Swine Management

This type of ownership or strategic management where all or more than one section of an industry is combined under the same ownership.

• Vertical Integration

• Gestation House

• Farrow-to-Finish

• Estrus

This breed produces high quality meats and is black in color with six white points.

• Herford

• Spot

• Berkshire

• Duroc

This breed is solid red in color and is a great meat hog.

• Duroc

• Spot

• Hereford

• Hampshire

This breed is black with a white band around the shoulder.

• Duroc

• Hampshire

• Spot

• Berkshire

This breed is red in color with a white face, feed and underline.

• Duroc

• Spot

• Hereford

• Yorkshire

This breed is known for their rapid weight gain and has droopy ears.

• Yorkshire

• Spot

• Berkshire

• Hampshire

This breed is known as the mother breed and has erect ears.

• Yorkshire

• Duroc

• Hereford

• Hampshire

A system where weaning pigs are purchased and are fed to slaughter weight and then sold for slaughter.

• Vertical Integration

• Finishing

• Farrow-to-Finish

• Gestation House

This is designed for pregnant females which are penned alone.

• Farrow-to-Finish

• Finishing

• Gestation House

• Colostrum

Swine have a digestive system containing one true stomach which means they are considered...

• Colostrum

• Non-Ruminants

• Finishing

• Gestation House