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An 1834 painting of a Gloucestershire Old Spot in the Gloucester City Museum & Art Gallery collection. Said to be the largest pig ever bred in Britain. [1]The Gloucestershire Old Spots (also Gloucester, Gloucester Old Spot, Gloucestershire Old Spot [2] or simply Old Spots [3]) is an English breed of pig which is predominantly white with black spots.
The Belarus Black Pied, also known as the Byelorussian Black Pied, the White-Russian Black Pied, and the Spotted Black Pied, is a breed of domestic pig from Belarus.It was originally crossbred in Minsk in the late 19th century from the breeding of Large White, Large Black, Berkshire, and Middle White pigs with native Belarus pigs.
The Aksai Black Pied (Russian: Аксайская черно-пестрая, romanized: Aksaiskaya cherno-pestraya) is a distinctively black and white spotted pig breed from Kazakhstan. [ 1 ] The breed was developed starting in 1952 at the Kasalenki state breeding and the Aksai experimental and training farms as a meat production pig.
Breed Origin Height Weight Color Image Aksai Black Pied: Kazakhstan: 167–182 cm: 240–320 kg (530–710 lb) Black and White--- American Yorkshire: United States
[7]: 235 In 1985 a breed association, the Oxford Sandy and Black Pig Society, was set up and a herd-book was published for the first time; it listed 62 sows and 15 boars, held by 29 different breeders. [4] [8] [9] The breed was recognised in 2003 by the British Pig Association, which then took over herd-book registration. [8]
Porco Bísaro is a domestic pig breed that is native to Portugal, typically from the Trás-os-Montes, Alto-Douro, Minho, and Beira regions. The Porco Bísaro was nearly extinct in the early 1990s. To revert this decline, the National Association of Breeders of Bísaro Swine (ANCSUB - Associação Nacional de Criadores de Suínos de Raça ...
The coat is long, fine and straight and of a ginger or red-gold colour, preferably without black hair; the skin is flesh-coloured and should carry no black spots. [ 10 ] Tamworths are considered a medium-sized porcine breed; a full-grown boar ranges from 250 to 370 kg (550 to 820 lb) and a full-grown sow ranges from 200 to 300 kg (440 to 660 lb).
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.