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The British Saddleback is a modern British breed of domestic pig. It was created in 1967 by merging the surviving populations of two traditional saddleback breeds, the Essex and Wessex Saddleback . [ 2 ] : 224 It is an endangered breed , listed on the watchlist of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust as at risk, the second-highest level of concern.
The Large Black is a British breed of domestic pig.It is the only British pig that is entirely black. [2] It was created in the last years of the nineteenth century by merging the black pig populations of Devon and Cornwall in the south-west with those of Essex, Suffolk and Kent in the south-east.
Like other old British pig breeds, the ancestor of the Essex may have originated in the county of the same name from selective breeding of local wild pigs. [citation needed] It was originally a smallish, "coarse" black-and-white pig that was noted for being easy to keep and cheap to feed, qualities that ensured its popularity with smallholders.
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Saddleback toad, a genus of small, colourful toads the family Brachycephalidae; British Saddleback, a modern British breed of domestic pig; Wessex Saddleback, a breed of domestic pig originating in the West Country of England; Angeln Saddleback, a rare breed of domestic pig grown mainly in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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The Wessex Saddleback or Wessex Pig is a breed of domestic pig originating in the West Country of England, , especially in Wiltshire and the New Forest area of Hampshire. It is black, with white forequarters. In Britain it was amalgamated with the Essex pig to form the British Saddleback, and it is extinct as a separate breed in Britain ...
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