DanBred Landrace

DanBred Landrace originates from Danish Landrace, which has been bred specifically for production of bacon for the British market since the beginning of the 20th century.

DanBred Landrace is the result of decades of professional selection, where breeders, since the early 1970s, have focused on daily gain, feed conversion, longevity, fertility and meat quality.

7 Facts

• Good mothering abilities. High nursing capacity and weaning rates of own piglets
• High fertility. Produce large litters of vigorous piglets
• Robust piglets. Progeny are robust and have uniform growth rates
• Good conformation. Strong animals with solid legs and high longevity
• Excelent feed conversion. Continuous improvements in genetic gain for feed conversion
• High lean meat percentage. Ongoing selected for high lean meat, matching the trend for increasingly heavier finishers
• Easy to handle. Progeny are easy to handle and highly social, leading to higher animal welfare

DanBred Landrace is a supreme dam line for DanBred’s crossbreeding programme.

DanBred’s crossbreeding programme is constantly optimised to make sure our genetic progress results in an efficient pig production worldwide. This is not only profitable for the producers it also contributes to a more sustainable production – by producing maximum output with minimum input.

DanBred Landrace Breeding Goal

60% - Productivity

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

34% - Robustness

• Survival (piglet effect)

• Piglet vitality (direct effect)

• Conformation
• Longevity

6% - Reproduction

• Litter size (direct effect)

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: DanBred carries out performance testing of the future AI boars both at the DanBred boar testing station Bøgildgård, and in DanBred’s nucleus herds, and we openly share this updated data every year. With more than 30 years of experience collecting data on boar production traits and feed efficiency, DanBred can select the best genes, and only the highest performing boars with optimum index are sent to AI, where they father the pigs of the future.