ssorllith, Thanks for that site, there are some pigs there that I've never heard of before. You are dead on about creating a market to maintain a breed. If it isn't economically feasible then it's a hobby and it's too expensive to raise theses things as a hobby. Out of all the minor heritage breeds ...

Sorry to resurrect an old post but I just joined and this subject is my bread and butter, so to speak. In the US we lost our pork heritage with the advent of the ad campaign "The Other White Meat". From that point on our hogs got leaner and leaner until they carried almost no back fat at all, much l...