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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 ...
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. [3]
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While the breed societies of the Wessex (another breed featuring a black ground colour and white shoulder markings, although with a different origin) and Essex pigs had amalgamated as early as 1918, the formal end of the Essex pig came in 1967, when the stud books were also amalgamated with the intention of merging the two breeds into the ...
Wessex Saddleback; Wuzhishan pig; Y. Yorkshire Blue and White This page was last edited on 11 January 2022, at 02:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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
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
It is a large, lop-eared, black pig with a white belt around its body at the forefeet. The breed originated in Angeln, Germany (until 1864 Denmark), by crossing a local German black-and-white Landrace with Wessex Saddleback.