Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig

Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig
Traits
Other names	Baston pig Lincolnshire Curly Coat
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Pig Sus scrofa domesticus

The Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig, also known as the Baston pig^[1] or simply as the Lincolnshire Curly Coat, was an old breed of domestic pig from the United Kingdom. The breed became rare, and was finally extinct by the early to mid-1970s.

Characteristics

The Lincolnshire Curly-coated, in common with other of the old 'local' breeds in the United Kingdom, was bred to be tough and hardy, suitable for keeping by smallholders. It was a large pig with lop ears; its most prominent feature was its long, curly white coat, which helped it to weather the damp, cold winters of the Lincolnshire fens.^[2]

History and re-creation

The Lincolnshire Curly-coated was one of the oldest breeds in the UK, and was formerly very common in its county of origin. By the 1930s, selective breeding had developed its fattening abilities, and large specimens were exported to Russia and other countries.^[3] The breed, however, dwindled in the period after the Second World War, mainly due to changing farming patterns and a taste for leaner meat. The last known specimens were kept by John Crowder, and the breed was lost in the early to mid 1970s.

In recent years, a number of pigs of a variant of the Mangalitsa breed, which bears a strong resemblance to the Lincolnshire Curly-coated, have been imported to the UK. These pigs are now extremely rare in their native country, Hungary. There was a hybrid bred in Hungary in the 1920s and 1930s, the Lincolica, using only the blond Mangalitsa, but this type died out in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The Mangalitsa, though similar in coat, is far smaller in size and much slower in growing than was the Lincolnshire Curly-coated.^[4]

References

↑ Morrison, The Individuality of the Pig: its Breeding, Feeding and Management, Dutton, 1928, p.359
↑ Malcomson, R. W. The English Pig: A History, Continuum, 1998, p.76
↑ Proceedings (Royal Institution of Great Britain) 55: 217. Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ "News of the Curly-coated Pigs],". Farmers Weekly. December 2007.

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

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Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig

Characteristics

History and re-creation

See also

References