Ba Xuyen Pig

Facts about Ba Xuyen Pigs. The Ba Xuyen is a domestic pig breed that hails from South Vietnam, particularly from the Mekong Delta. Ba Xuyen Pig is a dotted black and white breed of pig with white color feet. The Ba Xuyen Pig was developed from a cross between a Boxu pig and a Berkshire pig from 1932 to 1956. Amongst the most common breeds of pigs, found approximately all over in the world, are the Ba Xuyen Pig breeds. Though the Ba Xuyen Pig are native to South Vietnam, there is hardly any nation of the world where you will not be capable of finding the Ba Xuyen Pig breeds, wandering around the trash bins. Farmers use to raise Ba Xuyen pigs for their hides and for their meat and there are more than two million Ba Xuyen household pigs on Earth.

Features of Ba Xuyen Pig

The Ba Xuyen Pig is a medium size pig breed that attains a body weight of 220 lbs (100 kg) by the time they attain the age of one year. These pigs have a back-fat thickness of 1.8 inches (42 mm). Both male and female Ba Xuyen Pigs attain their maturity between 8 to 10 months after their birth. While breeding, the female Ba Xuyen Pig is capable of giving birth to about 8 piglets in each litter two to three times a year.

Though the Ba Xuyen Pig breed is a combination of the Berkshire pig and the Boxu pig, imported from 1932-1956, the Boxu pig itself is a combination of the Craonnais pigs and Chinese pigs. The Craonnais pigs were imported just about 1920 by the planters of France, whereas the Chinese pigs were imported about 1900 by the traders of China.

The Ba Xuyen Pig breed is tailored well to the salt water regions of the Mekong River delta in the southern parts of Vietnam. The Ba Xuyen Pig has a small body, average-sized ears and tiny legs, with approximately similar amount of black and white spots on the body.

Among the 15 pig breeds, the Ba Xuyen Pigs are positioned at the fourth place as the cleverest animal in the world. Furthermore, a lot of experts claim that the Ba Xuyen Pigs are domesticated more effortlessly than cats or dogs.

Ba Xuyen Pigs have 44 teeth when full grown, when they are baby pigs (piglets) the have 28 teeth which will fall at when they are 12 months old. Just like human teeth, the Ba Xuyen Pig has an enamel coating that makes the pigs teeth stronger and helps it curb disease. Ba Xuyen Pigs are very intelligent, not like everybody thinks, that pigs are dumb animals. The Ba Xuyen Pig snout is its most important tool for finding food.
Usually, similar to other pig breeds, Ba Xuyen Pigs do not contain practical sweat glands. The Ba Xuyen Pig make use of mud or water for the intention of continuing cool during hot weather conditions. Normally, similar to other pig breeds, the Ba Xuyen Pigs do not desire to sit in the mud. Actually, the Ba Xuyen Pig desire hygiene much more than other pig breeds. They only use the mud as a coolant during the summer months, that also out of a need. Mud as well, offers the Ba Xuyen Pigs the necessary protection against parasites and flies, aside from being exercised as a type of sunscreen that defends their skin against sunburn. Ba Xuyen Pigs unlike is said, happen to be very clean animals. Ba Xuyen Pigs make sure their bathroom area is far away from where they eat Lie down, rest even piglets (baby pigs) will find a place to go to the bathroom, far away from their nest.

Like all other pig breeds, the Ba Xuyen Pig breed have a strong sense of odor that they can locate things underground effortlessly. The yell of a frightened Ba Xuyen Pig can determine 115 decibels, which is higher than the taking off sound of a jet engine that has 113 decibels. The four feet with four toes of the Ba Xuyen Pig are called "trotters" that humans eat as a delicacy called pigs feet or pigs knuckles. A Ba Xuyen Pigs foot has four toes that are pointed downwards when the pig walks it walks on the tips of its toes, rather than its whole foot and only uses two of the toes and the outside toes for balance. The pig has tougher feet at the ends are hooves. The two toes in the middle of the foot are slightly webbed helps the pigs balance for walking.

Diet of Ba Xuyen Pig

The Ba Xuyen Pig breed is an omnivorous (definition-they eat both other animals and plants) animal and it feeds on grasses and leaves, roots, flowers and fruits, dead insects, tree bark, worms, rotting carcasses, etc.

The average lifespan of the Ba Xuyen Pig ranges from 6 years to 12 years.
Swine: is any variety of omnivorous, even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae, this includes hogs, boars and pigs having a short neck, thick skin a movable snout and a stout body.

The Ba Xuyen Pigs snout is used for their excellent sense of smell.

Ba Xuyen Pigs are raised for there meat such as ham, sausage, bacon and pork chops. Ba Xuyen Pigs can make great pets. A wild pig is called a (boar) that lives in the wild and can be hunted. Feral pigs (means wild) can be a very big danger where humans habitat. Ba Xuyen Pigs can carry a variety of diseases and can pass them to humans. Ba Xuyen Pigs have small lungs compared to their body size.

Ba Xuyen Pigs chew their food because pigs have a digestive system similar to a human digestive system and cannot digest food that is not chewed.

A female adult Ba Xuyen Pig is called a (sow) and the male adult Ba Xuyen Pig is called a (boar). A Ba Xuyen Pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. The pig is represents, happiness, honesty, fortune and virility in China.

A Ba Xuyen Pig can drink 14 gallons of water in a day. Truffle Mushroom hunters in France and Italy use pigs to hunt Truffle Mushrooms because of there keen sense of smell, the problem is that, sometimes if the hunter doesn't grab the mushrooms in time, the pig will eat it. Sometimes certain dogs are used instead of pigs. The scientific name for Pig (Sus scrofa), the wild swine (Boar) from the old world with a narrow body and prominent tusks is from where most domestic swine come from and introduced in the United States and bred to what we have as today's pig. The "fear of pigs Swinophobia".