The Piglets
Fattening Pigs
Sows

The Piglets

At Hungary Pork Kft. the target is to produce a fattening pig with a high level of lean meat. Also this pig has to be able to use feed efficient and still grow fast. To reach this target, there is chosen for a mix of the following races:

  • English Landras (PIC)
  • Large White (PIC)
  • Danish York (Danbred)
  • German Pietrain 426 (PIC)

Fattening Pigs

The philisophy of Hungary Pork Kft. is to produce pigs that grow fast and efficiënt and still have lean meat of good quality.

That is why there is chosen for the 426 Pietrainboar for the production of the fattening pigs. The 426 is a Pietrainboar that comes from the PIC stable. This boar inherits strong vleshness combined with good feed intake capacity and growth.

Sows

The piglets come from an own sow farm in the Netherlands. In this location, 1500 sows are held with PIC top breeding sows. 2% of PIC pure English Landras sows are held for the production of the Camborough subbreed sow. That means that the English Landras sow is mixed with the PIC Large White race. 120 of these animals are held for the production of the multiplication sows. The Camborough sow has the ability to inherit good meat quality and produces animals that very efficiently deal with feeding.

The Camborough sow is mixed with a Danish York of DanBred. For this mix is chosen because of the production of uniform fattening pigs with good growcapacity.