black markings and golden ips; Use: ??

Duroc Jersey (USA)

• Red; Use: Lean pork

Dutch Landrace (Netherlands)

• White; Use: Ham, Pork

Dutch Yorkshire (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Ham, Pork

Edelschwein (Germany)

• White; Use: Crossbreeding

Essex Saddleback (United Kingdom)

• Quite similar to Wessex; Use: ??

Estonian Bacon (Estonia)

• White; Use: Bacon, Crossbreeding

Extremadura (Spain)

• Red; Use: Pork

Finnish Landrace (Finland)

• White; Use: Breed improvement of Landrace elsewhere

Forest Mountain (Armenia)

• Black, or white; Use: Pork

French Landrace (Denmark)

• White; Use: Ham, Pork

French Large White (France)

• White; Use: Pork

Gascony (France)

• Black; Use: Lard, Pork

German Landrace (Germany)

• White; Use: Pork

Gloucester Old Spots (rare) (United Kingdom)

• White, with black spots; Use: Bacon, Ham

Göttlinger Miniature (Germany)

• White; Small; Use: Research

Guadeloupe Creole (Guadeloupe)

• Black, or grey, or spotted; Use: Pork

Guinea Hog (West Africa)

• Black, or red, or sandy; Use: Pork

Güssing (Austria)

• ??; Use: Pork

Hainan (China)

• Black back, white below; Small; Use: Lard

Haiti Creole (Haiti)

• Black; Use: Pork

Hampshire (United Kingdom)

• Black, with white belt; Use: Crossbreeding, Lean pork

Harbin White (China)

• White; Use: Lard, Pork

Hereford (USA)

• Red and white; Use: ??

Hezuo (China)

• Black; Small; Use: Pork

Hyper Large White (France)

• White; Use: Pork

Í (Vietnam)

• Black; Pot-bellied, small; Use: Fat, Laboratories, Parks

Icelandic (Iceland)

• White, or black and white; Use: Pork

Italian Landrace (Scandanavia)

• White; Use: Ham, Salami

Jabugo Spotted: See -- Andalusian Spotted

Kakhetian (Georgia)

• Black; Use: Lard, Pork

Kazakh Hybrid: See -- Semirechensk

Kele (China)

• Black; Lop-eared; Use: Lard

Kemerovo (Siberia)

• Black, sometimes with white; Use: Pork

Lacombe (Canada)

• White; Lop-eared; Use: Pork

Large Black (rare) (United Kingdom)

• Black; Use: Pork

Livny (Russia)

• White, or pied; Use: Pork

Large Polish Long-eared (Poland)

• Black, or pied, or red; Large ears; Use: ??

Large White (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Bacon, Ham, Pork

Latvian White (Latvia)

• White; Use: Pork

Limousin (France)

• Black and white; Use: Lard, Sausage

Lincoln Red (New Zealand)

• Red; Use: Pork

Lithuanian White (Lithuania)

• White; Use: Pork

Luchuan (China)

• White, with black head and back; Use: Lard

Mangalitsa (Hungary)

• Black, or dark tan, or red, or yellowish white; Woolly; Use: Lard, Pork

Mexican Wattled (Mexico)

• Various, Small; Use: ??

Middle White (rare) (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Pork

Min (China)

• Black; Lop-eared; Use: Lard, Pork

Ningxiang (China)

• Black and red; Use: Lard

Mirgorod (Ukraine)

• Black, or black and tan, or black and white pied, or tan; Use: Lard

Mong Cai (Vietnam)

• White with black; Pot-bellied, Small; Use: Research farms

Mora: See -- Romagnola

Mulefoot (USA)

• Black; Use: Bacon, Lard

Munich Miniature (Germany)

• Black, or red, or spotted; Small; Use: Research

Murom (Russia)

• White; Use: ??

Neijiang (China)

• Black; Use: Lard, Pork

New Huai (China)

• Black; Lop-eared; Use: Lard, Pork

Nilo-Canastra (Brazil)

• Black; Hairless; Use: Bacon, Lard

Normand (France)

• White; Use: Pork

North Caucasus (Russia)

• Black and white pied; Use: Pork

Northern Siberian (Siberia)

• White; Use: Lard

Norwegian Landrace (Norway)

• White, with some black spots; Use: Bacon

Novosibirsk Spotted: See -- Siberian Black Pied

Oxford Sandy-and-Black (rare) (United Kingdom)

• Not fixed; Use: Not established

Ozark: See -- Mulefoot

Pelón (Mexico to Colombia)

• Black; Hairless; Use: Lard

Piétrain (Belgium)

• Greyish-white with black spots; Use: Pork

Pirapetinga (Brazil)

• Black, or rosy; Hairless; Use: Bacon, Grease

Poland China (USA)

• Black and white; Use: Lard, Pork

Polish Landrace (Poland)

• White; Lop-eared; Use: Pork

Polish Large White (Poland)

• White; Use: Bacon, Pork

Pulawy (Poland)

• Black and white pied; Use: Pork

Romagnola (Italy)

• Various; Use: Pork

Russian Large White (Russia)

• White; Use: Lard, Pork

Sanjiang White (China)

• White; Use: Pork

Sardinian (Sardinia)

• Varied; very small; Use: Pork

Semirechensk (Kazakhstan)

• Dark brown, or pied, or red, or white; Use: ??

Shenxian (China)

• Black; Lop-eared; Use: Pork

Siberian Black Pied (Russia)

• White, with black patches; Use: ??

Siberian Spotted: See -- Siberian Black Pied

Siena Belted (Italy)

• Black, with white belt near front; Use: Pork

Small Polish Prick-eared (Poland)

• Black, or pied, or red, or white; Small; Use: ??

South Yunnan Short-eared (China)

• Black; Use: ??

Spotted (USA)

• White, with black spots; Drooping ears, heavy; Use: Pork

Swabian-Hall (Germany)

• Black, with white belt; Use: Pork

Swedish Landrace (Denmark)

• White; Use: Bacon, Pork

Swiss Edelschwein (Switzerland)

• White; Use: Pork

Swiss Improved Landrace (Switzerland)

• White; Use: Pork

Taihu (China)

• Black; Hanging ears, heavy, small; Use: Pork

Tamworth (rare) (United Kingdom)

• Golden red, or clear sandy; Use: Bacon, Ham, Pork

Thai Binh (Vietnam)

• White; Pot-bellied, Small; Use: ??

Thuoc Nhieu (Vietnam)

• White; Use: Pork

Tibetan (China)

• Black, or brown; Small; Use: Pork

Tsivilsk (Russia)

• White; Use: ??

Tuy Hoa Hairless (Vietnam)

• White; Use: Pork

Ukrainian Spotted Steppe (Ukraine)

• Black, or black and tan, or black and white spotted; Use: Pork

Ukrainian White Steppe (Ukraine)

• White; Use: Pork

Urzhum (Russia)

• White; Use: ??

Vietnamese Potbellied Pig: See -- Í

Welsh (United Kingdom)

• White; Use: Pork

Wessex Saddleback (United Kingdom)

• Black; Use: Ham

West French White (France)

• White; Use: Pork

Windsnyer (South Africa, Zimbabwe)

• Various; Razor-backed; Use: ??

Yorkshire: See -- Large White

Yucatan Miniature (Mexico)

• Grey; Hairless; Use: Laboratories, Lard, Pork

Zangzhu: See -- Tibetan

Zlotniki (rare) (Poland)

• White, or white with black spots; Use: Pork

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