A rare breed of pig made its debut at the Lebanon Area Fair. It was the first time Meishan pigs have been shown in a class of their own in the country. The breed originated in China, and the name ...

Meishan pigs were first introduced to the United States in 1989 through a collaborative research effort between the USDA, the ...

Rare pigs, once on the brink of extinction, have scooped a prize at a prime livestock show. The Oxford Sandy and Black pigs, raised by staff and students at Coleg Glynllifon, took home the Traditional ...

Fearing for the future of rare and native breeds of farm animals was how the Rare Breeds Survival Trust started in 1973 ...

A trio of rare piglets have been ... and three days exactly "The pigs – now considered one of the world’s rarest species – are part of a conservation breeding programme which will help ...

1. There are 11 native British pig breeds and all of them are at risk of extinction according to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Most pork and bacon comes from cross-bred hybrid pigs which started ...

Bulgarian veterinary authorities said on Wednesday they would cull almost 200 pigs from a rare local breed after detecting an outbreak of African swine fever at a small pig farm in the east of the ...

The Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RSBT) exhibited a variety of cattle, pigs and sheep in a bid to encourage people to keep them. The event at the Royal Cornwall Events Centre near Wadebridge ...

In order to protect these rare breeds as pig germplasm, the project is creating a cryogenic gene bank (cryo-bank) system that stores sperm, oocytes, fertilized oocytes, etc., and promotes their ...