Small-Scale Pig Raising

by Dirk Van Loon

Overview

Do you dream of raising a feeder animal but have limited land, time, and money? Dirk van Loon has a solution for you! Covering everything from buying your pig to smoking your own bacon, Small-Scale Pig Raising will show you how to produce the most meat for the smallest investment of time and money.

This volume covers the essentials, including:

Housing & equipment

Penning & handling

Commercial feeds

Alternative feeds

Pig digestion & physiology

Breeding & farrowing

Management techniques

Butchering

Small-Scale Pig Raising includes in-depth detail on home butchering with step-by-step instructions and photos that break down the entire process from slaughtering to portioning meat for the freezer. This book covers everything a beginner needs to know.

Dirk van Loon, a graduate of the College of Agriculture at Cornell, publishes Rural Delivery, a monthly magazine for small-scale farmers, and raises food for his table in Nova Scotia.

Readers interested in related titles from Dirk Van Loon will also want to see: Small-Scale Pig Raising Updated 2nd Edition (ISBN: 1626545537 ).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626548855
Publisher:	Echo Point Books & Media
Publication date:	06/27/2014
Pages:	274
Sales rank:	310,473
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.58(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 The General Pig

2 The Wild Boar

3 History of Domestication

4 Behavior and Form

5 Buying a Piglet

6 Handling Pigs

7 Penning a Pig

8 Furniture and Utensils

9 The Meat Producers: Digestion and Physiology

10 Nutrition

11 Feeds and Feeding

12 The Scavenger Pig

13 Rearing Your Own Piglets

14 Management Techniques

15 Health

16 Butchering

17 Portioning, Processing, and Curing Pork

Bibliography

Glossary

Appendix

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