Chad Hill Durocs: Breed Characteristics and Lineage

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Chad Hill Durocs is owned and operated by Chad Hill and his wife Misty, who are third-generation swine producers. Along with their son Tucker, they live in Lubbock, TX. Their operation focuses on show pig production, running around 50 sows and 15 boars.

Historical Origins of Duroc Hogs

The Duroc-Jersey breed entered into the building of the Duroc-Jersey breed in New Jersey prior to 1850, even at an earlier date. Red hogs were also brought to this country by DeSoto, and trading vessels found their way.

In 1822, a Mr. Clark, who lived near Milton, moved to Florida, Montgomery County, New York. Mr. Clark told Mr. Harry Losey of red pigs in Connecticut that crossed very well with the strain that Mr. Losey developed. Mr. Losey named them Durocs in honor of the stallion. Mr. Losey's fancy was a famous Thoroughbred stallion Duroc, and he purchased some of them and took them home.

Shortly after he coined the name, a Mr. Joseph B. Lyman, of the New York Tribune, who resided in New Jersey, attached to the hogs in the New Jersey area by Joseph B. Lyman, of the New York Tribune, who resided in New Jersey.

Early Breed Development

Mr. Losey of the Red Berkshire strain that had come to Long Island around 1820, met and decided on a scale of points for their breed of swine.

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In 1882, two different breeders imported Tamworths into the United States to cross on the strains of red hogs of the time. Thomas Bennett, of Rossville, Illinois, and William H. Swift and Sons of Grinnell, Iowa, made these importations.

Briggs, Hilton M. 1969. Modern Breeds of Livestock.

Breed Characteristics

Durocs have considerable variation in color. Durocs have considerable variation in color, because color there is not concern about fancy points of proper markings. Breeders agree on acceptable characteristics, including length and slight dish of the face.

Key Traits

The breed is known for several key traits:

  • Hardiness
  • Disposition
  • Rapid growth
  • Lean meat production

They were favorably accepted at the nearby markets and were long and rangy in the hair coat and bone.

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Featured Sires and Bloodlines

Several notable sires have contributed significantly to the Chad Hill Durocs lineage. Here are a few examples:

  1. Set The Curve:
    • Sired by Name Brand x Main Drag x Set The Curve.
    • Sold to Southern Gold Sires for $27k in the 2025 NSR Draft.
    • Known for ideal frame size and proportions, extreme width, and squareness.
    • Sires consistent offspring and improves sow phenotypes.
  2. Pack A Lunch:
    • Born in August 2018.
    • Known for balance, build, and ideal muscle/maturity pattern.
    • Brings bone, elevation at the shoulder, and presence.
    • Comes out of a highly productive sow line.
  3. Committed:
    • Retained from the 2022 NSR Draft.
    • Offers fresh blood on the bottom side of his pedigree.
    • Tall shouldered and square built from top to bottom.
    • Impressive upper skeleton with a long, level hip.
  4. Upgrade:
    • Combines next-level features on a tall fronted, flexible skeleton.
    • Enormous feet and an ideal pastern set.
    • Stout skulled and square coming and going.
  5. Lesson Plan:
    • This Lesson Plan son offers some of the same unique pieces as his sire and puts it into a taller fronted, more athletic package!
    • His dam (3-6) is an Integrity sow that has been around for a while and compiled an impressive track record of producing winners in the showring and gilts to lay back in the herd, but her most famous daughter is the 8-7 Milestone sow.
  6. Backroad:
    • He has enormous legs, especially rear legs, with big feet and great toes.
    • He is extremely flexible in the way his skeleton is assembled from front to rear!
    • Along with all that, he has a great presence up thru his front end with his head and neck coming real high out of his blade while still having a stout skull and jaw line! Squareness and shape of muscle are also a plus with this guy!
  7. Milestone:
    • This was the one we could not part with. He had our interest shortly after he entered the nursey. His parts and pieces are what we have been searching for in our program for the last couple years.
    • This is a moderate framed, opened up, big footed boar with a perfect skeletal build and the performance to go with it.

Key Sows and Their Impact

Great herd boars come from even better sows. Several sows have proven to be key contributors to the Chad Hill Durocs program:

  • The Lifetime Sow: Consignment to the first-ever Exchange Sale, purchased by Adam Beck for $16,000.
  • The Milestone Sow: The best generating sow to ever reside at Beyers Farms.

These bloodlines contribute to the genetic diversity and quality of Chad Hill Durocs, ensuring continued success in show pig production.

Development and Characteristics of Duroc Pigs.

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