CHARACTERISTICS OF PIG BREEDS OF THE JAMAICAN HERD
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LARGE WHITE Long bodied white breed of pig with erect ears, a meat type animal that is of high fertility and good meat quality.
LANDRACE Widely used in breeding programs, mainly as the mother breed, the Landrace is a white coloured, large bodied, meat type pig with distinctive drooping ears.
DUROC The breed is reddish-brown in colour, has slightly drooping ears and is frequently used in crossbreeding programs. Duroc sows are excellent mothers that raise relatively smaller litters of large, thrifty piglets. Its meat is of rich marbling, tender and juicy when cooked
LARGE WHITE x LANDRACE (F1) Single crossed hybrid (F1) pig (LW x LR) provides the best characteristics of both parent breeds, demonstrates increase fertility, milk yield and mothering ability (raise more thrifty pigs). These high producing F1 sows have excellent body size, half way drooping ears.
TERMINAL CROSS (LW x LR) x DUROC The terminal cross DU x (LW x LR) is commonly the end product of the crossbreeding program for meat. This pig is genetically confirmed with the high growth characteristics of the Large White and Landrace as well as the high meat quality characteristics of the Duroc breed. Most pigs resulting from this 3-Way crossbreeding are slaughtered for its high quality carcasses.