Saddleback Pig

Facts about Saddleback Pigs. The Saddleback is a domestic pig breed that commonly refers to the "Wessex Saddleback pig" breed and the "British Saddleback pig" breeds.
Wessex Saddleback is a domestic pig breed that is native to Wessex, which is an Anglo-Saxon realm in the southern part of the Great Britain. The Wessex Saddleback pigs are largely found in a county in South West England, known as Wiltshire and the New Forest region of Hampshire. The Wessex Saddleback pig breed is black in color, with white front quarters. The Wessex Saddleback pig breed was amalgamated in Britain with the Essex pig breed to develop the British Saddleback pig breed, and currently, it is wiped out as a separate pig breed in Britain. However, the Wessex Saddleback pig breeds survive in New Zealand and Australia.

British Saddleback Pig

British Saddleback is a domestic pig breed which was created from the combination of two similarly-colored pig breeds, such as the Essex Saddleback pig breed and the Wessex Saddleback pig breed during the twentieth century. The British Saddleback pig breeds were mostly found in an area of the Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain, called East Anglia. The British Saddleback pigs have a black color head and neck, and a visibly defined white color belt, extending over their shoulders and continuing over their forelegs. The remaining parts of their body are black in color with the exclusion of white feet and the tail tip.

History Wessex Saddleback

There is some puzzlement regarding the origin of the Wessex Saddleback pig breed. Some resources affirm that it started as a cross of the Old English Sheeted breed and the New Forest black breed, scattering through the Isle of Purbeck and Hampshire during the 18th century. However, some other resources just say that this pig breed is of unidentified origin. The Wessex Saddleback pig breed has been declared to be one among the few British pig breeds to have been slightly affected by hybriding with the Neapolitan pig breeds of Far Eastern derivation, and so, it is possibly one among those contiguous to the Landrace pig breeds that foraged in the forest all through Britain for several centuries.

History of British Saddleback Pig

The source of the British Saddleback pig breed is better genuine than most. A British Whig politician and the landowner, Lord Western, while touring in Italy, saw a few Neapolitan pigs and concluded that they were just what he required to develop the British Saddleback pig breeds. He acquired a pair of Neapolitan pigs and crossed them with the female pigs of the British Saddleback pig breed. Fisher Hobbs of the Boxted Lodge, who was one among the tenants of Lord Western, availed himself of the chance to employ the Neapolitan- British Saddleback male pigs of Lord Western and crossed them with his Essex female pigs and in due course, he established the British Saddleback pig breed.

Features Wessex Saddleback

The Wessex Saddleback pig breed has a black color body, with a white color band about its forepart of the chest, expanding from one front-foot over its shoulder to the other front-foot, making a white band looking like a saddle. The Wessex Saddleback pig breed is a tall, long-legged animal, modified to foraging in the forest, its conventional use. This use lived longest in the New Forest, where the Wessex Saddleback pigs are still permitted to scavenge in the forest for beechnuts, acorns, and chestnuts, but the pigs of the New Forest no longer embrace pedigree Wessex Saddleback pig breeds.

Features of British Saddleback Pig

The British Saddleback pig breed has an entire black color body, asides from an uninterrupted belt of white color hair over their shoulder and forelegs. In the 1931, severe rules were put in place by the Wessex Saddleback Pig Society to prevent foreign blood being introduced where the base on one side of the pig was not of New Forest source. British Saddleback pigs are strong and renowned for their mothering skill. This pig breed continues to be exploited mostly to offer colored dams for the creation of first-cross bacons, porkers, and heavy pigs. The British Saddleback pig breed of pig is recognized for its grazing skill and is extremely hardy. It has secured a position in organic and outdoor production.

The saliva of Saddleback Pigs contains pheromones-( A chemical substance used to attract a mate) similar to that of other pig breeds that communicate their sexual wants. The male Saddleback Pigs discharge this steroid and female pigs will go to vast lengths to acquire a smell of the sent.
a Saddleback Pigs are raised for there meat such as ham, sausage, bacon and pork chops. Pigs can make great pets. "A wild male pig is called a boar"- meaning uncastrated male pig, that lives in the wild and can be hunted. "Feral pig or hog is defined as a wild boar" can be a very big danger where humans habitat. Saddleback Pigs have small lungs compared to their body size.

The term Swine: is any variety of omnivorous, even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae, this includes hogs, boars and pigs having a short neck, thick skin a movable snout and a stout body.

Saddleback Pigs unlike is said, happen to be very clean animals. Saddleback Pigs make sure their bathroom area is far away from where they eat, lie down and rest, even piglets (baby pigs) will find a place to go to the bathroom, far away from their nest. A Saddleback Pig averages 6 to 10 baby piglets in a litter and will have two to three litters per year. The sows Saddleback Pig nurse their piglets for about three to five weeks. When Piglets are weaned off of their mother’s milk, they are not called piglets but are known as shoats. Piglets at birth weigh about 2.5 pounds (1.1 kilograms), and on average, will double their weight in one week.

Saddleback Pigs Feet

The four feet and four toes of the pig are called "trotters" that humans eat as a delicacy called pigs feet or pigs knuckles. A Saddleback Pigs foot has four toes that are pointed downwards when the pig walks, it walks on the tips of its toes, rather than its whole foot and only uses two of the toes in the middle and the outside toes for balance. The Saddleback Pig has tougher feet at the ends that are hooves. The two toes in the middle of the foot are slightly webbed, this helps the pigs balance for walking.

A pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. The pig represents, happiness, honesty, fortune and virility in China. A female adult Saddleback Pig is called a (sow) and the male adult wild pig is called a (boar). The lifespan of a pig is between 9 and 15 years

Saddleback Pigs do not sweat a lot, that's why they cover themselves in the mud to keep their bodies cool. The expression "sweating like a pig" comes from a reference to pig iron, which comes form iron smelting.

Saddleback Pigs are very intelligent, not like people think, that pigs are dumb animals. A Saddleback Pig can drink between 10 to 14 gallons (37.8 to 53 liters)of water in a day.

Saddleback Pigs are omnivores like humans, an omnivores, (definition-they eat both other animals and plants). The Saddleback Pig snout is its most important tool for finding food. The Saddleback Pigs snout is used for their excellent sense of smell and they have poor eyesight.

Saddleback Pigs have 44 teeth when full grown, when they are baby pigs (piglets) the have 28 teeth which will fall out when they are 12 months old. Just like human teeth, the Saddleback Pig has an enamel coating that makes the pigs teeth stronger and helps it curb disease. Saddleback Pigs chew their food because pigs have a digestive system similar to a human digestive system and cannot digest food that is not chewed.
"Scientific name for Pig Sus scrofa", the wild swine (Boar) from the old world with a narrow body and prominent tusks is from where most domestic swine come from. The "fear of pigs Swinophobia".