DanBred Duroc

Expect larger, healthier litters and stronger weaners. Faster growing finisher pigs with lower feed conversion ratio. And a higher lean meat percentage. Choose the best performing terminal sire on the market to boost your business and stay competitive.

More pork for less cost: 1,128 gram daily gain

Exceptional meat quality: 62.5 % lean meat

Verified best-in-class performance. < 2.27 kg feed for kg gain

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DanBred Duroc originates from North America, but the race was imported to Denmark in the 1970s.

Offspring from DanBred Duroc has excellent feed efficiency and superior daily gain. This not only reduces the days until slaughter, but it also lowers total feed cost making you more profitable. Add to that the use of fewer resources, which makes you more sustainable.

7 Facts

  • Most profitable. The world’s most profitable and environmentally efficient terminal boar line

  • High survival rates. Produce litters with high survival rates and vigorous piglets
  • High lean meat percentage. Ongoing selected for high lean meat, matching the trend for increasingly heavier finishers
  • Robust & uniform. Progenies are robust and have uniform growth rates from birth to slaughter
  • Exceptional meat quality. Finisher carcasses have exceptional meat quality: pH, colour and IMF
  • Super daily gain. Progenies have superior daily gain from birth to slaughter and the best feed efficiency
  • Easy to handle. Progeny are easy to handle and highly social, leading to higher animal welfare

Our customers not only get more pork for less costs but in addition high class pork quality that is in high demand around the world.

Efficient genetics, like DanBred Duroc is not only profitable for the producer, but also makes major contribution to reducing carbon footprint from pork production.

DanBred Duroc is used as the terminal sire in the DanBred cross-breeding program, where the performance is excellent in combination with the DanBred Hybrid.

DanBred Duroc Breeding Goal

80% - Productivity

  • Daily gain (birth to 30 kg)
  • Daily gain (30 kg to slaughter)
  • Feed conversion
  • Killing out
  • Lean meat percentage

20% - Robustness

  • Survival (piglet effect)
  • Conformation
  • Longevity

DanBred Duroc D(LY) progeny are:

  • Stronger and more robust
  • Born in bigger litters due to high male fertility

Key figures

DanBred D(LY) finishers have superior meat quality (90 kg) as evidenced by:

  • 2.57 %. High content of intramascular fat

  • 5.72. High level of pH-24-96 h post mortem

DanBred D(LY) finishers have excellent performance results (30-100 kg) as evidenced by:

  • 1,128 gram. World class growth rates, daily gain

  • 62.5 percent. Eminent lean meat percentage

  • < 2.27 kg feed / kg gain. Superior feed conversion ratio

Bonus information: Research indicates that since the RN and Halothane genes have been removed from the DanBred breeds decades ago, pH no longer influences production yield, which is why pH is no longer part of the DanBred breeding goals.

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