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Breeds
Description of breeds
Below you can find a short description of each breed that belongs to the Danish Genetics breeding program. Hybrid breeding, i.e. cross-breeding of two different breeds, provides heterosis. Heterosis means that the crossbreeds obtain even better performance compared with the pure-bred Yorkshire and Landrace pigs.

Danish Yorkshire
Danish Yorkshire is one of the two maternal lines. Danish Yorkshire is crossed with Danish Landrace to produce hybrid LY gilts (F1). The breed is highly prolific with an outstanding milking ability.

Danish Landrace
Danish Landrace is the other breed used for the maternal lines. Danish Landrace is crossed with Yorkshire to produce hybrid YL gilts (F1). The breed has excellent prolificacy and superb mothering ability.

Danish Duroc
Danish Duroc is used as the sire line. Hybrid gilts are crossed with Duroc to produce triple cross hybrid grower-finisher pigs. The Danish Duroc excels in a very high daily weight gain and excellent feed conversion. The carcass quality is recognized for its´ premium quality.

Hybrid LY/YL sow (F1)
The hybrid F1 sow is crossed with Duroc and produces the finisher pigs. The hybrid sow is an excellent mother and has a very high prolificacy.