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| About LBHA | Member breeders | Pig Breeders Blog | Membership | LBHA Forum | FAQ's | Register Pigs | Hog Registration Form | Litter Registration Form | Request CI | PayPal Forms | Member Photos | Links | Contact Us |
Why should you register your pigs with the LBHA?
1. We are a member run organization. The LBHA consists of a wide variety of people with a common interest - ensuring the long term viability of the large black hog breed. The LBHA Board is elected from the membership and is responsible for helping each member succeed in their endeavors.
2. We have an open herd book. This means that we accept any pure bred large black hog for registration. Regardless of where it was born, or if it came from artificial insemination, if you can prove it is pure bred you can register it with us. The only other large registry in the United States has a closed herd book; it will only register hogs that can be traced to its owner's herd.
3. We are more than just a registry. When you join the LBHA you gain access to a wide network of breeders and enthusiasts who can help with finding hogs, teach how to raise them, help you sell them and provide good contacts to veterinarians, processors, feed suppliers and other people who can help you.
4. All of your fees go back to help the membership. The LBHA is a nonprofit organization. The Board members and Registrar are all volunteers; we don't have any paid staff. All of the money collected through registrations and donations is used to fund LBHA activities including outreach and maintaining the registry and this website.
5. Recognition and integrity. The LBHA has quickly become the registry of choice for serious breeders and buyers of large black hogs. We have gained this trust through ensuring the integrity of our registry. While we are easy to work with we have very high standards to make sure that only pure bred hogs are registered. The registry database is monitored by two Board members in addition to the Registrar, providing checks and balances to verify that it is managed correctly. We also track the genetic diversity of our registered hogs; we are the only large black hog registry in the world that tracks the inbreeding coefficient of all registered hogs and provides help to our breeders to reduce inbreeding throughout the breed. We have established good relationships with the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and large black hog organizations in other countries. When you advertise that your hogs are registered with the LBHA, your customers will know that they are getting great value for their money.
PURPOSE AND GOALS: The purpose of the LBHA is to educate the public and LBHA members about Large Black Hogs, also known as English Large Blacks and Large Black Pigs and by several other names, and:
a) To protect the genetic diversity of Large Black Hogs.
b) To promote, market and educate the public and livestock producers about the unique beneficial characteristics of the Large Black Hog. The objective of the LBHA is to attract new and existing breeders to ensure the continued existence of the Large Black Hog in the United States of America.
c) To register and keep pedigree records of all animals that qualify as Large Black Hogs according to the guidelines of LBHA.
d) To provide technical support to a network of breeders to further their work in conserving the Large Black Hog.
e) To maintain an internet website and a breeders directory, available for interested people for the purposes of dissemination of information about Large Black Hogs.
Try our new LBHA Forum. Maybe someone else has the same question or problem you do. It is a great place for comments, questions and discussions. You will not need to be a member to ask questions, although you will have to be a member to answer questions.
Check the FAQ page for answers to the most common questions.
The newsletter area called Pig Breeder's Blog is up and ready too. We continue to work on informative articles for everyone to read. New authors welcome.
This web site continues to grow as you read this so hit the Refresh button often!!
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All pedigree data is the property of the LBHA. This website may contain other material that is copyrighted by the LBHA and other entities. All rights to the use and publication of this material is retained by the LBHA and other copyright owners. All material used by permission.
The LBHA's name, logo, pedigree information, copyrighted material and photographs may not be used by outside parties without proper authorization and without adequate consideration or compensation. The LBHA Board of Directors retains exclusive rights to the use of the LBHA's name, logo, copyrighted material and photographs; all others must obtain formal written permission for all uses of such material.
To obtain permission to use LBHA's name, logo, copyrighted material and/or photographs, please contact Brian Wright, LBHA Secretary, at tabhastal@gmail.com.