When bred intentionally, the hybrid is intended to visually recreate— to "back-breed"— the look of pigs represented in prehistoric artworks of the Iron Age and earlier in ancient Europe.

Iron Age pigs are a distinctive looking cross breed first developed for a BBC documentary by none other than Countryfile presenter Adam Henson’s father Joe.

Shy and elusive, you are more likely to see signs of an Iron-Age pigs' work than the animals itself. Naturally a woodland species, they use their powerful noses to turn over compacted and damaged soil.

Iron age pigs can vary in shades of brown but can often look very similar to wild boar, although they tend to have bigger ears, slightly shorter snouts, rounder backends and longer bodies. The piglets are nearly always stripey and the meat is dark and flavoursome.

The Iron Age Pig is a hybrid between a wild boar and a domestic pig, to recreate the type of pig represented by prehistoric art works of the Iron Age in ancient Europe. Iron Age pigs are generally only raised in Europe and are breed primarily for the speciality meat market.

The hybrid, Iron Age Pigs, look like the wild pigs painted in cave art throughout the world. Though iron age pigs were bred to recreate the look of prehistoric pigs, they’re now popular meat animals.

2019年9月9日 · We keep two breeds of pigs crossing our Wild Boar sire with Tamworth/Gloucester Old Spot sows, to produce a hybrid, called an Ironage pig. The name Iron-age reflects a time in the domestication of the pig from pure wild boar to the large variety of domestic pigs we have today.

Domestic Tamworth pigs (a bristly, red coloured "unimproved" breed) have been crossed with wild boar to create "Iron Age Pigs" which resemble early domestic pigs. The piglets have stripes or blotches like young boar.

2024年8月2日 · Iron Age pigs are a hybrid breed, a cross between domestic pigs and wild boar, bred to closely resemble the ancient pigs that roamed Europe thousands of years ago. These animals are hardy, intelligent, and perfectly suited to the task at hand: transforming the landscape in ways that promote ecological diversity.

When bred intentionally, the hybrid is intended to visually re-create – to “back-breed” – the look of pigs represented in prehistoric artworks of the Iron Age and earlier in ancient Europe. A project to create them, under the name Iron Age pig, started in the early 1980s by crossing a male wild boar with a Tamworth sow to produce an ...