The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: rispainfarm on December 14, 2012, 08:35:58 am
-
I am trying to compile a list of prefix locations eg VN is devon. Wonder if all you kindly people would let me know your two letter prefix and the location. :wave: Edit to the above. Could all pig people let me have their two letter herd number prefix and state which area you are in as well as the county, as Oaklands quite right pointed out that some counties have different herd letters for the different areas. Many thanks for all this people, it would be great if we had a comprehensive list so anyone buying in a pig and are unsure where it comes from ie when buying at a market, this will really help
-
I'm assuming you mean the letters at the start of the herd number ? (not the BPA pedigree herd prefix)
Mines is LA and I'm in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire.
Would animal health not have a list they could give you ? Worth a phonecall ;)
-
AY, we're on Anglesey.
-
SV - East Sussex
-
hi karen i will try them :wave:
-
Couple from my records
K - Maidstone Kent
SR - Framfield East Sussex
SZ - Ashington RH20, Flansham PO22
KF - Rye TN31
KJ - Pemmbury TN2
-
JC - Carmarthenshire
-
Thanks Oakland, that is fab
-
FN is North Shropshire
-
YH North Yorkshire
mandy :pig:
-
TJ - Truro, Cornwall
:wave:
-
Anyone know the ones for Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire?
-
QH Cambridgeshire
-
EJ - Stafford, Staffordshire
-
Given that there are so far three codes for different parts of East Sussex viz
Crowborough SV Framfield SR Rye KF
You may need to re-think your Q and ask for towns and counties, as some are clearly subdivided, and not at all sure that they are on physical counties eg KF probably covers parts of east sussex and Kent.
Anyway would love to see how the list pans out - so hope others post theirs !
-
|Thanks Oakland :thumbsup: I have edited my initial post. On another note do you happen to know the reason that a part of sussex that you are in starts with a K but east and west sussex start with an S
-
My herd prefix is NS and I'm in Northamtonshire - South.
Regards, Dave
-
We live in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, and our prefix is GJ.
Best wishes,
Debs
-
We are in Norfolk, ours is SM.
-
|Thanks Oakland :thumbsup: I have edited my initial post. On another note do you happen to know the reason that a part of sussex that you are in starts with a K but east and west sussex start with an S
In a word NO !
But I have long suspected that whilst fundamentally there is a geographical aspect to the codes, they are not at a county level. Suspect they might relate to some 1940/50's coverage by authorities of farms - possibly even back as far as the War Ags (wartime agricultural executive committees). So an area might be mainly in Kent (so start with a K) but have parts in East Sussex. Don't think they are related to boundary changes, but another thought.
Otherwise my definitive answer would be that these are allocated by authority so why would you expect to have logic or common sense behind it !!
-
Lincolnshire and we are LR
-
Otherwise my definitive answer would be that these are allocated by authority so why would you expect to have logic or common sense behind it !!
I'd second that opinion ;) :-[
-
HE and im on the north hants/berkshire border :) :pig:
-
HE is also used for south Hampshire, near Portsmouth on south coast. Tamsaddle
-
QH Cambridgeshire
QF here were cambridgeshire too nr peterborough
-
We are TJ - West Cornwall
It just so happens my name is Tish and my partner is Jim so it is apt that our herd is TJ :excited:
-
We are TJ - West Cornwall
It just so happens my name is Tish and my partner is Jim so it is apt that our herd is TJ :excited:
No chance of you ever forgetting it then Tish :thumbsup:
-
ZG Pilton (near Glastonbury) Somerset :wave:
-
Mine is GL. I'm in Caerphilly, South Wales. Caerphilly is a county as well as a town, but GL comes from the old county of Glamorgan.
-
RQ - Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders.
-
VN South Devon
-
RD Presteigne, Powys. The RD coming from Radnorshire.
-
TJ Wadebridge in Cornwall
-
ST - Strathblane, Glasgow (but we're just within STirlingshire)
-
YD here in East Yorkshire
-
GA - Vale of Glamorgan
-
ZG near Taunton Somerset
-
BE Berwickshire
-
DE - Derbyshire
-
PE. We're in Selkirkshire (Scottish Borders) but on the edge so I presume it's PEeblesshire.
Cath
Thornielee Herd
-
Mine is HN and I'm WORCESTERSHIRE
-
EL East Lothian
-
TJ Boyton North Cornwall