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"Breeds of Livestock - Swine Breeds". ansi.okstate.edu. Oklahoma State University Dept. of Animal Science. Ekarius, Carol (2008). Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle and Pigs. Storey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-60342-036-5
In 1950, the British Landrace Pig Society was formed and it opened a herd book for the first offspring born from the imported 12. They created the first pig testing scheme with a testing station at the village of Stockton-on-the-Forest in North Yorkshire. [1] The breed's popularity may have contributed to a decline in rare breeds in the United ...
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The earliest records of the breed are from the border of Cornwall and Devon, particularly the area around Tavistock. [3] It is possibly related to similar breeds found around the north-western fringes of Europe, namely the Welsh, with which it was for a period in the 1920s in a combined herd-book, and the Landrace pig breeds of Scandinavia.
It is believed to be one of the oldest British breeds of pig. [4] It has been known by many names, among them the Axford, the Old Oxford, the Oxford Forest Pig, the Plum Pudding Pig and the Sandy Oxford. [5]: 70 Like the Blue Albion breed of cattle, it became extinct in the 1960s or 1970s, and was subsequently re-created. [1]: xxviii
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