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If we were to pull one word out of the dictionary to describe 49-1 it would be indestructible.
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From the ground up this boar is designed to take on whatever life might bring.
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Life started tough for Tillson, being raised in a pen with 22 other boars and the only one that showed up in the dark. There were lots of fights and Tillson soon learned that if you bit off a piece of their ear the fight stopped. All this commotion did not help his growth and the 181 days did not look good on his record. His promoter, Bill Tempel, (not the one with the funny hair) had confidence in Tillson because he knew his mother. This litter was her third and she had weaned 35 pigs. She was an easy sow to manage and looked like she could stay on for many more and she did! By her 7th parity she had a lifetime average 12.4 born alive, 139.8 day farrowing interval, 2.6 litters/year, 29.3 pigs weaned/year, 11.3 weaned per litter and an average weaning weight of 12.77 lbs per pig or 144.1 lb per litter.
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Tillson’s full sister had a five parity average of 2.58 litter/year, 27.92 weaned/year, 10.8 weaned per litter and 140.7 21-day litter weight.
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On November 22, 1999 Tillson ranked number one on sow index (126.69) and 5th on maternal index (131.47) out of 23 Landrace boars used in the Tempel Landrace herd where the only goal has been to make good commercial females.
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Tillson needs to be used on any sow in your herd that is bigger framed and productive but more fragile than you like. We all have some of those around, so everyone should be using this boar.
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Tillson’s managers gave him a chance to prove he could be a champion, too bad Tyson did not do as well.
