gloucestershire old spots is the breed of pig that is white with black spots.
gloucestershire old spots is the breed of pig that is white with black spots.
what breed of pig is white with black spots?
gloucestershire old spots
the gloucestershire old spots (also "gloucester, gloucester old spot, gloucestershire old spot" or simply "old spots") is an english breed of pig which is predominantly white with black spots. it is named after the county of gloucestershire. the gloucestershire old spots pig is known for its docility, intelligence, and prolificity. boars reach a mature weight of 600 lb (272 kg) and sows 500 lb (227 kg). the pigs are white with clearly defined black (not blue) spots. there must be at least one spot on the body to be accepted in the registry. the breed's maternal skills enable it to raise large litters of piglets on pasture. its disposition and self‑sufficiency should make it attractive for farmers raising pasture pigs and those who want to add pigs to diversified operations.
gloucestershire old spots
upperside tawny yellow. forewing: cell anteriorly along its length and the outer half of the wing, following an irregular line from apex of cell to tornus, black, the black in cell formed of coalescent transverse bars; a broad discal oblique fascia traversed by the black veins, followed by a postdiscal series of black-centred, outward turned, slender white lunules, a transverse series of white spots, and another, subterminal series of similar white lunules; interspaces 1 and 2 with three or four black spots. hindwing with broad black costal and terminal margins and black markings somewhat similar to those on the hindwing of "nietneri", but the markings in the interspaces narrower, the row of large spots margined with white, the inner series of lunules beyond the spots black, followed by a subterminal tawny-yellow band and a row of white, outward-turned, slender lunules as in "nietneri". underside variegated with ochraceous red, bluish white, yellow and black; the terminal margins of both forewings and hindwings broadly black with white lunules, as on the upperside, and median short white lines from the margin in each lunule; cilia alternately black and white. forewing: basal area ochraceous red, cell with transverse short bands of black and bluish white, below the cell the ochraceous red at base, followed by whitish and then yellow, the disc spotted with black; the oblique white band as on the upperside, succeeded by a transverse postdiscal series of large black spots, ringed narrowly with white, with a row of paired black dots beyond, and a subterminal broad yellow band, its inner margin sinuous. hindwing: basal area bluish, crossed by broken transverse broad black lines, and followed by a red, a bluish-white, a yellow, a purer white, and lastly a subterminal yellow band with rows of black spots between; on the white band a median series of large black spots. antennae black, head and thorax brownish black, abdomen ochraceous; the thorax beneath ochraceous, banded with black.
cethosia nietneri