Extremely hardy and can live out all year round. An all-white pig with large lop ears. Excellent pork and bacon A distinctive curly coat makes this rare breed, originally from Austria and Hungary, ...

That's why we, along with many other rewilding projects, have turned to rare-breed pigs to take on the role of their wild ancestors. READ MORE: M5 traffic was at 'standstill' in both directions READ ...

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 ...

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 ...