Pig
Paradise Farm
The Home of all
the Rare Pig Breeds
British
Lop
One
of the most endangered of all our native breeds. Extremely hardy and can be kept
outdoors all the year round. Excellent mothers, very docile and is well recognised
as having a very good record as far as piglets born and reared is concerned. A
good long pig that produces both excellent pork and first class bacon
Originally found in the South West of England in Cornwall and particularly around
the Tavistock area of Devon. Is closely linked with the ‘Welsh’ and also the now
extinct breeds of Cumberland and Ulster. An all white pig with large lop ears
which until the 1960’s was known as the ‘National Long White Lop Eared’ pig.
