Kelly Klober

Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs, 4th Edition (eBook, ePUB)

Care, Facilities, Management, Breeds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of the most trusted and comprehensive pig-raising reference features color photography and updated information on pig care, breed selection, housing, and health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635860443
• Artikelnr.: 64262944

Autorenporträt

Kelly Klober is the author of Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs and has raised purebred hogs on his Missouri farm for almost 40 years. He writes, speaks, and consults on many small-farm topics, including farmers' markets, breed preservation, chicken health, and sustainable practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface   1 An Introduction to Raising Hogs Hog-Farming Trends
Modern Pork Production
Hog Myths
Talkin' Hog
Thinking Hogs
Identify Your Markets           2 Breeds Tried and True        Choosing Breeding Stock for Small Farms
Modern Swine Breeds
Why Purebred Hogs Instead of Hybrids?
Choose a Breed Type to Match Your Farm
Pigs as Pets   3 Raising Hogs for the Family Table  The Facilities
Essential Equipment
Buying a Pig or Two
Feeding Hogs
Bringing Your Pigs Home
Swine Finishing   4 Home Butchering and Pork Processing     Slaughtering the Hog
Breaking Down the Carcass
Butchering
Putting Away the Pork
Preserving Pork
There’s Pork in This? — Pork Recipes   5 Fitting and Showing Hogs               Showing Market Hogs
Showing Breeding Stock   6 The Hog Business                Running a Manageable Operation
How Many Hogs for Success?
Know Your Market
A Shift in Feeder-Pig Production
Show Pigs
Farrow-to-Finish Production
Finishing Hogs
Breeding-Stock Production
Direct Marketing Your Own Pork
What about Organic?
Contented Hogs
Lean and Green   7 Preparing for Your Herd     The Drylot
The Pasture
Fencing Choices
The Range House
Farrowing Structures
Housing for Sows with Nursing Pigs   8 Selecting Breeding Stock                Shopping for Livestock
Performance Data
Gilt Selection
Boar Selection
Bidding Decisions   9 Managing Your Breeding Herd                  Bringing in the Boar
Bringing in Gilts
Breeding Gilts
What's Best for the Boar
Gestation
Farrowing
The Pig at Birth
Caring for the Newborn Pig
Postfarrowing Sow Care
Care for Nursing Pigs
Weaning
Growout   10 Hog Health Care                A New Vulnerability
Breed Your Way Back to Vigor
A Health-Care Philosophy
Just the Basics
Veterinary Care
Injections
Parasite Control
Swine Ailments and Illnesses   11 Managing Your Hog Operation                Record Keeping
Marketing Hogs
The Hog Industry: Today and Tomorrow   12 Day-to-Day Life with Hogs                        Movin’ Hogs the Easy Way
Managing Information
Do It Right the First Time
Take Time to Scratch Their Ears
Goals
Every Pig Is Precious
Buying at Auction
Hog-Farm Fashion
Hog People   Epilogue         Appendixes    Hog Anatomy    Reproductive Information    Record-Keeping Templates                     Sample Calendar Year for the Diversified Small Producer Resources                      Glossary                      Metric Conversion Charts Index