Performance of Indigenous Pigs of Upland and Lowland lrian Jaya

Abstract

The study using 40 pigs was carried on to detenninc the productive perfonnance found that tlle daily gain and the feed conversion of indigenous pigs in lrian Jaya were very low. The reproductive perfonnance of the pigs studied through a survey was moderate. Most of the sows bred naturally at the age of 7 to 7.5 months and the litter size at first farrowing varied from 4 to 9 piglets. The management practices done by the fanncrs was mostly traditional influenced by the life style and the culture. The prominent qualitative morphological traits between the upland pigs and the
lowland pigs was similar. However, some of the quantitative morphologcal traits were different between lrian Jaya upland's pigs and lrian Jaya lowland's pigs.