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Val Porter

British Pigs

Val Porter

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English
Shire Publications
20 May 2012
Farm & working animals
Series: Shire Library
Not so long ago there were local British pigs of every size, colour and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like often coloured pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern counties and white ones in the north and every county had its own 'breed'. But as urban populations exploded and needed to be fed from the countryside, pig breeders became selective and scientific, concentrating on productivity. Today most of those colourful old local breeds have disappeared; now only three of four highly commercial breeds and a handful of rare breeds remain of that once splendid diversity. This book describes these breeds and how they developed; it also looks at some of the evocatively named extinct pigs and at foreign breeds now being imported and becoming part of the British pig.
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Imprint:   Shire Publications
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   No. 340
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 149mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   158g
ISBN:   9780747807636
ISBN 10:   0747807639
Series:   Shire Library
Pages:   56
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Pig Basics /Wild Boar and Domestication /Coloured Pigs /White Pigs /New Pigs /Further Reading /Useful Addresses /Places to Visit /Index

Val Porter has written about thirty books, many of them about livestock and other animals, about running a smallholding, and about rural life past and present, including three major books comprehensively describing the world's breeds of pigs, cattle and goats. She has been a member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust for many years; the title of her book Practical Rare Breeds is self-explanatory and, jointly with Lawrence Alderson, she has written the history of the RBST.

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