Hampshire pig

Hampshire
Traits
A Hampshire sow with cross-bred piglets
Country of origin	England
Pig Sus scrofa domesticus

The Hampshire pig is a domestic swine breed characterized by erect ears and a black body with a whitish band around the middle, covering the front legs.

The American National Swine Registry notes this not as the fourth "most recorded breed" of pigs in the United States, and probably the oldest American breed of hogs.^[1] It is believed to have derived from English Breed, found in northern England and Scotland. Importations of this hog breed to America were thought to have been made from Hampshire in England between 1827 and 1839.^[2] Pigs remaining in this part of England developed later into the Wessex Saddleback, a similarly colored pig, but with flop ears and kept largely for foraging in forest. Residents of Hampshire are often colloquially referred to as "Hampshire Hogs", a name which goes back at least to the 1790s.

Hampshire hogs are noted for being well-muscled and rapid growers, and for exhibiting good carcass quality when used as meat animals.^[3] When used as breeding stock, the sows of this breed have been praised for their capacity as mothers, having "extra longevity in the sow". Hampshires are good tempered; they do not grow as fast as many cross-breds, but they do grow faster than Yorkshires.^[4]

References

↑ Hampshire, National Swine Registry, retrieved December 19, 2011
↑ Hampshire, Oklahoma State University, retrieved December 19, 2011
↑ Canadian Encyclopedia
↑ US National Swine Registry: Hampshire

External links

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Statue of "Hampshire Hog" outside Hampshire County Council offices (a Wessex Saddleback).

Livestock breeds of the British Isles

Cattle
Beef cattle	Angus Beef Shorthorn Belted Galloway Blue Grey Devon Dexter English Longhorn Galloway Hereford Highland Luing Shorthorn South Devon Sussex Welsh Black
Dairy cattle	Ayrshire Guernsey Jersey Milking Shorthorn
Dual purpose	British White Gloucester Pembroke Red Poll Shetland Whitebred Shorthorn
Primitive	Chillingham wild cattle Vaynol White Park cattle

Sheep
Extant	Beulah Speckled Face Bluefaced Leicester Border Leicester British Milk Cheviot Clun Forest Cotswold Dalesbred Derbyshire Gritstone Devon Closewool Devon Longwoolled Dorset Down English Leicester Exmoor Horn Galway Greyface Dartmoor Hampshire Herdwick Hill Radnor Kerry Hill Lincoln Llanwenog Lleyn Lonk Norfolk Horn Oxford Down Portland Romney Rough Fell Ryeland Scottish Blackface Shetland Shropshire Southdown sheep Suffolk Swaledale Teeswater Welsh Mountain Wensleydale Whitefaced Woodland Wiltshire Horn
Primitive	Boreray Castlemilk Moorit Hebridean Jacob Manx Loaghtan North Ronaldsay Soay
Extinct	Scottish Dunface

Pigs
Extant	Berkshire British Landrace British Lop British Saddleback Essex Gloucestershire Old Spots Hampshire Large Black Large White Middle White Oxford Sandy and Black Tamworth Welsh Wessex Saddleback
Extinct	Cumberland Dorset Gold Tip Grice Large White Ulster Lincolnshire Curly-coated Small Black Small White Yorkshire Blue and White

Poultry
Chickens	Cornish Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Ixworth Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan Norfolk Grey Old English Game Old English Pheasant Fowl Orpington Rosecomb Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sebright Sussex
Ducks	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Orpington Khaki Campbell Magpie Shetland Welsh Harlequin
Geese	Brecon Buff Shetland

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