Mangalica – an indigenous swine breed from Hungary (Review)

Abstract

Abstract. Nowadays there is an increased demand to preserve the biological diversity in wild and farm animals. In this paper the history, utilisation and reproductive performance of the endangered native Hungarian swine breed Mangalica are reviewed. This fat-type race was the most typical since the middle of the nineteenth century. However, Mangalica nearly disappeared in the 1970-ies due to changing dietary habits and breeding of modern industrial pig breeds. The valuable characteristics of Mangalica, like resistance and excellent adaptability to extreme housing conditions, motherliness and delicious meat taste are recognised anew.

Carcass properties, chemical content and fatty acid composition of the <i>musculus longissimus</i> of different pig genotypes

“…That is, its average total mass consists of 65% -70% fat tissue and 30% -35% meat (Egerszegi et al, 2003). Today, apart from the gene preservation aspect, rearing Mangalitsa pigs is commercialized by processing the high-quality meat into products that are attracting increasing interest in the food manufacturing market.…”

Factors Affecting Cryopreservation of Porcine Oocytes

“…Dev. 58: [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] 2012) B ecause of the worldwide adaptation of western breeds and breeding technology, several indigenous pig breeds have been put on the verge of extinction by the end of the 20th century including some European and Asian breeds [1,2]. Nevertheless, recent increase in demand of some indigenous European pig breeds such as the Hungarian Mangalica and the Spanish Iberico breeds and their growing market underline the importance of the preservation of genetic diversity in pigs [3,4].…”

Evaluation of reproductive performance in sows of PresticeBlack-Pied pig - Czech genetic resource

“…In current genotypes of sows, lower age of the first insemination than in regional breeds is recorded, which was documented in publications by Kummer et al (2006), who inseminated gilts at mean age of 222.8 days in their experiments, on the other hand Egerszegi et al (2003) stated that the best age for the first insemination in Mangalica breed was 11 months.…”