The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on February 16, 2012, 03:21:18 pm
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Finally, after months and months - and months - of waiting, the news has broken.
Oxford Sandy & Black pigs have now achieved the recognition and protection of the RBST. They join GOS and British Saddlebacks in the Minority section.
Hurrah!
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That's a good result.
Just need to get Old English goats on there now ;)
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:thumbsup:
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That is brilliant news - OSBs are wonderful pigs and have really suffered from not being RBST recognised. Lets hope numbers will pick up now.
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We are just about to start breeding these - our boar is coming up to working age !
They are becoming more popular as people like the look of them
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This is the breed I want to keep when we tart so that's great news.
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Finally, after months and months - and months - of waiting, the news has broken.
Oxford Sandy & Black pigs have now achieved the recognition and protection of the RBST. They join GOS and British Saddlebacks in the Minority section.
Hurrah!
thats great news. where did you hear it a friend of ours has been breeding them for years and he has just said he knows nothing about it is there somewhere i can point him to get the info for himself.
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the rbst Ark magazine
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Well done welcome to the club!
Another spotty pig on the books. yahoo!
Mandy :pig:
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the rbst Ark magazine
thank you
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The RBST wesbite hasn't quite caught up yet... Can anyone download the PDF Watchlist? It won't work for me.
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We have just sent our first ever pig to the butcher and we are very pleased with how it's all gone. Hoping the other 2 will have done as well when they go!! So glad we chose OSB they have been fab to keep looking forward to our next batch!! :) oh and she tasted amazing tonight!! Great pigs :) :)
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I know someone who has just stopped keeping them - has sold their sows and is getting rid of the last of the porkers - I wonder if thats what pushed them onto the list? ;D
Nice pigs anyway, so its good news they are on there.
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Thank goodness at last, i love osbs and have tried to turn them into a business(use it or lose it) unfortunateley they have been a little inbred with the shortage of numbers and boars. I have been from Aberdeen to Wales to Dorset and have got my herd together i am passionate about them. They have been bred and registered just for the sake of selling them and some of the poor things i have bought i should never have done! But what i have done is breed the bloodlines that i see are not too close and have maybe registerted the odd one here and there with the best confirmation and the closest markings to the breed requirements. I am quite pleased with the results, i have got the colour right the conformation almost right they can see because their ears dont cover their eyes completeley and therefore make motherhood easier because they can actually see their piglets.
This is one native breed we should not loose they hold everything that nature is about they dont really need us humans. Given a bare hut on birth night she will dig a hole in the floor deep enough to give birth in comfortably, when the job is done she will venture out for a drink, on returning to feed her newborns and there is usually quite a few she will push them down into the hallow so doesnt crush them then she will lie round the edge where she can display herself and talk to them telling them to feed. I have seen this so many times but i still have to take time to stand by and watch at the wonder of nature given her freedom. Arl
The Harswell Herd xxxx
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The OSB is in the minority group so is the least endangered of our pigs so it hasnt done that bad without the rocognition of the RBST. ???
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The OSB is in the minority group so is the least endangered of our pigs so it hasnt done that bad without the rocognition of the RBST. ???
things soon change and the fact that the breed has survived so long without any RBST recognition is down to the dedicated breeders that have brought the breed back to this level.
as i said things soon turn around with RBST status when i started fattening lops they were on the endangered list, now i know they are listed on their site as vunerable they are in fact back on the endangered and if numbers fall this year will be on the critical list for 2013 this information was passed onto the lop society by the RBST all this turn about in 4 years.
lets hope all these vunerable breeds survive for many years to come.
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Fantastic news, we're really pleased. The OSB is a lovely pig which has deservedly become very popular.
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Great News, i heard about it last week. It can only be good for the breed, not sure why it took so long...
We've a slowly growing heard, just had 3 back from the butchers, very good, easily shifted the pork, not too fat, tasty and very moist, killed out at 6 months 58 and 62 kg d/w cost 68£ pig to do this.. so ecconomic too.