British Pigs (Shire Library) - Softcover

Porter, Val

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747807639 ISBN 13: 9780747807636

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

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 (often coloured pigs in the Midlands, black ones in the southern counties 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 those colourful 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 and becoming part of the British pig.

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Val Porter has written over forty books, many of them about livestock and other animals, about running a smallholding, and about rural life past and present, including three major books comprehensively describing the world's breeds of pigs, cattle and goats. She has been a member of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust for many years and was co-author of the Trust's history, Saving the Breed.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0747807639
• ISBN 13: 9780747807636
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 56
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland