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Vietnamese Pot-bellied

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Two principal types are recognised within the breed: the I-mo or Fatty I is the typical small short-legged pig, with small upward-pointing ears and a short snout; the I-pha or Large I is taller, has longer legs and a longer snout, with bigger ears held horizontally.
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Small numbers of I pigs were exported in the 1960s to Canada and Sweden, to be kept in zoos or to be used for laboratory experiments. Within a decade, the I had spread to animal parks in other countries in Europe; a few were reared on
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The I is uniformly black and has short legs and a low-hanging belly, from which the name derives. It is reared for meat; it is slow-growing, but the pork has good flavour. The I was depicted in the traditional
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Until the 1970s the I was probably the most numerous pig breed in northern Vietnam, with numbers running into millions. From that time, the more productive
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Impact of the use of exotic compared to local pig breeds on socio-economic development and biodiversity in Vietnam
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and a large sagging belly, which in pregnant sows may drag on the ground. The head is small, with an up-turned
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Real Decreto 630/2013, de 2 de agosto, por el que se regula el Catálogo español de especies exóticas invasoras
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Genetic diversity and distances of Vietnamese and European pig breeds analysed with microsatellite loci
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stock, but this had little benefit – there was some increase in numbers, but at the cost of increased
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The I is robust and has good resistance to disease and to parasites. It is usually raised
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Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016).
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of Vietnam started a conservation programme, with subsidies for farmers who reared
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The I is a traditional Vietnamese breed. It is thought to have originated in the
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List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources
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The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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Le-Thi-Thanh Huyen, Regina Roessler, Ute Lemke, Anne Valle Zárate (2005).
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The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
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It is uniformly black, with heavily wrinkled skin. It has a pronounced
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The Vietnam National Country report on Animal Genetic Resources
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The I is a small pig, with an average weight of approximately
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Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding
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feet, with weight borne on all four toes of each foot.
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Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007).
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Index

Pot-bellied pig
Two fat black pigs sleeping
Jardim Zoologico de Lisboa
Lisbon
FAO
Vietnamese
Red River Delta
Pig

Đông Hồ painting

rice terraces
Sa Pa
Lào Cai Province
exonym
Vietnamese
breed
domestic pig
Đông Hồ
Bắc Ninh province
province
Nam Định
Red River Delta
Hà Nam
Ninh Bình
Thái Bình
Thanh Hóa
North Central Coast
Móng Cái
National Institute of Animal Husbandry

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