Belgian Landrace Pig

Facts about Belgian Landrace Pigs. The Belgian Landrace is a class of household pig, which is also commonly referred to as the Belgian Improved Landrace pig, the Improved Belgian pig, and the Belgian Lop-eared pig. The "Belgian Landrace Pig" breeds are native to Belgium, and they were formed from importing English pig breeds and developing them, pending the Belgian Landrace Pig were marked up to the German Improved Landrace pig from 1930 to 1945 and then propagating them with the Dutch Landrace pig in 1945. Other pig breeds were also included in the bloodline to make it stronger, such as with the pigs from Germany in 1971, Luxembourg in 1955 and the Czech Republic during 1974. The Belgian Landrace Pig is used in several different countries, and the Belgian Landrace Pig breed is one among the four main commercial pig breeds, as well in France.

Features of Belgian Landrace Pig

The Belgian Landrace pig breeds are the most common pig breeds that are reared exclusively for their meat. When the Belgian Landrace Pig breeds, there is a possibility for an increased quantity of stronger faster-developing piglets. These crosses are used widely in outside pig breeding units, producing young more capable of dealing with a variety of climatic conditions.

First, female Belgian Landrace pigs are mated when they attain the age of six to eight years. Approximately 80 to 90% of female pigs are serviced by synthetic insemination. The pregnancy continues for four and a female pig will give birth to an average of 10 to 12 piglets in a litter. These piglets are weaned in advance following a minimum period of 21 days, but weaning would take place at 12 to 14 weeks naturally, and a week afterward the female pig will be serviced again. The average quantity of pigs reared for each female pig was 24 during the year 2012, though a lot of female pigs were reared in excess of this. Female Belgian Landrace pigs will produce 4 to 7 litters earlier than they turn out to be exhausted and they are slaughtered following three to five years for the processed meat.

The Belgian Landrace pig breed has been recognized as a well-developed white breed with deep drooping ears. The Belgian Landrace Pig are lacking in many characteristics when compared to other Landrace pig breeds, but they are also an extremely realistic type, which are sound in legs and feet, having excellent fertility, perform well in captivity, act as good mothers and offer huge quantities of milk, pending early weaning.

The saliva of Belgian Landrace Pigs contains pheromones-( A chemical substance used to attract a mate) similar to that of other pig breeds that communicate their sexual wants. The male Belgian Landrace Pigs discharge this steroid and female pigs will go to vast lengths to acquire a smell of the stuff.

As the Belgian Landrace pig breed is famous for its pork manufacture, it is regularly bred with other pig breeds to boost the general quality of the pork. The Belgian Landrace Pig breed is recognized for being more profoundly muscled than other pig breeds and for being noticeably big, together with having a resulting lower fat content. A considerable amount of continuing testing has been accomplished in the past some decades, to make the most of the quantity of high quality lean and reduce the quantity of fat on the Belgian Landrace Pig breed. There are eight stations checking in excess of 5,000 pigs for each year to separate those strains competent to further improvement.

In order to put up the Belgian Landrace pig breed for sale in Belgium, the female Belgian Landrace pigs are frequently bred with the Pietrain male pigs, which perk up the quality of the Belgian pig breed. The piglets are afterward bred back into the major Belgian Landrace line up, bringing with them the improved quality of pork. The meat that the pig produces will be tender and lean. Belgian Landrace Pigs are omnivores like humans, an omnivores, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants).

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. Belgian Landrace Pigs unlike is said, happen to be very clean animals. Pigs make sure their bathroom area is far away from where they eat, lie down and rest, even piglets (baby pigs) will find a place to go to the bathroom, far away from their nest.

Belgian Landrace Pigs are very intelligent, not like people think, that pigs are dumb animals. A Belgian Landrace Pig can drink 14 gallons of water in a day. The pig’s snout is its most important tool for finding food. The Belgian Landrace Pigs snout is used for their excellent sense of smell.

Belgian Landrace Pigs Feet

The four feet and four toes of the pig are called "trotters" that humans eat as a delicacy called pigs feet or pigs knuckles. A Belgian Landrace 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 in the middle and the outside toes for balance. The Belgian Landrace Pig has tougher feet at the ends that are hooves. The two toes in the middle of the foot are slightly webbed, this helps the Belgian Landrace Pigs balance for walking.

Belgian Landrace Pigs have 44 teeth when full grown, when they are baby pigs (piglets) the have 28 teeth which will fall out when they are 12 months old. Just like human teeth, the Belgian Landrace Pig has an enamel coating that makes the pigs teeth stronger and helps it curb disease. Belgian Landrace 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 pig is called a (sow) and the male adult pig is called a (boar).
Belgian Landrace Pigs do not sweat a lot, that's why they cover themselves in the mud to keep their bodies cool. The expression "sweating like a pig" comes from a reference to pig iron, which comes form iron smelting.

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