Estonian Bacon pig

Summary

The Estonian Bacon (Estonian: eesti peekon) is a meat pig breed from Estonia.[1][2][3] It was developed from local landrace by crossbreeding it with German, Danish and Swedish landraces. Its appearance looks similar to the Danish Landrace.

Estonian Bacon
Country of originEstonia
Traits
  • Pig
  • Sus domesticus

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Parts, J. (Institute of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Science) (1990). "On breeding of the Bacon pigs in Estonia". Animal Breeding (in Russian). ISSN 0202-1978.
  2. ^ Timoshenko, T. N.; Fedorenkova, L. A.; Yanovich, E. I. (Belarus Research Inst of Animal Production) (2000). "The development and productivity of estonian bacon breed of pigs". Zootekhnicheskaya Nauka Belarusi (Belarus) (in Russian).
  3. ^ Koziner, A.B.; Shtakelberg, E.R. "3. Pigs". Animal genetic resources of the USSR. Retrieved 2021-06-12. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  • Laanmäe, V. "Eesti seatõugude aretamisest ja jõudlusest 1923...1956" (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 2016-02-17.