When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images When it comes to different guinea pig breeds, there are more breeds than you ...

Domestic pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) are believed to have branched off from wild boars (Sus scrofa) through domestication events that occurred independently in East Asia and the Near East, beginning ...

Remember that FarmVille Father's Day promotion that boosted male pattern-transfer rates in Sheep and Pigs by 100 percent? Well, we all (including Zynga) apparently loved it so much that a portion of ...

In 2018, the African swine fever swept through China. It resulted in the loss of approximately 10 million pigs, leading to a ...

The nation's year-over-year swine breeding herd inventory is continuing to shrink, dropping another 2% in a recent USDA report. The U.S. Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, published by USDA's National ...

Hendrix Genetics, in partnership with Huanshan Group, has opened the Hendrix Huanshan Nucleus Farm in Yuexi, South-East China ...

FREDERIKA, Iowa -Carl Blake's goal when he started raising pigs four years ago was to breed a great-tasting pig. If the response from high-end chefs from Chicago to San Francisco is any indication, he ...

BREEDING AND SHOWING THESE HOGS. ARE YOU CUTE? YEAH. YOU’RE CUTE. DOROTHY AND ELPHABA ARE NOT ONLY CUTE, BUT A RARE BREED IN NORTH AMERICA. THEY ARE MASON PIGS IMPORTED FROM CHINA WITH A NAME THAT ...

Bigger is often better where litter size is concerned, especially when it comes to piglets. Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, ...