Lithuanian White
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk[1]: 75, 98 
  • DAD-IS (2021, Lithuania): critical[2]
  • DAD-IS (2021, Russia): unknown[3]
Other names
  • Lithuanian: Lietuvos Baltoji
  • Russian: Litovskaya Belaya
Country of originLithuania
Distribution
  • Lithuania
  • Russian Federation
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    310 kg[2]
  • Female:
    210 kg[2]
Height
  • Male:
    86 cm[2]
  • Female:
    79 cm[2]
  • Pig
  • Sus domesticus

The Lithuanian White (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Baltoji) is a Lithuanian breed of general-purpose pig. It was developed in the twentieth century in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic under the Lithuanian Animal Husbandry Research Institute of Baisogala, and was officially recognised in 1967.[4]: 121  It derives from cross-breeding of local pigs with imported breeds including the Large White, the Deutsches Edelschwein and the German Landrace.[4]: 121  It was bred for suitability to conditions in Lithuania, but spread to other parts of the Soviet Union including those that are now Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Moldova, and was also reared in parts of the Russian Republic.[4]: 121 

In 1980 the breed numbered over a million head.[4]: 105  In 2020 a total of 353 animals was reported to DAD-IS by Lithuania; its conservation status there is reported as "critical".[2] The Russian Federation last reported numbers in 2003, when there were 18 200 head; conservation status there is unknown.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Rischkowsky, Dafydd Pilling (editors) (2007). List of breeds documented in the Global Databank for Animal Genetic Resources, annex to The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Rome: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251057629. Archived 23 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breed data sheet: Lithuanian White / Lithuania (Pig). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed November 2021.
  3. 1 2 Breed data sheet: Lithuanian White / Russian Federation (Pig). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed November 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 N.G. Dmitriev, L.K. Ernst (1989). Animal genetic resources of the USSR. FAO animal production and health paper 65. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9251025827. Archived 13 November 2009. Also available here, archived 29 September 2017.


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