It took thousands of years to develop the world's extraordinary range of domesticated farm animals—an estimated 8,800 ...

Are you thinking of adopting a micro pig? Because of their small size, intelligent nature, and endearing personalities ...

Good-quality pork and bacon. A perfect first-timer’s pig very docile and easy to handle British Lop One of the most endangered of the native breeds (along with Middle White), originally from Devon.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. According to livestock experts, there are over 100 breeds of pig in the world. However, in ...

1. There are 11 native British pig breeds and all of them are at risk of extinction according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Most pork and bacon comes from cross-bred hybrid pigs which started ...

I don't know if you can see, but there is some pigs behind me, and they are of this special breed called the black Iberian pigs. During their life, they feed mostly on acorns, which are very ...

German scientists plan to clone and then breed this year genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans, based on a simpler version of a US-engineered animal used last month in the ...

There are many valuable breeds of pig in Vietnam, but many native Vietnamese varieties are at risk of extinction as economic development has resulted in the introduction of foreign breeds. Some native ...

Chaubey and his colleagues analysed 239 segments of pig genomes to explore the origins and evolution of Indian pig breeds. They combined their genetic analysis with evidence from rock art and cultural ...