Dutch Landrace Pig

Facts about Dutch Landrace pigs. The Dutch Landrace is a homogeneous domestic pig breed that is native to the Netherlands. The Dutch Landrace Pig breed was created from the indigenous Landrace pigs of the region, crossbred with strains from adjacent counties. The Dutch Landrace pig breed created from the original indigenous pig with infusions of the Danish Landrace pigs and German Landrace pigs. This Landrace Pig breed is considered a chunky and competent breed, which is strangely receptive to the halothane test, which can be employed to set individuals aside with low projected survivability and meat creation. The Dutch Landrace pig breed is largely found in the east, north and south of the Netherlands. The Dutch Landrace Pig breed is exported, particularly to Japan and Spain.

Features of Dutch Landrace

The Dutch Landrace pig breeds are close to those of the other breeds of Landrace pigs in Europe. These pigs are average to big pig breeds have a white color elongated body, with big, drooping ears. These pigs have fine hair and elongated nose. The Dutch Landrace pig breeds are developed for pork production. Production and meat quality testing have turned out to be a customary part of the Dutch swine development program.

Dutch Landrace Pigs are very intelligent, not like people think, that pigs are dumb animals. A Dutch Landrace Pig can drink between 10 and 14 gallons of water in a day. Dutch Landrace Pigs are omnivores like humans, an omnivores, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants). The Dutch Landrace Pig snout is its most important tool for finding food. The Dutch Landrace Pigs snout is used for their excellent sense of smell.

However, the back part of their body is broader and the Dutch Landrace Pig boast heavier hams when compared to a few other Landrace strains. These latter two attributes are stronger in pigs, which are heterozygous for the halothane-receptive gene. The Dutch Landrace pig breed possesses high fertility and physically powerful motherly abilities. At four investigation stations all through the Netherlands, the Central Bureau experiments in excess of 1,000 litters of the Dutch Landrace pigs for each year, for conformation and for the meat-to-fat ratio and rate of their weight gain.

Production attributes of Dutch Landrace pigs

During a one-year review a total of 1640 Dutch Landrace breed of pigs and 1034 other pig breeds were subjected to the halothane examination subsequent to their arrival at one among the national pig experimenting stations. The average proportion reactor was 22 percent in the Dutch Landrace Pig breed. The losses of death during the stuffing period and during the transfer of the gilts to the slaughter quarters were approximately ten times advanced in reacting like in non-reacting Dutch Landrace breed of pigs.

Dutch Landrace Pigs are raised for there meat such as ham, sausage, bacon and pork chops. 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.

In the Dutch Landrace pig breed considerable variations were found between non-reactors and reactors in the development of the attributes of the male pigs and in all meat and carcass quality traits of the gilts, which substantiate earlier observations. However, in the other pig breeds there were no considerable variations were found in these attributes between non-reacting and reacting pigs. The contradictory outcomes obtained in Dutch Landrace pig breed are discussed, and suggested that the halothane-experiment will be most successful for minimization of stress-vulnerability and strange meat quality when used as an assortment criterion in commercial reproduction and assortment of Dutch Landrace pigs.

During the last part of the 1960's and the 1970's, Dutch Landrace pig farming in Holland has undergone enormous changes. During 1960, there were below three million Dutch Landrace pigs on 146,000 pig farms. By 1981, the number of pig farms was reduced to 40,900, but they had in excess of 10.3 million pigs. As a result, the quantity of pigs for each farm tainted from an average of twenty pigs to more than 250 pigs. In fact, Holland has been making a trade of its Dutch Landrace pig production. Currently, in excess of 60 percent of its animal protein is being exported to other worldwide countries.

Dutch Landrace Pigs can carry a variety of diseases and can pass them to humans. Pigs have small lungs compared to their body size.

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.

Dutch Landrace Pigs unlike is said, happen to be very clean animals. Dutch Landrace 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. A Dutch Landrace Pig averages 6 to 10 baby piglets in a litter and will have two to three litters per year

Dutch Landraces 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 Dutch Landrace Pigs foot has four toes that are pointed downwards when the Dutch Landrace 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 Dutch 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 pigs balance for walking.

Dutch 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 Dutch Landrace Pig has an enamel coating that makes the pigs teeth stronger and helps it curb disease. Dutch 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 pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. The pig represents, happiness, honesty, fortune and virility in China. A female adult pig is called a (sow) and the male adult pig is called a (boar).

Dutch 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.

The saliva of Dutch 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 Dutch Landrace Pigs discharge this steroid and female pigs will go to vast lengths to acquire a smell of the sent.

The average weight of the male at slaughteded Dutch Landrace Pig is 350 to 375 pounds (160 to 170 kg). The Dutch Landrace Pig breed full grown has an average to big-sized body. The Dutch Landrace Pig average mature weight of the female (Sows) 450 to 600 pounds (204 to 272 kg) and the average weight of the male (Boars) is 500 to 700 pounds (226 to 318 kg).
"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".