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Know Your Pigs by Jack Byard

Know Your Pigs by Jack Byard

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The Know Your ... series of books is ideal for novice enthusiasts of all ages. For Know Your Pigs, his fifth book, Jack Byard has selected 29 breeds of pigs, including all those you are likely to see in the UK on farms or at rare breeds centres.

Some of the breeds are old favourites such as the Berkshire, one of which, the fictional Empress of Blandings, was the subject of Lord Emsworth's devotion in fiction by PG Wodehouse. Others are new commercial breeds, the types you will see in pig arks on farm land, such as the Meidam and the Hybrid AC1.

A third group are those breeds of pig which you might see on holidays abroad or which have an intrinsic interest, such as the American Landrace.

Every pig breed has two Know Your Pigs pages devoted to it: a full page photograph opposite  a clear profile of the pig and some notes about the breed history and its current status. The author makes an impassioned plea for the preservation of those breeds which are currently at risk.

Paperback, 64 pages with 29 photographs.

Book details

Paperback
68 pages
Publisher
Old Pond Publishing Ltd
Publication date
September 2009
ISBN-10
1906853118
ISBN-13
9781906853112

Comments

Daniel Njai

Thursday 2 March, 2017 at 11:33am

I really like pig keeping,thanks for this forum.

Daniel Njai

Thursday 2 March, 2017 at 11:37am

Keep it up!

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