The most efficient breeds for a successful production

Strong and Efficient, with great Meat Quality

We select the animals with all the best qualities to ensure your success and return on investment. Robust, long-lasting and efficient danish pure-breds; and F1 cross-bred sows for slaughterpig production.

Landrace

The ”Traditional” Danish breed.

Originally known for its high fertility, the Landrace has proved its excellency and shown great results in many other ways, both in nucleuses for sow production and in the cross-breeding program, when producing the cross-bred F1 (LY/YL).

Landrace sows are robust, they have great mothering abilities, high fertility, and an optimal growth rate. They provide excellent meat quality, and many viable piglets.

Yorkshire

The First “Robust” breed

Danish Yorkshire is the second breed used in Danish Pig Genetics’ cross-breeding program, since its origins, mostly because it was seen as a robust animal with strong legs and body posture. 

Very rapidly, the Yorkshire sow has also proved to be as a great mother, with excellent results in meat quality, fertility, piglet survival and viability, feed consumption and growth rate.

F1 (LY/YL)

The highest Return on Investment for slaughterpig producers.

The cross-bred sow F1 (LY/YL) has a Danish Yorkshire and a Danish Landrace as parents. 

When focusing on effectiveness and return on investment, the F1 (LY/YL) is the most ideal choice on the market: low feed consumption, high growth-rate, long lifespan, robustness, high fertility, great mothering abilities, large amounts of (great quality) meat, and much more. 

Additionally, thanks to Danish Pig Genetics’ constantly evolving breeding program, the F1 (LY/YL) will get even better, throughout the future generations.

DUROC

Improved by Danish Pig Genetics’ breeding program

The Danish Duroc is the obvious choice of boar for the production of slaughterpigs, both with our F1 (LY/YL) sows, or when used with sows from other genetics.

Our Durocs are specially selected by Breeders, based on their lean meat percentage, and their actual Daily Weight Gain – measured precisely by Danish Pig Genetics’ feeding stations.

With their high growth rate, low feed consumption, high meat percentage and excellent meat quality, you can save time, feed, and money on your finishers ; and create more uniform groups of animals for more streamlined deliveries to the slaughterhouse.