Small-Scale Pig Raising - Softcover

Van Loon, Dirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882661361 ISBN 13: 9780882661360

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1978

Synopsis

Features information on penning and handling, health and nutrition, commercial feeds, breeding, physiology, and butchering. 116,000 copies in print.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The other day a friend considering raising an animal for meat asked me whether he would be better off getting a calf or a piglet. Without hesitation I said pig.

From this beginning, author Dirk van Loon explains exactly why raising a feeder pig is the best bet for someone with little land who wants to produce the most meat for the smallest investment of time and money. Small-Scale Pig Raising covers everything from buying a pig to smoking your own bacon.

You'll learn about:

* Housing & equipment

* Penning & handling

* Health & nutrition

* Commercial feeds and feeding

* Alternative feeds

* Pig digestion & physiology

* Breeding & farrowing

* Management techniques

* Butchering

Small-Scale Pig Raising is extra good on home butchering, with step-by-step instructions and many photos covering the entire process from slaughtering to portioning meat for the freezer.

About the Author:

Author Dirk van Loon has written two Storey books, The Family Cow and Small-Scale Pig Raising. He publishes a monthly newspaper for small-scale rural producers called Rural Delivery. Dirk is a graduate of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University and now lives in Nova Scotia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0882661361
• ISBN 13: 9780882661360
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272