Angler saddle pig
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The angler saddle pig is a breed of domestic pig .
description
In the classic coloring, the back half of the body of the angler saddle pig is black, a white belt or saddle extends over the forehand. The angler saddle pig is characterized by a number of advantages: It has excellent maternal properties, good grazing ability and is very undemanding in its holding shape.
Breeding history
Around 1880 developed in Fishing in Schleswig-Holstein next to the dairy industry , the pig farming as an agricultural livelihood. The black-and-white colored landrace, which is common in fishing, was too slow to grow for modern pig fattening and gave birth to too few piglets per litter. England was the model for breeding fast-growing, precocious and fertile pig breeds. In the 19th century, Berkshire and Tamworth pigs were imported on various occasions. A small circle of ranchers from the Süderbrarup area became aware of an English pig breed around 1920 that was very similar to the Landrace angler in body and appearance: the Wessex Saddleback breed.
In 1926 the farmer Julius Carstensen from Süderbrarup brought a pregnant pig saddle back with him from a trip to England. The following year he bought two more animals. The black and white colored English pigs proved their worth. Hopefully nine farmers gathered in Süderbrarup in 1929 and founded the association for the breeding of the angler saddle pig. The herdbook recording of the pig population and the development of an independent breed began. Between 1930 and 1939, the club bought a total of ten more boars of the Wessex Saddleback breed and made them available to its members for breeding.
In the herdbook since 1929, the breed was recognized as an independent breed in 1937.
What was confidently referred to as the angler saddle pig was not officially recognized until 1941 , which meant that the breeding area was prevented from expanding by restricting the breeding permit.
After 1945, the breeding work in Süderbrarup took a lively upswing. The pig, undemanding in feeding and husbandry, impressed with good slaughter results. As a "sausage pig" it experienced unprecedented popularity and spread in northern Germany until 1952. When pigs with a higher proportion of meat and less fat dominated the market in the course of the 1950s, the angler saddle pig continuously lost importance. Only the interest in changed husbandry and marketing methods in agriculture and the reflection on the good quality of meat opened up new chances for survival for the angler saddle pig.
According to the Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Pet Breeds e. V. (GEH) the number of anglers saddle pigs in Germany in 2011 was 70 registered in the herdbook. The breed is considered extremely endangered .
marketing
In the meantime, some organic farms have adopted this pig, which is very suitable for free-range husbandry. There are still very few herd book farms that breed this robust and happy-growing breed. In order to ensure the preservation of the breed in Germany at all, saddle pigs were imported from Hungary a few years ago , which are descended from animals that came there after the Second World War .
The angler saddle pig was declared "Endangered Livestock Breed of the Year" by the Society for the Preservation of Old and Endangered Domestic Animals (GEH) in 1990 .
The working group of saddle pig breeders has existed since 1991 , which, like the “Förderverein Angler Sattelschwein e. V. ”endeavors to preserve and spread the angler saddle pig. In February 2008, Slow Food , the international organization for the preservation of traditional foods, accepted the breed into its Ark of Taste .
Individual evidence
- ↑ GEH website ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information board at an angler saddle pig stable in the Stone Age village of Kussow , where these animals are kept.
- ^ Website of the Süderbraruper Förderverein Angler Sattelschwein eV ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento from June 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Angler saddle pig at Slow Food, accessed May 31, 2015
literature
- Norbert Benecke: Man and his pets - The story of a relationship that is thousands of years old , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3806211051
- Hans Hinrich Sambraus: Color atlas of farm animal breeds: 250 breeds in words and pictures , Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3800132192
- Gunther Nitzsche and Martin Ehlich: Status and results of the efforts to maintain and further cultivate the genetic reserve population of the German saddle pig in East Germany (situation report 1997, p. 7). Writings from the LVAT Ruhlsdorf / Groß Kreutz.
Web links
- Website of the Förderverein Angler Sattelschwein e. V.
- Website of the Society for the Conservation of Ancient and Endangered Domestic Animals
- Information flyer on the angler saddle pig from Slow Food
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