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The Estonian Bacon (Estonian: eesti peekon) is a meat pig breed from Estonia.[1][2][3] It was developed from local landrace by crossbreeding it with German, Danish and Swedish landraces. Its appearance looks similar to the Danish Landrace.
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References
- ↑ Parts, J. (Institute of Animal Breeding and Veterinary Science) (1990). "On breeding of the Bacon pigs in Estonia". Animal Breeding (in Russian). ISSN 0202-1978.
- ↑ Timoshenko, T. N.; Fedorenkova, L. A.; Yanovich, E. I. (Belarus Research Inst of Animal Production) (2000). "The development and productivity of estonian bacon breed of pigs". Zootekhnicheskaya Nauka Belarusi (Belarus) (in Russian).
- ↑ Koziner, A.B.; Shtakelberg, E.R. "3. Pigs". Animal genetic resources of the USSR. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
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- Laanmäe, V. "Eesti seatõugude aretamisest ja jõudlusest 1923...1956" (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 2016-02-17.
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