Durocs to make cross barrows?
floppy eared belted hogs, ans chester/hamp cross pigs were the cats meow whe I was showing back in the late eighties and early nineties. but today they just don't use the floppy eared cross pigs very often. It's funny because my dogs don't discriminate when I buy pigs ears for them to chew on. Is'nt that all there good for?
Luke Anderson
My dog only likes Landrace ears.
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I bred a Duroc Sow to Midnight Curfew at Shipley's.khog wrote:ears on a hog are like hair coat on a steer. I don't eat either one. As far as major shows go you may not win there, but I did see some down eared blue butts do decent at a local show. Maybe the judges at the large shows don't have the sense to pick the best pig no matter what their ears look like. Or maybe no one is showing bent ear hogs because they are afraid they won't be pretty enough to place in the crossbred class. Be the trend setter. It may take a few shows but it will only take one judge picking a bent eared hog to make everyone scramble to find floppy eared crossbreds.
As far as the pigs go, I bred another one back to him.
I don't know if that tells you anything
been doing this for years to make females. We breed Duroc boars to exotic sows and keep lots of females to breed. Have show lots of the progeny from this too, almost all have up ears if sows have much york in them at all from my experiences. You do get lots of solid black hogs doing this, and even some tri color funny lookin stuff. But if you need mass, and just sheer stoutness I would not be affraid of doing it at all.