[robert waddell]

it can only be described as a birth notified pig    to give the status to get a meat certificate for selling as whatever breed it may be
 
purebreed could refer to anything you want to describe   without the parents being registered and the owner being in the bpa you just have a pig
registered parents with the paperwork transferred to the new owners  then the of spring are birth notified  within a time limit by the breeder    and it is up to that breeder to register any or none as he sees fit
the whole thing collapses when that breeder sells birth notified pigs as meat pigs then the new owner decides aw it is to cute to kill i want to breed from it can i get it registered 

[SallyintNorth]

Thanks for the full explanation Mandy - very clear and even-handed, thanks.

No high horse, just my Fells     

[Fowgill Farm]

Very welcome
I look at it that birth notes are the birth certificate which proves they are that breed and when they were born
Registration is them getting a passport proves who what & when and that they are eligible to have offspring entered in the herd book by a BPA member provided both parents of said offspeing are pedigree
simples really.
mandy