Pig Breeds (SWINE)🐷

Question 1

How are swine identified/classified

Answer 1

• goals/traits (maternal, sire, specialty)
• ear configuration (erect or droopy)
• body color/identifying pattern

Question 2

Landrace (Denmark)

Answer 2

• white in color
  *droopy ears
  *most prolific swine breed; extra vertebrae
  *more confinement
  *good mothers

Question 3

Yorkshire (England)

Answer 3

*white
*erect ears
* “mother breed”
* referred to as Large White in UK
* noted for large liters, lean carcasses, good feed conversion

Question 4

Duroc (U.S.)

Answer 4

*reddish brown color
* droopy ears
* excellent growth rate & efficiency
* generally considered a sire breed
* average carcass merit, tends to be fatter than hampshire
*good marbling

Question 5

Hampshire (U.S.)

Answer 5

*one of oldest breeds in U.S.
* likely origin is UK
*black with white belt around shoulders
* erect ears
* lean & muscular carcasses
* most known as a sire breed

Question 6

Pietrain (Belgium)

Answer 6

• black and white spotted
• erect ears
• terminal sire breed (crossbreeding)
• extreme muscle & leanness
  *early maturing
• susceptible to P. S. S. (Porcine Stress Syndrome)

Question 7

Porcine Stress Syndrome

Answer 7

*genetic condition
* carcasses can be P.S.E. (pale, soft, exudative/wet/excess fluid)
*triggered by stress
*can be fatal

Question 8

Male of Breeding Age

Answer 8

Boar

Question 9

Mature Female

Answer 9

Sow

Question 10

Young Female

Answer 10

Gilt

Question 11

Newborn

Answer 11

Pig

Question 12

Unsexed Male

Answer 12

Barrow

Question 13

Groups

Answer 13

Drove

Question 14

Genus

Answer 14

Sus

Question 15

Act of Parturition

Answer 15

Farrowing