- Iron Age pork chop, roasted Apple braised endive and chimichurri ©Pig & Butcher 2016. They’re a distinctive looking cross, one that was first developed for a BBC...
- A project to create them, under the name Iron Age pig, started in the early 1980s by crossing a male wild boar with a Tamworth sow to produce an animal that...
- Dubbed “Iron-age pigs,” the idea is that they resemble the early pigs that were first domesticated by humans in ancient times.
- Well, in this case you're right, but there are many types of pigs, and you can mix and match breeds to produce hybrids like this Iron Age Pig...
- Iron Age pigs are a distinctive looking cross breed first developed for a BBC documentary by none other than Countryfile presenter Adam Henson’s father Joe.
- These included a taboo on pigs, which arose early in the Iron Age during conflicts between Israelites and Philistines and was revitalized by the biblical writers.
- Our Iron Age pigs are bred by interbreeding male wild boar with Tamworth/ Gloucester Old Spot cross sow.
- It is called this because the breeders were trying to create a pig similar to the ones you would find during the Iron Age (12th Century BC).
