Porky Wrights
Rare Breed Pork and Sausages
Self-Catering Accommodation and Hog Roasts
Kara Mia Holiday Cottage
Self-Catering Holiday Cottage in Lincolnshire
Woodpecker Shepherds Hut
Self-Catering Holiday in Lincolnshire
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Welcome to Porky Wrights Smallholding
Our smallholding is located 6 miles North of Boston in rural Lincolnshire. Here you can travel North or South to experience the varied sights and landscape that Lincolnshire can offer.
Since 2015 we have been building a varied herd of rare breed traditional pigs. Our intention is to contribute to maintaining these wonderful old English breeds. To do this, we ensure that we continue to breed a varied quality stock, but we are also able to supply and promote, what we think is the best quality pork you can buy. Locally bred and grown, in a non intensive happy environment.
We also have a 2 bedroom holiday cottage “Kara Mia” and Shepherds Hut “Woodpecker” attached to our smallholding, available for bookings – please see the links and availability calendar.
Rare Breed Pigs
Here at Porky Wrights Smallholding we are keeping a small selection of rare breed pigs to help keep our traditional old English pork alive for future generations.
Why not try the succulent taste of traditionally reared outdoor pork ? Call us or drop us an e-mail for availability or to order your half or whole pig. Why not buy to share with friends or family?
Fancy a hog roast for an event? Visit our Hog Roast page
Saddleback
Saddleback Information
The British Saddleback, formed in 1967, is the result of the amalgamation of the Essex and Wessex Saddleback. These two pigs shared similar colouration but had different characteristics. The Wessex Saddleback originated in the New Forest. It was entirely black except for a band of white hair stretching over its shoulders and down its forelegs. The Essex pig was developed in East Anglia and like the Wessex Saddleback was mainly black. However in addition to the wide band of white across the shoulders and down the forelegs it had white back legs and a white tip to the tail. The Essex Pig was considered to be the fancier pig ‘the gent’s pig’ whilst the Wessex Saddleback was ‘the farmer’s choice’.
Both Breeds were very popular during the second World War when nearly half the total pedigree sow registrations were from the Essex or the Wessex. Sadly though, when the industry started to favour intensive production other breeds replaced these pigs. Thanks to dedicated breeders across the country and to the British Saddleback Association (http://www.saddlebacks.org.uk/) this breed is becoming less rare. It makes fantastic pork bacon and sausages !
Middle White
Middle White Information
In 1852 at the Keighley Agricultural Show in West Yorkshire where Joseph Tuley exhibited several of his famous Large White sows. However when it came to the judging some of the animals were considered too small for the class but “as the merits of these pigs were so extraordinary”, a committee was summoned who decided the pigs were also not be eligible for the Small White class. So as a result a third class was created called the “Middle Breed” and so the Middle White was born.
The Small White had been developed for showing and derived from crossing local pigs with imported Chinese and Siamese pigs, from which it inherited the dished face, so much the characteristic of the Middle White. To create Middle White as we know it today, Tuley took a second cross with a Small White boar and females from his Large White herd. Unfortunatley the Small White breed became extinct in 1912.