Middle White

Middle White
Sow at the last Royal Show at Stoneleigh Park in 2009
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): endangered
  • RBST (2010): endangered
  • RBST (2021): priority
  • DAD-IS (2021): at risk
Other names
  • Middle Breed
  • Middle Yorkshire
  • Middle Yorks (Japan)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Distributioninternational
Usepork
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    average 275 kg
  • Female:
    average 225 kg
Height
  • Male:
    average 90 cm
  • Female:
    average 80 cm
  • Pig
  • Sus domesticus

The Middle White is a British breed of domestic pig. It originated in Yorkshire, and derived from the Large White and the now-extinct Small White. It was recognised in 1852, and the first herd-book was published in 1884. It is a porker – reared for fresh pork (rather than for bacon or for lard like some other breeds of pig – and is characterised by a short and sharply-upturned snout. After the Second World War it came close to extinction; although numbers have recovered somewhat, it is listed by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as "priority" – the highest level of risk of the trust.

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