British Landrace pig

This article is about the pig breed. For the goat breed sometimes called the British Landrace, see British Primitive goat.

British Landrace
Traits
Conservation status	Rare breed
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Pig Sus scrofa domesticus

The British Landrace is a British domestic breed of pig and one of the most popular in the United Kingdom.^[1] It is white with heavy drooping ears that cover most of the face and is bred for pork and bacon.^[2] The breed originated in the 1949 importation of 12 landrace pigs from Scandinavia^[A] — four boars and eight gilts (immature females).^[1] 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 Kingdom. The 1955 Howitt report by the Advisory Committee on the Development of Pig Production advised farmers to increase profitability by focusing on just three breeds of pigs — the British Landrace, the Large White and the Welsh. Many farmers acted on the report and as a result many rarer pig breeds have declined.^[3] In a 1999 book, Jules Pretty said that seven pig breeds had been lost in Britain in the 20th century, and that the industry was now dominated by the British Landrace and the Large White.^[4]

In 1978, the British Landrace Pig Society joined the National Pig Breeders' Association (now the British Pig Association). In the 1980s the breed was developed and its genetic base was expanded by the importation of new bloodlines from Norway and Finland.^[1] These developments have made the British Landrace unique among other Landrace breeds.^[1] The British Landrace is also used to improve other breeds.^[1] These pigs are found all over the United Kingdom, particularly in the East and in Yorkshire.^[2]

Notes

^ Sweden^[1] or Denmark^[2]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The British Landrace: Breed History". BritishPigs.org.uk. Trumpington, Cambridgeshire: British Pig Association. 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
1 2 3 "Breeds of Livestock — British Landrace Swine". Oklahoma State University. 1996. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
↑ Hartley, Emma (2 July 2005), "Wodehouse Fans Say Tuck in and Save Rarest Bacon", The Times, retrieved 27 February 2010
↑ Pretty, Jules (1999). The living Land: Agriculture, Food and Community Regeneration in Rural Europe. Earthscan. p. 68. ISBN 1-85383-517-X.

Livestock breeds of the British Isles

Cattle

Beef cattle	Angus Belted Galloway Devon Dexter English Longhorn Hereford Highland Luing Shorthorn South Devon Sussex Welsh Black

Dairy cattle	Ayrshire Guernsey Jersey Milking Shorthorn

Dual purpose	British White Gloucester Pembroke Red Poll

Primitive	Chillingham wild cattle Vaynol White Park cattle

Sheep

Extant	Beulah Speckled Face Bluefaced Leicester Border Leicester British Milk Cheviot Clun Forest Cotswold Dalesbred Derbyshire Gritstone Devon Closewool Devon Longwoolled Dorset Down English Leicester Exmoor Horn Galway Greyface Dartmoor Hampshire Herdwick Hill Radnor Kerry Hill Lincoln Llanwenog Lleyn Lonk Norfolk Horn Oxford Down Portland Romney Rough Fell Ryeland Scottish Blackface Shetland Shropshire Southdown sheep Suffolk Swaledale Teeswater Welsh Mountain Wensleydale Whitefaced Woodland Wiltshire Horn

Primitive	Boreray Castlemilk Moorit Hebridean Jacob Manx Loaghtan North Ronaldsay Soay

Extinct	Scottish Dunface

Pigs

Extant	Berkshire British Landrace British Lop British Saddleback Essex Gloucestershire Old Spots Hampshire Large Black Large White Middle White Oxford Sandy and Black Tamworth Welsh Wessex Saddleback

Extinct	Cumberland Grice Lincolnshire Curly-coated Small Black Small White Yorkshire Blue and White

Goats

Anglo-Nubian Bilberry British Alpine Golden Guernsey Irish

Poultry

Chickens	Burford Brown Cornish Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Ixworth Marsh Daisy Modern Game Modern Langshan Norfolk Grey Old English Game Old English Pheasant Fowl Orpington Rosecomb Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sebright Sussex

Ducks	Abacot Ranger Aylesbury Orpington Khaki Campbell Magpie Shetland Welsh harlequin

Geese	Brecon Buff Shetland

Landrace-named breeds of swine

American Belgian Bulgarian British Canadian Danish Dutch (Netherlands) Finnish French German Italian Norwegian Polish South African Swedish Swiss

These are standardized breeds with Landrace in their names. They are not themselves landraces, but were usually derived from them by selective breeding. Exceptions are the American, Belgian, Canadian and South African, which are crossbreeds.

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British Landrace pig

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