British Pigs
Author | : James Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Swine |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Long |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Swine |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Val Porter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Swine breeds |
ISBN | : 9780747804130 |
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 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 or 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. About the author Val Porter has written about thirty books, many of them about livestock and other animals, about running a smallholding, and about rural life past and present. She has also written for Shire the album 'British Cattle'.
Author | : Robert Trow-Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136601279 |
First Published in 2005. History books have told us for far too long that farming in Britain was, in the eighteenth century, Tull's drill, Townshend's turnips, and Bakewell's metamorphosis of the cow and sheep; in the nineteenth century, corn laws, Coke's enlightened Norfolk squire-dom, and the collapse of the cereal market; and in both centuries, enclosures. In this volume the author has taken the evidence, sieved and analysed it. The result of the analysis may, or may not, show the animal husbandry at least of these two centuries in a truer light. The present book is a sequel to the author’s History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee |
Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780215525758 |
This report finds that, although the pig industry is highly competitive and is well known for being cyclical, the last ten years have seen a steady decline in the scale and productivity of the English pig industry and an increase in the pig meat imported into the UK to satisfy consumer demand. The lack of transparency in the supply chain leads farmers to form the view that they are not getting their fair share. UK pigs cost more to produce than their EU counterparts. The industry blames this on the effects of disease outbreaks, high feed prices, burdensome environmental regulations and the high cost of the introduction of new welfare standards of housing for pigs in 1999. Pig producers are rightly proud of their high welfare standards, but the Committee believes that they have not successfully promoted to the consumer the justification for the higher cost of English pig meat. Retailers and catering suppliers are responsible for ensuring that labelling of pig meat products is clear and unambiguous, but producers, animal welfare groups such as the RSPCA, and Government, have a role in making certain that consumers understand the difference between the standards of welfare in the various methods of pig production and ensuring that pig meat produced in the UK is of a high welfare standard. Defra must continue to: advise other Government departments and public bodies on the welfare standards of farm assurance schemes in order to encourage them to adopt a more innovative approach in public sector procurement of pig meat; liaise closely with the industry on its Health and Welfare Council; fund research into the pig-specific diseases which have severely impacted on the industry in recent years.
Author | : Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Malcolmson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781852851743 |
The English Pig is an account of pigs and pig-keeping from the sixteenth century to modern times, concentrating on the domestic, cottage pig, rather than commercial farming. In Victorian England the pig was an integral part of village life: both visible and essential. Living in close proximity to its owners, fed on scraps and the subject of perennial interest, the pig when dead provided the means to repay social and monetary debts as well as excellent meat. While the words associated with the pig, such as 'hoggish', 'swine' and 'pigsty', and phrases like 'greedy as a pig', associate the pig with greed and dirt, this book shows the pig's virtues, intelligence and distinctive character. It is a portrait of one of the most recognisable but least known of farm animals, seen here also in many photographs and other representations. The pig has a modest place in literature from Fielding's pig-keeping Parson Trulliber to Hardy's Jude the Obscure and to Flora Thompson's Lark Rise to Candleford. In modern times, while vanishing from the sight of most people, it has been sentimentalised in children's stories and commercialised in advertisements.
Author | : Val Porter |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2009-10-20 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780747807636 |
Not so long ago, there were local British pigs of every size, color and shape. Over the centuries different localities had developed their own tastes in what their pigs should look like - often colored pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern countries 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 the colorful 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.
Author | : Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2008-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402089090 |
The domestic pig is perceived as an animal with intelligence and character and yet, in the industrialized world, the majority of people have had little or no contact with them. Pigs are subject to a wide range of environments from the tropics to the sub-arctic, ranging from small-scale, extensive systems to large-scale intensive systems. They may spend their whole life on one farm or may be subject to long-distance transport multiple times. Not surprisingly, many aspects of their life experiences can impact their welfare. This book brings together a team of leading pig welfare research scientists to review the natural history of the pig, the welfare of pigs at different stages of life and to indicate what the future holds in terms of pig welfare. The text is aimed at researchers and teachers working in veterinary and animal science together with those working in the pig industry and for governmental and non-governmental animal welfare organizations.
Author | : Neville Beynon |
Publisher | : Crowood |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1847977537 |
Pigs - A guide to Management - Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of pig-keeping: how pigs have developed, the influence of the market on the breeds and pig-keeping systems, nutrition, the pig and its environment, reproduction, piglet birth, survival, growth and development, and the important place of artificial insemination in both modern commercial production and maintaining our rare breeds. The welfare, care and managemet of the pig through to its sale as a finished pig, along with that of the breeding sow, gilt, boar, is a central theme. Covers all aspects of pig husbandry and provides a comprehensive guide to developing pig management skills and illustrates the range of pedigree and commercial pig breeds and how they are influenced by the market. Fully illustrated with over 120 colour photographs including the current BPA-registered pig breeds.
Author | : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |