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The Hampshire is an American breed of domestic pig. It derives from saddlebacked pigs imported to Kentucky from about 1825 from the English county of Hampshire . It has a black body with a white band or sheet over the shoulders and extending down the front legs; the ears are erect.
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
The Kunekune (Māori pronunciation: [kʉnɛkʉnɛ]) [1] is a small breed of domestic pig from New Zealand. Kunekune are hairy with a rotund build, and may bear wattles hanging from their lower jaws. Their colour ranges from black and white, to ginger, cream, gold-tip, black, brown, and tricoloured. They have a docile, friendly nature. [2]
The Wessex Saddleback or Wessex Pig is a breed of domestic pig originating in the West Country of England, , especially in Wiltshire and the New Forest area of Hampshire. It is black, with white forequarters. In Britain it was amalgamated with the Essex pig to form the British Saddleback, and it is extinct as a separate breed in Britain ...
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.
Family farm hog pen with Hampshire pigs. The family hog pen was a small-scale system of pig farming found on family farms of the early 1900s, although backyard pig farming does still occur. Family hog pens enclosed just a few hogs to provide year-round meat for the table.
A lemon pig is a lemon that has been decorated to take on the appearance of a pig. Construction normally includes matchstick legs, clove or peppercorn eyes and a foil tail. Early lemon pigs appear to have been made as amusements, but from the 1970s onwards they have become associated with good luck and the New Year.
The population of feral pigs has increased from 2 million pigs ranging over 20 states in 1990, to triple that number 25 years later, ranging over 38 states with new territories expanding north into Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New Hampshire. Some of these feral pigs have mixed with escaped Russian boars that have been introduced for hunters ...