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| Country of origin | United States |
| Use | laboratory animal |
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| Skin colour | usually black or slate-grey; also white |
| Hair | little or none |
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The Yucatan Miniature is an American breed of miniature pig. It was bred from about 1972 at Colorado State University, at Fort Collins in Colorado, from small Mexican pigs of the Birich sub-type of the Pelón or Mexican Hairless breed of the state of Yucatán. A much smaller pig, the Yucatan Micropig, derives from it, as does the Froxfield Pygmy of the United Kingdom.
History
[edit]The Yucatan Miniature was bred from about 1972 at Colorado State University, at Fort Collins in Colorado, from small criollo pigs of the Birich sub-type of the Pelón or Mexican Hairless breed of the Mexican state of Yucatán; twenty-five of these pigs had been imported to the United States in 1960.[3]: 715 [4]: 282
A considerably smaller pig – the Micro Yucatan Miniature or Yucatan Micropig, which has maximum body weight of about 40 kg – was bred at Fort Collins from Yucatan Miniature stock and one unusually small sow.[3]: 715 [4]: 282 The Froxfield Pygmy of the United Kingdom derives from cross-breeding of the Yucatan Miniature with small Vietnamese pigs.[5]: 225
No population data has reported to DAD-IS, and the conservation status of the breed is unknown.[1]: 127 [2]
Characteristics
[edit]The Yucatan Miniature is almost or entirely hairless. The skin is usually black or slate-grey, but a white-skinned line has been developed. Average body weights are 70 kg for sows and 83 kg for boars.[3]: 715
Use
[edit]It is used as a laboratory animal; the white-skinned line is used for research in dermatology.[3]: 716
References
[edit]- 1 2 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.
- 1 2 Breed Data Sheet: Yucatan Miniature / United States of America (Pig). Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed August 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, D. Phillip Sponenberg (2016). Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding (sixth edition). Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 9781780647944.
- 1 2 Valerie Porter, Ian Lauder Mason (2020). Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties (sixth edition). Wallingford; Boston: CABI. ISBN 9781789241532.
- ↑ Valerie Porter, Jake Tebbit (illustrator) (1993). Pigs: A Handbook to the Breeds of the World. Ithaca, New York: Comstock Publishing Associates. ISBN 1873403178.