The Red Wattle Hog is a breed of domestic pig originating in the United States. It is named for its red color and distinctive wattles or tassels, and is on the threatened list of the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC).
8-589: The pigs are characterized by their red coat and distinctive wattles. They typically weigh 800–1,000 lb (360–450 kg). Large specimens can reach 1,200 lb (540 kg) in weight, 4 ft (120 cm) in height and 8 ft (240 cm) in length. They normally have 7 to 12 piglets per litter. They grow fast, forage well, and are hardy, mild-tempered, and resistant to disease. They are suitable for extensive management. Additionally, these hogs are known for their mothering ability, as well as producing high-quality marbled and tender meat. The early history of
16-501: A Red Wattle Hog, set the record at the Iowa State Fair. "He posted a new Iowa State Fair record weighing in at 1,335 pounds." This pig-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Extensive farming Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming ) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour , fertilizers, and capital , relative to
24-399: A number of advantages over intensive farming: Extensive farming can have the following problems: Extensive farming was once thought to produce more methane and nitrous oxide per kg of milk than intensive farming. One study estimated that the carbon "footprint" per billion kg (2.2 billion lb.) of milk produced in 2007 was 37 percent that of equivalent milk production in 1944. However,
32-400: Is an extreme example of extensive farming, where herders move their animals to use feed from occasional rainfalls. Extensive farming is found in the mid-latitude sections of most continents, as well as in desert regions where water for cropping is not available. The nature of extensive farming means it requires less rainfall than intensive farming. The farm is usually large in comparison with
40-626: The Endow Farm Wattle Hogs. In the 1980s, three breed registries were maintained, but with no central breed association. In 1999, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy found only 42 breeding animals belonging to six breeders. A Red Wattle Hog Association was started, which since September 2012 has maintained the pedigree book for the breed. The Red Wattle hog is listed by Slow Food USA in the Ark of Taste . In 2012, Reggie,
48-604: The Red Wattle Hog is not clear. The modern breed descends from animals found in East Texas in the late 1960s and early 1970s by H. C. Wengler, who cross-bred two wattled red sows with a Duroc boar to start the "Wengler Red Waddle" line. Other animals were found, also in East Texas, about 20 years later by Robert Prentice, and became the Timberline line of Red Wattles. Prentice also crossed his Timberlines with Wengler's line to make
56-592: The land area being farmed. Extensive farming most commonly means raising sheep and cattle in areas with low agricultural productivity, but includes large-scale growing of wheat , barley , cooking oils and other grain crops in areas like the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia . Here, owing to the extreme age and poverty of the soils, yields per hectare are very low, but the flat terrain and very large farm sizes mean yields per unit of labour are high. Nomadic herding
64-464: The numbers working and money spent on it. In 1957, most parts of Western Australia had pastures so poor that only one sheep to the square mile could be supported. Just as the demand has led to the basic division of cropping and pastoral activities, these areas can also be subdivided depending on the region's rainfall, vegetation type and agricultural activity within the area and the many other parentheses related to this data. Extensive farming has
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