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Welcome to the BPA on-line
bloodline audit
The 2020 BPA Bloodline Audit will
close on Monday 30th November
To log on and complete your audit, click
here.
The Annual Bloodline Audit is a very important part of our
conservation programme, Please help us to identify the lines that
are most at risk within each breed by completing an online audit of
your herd.
It only takes a couple of minutes but it will
help if you make a list of the pedigree pigs in your herd before
your start. You can check your herd in the online herdbook first to
see if there any animals misssing and then log back in to complete
the audit of your herd.
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Name
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email
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Breeds
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Chris Impey |
chrisimpey@btinternet.com |
Berkshire
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Chris Hudson
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chris.t.hudson@btopenworld.com
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Berkshire
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Viki Mills |
vikimills@gmail.com |
Berkshire |
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Nigel Overend
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overendn@gmail.com
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British Landrace
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Irving Carter
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irvingccarter@gmail.com
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British Saddleback
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Jan Walton
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jan@wtms.biz
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Duroc
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Mike Smith |
mikespork@hotmail.co.uk |
GOS
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Oliver Lightfoot |
oliverlightfoot3@gmail.com |
GOS |
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Oliver Giles |
olivergiles96@gmail.com |
Hampshire |
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Janice Wood
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largeblackpigs@mail.com
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Large Black
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Grace Bretherton |
gracebretherton@yahoo.co.uk |
Large White |
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Lisa Hodgson |
otterburn-mangalitza@hotmail.co.uk |
Mangalitza
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Tracey Bretherton
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gracebank.pigs@yahoo.co.uk
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Middle White
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Jane Mathews |
patchworkpig@yahoo.co.uk |
OSB |
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David Aldous |
davealdous@msn.com |
OSB |
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Oliver Lightfoot |
oliverlightfoot3@gmail.com |
Pietrain |
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Ryan Perry |
ryanperry_92@hotmail.co.uk |
Tamworth |
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Angela Andrews |
angela.andrews@cornwall.gov.uk |
Tamworth |
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Michaela Giles |
tedfold@hotmail.co.uk |
Welsh
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Some frequently asked questions
about the Audit.
Q. Some of my registered pigs do
not appear on my form.
A. Please use the on-line herdbook
to check that these pigs are alive and if not bred by you that they
have been transferred into your name by the previous owner. If they
are showing as "dead" please inform the BPA and they can be
resurrected. If they have not been transferred to you they will need
a transfer form. Please inform the BPA in writing or by e-mail with
proof of ownership.
Q. I have more than one breed. Can I complete all the audits at
once?
A. Sorry the audit works breed by breed so if you have three breeds
you must select each one individually and complete three surveys.
Q. I have an old sow that
is retired. Should I include her in the Audit
A. No. The Bloodline audit aims
to establish the breeding population so it should not include pigs
that are too old or too young to breed.
One of the biggest challenges faced by a breed
society is to maintain an accurate picture of the live population.
Breeders don’t often tell us when pigs die or are killed. Why is
this figure so important? The number of breeding sows and boars in
each breed is the starting point for any genetic conservation
programme. Three key elements of the UK National Action Plan for
Farm Animal Genetic Resources are Inventory, Monitoring and
Conservation.
The first step is for us to establish an accurate inventory and then
monitor the progress of the breed. We have invested in new computer
technology to improve the efficiency and accuracy of this process.
It is important that we know the size of the population but we also
have to know how many pigs there are in each line within the breed.
This information can then be used to develop conservation breeding
programmes. It is no use identifying the five most important boars
in a breed to go into the semen freezing programme if four of them
are already dead.
We need your help to keep our database accurate and up to date so
that it can be used for the maximum benefit of the breed.
One of Breed Auditors will be contacting you over the next few
weeks to see if you need any help to complete the Audit. Please
remember that our surveyors are volunteers who give up their time to
help with this conservation project
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