[robert waddell]

i could get so banned from this site NUTS NUTS NUTS       middle whites have been taken to 130-140 kilos with 12mm of back fat maybe that is why they are not as popular if wrong information is written
Karen was she 9 months old 

[princesspiggy]

i could get so banned from this site NUTS NUTS NUTS       middle whites have been taken to 130-140 kilos with 12mm of back fat maybe that is why they are not as popular if wrong information is written

google RBST Factsheet middlewhites.
 
anyway no matter. r they tough enough for ne scotland?
 

[robert waddell]

any pig is tough enough to be in scotland

[princesspiggy]

any pig is tough enough to be in scotland

maybe it shud have read- r they tough enough for our place, its a bit woody, wild and wonderful sometimes..lol
 

[robert waddell]

the east coast of scotland is better than the west central belt

[Sylvia]

I found saddlebacks easy to manage and very tasty.

[FiB]

Great thread - we are in same boat and probably wont have munched our way through 2 pigs in time to rear more this year, but allready thinking about the next ones, and are also going to stick to weaners not go into breading.  Although have loved our saddlebacks to bits, am thinging of going large black next time, because they sound fab and they need support - anyone on here breed them?

[Blonde]

Well now that I'm a hard hearted pig farmer , the pig is dead long live the pig and all that, it's time to be considering what my next couple will be.

When we started on this journey we had romantic notions of having Lincolnshire breeds if possible ( I know Mangalitzas aren't Lincs Curly coats but they are as close as I could get! - we haven't got any Lincolnshire buff chickens either), we'd breed said Lincolnshire varieties and people would beat a path to our door to buy them.

However a few months on we know that's not going to happen - mangalitzas take ages to get to slaughter weight, and having read on here and other places how difficult the market for pigs is at the moment we are onto plan B.

Which is pork for us, and anybody who wants to buy it from us - but without the breeding element at the moment. Bear with me I am going to get to a point in a minute. We still want to do our bit by raising rare breeds - now I know that there will be a list of answers as long as your arm as everybody will have different opinions - and here's the point/question it's taken so long to get to  - if you were starting from scratch, knowing what you know now, if you were only getting a couple of weaners to fatten, which breed would you choose and why

Large white X landrace and then put a duroc over them to gain a quick growing lkpig that will make market in the specified time of pork 16 weeks and back 22 to 23 weeks.