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The giant forest hog is, on average, the largest living species of suid. Adults can measure from 1.3 to 2.1 m (4 ft 3 in to 6 ft 11 in) in head-and-body length, with an additional tail length of 25 to 45 cm (9.8 to 17.7 in).
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
Ton Pig was a domestic hog from China owned by Xu Changjin that weighed in at 1,984 pounds (900 kg). Ton died from lack of mobility because of obesity on February 4, 2004. It was sent to the Liaoning Agriculture Museum in Shenyang , for display.
It is a large pig, heavy-jowled, lop-eared and short-legged. [3]: 193 It is among the heaviest of pig breeds: sows average some 240 kg, boars about 50 kg more. [4] The heaviest pig on record is a Poland China named Big Bill, who in Tennessee in 1933 was found to weigh 1158 kg (2552 lb), with a length of about 2.75 m (9 ft). [3]: 173
An 1834 painting of a Gloucestershire Old Spot in the Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery collection. Said to be the largest pig ever bred in Britain. [1]The Gloucestershire Old Spots (also Gloucester, Gloucester Old Spot, Gloucestershire Old Spot [2] or simply Old Spots [3]) is an English breed of pig which is predominantly white with black spots.
Image credits: yuliyamnn The previously mentioned antarctic blue whale holds the title of the biggest animal on earth. It can weigh up to 400,000 pounds and reach a length of 98 feet. The giant ...
Also of note is the Large Black sow listed in the Guinness Book of Records for having produced 26 litters between 1940 and 1952 – the largest number of litters ever recorded for a pig. [12] Boars weigh 700 to 800 pounds (320 to 360 kg) and sows around 600 to 700 pounds (270 to 320 kg), although obesity in sows sometimes results in cystic ...
Muyuan's pig farm near Nanyang is the world's largest. Its pig barns are multistory which allows for higher density. The farm is farrow-to-finish meaning that pigs taken from breeding to slaughter on-site. Production at this farm is targeted at 2.1 million pigs a year. [6]