Choosing and Keeping Pigs – Linda McDonald-Brown

This practical and accessible guide is the ideal beginner’s handbook and includes expert advice on:
• How to choose and purchase a quality animal and how to help preserve rare breeds
• Equipment, housing and fencing
• Moving and handling
• Feeding, nutrition and pasture
• Pig health care and common diseases
• Selecting a boar or sow for breeding, hogging, farrowing, taking care of piglets and pedigree breeding
• Preparing for slaughter, butchering and subsequent storage
• Showing pigs in competitions.
Choosing and Keeping Pigs also includes a history of pig keeping and a comprehensive directory of 30 traditional and rare breeds. This unique reference provides all the information a pig keeper requires.

By: Linda McDonald-Brown
Publisher: Bounty Books, 2011
Pages: 208
Dimensions: ± 20.5 cm x 19 cm
Hardcover with dust jacket. Good condition. Dust jacket wrapped in plastic wrap.