News on Pig Breeds

2009-01-02 Cuddly piglets photo a New Years eve gift for friends - International Business Times -

A zoo keeper presents two Meishan piglets at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on . In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol for good luck at the beginning of a new year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Meishan piglets walk together at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on . In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol for good luck at the beginning of a new year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Geneticist Gary Rohrer examines Meishan pigs at the ARS Roman L. Hruska U. S. Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center Nebraska in an undated photo provided by the Agricultural Research Service from the U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Keith Weller/USDA)

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A pair of cuddly wrinkled German piglets were deemed the most worthy of sending as an email treat tor friends on the last day of 2008, according to a portal ranking. The photo is of Meishan piglets put on display at Berlins Tiergarten Zoo by a keeper. The image was snapped by Associated Press photographer Markus Schreiber. - Commentaries features Meishan pigs Meishan breed pigs Meishan swine

2009-01-01 Berlin Zoo presents lucky charm piglets NECN

According to the pig keeper in Berlins Zoo, Rene Viete, the connection between pigs and a year-change dates back to the 16th Century when a farmer was considered lucky if he got piglets in winter -- a survival guarantee for the family in the long winter months.

The 12 piglets were born on to the Chinese mask-pigs parents, one of the oldest domesticated pig breeds.

NECN) - Berlins Zoo introduced its litter of lucky charm piglets on Monday ahead of the approaching Chinese Year of the Pig.

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(NECN) - Berlins Zoo introduced its litter of lucky charm piglets on Monday ahead of the approaching Chinese Year of the Pig. The 12 piglets were born on to the Chinese mask-pigs parents, one of the oldest domesticated pig breeds. According to the pig keeper in Berlins Zoo, Rene Viete, the connection between pigs and a year-change dates back to the 16th Century when a farmer

2008-12-11 PAGE 2 news notes Brockton, MA - The Enterprise

Peter Gaines, a blogger on the Google group Massbird, wrote recently that a Greater white-fronted goose was seen hanging out with Canada geese in a field on Plymouth Street in Middleboro on Saturday. According to a Web site run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the bird breeds across the tundra from Nunavut to Siberia, across Russia, and in Greenland, with one of the largest ranges of any species of goose in the world. In North America, however, it is common only west of the Mississippi River. .

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2008-12-10 Bounty of meat at the Fox and Pheasant - Buckinghamshire Advertiser

The sausages come from BBC TVs Jimmy Dohertys farm. The friend of Jamie Oliver focuses on traditional pig rearing methods, rearing and promoting rare British breeds so I was confident they would be good quality meats.

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Thereand is nothing like a crisp sausages, bursting in their skins on a pile of mash potatoes to get the mouth watering. - Food and Drink

2008-12-05 Lambs sold for 3,400 break records at Royal Welsh Winter Fair - Daily Post North Wales

In the sheep section David Lewis and daughter Lynfa Lewis, of Cefn Barhedyn, Machynlleth, celebrated winning the overall Welsh mountain breeds section with their Welsh Hill Speckled Face lambs.

The four pig championships saw Andrew Davies, from Trial Mawr, Llanon, near Aberystwyth, take the singles with his Welsh cross.

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RECORDS tumbled at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair with visitors left stunned when the champion lamb pairs were sold for andpound;3,400 each, the highest price ever paid for sheep at the event. - Royal Welsh Winter Fair IC NETWORK

2008-12-04 Citizen Economists and raquo; Missing The Obvious

This is also a man who is a consultant, a businessman, an entrepreneur, a profiteer and , in leftist radical terms, a capitalist pig.

Capitalist pigs like him are the reason that all people, rich and poor, are better off in free economies.

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2008-12-04 Cielo: News @ 40 Top 20 and Top 40 Music Charts from 25 Countries

Howells its worth paying attention to the oddly named Pig and Dan. Hear for yourself on Friday 12th as Made Event welcomes Dan Duncan from the Spanish-based duo Pig and Dan with Igor Tchkotoua, and savor Dans shrewdly structured sets of percolating beats, synth-driven basslines and tripped-out vocals that tread a tightrope that spans from funky bass-bin shakers to the twisted and progressive. Pig and Dan are set to release some new acoustic bombs on Sven Vaths Cocoon Recordings, Datapunk and Pickadoll Records.

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New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Cielo) - Cielo warms up the end of year festivities with another bumper packed month to get you in the holiday mood and give you plenty of reason for cheer, and more then enough excuses to sample the eggnog. Youve heard of the 12 days of Christmas, well heres our alternative 10 essential Cielo nights out in December. provides music charts from all

2008-12-04 Tamworths ham it as a pair but Liz has debut win - WalesOnline

To be completely honest, I knew I was totally out of my depth, but I entered two gilts all the same, just because I enjoy the buzz of washing and preening pigs, donning a white coat, and walking around a show ring with a pig board. I love the pre-show atmosphere, seeing all the various animals arriving in their trailers, watching the stands being set up, and I just cant wait for the doors to open and the public to pour in.

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THERE are some phrases Iand no. 8217;ve waited all my life to say. Snappy little lines like: and no. 8220;Iand no. 8217;ve won the lottery, so you can stick your job,and no. 8221; was a favourite, but I havenand no. 8217;t yet had the chance to use it. - Country and farming columnists

2008-12-04 Cruel to breed pigs like this - Doncaster Today

The farrowing crate is a metal cage in which sows are confined a week before giving birth and remain imprisoned until their piglets are three to four weeks old.

After their piglets are born, their mothers are unable to reach them if they choose, or escape their attentions if they need to.

Naturally, mother pigs are restless and active, making nests of twigs for their young, but the farrowing crate imprisons them for the crime of being mothers.

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Cruel to breed pigs like this - I HAVE recently become aware of a shocking example of the cruelty of factory farming - the pig farrowing crate.

2008-11-28 Israel goes to war over Hebrons House of Peace - Middle East, World - The Independent

For left and right, this has become a crucial test of the Israeli governments future willingness to enforce the removals of West Bank settlements and ndash; all illegal under international law and ndash; that would be needed if a Palestinian state is to be established. Some settlers reacted to the court decision by spray- painting "Mohamed is a Pig" on a mosque, defacing gravestones in the adjacent Muslim cemetery and slightly injuring a soldier. A prominent Hebron settler, David Wilder, says the miscreants were told to leave. But he adds: "It has to be understood, much as I object to going into a graveyard or painting slogans on mosques, extremism breeds extremism. "

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From the inside, it could at first sight be a squat anywhere in the developed world. The bare concrete floors, the nylon doors, the shafts of sunlight peeping between the roofs breeze-blocks indicating where the winter rain will come in and the electric generator show the occupants have had to improvise. The brightly coloured letters of the alphabet pinned to the unpainted wall of one family