Landrace

currently. Pigs arrived in South Africa in in 1600’s with the European settlers. South Africa’s indigenous breeds are the Windsnyer (Ramsay, 2002). Breeds which are also found and commercially produced in South Africa include Large White, South African Landrace and the duroc (Kem, 1993). Indigenous pigs are more adaptable to unfavorable environmental conditions and they have good scavenging skills (Gcumisa, 2013), this is the reason why they…