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The Chester White is the most durable of the white breeds; it can gain as much as 1.36 pounds (0.62 kg) a day and gain 1 pound (0.45 kg) for every 3 pounds (1.4 kg) of grain it is fed. Their pale color leaves Chester Whites prone to sunburn; they must be given access to shade in the summer.
The development of the breed began in 1947 with crosses of Berkshire sows to boars of Danish Landrace and Chester White ancestry. The goal was to produce a pig that would be appropriate for crossing with the Yorkshire, the dominant breed in Canada at the time. The Lacombe was eventually unveiled to pork producers in 1957, and quickly grew to be ...
The American Landrace is a long, lean, white pig with 16 or 17 ribs. The head is long and narrow, the ears are large and heavy and hang forward close to the snout. The back is only slightly arched or is nearly flat. The side is even and well-fleshed and the ham is plump but not over-fat.
Breed Origin Height Weight Color Image Aksai Black Pied: Kazakhstan: 167–182 cm: 240–320 kg (530–710 lb) Black and White--- American Yorkshire: United States
American Landrace [2] American Yorkshire [2] Chester White [2] Choctaw Hog [2] Duroc [2] Guinea Hog [2] Hampshire [2] Hereford [2] Lacombe: Canada; [3] in the USA ...
[3]: 55 [5]: 132 The American Hampshire was not widespread at this time: a census in Indiana in 1907 found 337 head in a total of over 65 000 in the state, while an estimate of the numbers of pure-bred pigs nationwide reported 3000 Hampshires in a total of just under 164 000, in fifth place behind the Poland-China, the Duroc-Jersey, the ...
The breed is said to have been named for a stallion belonging to Harry Kelsey in New York state (1820s) [2] or that "the breed was named after a race horse and he in turn was named after Napoleon's Aide, Gen. Christoph Duroc...." [3] The modern Duroc originated circa 1850 from crosses of the Jersey Red and New York's older Duroc.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]