British Landrace breed page
The versatile indoor/outdoor pig!
The British Landrace is a very versatile breed, performing well under either indoor or outdoor systems of management.
Sows have the ability to produce and rear large litters of piglets with very good daily gain and high lean meat content, in a superbly fleshed carcase, which is ideal for either fresh pork or bacon production.
Conservation Targets
Decline of sow numbers has seen several female lines become at risk
Increase the distribution of sows across the country.
Buyers Guide
The British Landrace is a breed that can offer the domestic meat producer and enthusiastic keeper a genuinely useful and enjoyable ownership proposition.
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Conservation
The purpose of the conservation plan is to set out the goals for conserving our native breeds for the next year. The conservation service has successfully increased the number of Lassiter boars and now all boar lines are represented in the Genebank
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Breed Standard
Thinking about buying a British Landrace? Find out more about the essential characteristics that define the breed.
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Breed History
The first Landrace pigs were imported into Britain from Sweden in 1949 (4 boars and 8 gilts) with other imports to follow from 1953 onwards, these came into Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
New bloodlines were imported into England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from Norway in the 1980s and some new bloodlines into Northern Ireland from Finland and more recently from Norway.
Over 90% of hybrid gilt production in Western Europe and North America uses Landrace bloodlines as the foundation for the profitable production of quality pigmeat.
Contact
Breed representatives
Mr N Overend
Ballymacpeake
160 Moyagall Road Portglenone,
Co Antrim
N. Ireland BT44 8LX
07753 719288
overendn@gmail.com