A 400 kilogrammes Duroc boar, prized for its rapid growth and high-quality meat, is on display at the 18th National Agriculture Show running from June 18 to 27.

The ham is first procured from nearby Gunthorp Farms, which raises its heritage Duroc-breed pork on pasture. It's cured with pepper, coriander, mustard seed, honey, bay leaf, and mead from Arvins ...

The French bulldog is the American Kennel Club's top dog for the third straight year! The AKC this week announced the top three dog breeds are French bulldogs, Labrador retrievers and golden ...

Fifty barrows of the Duroc breed with an average initial weight of 14.95±3.22 kg were used in a completely randomized experimental design with five treatments and five replicates with two animals were ...

Upon reaching the age of 10, the daughter of Cody and Rikki Hege found herself a bonafide 4-H member competing against no less than 31 other exhibitors in the always competitive Duroc breed category.

A great portion of the Brazilian swine herd is composed of breeds with high genetic potential for meat production (Duroc, Landrace, Large White, Hampshire and Pietrain), which were intensively ...

The breed, established in the 1920s via a three-way cross involving the Duroc, Chester White, and Poland China breeds, was popular decades ago with farmers primarily in Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois.

Figure 1 – The graphs show piglet survival measured in DanBred’s breeding and multiplication herds for DanBred Yorkshire, DanBred Landrace and DanBred Duroc. After the new traits for piglet survival ...

“By breed, the highest population of pigs was of Large White breed with 1.8 million contributing 25.5 percent to the total pig population. This was followed by the Duroc breed whose population was ...

Duroc pigs are popular crossbred terminal sires, and accurate assessment of genetic parameters in the population can help to rationalize breeding programmes. The principle aim of this study were to ...

Hereford and Duroc are breeds of domestic pigs. Hereford and Duroc the guinea pigs are young neutered males, but staff with HAWS say they weren’t handled much before arriving at the shelter.