The photograph of the curly coated Mangalitza pigs posted on this blog last week was taken in the Lincolnshire village of Fulletby.
The animals belong to Brian and Syliva Codling, of the Rectory Reserve.
They are believed to be the first curly coated pigs in the county for almost 40 years - the first, in fact, since the much-loved Lincolnshire Curly Coat died out in the early 1970s.
Be warned: these pigs are hairy - as this close-up of the tail illustrates.
So hairy, it is said, that the 'fleece' from curly coated pigs was often used to make hard-wearing waistcoats worn by farm workers.
Whether this is true or not, I've no absolutely idea.
What I do know is that getting the pictures involved me clambering around with the pigs, gradually becoming more and more covered in mud and much, much worse.
But it was all for a good cause - the full story will appear in Farmers Weekly on 14 September.
In the meantime, you can find out more about mangalitzas - and see a very muddy photographer - on the Rectory Reserve blog.
Johann Tasker
That tail end photo is just wonderful - what extraordinary creatures. I thought the species had died out.
The Lincolnshire Curly Coat has indeed died out - these are Mangalitzas. They do have some Lincolnshire Curly Coat in them though because some of the native British breed were exported for breeding in the early 20th century. Which means the Mangalitza is probably the closest we'll ever get to seeing a Lincolnshire Curly Coat again.
Johann Tasker.
Surely somebody, somewhere has an old Curly Coat sausage in the corner of their freezer (with the stray peas and other suzzy bits). If you had the sausage you could extract DNA and the Curly Coat would be re-born. It worked for Jurassic Park.
Wow, there's an idea Julian. We could probably bring all sorts of things back to life if the depths of the nation's freezers were excavated! I once discovered a flounder in mine that I think was four years old.