British Pigs: No. 340 (Shire Library)

Porter, Val

ISBN 10: 0747807639 / ISBN 13: 9780747807636

Edité par Shire Publications, 2009

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• Titre: British Pigs: No. 340 (Shire Library)
• Éditeur: Shire Publications
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0747807639
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780747807636
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 140 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Val Porter has written several books on breeds of livestock worldwide (cattle, pigs and goats) and on caring for cows in particular. Cows are something of a passion: she worked with a Jersey dairy herd and kept her own Jersey housecows in the 1970s, and through them she became interested in rare breeds of cattle at a time when the 'black-and-whites' were so dominant that there was little space left for anything more colourful. She has been a member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust for many years and was co-author of the Trust's history, Saving the Breed.