Angeln Saddleback
The Angeln Saddleback pig is a breed of domestic pig.
Description
In the classic color is the rear half of the body of the Angeln Saddleback pig black, a white belt or saddle stretches across the front hand. The Angeln Saddleback pig is characterized by a number of advantages of: It has excellent mothering ability, good grazing ability and is very undemanding in the holding form.
Breeding history
Starting around 1880 the pig developed in fishing in Schleswig- Holstein next to the dairy industry as an agricultural livelihood. However, the black-and- white-colored, used in fishing Landrace was too slow for modern pig in stature and brought too few piglets per litter was born. Model for the breeding of fast-growing, early maturing and fruitful pig breeds was England. In the 19th century it had come several times to imports of Berkshire and Tamworth pigs. A small group of ranchers from the area of Suederbrarup was around 1920 attention to an English breed which closely resembled the angler Landrace in physique and appearance: the Wessex Saddleback breed.
1926 brought the süderbraruper farmer Julius Carstensen of his trip to England in a major Sattelschweinsau with. The following year he bought two more animals. The black-and- white-colored English pigs proved themselves. Hopefully gathered in 1929 nine farmers in Suederbrarup and founded the Association for the breeding of the Angeln Saddleback pig. The herd accounting of pig herds and the establishment of an independent race had their beginning. Between 1930 and 1939 the club bought a total of another 10 boars of Wessex Saddleback breed and put it to its members for breeding available.
Since 1929, the herd-book, the breed in 1937 was recognized as a separate breed.
What was confidently called Angeln Saddleback pig, but still lacked until 1941 an "official recognition", which meant that an extension of the breeding area was prevented by limitations of the breeding permit.
After 1945, the breeding work in Suederbrarup took a lively revival. The undemanding in feeding and husbandry Pig convinced with good battle results. It experienced as " sausage pork " to 1952 an unprecedented popularity and prevalence in northern Germany. As with higher meat content and lower fat cover certain market during the 1950s pigs, the Angeln Saddleback lost steadily in importance. Only the interest in changing entertainment and marketing methods in agriculture and the reflection on the good meat quality opened the Angeln Saddleback pig again new chances for survival.
According to the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Livestock Breeds V. (GEH ) was the inventory of Angeln Saddleback pigs in Germany in 2011 in the herd book registered 70 pieces. The breed is considered extremely endangered.
Marketing
Meanwhile, some organic farms have adopted this pig, which is very suitable for outdoor entertainment. As before, there are very few herd book farms that breed these robust and fast-growing race. To even assure preservation of the breed in Germany, saddle pigs were imported from Hungary a few years ago, derived from animals that got there after the Second World War.
The Angeln Saddleback pig was declared in 1990 by the Society for the Conservation of Old and Endangered Livestock Breeds (GEH ) for 'at-risk livestock breed of the Year ".
Since 1991, the Working Group of the saddle pig breeders who are as well, which was founded in January 1996, the "Friends of Angeln Saddleback eV" to endeavor the preservation and dissemination of the Angeln Saddleback pig.