| The Yorkshire breed is known
as the "Mother Breed" because Yorkshire sows characteristically
farrow and raise large litters of pigs. Yorkshires are large-framed
hogs, particularly in length, which allows them to be marketed
at heavier weights without loss of efficiency. The Yorkshire
barrows, in years of National Barrow Show records, average more
than 32 inches in the carcass contest, consistently longer than
any other breed and even longer than crossbreds. A five-year
boar test station average of Yorkshire boars when taken to 240
pounds, gained an average of 2.07 per day with feed efficiency
of 2.55, tops in both categories for all breeds. |
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