New stock boar

New for 2010 the British Saddleback stock boar......Guardsman

Guardsman was breed champion at Cheshire County Show 2010, and placed second to Coal Yeat Grand Duke 238D at Westmorland County Show 2010

This January 2009 Saddleback boar has been used extensively by Ken and Kevin Mathews over in N. Yorkshire. He was only available because he had served so many Saddleback pigs during his short life so Ken needed another young boar to follow in Guardsman's footsteps.
Guardsman apparently worked to order in the Lowpark herd and as Ken put it "He just walks out of his pen, serves the Saddleback sow or gilt then saunters off back to the pen, job done!"
I was over in N. Yorkshire collecting 4 Lowpark Grand Duchess Saddleback gilts served by Guardsman, to enlarge my female genetic and Saddleback family pool, so this was an opportunity too good to miss.
Unfortunately the old stulwart Saddleback boar Lowpark Golden Arrow had just dropped dead overnight (heart attack) so I was in need of a guaranteed working pedigree British Saddleback boar. This was a sad loss of an old friend who will remain in my mind forever as he escaped at Great Eccleston show last year and spent an hour in the beer tent! He had a good run out at several shows last season and was just coming back into condition after spending the winter outside with the dry Saddleback sows.
What of Jack? Unfortunately he went to the sausage factory after being given every opportunity to serve gilts and sows - but to no avail - such is life in the Coal Yeat Herd. The Guardsman Saddleback boar line will perfectly compliment all the pedigree British Saddleback females left by Lowpark Golden Arrow. This Guardsman line of male Saddleback pigs has not been used in the Coal Yeat Herd for over a decade - new blood for the new decade.

This mature boar was purchased from James Sage of the Blewett Herd. Previously a winner at the Three Counties Show, and sire of the Blewett Prefect the AI boar. This Prefect boar is being used in 2010 as the main sire of all the mature Saddleback sows, and is currently running outside with a harem of twelve.

This home bred boar is offering new blood lines both on the male and female side. Shown for the first time at Westmorland County Show in 2009, he was first in the junior boar class. At his only outing in 2010 he again won his class at Westmorland County Show, after being in the field serving sows all summer. He will follow on after Maddaford Prefect to cover the sows in 2011.

This young boar was purchased in spring 2010 for use on all the pedigree British Saddleback gilts. He has been working hard outside in the fields being in continual use, and is now running with 14 gilts. His work load means he is only 'half the pig' of his full brother who won "pig of the year"at the Great Yorkshire Show 2010. This is the second year in succession that Will and Amanda of the Pantysgawan herd of Saddleback pigs have won this prestigious national prize. On both occasions both pigs the gilt 2009, and the boar in 2010 were sired by Coal Yeat Prefect 259C This Prefects young stock already on the ground is looking very promising.

Lowpak Rajah has left many registered British Saddleback gilts in the Coal Yeat herd which are being served by Pantysgawan Prefect 7 (TAB 125)