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The early days…
→Breed founded in 1919/20 in the village Pietrain (Belgium), by crossing french, british and wild living pigs “the pig with four hams”
→Maintained by hobby breeders for 30 years
→First breeders association in Belgium in 1950 (~ 1.600 pigs)
Winning Pietrain Pigs 1958
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Pietrain Conquers Germany!
Year Number of breeding animals*
Ratio of total breeding animals
1965 267 0,4
1970 1.204 3,0
1978 2.809 6,0
1981 6.418 12,8
1986 10.426 25,1
1990 11.697 34,7
1995 11.650 20,1
2000 10.749 ~20
2010 4.002 ~20
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*: Animals registered by breeding organisations
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Why?
Pigmeat 1960 Pigmeat 2012
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Increasing demand for meat
Decreasing demand for fat
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Pietrain in Hybrid Pig breeding programs
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Large White Landrace
Pietrain F1-Sows
Fattening Pigs
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Problems with stress resistance
→Correlated with meat content
→ „PSE-Meat“ for pale, soft, exsudative
→Public awareness Animal Welfare
→Breeding for stress resistance
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Breeding for stress resistance →Halothane test
20k-piglets were aneastethized with halothane gas spasm reaction – stress susceptible no reaction – stress resistant
→MHS gene test (Ryanodine receptor) PP – stress susceptible NN – stress resistant NP – heterozygote
→PP genotypes were almost eradicated
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Year
Breeding animals, % AI Boars %
female Male male
2003 38 28 31
2006 7 10 8
2012 3 3 3
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Problem solved? – public discussion
Animal Welfare Organisation →Stress susceptibility is a
severe problem and causes pain, suffering and damages to all pigs!
Breeding industry →Stress susceptibility is no
problem because the gene is almost eradicated.
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Whom do people believe?
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Future Challenges
→Breeding against boar taint to avoid castration of piglets
→Number of piglets and teats (not so strong for Pietrain)
→Access to genetics more and more breeding companies
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Thankyou for your attention
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Special thanks to: