Ryedale Folk Museum

Have a look at the video to see the Museum's spring chickens and their chicks as well as new Lincolnshire curly-coated piglets. The piglets haven't quite developed their full curly coats yet but they are getting there. C.G

Max a Clydesdale Heavy Horse and two of the seven new Curly Coated piglets. J.L.

Hamish the boar is living happily at Ryedale Folk Museum, with his lady friends. C.G

Pigs and hens at the museum are thriving, depite it being November Jonathan S

Last Friday I took a few pictures of some of the museum's livestock. The Lincolnshire Curly Coated pigs and Gloucester Old Spots have grown since the last blog entry http://ryedalefolkmuseum.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-pigs-at-ryedale-folk-museum.html . The Light Sussex and Marsh Daisy hens are laying and looking well. On 24th August the Muscovy duck hatched 10 eggs and we now have 10 lovely ducklings. Jonathan Severs

New pigs have arrived at Ryedale Folk Museum. Lincolnshire Curly Coated pigs became extinct in the United Kingdom in the 1970's. Luckily, they had been imported to Austria and Hungary in the last century, and crossed with a breed native to the area, the Mangalitza. The DNA of the Mangalitza is mostly that of the Lincolnshire Curly Coated Pig, and we are fortunate here at Ryedale Folk Museum to have aquired two of these pigs.