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Little is recorded of the breed's development but Victorian writers such as William Youatt in 'The Pig' and HD Richardson in 'The Pig - Its Origins and Varieties' seem to conclude that it was derived from crossing the original Gloucestershire pig - a large, off-white variety with wattles hanging from its neck, with the unimproved Berkshire, a sandy-coloured prick-eared pig with spots.

The Week's Rare Breed - Gloucester Old Spot Pig 2007

Little is recorded of the breed's development but Victorian writers such as William Youatt in 'The Pig' and HD Richardson in 'The Pig - Its Origins and Varieties' seem to conclude that it was derived from crossing the original Gloucestershire pig - a large, off-white variety with wattles hanging from its neck, with the unimproved Berkshire, a sandy-coloured prick-eared pig with spots.

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Youatt, or Mr Huxtable's contributions to the department of literature devoted to manure and pigs.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Youatt estimates the daily yield of an Ayrshire cow, for the first two or three months after calving, at five gallons a day, on an average; for the next three months, at three gallons; and for the next four months, at one gallon and a half.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

Youatt -- who is standard authority in such matters -- says that for the dairy the North Devon must be acknowledged to be inferior to several other breeds.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

Youatt, in his work on cattle published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful

The Principles of Breeding or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals S. L. Goodale

Youatt, who was probably better acquainted with the works of agriculturists than almost any other individual, and who was himself a very good judge of animals, speaks of the principle of selection as “that which enables the agriculturist, not only to modify the character of his flock, but to change it altogether.

I. Variation under Domestication. Principles of Selection Anciently Followed, and Their Effects 1909

We have plenty of cases of rudimentary organs in our domestic productions, —as the stump of a tail in tailless breeds, —the vestige of an ear in earless breeds of sheep, —the reappearance of minute dangling horns in hornless breeds of cattle, more especially, according to Youatt, in young animals, —and the state of the whole flower in the cauliflower.

XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Rudimentary, Atrophied, and Aborted Organs 1909

Youatt gives an excellent illustration of the effects of a course of selection, which may be considered as unconscious, in so far that the breeders could never have expected, or even wished, to produce the result which ensued—namely, the production of two distinct strains.

I. Variation under Domestication. Unconscious Selection 1909

He quotes the opinions on this point of Youatt, Brehm, Sir Andrew Smith and

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899