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DanBred Yorkshire

Great mothering abilities and robust pigs

DanBred Yorkshire

DanBred Yorkshire is one of the female breeds in the crossbreeding system. When crossed with DanBred Landrace, you get the DanBred Hybrid – a world-class dam line.

Key benefits

DanBred Yorkshire is a great dam line for the crossbreeding programme. She is particularly known to be a robust sow with excellent mothering abilities.

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Gentle and calm sow

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High milking capacity

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Robust and vital piglets

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Great feed efficiency

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The history of the DanBred Yorkshire

 DanBred Yorkshire originates from England and has been part of the Danish pig breeding programme since the beginning of the 1970s. DanBred Yorkshire is the result of decades of professional selection, where focus has been on daily gain, feed conversion, longevity, fertility and meat quality since the early 1970s.

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Continuous breeding progress

The Danish Agriculture & Food Council’s continuous breeding work behind DanBred genetics focuses on three breeds. The crossbreeding programme is carefully structured to ensure that the full advantage reaches your pig production.

The breeding programme behind DanBred genetics might seem simple. But this simplicity is intentional. By focusing on traits that directly impact productivity and robustness, you get maximum genetic progress for each trait in your pig production.

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Average results for DanBred Yorkshire

The testing station, Bøgildgård, has more than 30 years of experience collecting data. That gives a unique understanding of how to select pigs with the best genes.

1,120 g

daily gain

1.75 kg

feed per kg of gain

63.6 %

lean meat

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