Yorkshire Pig

Facts about Yorkshire Pigs. The Yorkshire is a domestic pig breed that hails from Yorkshire and currently called as the English Large White pig. The breed is considered the most recorded pig breeds in the United States. The Yorkshire Pig breed was developed in Yorkshire in 1761 and was imported to America in 1830. Owing to the slow growth rate of these breeds, the Yorkshire Pig did not turn out to be popular until the last part of the 1940s. During that time, several large Yorkshire Pig breed were imported from England and Canada for their roughness and preferential carcasses. Nowadays, Yorkshire pig breeds are found in almost all states of the United States, with highest numbers in Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio.

Appearance of Yorkshire Pig

The Yorkshire pig breed appears with a light pink color skin with vertical ears. The current Yorkshire breed is well built with a high proportion of lean pork. The Yorkshire Pig are characterized by their charming vertical ears, a little dished face, pink skins, white color and long deep sides. The Yorkshire Pigs have been appreciated for their bacon manufacture since the origin of the breed.
Yorkshire pig breeds are distinguished by their large size body. The weight of a mature Yorkshire male pig (boar) 500 to 750 pounds (227 to 340 kg) and female pig (Sow) 450 to 650 pounds (204 to 295 kg). They are not only active and lean, but they are also quite sound in legs and feet. The Yorkshire Pig additional height, or length of leg, assists them to stay active and have long helpful lives in the reproduction pen.

Features of Yorkshire Pig

The Yorkshire pig breed has established itself as a rough and strong breed that can endure deviations in climate and other ecological factors. The Yorkshire Pig skill to cross with and develop other breeds has offered them an important role in commercial pig manufacture systems and reproduction pyramids all over the world.

The Yorkshire Pigs have been recognized for decades as a preferred market animal where high-class pork and bacon are sought. Their propensity to cultivate and not lay down surplus fat has made them favorites, not only when pigs are sold at moderately light weights, but also while the Yorkshire Pig are accepted for heavier weights.

Yorkshire Pig breeds are recognized for bulky litters, heavy milk manufacture and for having outstanding motherly instincts. The Yorkshire Pig carry their substantial length with no difficulty and elegance. Though the Yorkshire Pig variety was originally developed as a vigorous and outdoor breed, they perform very well in confined or concentrated conditions.

Yorkshire Pig breeds and their descendants are to be found in almost all rotational breeding and crossbreeding programs, employing two or more varieties, not only in their native country, but all over the world. Usually, the sows’ part of such commercial programs has more than 50 % of their blood. While the female Yorkshire pigs have an enviable status as dams, the male Yorkshire pigs are not to be ignored as sires. While most of such swine may go to market, the best young female Yorkshire pigs are most likely to be chosen as mothers for the subsequent generation of market pigs. .

Health of Yorkshire Pig

Though a Yorkshire pig breed can survive an average of 6 to 10 years, some common disorders occasionally slash that time structure short. This may result in strain and have harmful health effects that abridge their life. Additionally, these pigs are vulnerable to respiratory diseases, such as bronchitis and pneumonia, parasite infection and influenza.

More Facts of Yorkshire Pigs

In the world there is about 2 billion pigs in the world. Yorkshire Pigs are very intelligent, not like everybody thinks, that they are dumb animals. Yorkshire Pigs are omnivores like humans, an omnivores, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants). The pig’s snout is its most important tool for finding food. The Yorkshire Pigs snout is used for their excellent sense of smell.

Yorkshire Pigs are raised for there meat such as ham, sausage, bacon and pork chops. 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. Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire Pigs having a short neck, thick skin a movable snout and a stout body. Yorkshire Pigs unlike is said, happen to be very clean animals. Yorkshire 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.

The four feet of the Yorkshire Pig are called "trotters" that humans eat as a delicacy called pigs feet or pigs knuckles. A Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire Pig has an enamel coating that makes the pigs teeth stronger and helps it curb disease. 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 is represents, happiness, honesty, fortune and virility in China. The number of baby's that a pig has is 6 to 12 and they are called (piglets). A female adult pig is called a (sow) and the male adult pig is called a (boar).

A Pig can drink 14 gallons of water in a day. The Mini Maialino is the smallest breed of pig. 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 United States and bred to what we have as today's pig. The "fear of pigs Swinophobia".