Estonian Bacon pig explained

Estonian Bacon
Country:	Estonia

The Estonian Bacon (Estonian: eesti peekon) is a meat pig breed from Estonia.^{[1] [2] [3]} It was developed from local landrace by crossbreeding it with German, Danish and Swedish landraces. Its appearance looks similar to the Danish Landrace.

See also

• List of domestic pig breeds

References

• Web site: Eesti seatõugude aretamisest ja jõudlusest 1923...1956. https://web.archive.org/web/20160217122446/http://www.estpig.ee/?AJALUGU . 2016-02-17 . V. . Laanmäe . Estonian .

Notes and References

1. Parts. J. (Institute of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Science). 1990. On breeding of the Bacon pigs in Estonia. Animal Breeding. Russian. 0202-1978.
2. Timoshenko. T. N.. Fedorenkova. L. A.. Yanovich. E. I. (Belarus Research Inst of Animal Production). 2000. The development and productivity of estonian bacon breed of pigs. Zootekhnicheskaya Nauka Belarusi (Belarus). Russian.
3. Book: Animal genetic resources of the USSR . 3. Pigs. A.B. . Koziner . E.R. . Shtakelberg. 2021-06-12. www.fao.org.