Middle White

Middle White
a large pale pink pig, its very compressed snout resting on the ground
Sow at the last Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park in 2009
Conservation status
Other names
  • Middle Breed
  • Middle Yorkshire
  • Middle Yorks (Japan)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Distributioninternational
Usepork
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    average 275 kg[4]
  • Female:
    average 225 kg[4]
Height
  • Male:
    average 90 cm[4]
  • Female:
    average 80 cm[4]
  • Pig
  • Sus domesticus
old photograph of a pig with short and upturned snout
Holywell Rosador, a Middle White boar, took first prize at the Royal Counties Show and at the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland Show, 1899

The Middle White is a British breed of domestic pig.[5][4] It originated in Yorkshire, and derived from the Large White and the now-extinct Small White.[6]: 144  It was recognised in 1852, and the first herd-book was published in 1884.[7] It is a porker, reared for fresh pork (rather than for bacon or for lard like some other breeds of pig), and is characterised by a short and sharply-upturned snout.[8] After the Second World War it came close to extinction; although numbers have recovered somewhat, it is listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as "priority" – the highest level of risk.[3]

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