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TT Winter 2010 The Tamworth Breeders’ Club Winter 2010 Volume 5, Issue 2 TamworthTamworth Tamworths - The future’s orange! TrumpetTrumpet Happy Christmas! Bumper Christmas issue WWW ell, we’re back to having proper winters again and tough it is Inside this issue: on just about Tamworth Trifles 2 every pig keeper. With Chairman’s Message 3 forecasts pre- People 4 dicting more cold weather, Pork on the Menu 5 snow, ice and President’s Pronounce- 6 arctic winds, it’s ments good to know The Tamworth Two 7-9 that the great and the good are all ensconced in sunny Mexico discuss- ing global warming! And they only used the equivalent of 3,000 inter- News from Scotland 9-11 national flights to get there! Boris’ Big Day 11 2010 has been a fantastic year for Liz Shankland, broadcaster, writer, Successful Breeding 11-12 smallholder and winner of both the Tamworth Champion of Champi- ons and Tamworth Pig of the Year, so well done, Liz, the established Topsy-Turvy Year 12-13 showmen are looking over their shoulders. Sarah Harris 14-15 But as you will read inside, for every success Liz has enjoyed, there Show & Sale /AGM 16-17 have been some real downs too. So perhaps we should remember Pigs in Mythology 18-19 when looking at success not to be too jealous because for every swing, there’s a roundabout just around the corner. New Secretary 20 Everybody is struggling not only with the weather but with feed and bedding costs too so take a little time out this Christmas to really en- Tamworth Trumpet joy yourself with family and friends and make the most of the break. Help spread the After a little relaxation, the trials and tribulations will look a little eas- word—recruit a new ier and the knowledge that evenings are beginning to draw out again member at every is a big boost too. All too soon those show schedules will be plopping opportunity. through the letterbox and the winter blues will be a thing of the past. Pa ge 2 Tamworth Trumpet Volume 5, Issue 2 Tamworth Trifles by Dreamboy GGG reat to see two prominent Tamworth breeders in the news recently. Barbara Warren had a great article in the recent BPA newsletter written by Sue Fieldes. There were lots of pictures of Barbara's extensive establishment and the whole thing came over as a very professional outfit - what else would we expect from the Vice Chairman of the Tamworth Breeders' Club? The other article was about the great and ebullient Lillian Waddell and her exploits at the Royal Highland Show and all the sausage competitions she gets involved with. She also appeared on Scottish television pro- moting the pigs at a show and still found time to promote our breed north of the border. One of the highlights of this year's BPA Show and Sale was watching an incredibly exciting auction of Bill Howes' January gilt. The auctioneer had made his mind up to get the maximum possible price for the gilt and worked extremely hard to get the best out of two competing bidders. Once the bidding got to 400 guineas, there was a little hiatus between the two opposing camps and Bill immediately reached in his pocket and produced £20 luck money. This got things going again and to much merriment of the assembled crowd, the gilt finished up at £475 guineas. Good to see Tamworths at Jimmy's Farm near Ipswich. The Chairman visited twice this year, once to do some com- mentary for Jimmy's open day and show and secondly to do some filming for a TV programme due out next year. Herdsman Andy Gready has acquired a sow from Bill Howes and a sow from Nick Hunkin and is very pleased with the initial results. Jimmy would eventually like all traditional breeds at the farm but of course his real love is of the old Essex pig fondly represented by the British Saddleback!! It was disappointing that Smithfield was cancelled fairly late in the proceedings. I would have been pleased to see competitive classes for pigs reinstated after so many years’ absence. The Chairman was due to undertake the com- mentary at the show had it gone ahead and unfortunately the classes that were transferred to the East of England winter fair did not include the pigs. It is a great coincidence that our new Secretary, Lucy, lives in the next village to where our Vice-President, Kathleen Pile, resided for so many years. Kathleen still retains an acre or two at Blewbury where her father and mother built up a wonderful farm when the area was still in the county of Berkshire. Good to think the Tamworths will be main- taining a connection with this area. Sorry to hear that the redoubtable Chloe Randall has left Islay where she used to manage the Dunlossit Estate. We have an awful lot of Chloe's ideas on our website, particularly the Sow's Ear. The most regrettable feature of her departure is that the estate could no longer find anyone to run the pigs, so I gather they have all gone. This is a great shame as Chloe had all traditional breeds represented and did an awful lot with the Tamworhts in heath and moorland management. I hear Sarah Brickell, our first Secretary, is doing well at veterinary school in Bristol. Perhaps more importantly she seems to have 9 lives as she survived totally unscathed a very serious accident on the M5 recently when another motorist hit her at speed from the side forcing her on to the crash barrier and completely across the motorway, where she apparently jumped the crash barrier at a later point and ended up in a group of trees. She opened the window, crawled out and walked away with just minimal bruising. We send Sarah our very best regards. Finally, I am very glad the Francis brothers found Tamworths before any other breed. Their latest exploit was to be invited on to the BBC's own stand at the recent BBC Food show - the very one that our editor, Richard, was pre- sented with such a prestigious award (see article elsewhere). The Francis' had very quickly become owners of the largest herd of Tamworths in the country and are doing a fantastic job promoting the breed. Tamworth Trumpet Volume 5, Issue 2 Pa ge 3 Message from your Chairman by Nick Hunkin AAA s another year draws to a close, I think we can all reflect what a positive year the breed has had, even though the cold winds of the aftermath of the reces- sion are still blowing. It may not have been the most notable show season for the breed but from the point of view of growth in numbers and recognition of meat quality, we could not have done much better. I feel we have left behind the old image of unruly, undisciplined, ultra small pigs with very low fecundity. People are realising that the size of the breed has returned and growth rate is vastly improved on what it used to be. Let's hope that 2011 will continue this great trend. “People are realising that the size of the Over the years the Tamworths have become much better known as a result of more press and media exposure especially the tale of the Tamworth Two. breed has returned People still remember the breed through this and of course Caroline and growth rate is Wheatley-Hubbard's weaners provided the pigs for the much vaunted TV film and we have an article in this edition reminding us of the original episode.. vastly improved on vastly improved on Because the winter period can be so miserable, I thought I’d lighten your what it used to be. mood with a little joke I heard recently: THE CITY SLICKER AND THE TAMWORTH BREEDER A city slicker (who had just bought a commercial pig farm as a "commodity"), and a Tamworth breeder are sitting next to each other on a flight to Birmingham on the way to the Pig and Poultry Fair. The city slicker is thinking that Tamworth breeders are all "cloth cap and clogs" and that he can fool them easily. So the city slicker asks if the Tamworth breeder would like to play a fun game. The Tamworth breeder is tired and just wants to take a nap so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks. The city slicker persists and says that the game is a lot of fun. "I ask you a question, and if you don't' know the answer, you pay me only £5; you ask me one and if I don't know the answer I will pay you £500." As may be expected, this catches the Tamworth breeder's attention and to keep the city slicker quiet, he agrees to play the game. The city slicker asks the first question. "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?" The Tamworth breeder doesn't say a word, reaches in his pocket, pulls out a £5 note and hands it to the city slicker. Now it's the Tamworth breeder's turn. He asks the city slicker "what goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes down with 4?" The city slicker uses his laptop, searches all the references he knows. He uses his air-phone; he searches the net and even the British Library. He sends emails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail.
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