AN UNUSUAL pig is making a comeback in the UK thanks to pig breeder Tony York.
Mr York was incensed when the Lincolnshire Curly Coat pig became extinct in 1972 in this country and, after many years, has reintroduced a similar type of pig in this country.
The Lincolnshire Curly Coat looked like a sheep due to its woolly coat.
Mr York and his partner Carron McCann moved to Drove Lane in Market Lavington just over a year ago from Staffordshire.
Mr York started Pig Paradise in Wales in 1991 while Ms McCann rang Piggywigs Farm in Chitterne.
Mr York, who does not have any children, met Ms McCann, who has a daughter and a son, on a course he ran in Staffordshire.
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Together they formed a company called Pig Perfect, based at their farm in Chitterne.
They moved to Wiltshire as they needed more space to run their pig courses.
In the early 1900s Britain exported many Lincolnshire Curly Coats to Hungary and the Hungarians crossed them with a similar curly coated pig called the Mangalitza, with the resultant cross nicknamed the Lincolista. Mr York spent £10,000 on bringing over 17 Mangalitzas from Austria and Hungary in 2006.
