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Smallholding Pig Raising on the Increase - Are you Ready for Keeping Pigs for Pork?
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"How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Feeders, Stanchions and More"

How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops Hutches Barns Sheds Pens Nestboxes Feeders Stanchions and Much More

by Carol Ekarius How to Build Animal Housing is the most comprehensive and useful guide of its kind. For small-scale farmers, hobby farmers, do-it-yourselfers, and animal lovers, this book is indispensable. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in animal health and welfare.

Includes complete plans and step-by-step, illustrated instructions for sheds, coops, hutches, multipurpose barns, and economical easy-to-build windbreaks and shade structures. Ekarius covers new high-tech, portable structures made of plastics and fabrics, such as hoop houses and hen spas, as well as more traditional alternatives, such as straw-bale structures. Always practical, she enumerates the advantages and disadvantages of ready-to-build kits and modular barnyard buildings and includes designs for watering systems, feeders, chutes, stanchions, and more--the essentials that help owners keep their animals healthy and happy. Ekarius wisely emphasizes the importance of careful planning, choosing an appropriate housing site, and complying with local zoning regulations; pest control, basic housing maintenance, and insurance costs are also discussed. Real-world advice from farmers and veterinarians on the types of housing and facilities animals like best enliven the text throughout.

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Starting with Pigs - A Beginners Guide for pig-keepers by Andy Case

"A Guide to Traditional Pig Keeping"

by Carol Harris

A clear, concise and practical guide to sound, old-fashioned basic pig husbandry. The book provides information required by anyone thinking about buying and keeping some pigs. For existing pig keepers it provides extra information to help with most situations. Especially suitable for pig smallholdings.

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Start Farming Pigs
A Beginner's Guide to Pig-Keeping
by Andy Case Written for the smallholder pig keeper, this guide gives clear instructions on the care and management of outdoor pigs on a small scale farm.
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Swine Husbandry Guide - information about keeping pigs, pig care and management on a smallholding

"A Field Guide to Pigs" - Pig Breeds - Facts - Behaviour - Zoology Review: A cute collection of all kinds of interesting titbits of information about pigs. There is a good guide to the zoological and historical background of the porcine species. Fascinating titbits about pigs taken from literature. A review of common breeds and their identification features and geographical distribution plus general information about the behaviour, needs and lifestyle of pigs. It is a useful book for people who are new to the world of the pig and pig farming.
Industry people looking for specialist technical husbandry information will be disappointed.
Especially useful for smallholders and hobby or pet pigkeepers.
Contents: Pig terms - Parts of a pig - Pork cuts and joints, pork bellies & spam - Pig Watching - Pig farming - Domestic pig breeds - Wild pigs - other Suidae & the Peccary - Origin of pigs - History of pig domestication - Pig Latin - Pig quotations - Pig Poems - Superstitions - Glossary.
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On the Farm by Jimmy Doherty - The book of the famous smallholding TV series Jimmy's Farm "On the Farm" by Jimmy Doherty

The book of the famous TV series "Jimmy's Farm"
The book gives a fuller picture of the process of building the smallholding farm and what life was like doing it plus more insight into the character of Jimmy Doherty himself and how he coped with setbacks and frustrations. An informative and enjoyable read.
The book tells of Doherty's sheer hard work and determination to create a rare breed farm with no experience at all. It also has some useful practical farming tips and recipes on extensive welfare-friendly organic livestock farming and on cooking and selling high quality meat products including the famous Jimmy Doherty "love sausage".

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The Biological Potential of Swine

USA edition of The Whole Hog - natural history of domestic and wild swine United Kingdom and Canada edition of The Whole Hog - biology of domesticated and wild pigs
Author of "The Whole Hog - Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs" is biologist Lyall Watson who has tracked pigs in the wild, observed their resourceful and playful lives and deciphered their language of vocal sounds. During forty million years of evolution, pigs have become increasingly versatile, gregarious and more curious. Sixteen species of wild pigs are found over all continents except Australia (feral pigs only) and Antarctica.
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Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs
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Paperback - 313 pages
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Pig Production
Biological Principles & Applications
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Dr. John McGlone & Dr. Wilson G. Pond
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Small-Scale Pig Raising
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Dirk Van Loon & Dick Van Loon
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Practical Pig Keeping
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Paul Smith
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The Weaner Pig: Nutrition and Management - NEW!!
by Dr. Mike A. Varley & Dr. Julian Wiseman
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Human-Livestock Interactions::
The Stockperson & Productivity & Welfare of Intensively Farmed Animals
by Paul H. Hemsworth & G.J. Coleman
Hardcover 176 pages Approx price: US$55 UK£30

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Pig Stockmanship: Garth Pig Stockmanship Standards
by Dr. John Carr
The Garth Veterinary Practice, Beeford, Yorkshire
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Livestock Handling and Transport
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by Dr. Temple Grandin

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Harris on the Pig: Practical Hints for Pig Farmers
by Joseph Harris & Noel Perrin

In this delightful guide, farmer Joseph Harris dispenses comprehensive, time-honoured teachings on the whys and wherefores of pig rearing. Included here is an introduction to various breeds of pigs such as the Lord Western Essex and the Chester County White, a common-sense approach to feeding, instruction on building piggeries and pens, plus dozens of other useful lessons-all leavened with a healthy dose of humour. Gems of knowledge abound: Unlike the ox, who has four, the pig has but one stomach and therefore requires food containing a greater amount of nutriment in a given bulk.
A well-bred pig won't waste energy wandering around the pen and will sleep three-fourths of the time in winter. Also, insists Harris, pigpens should be cleaned daily. This few minutes' work on the part of the farmer will soon lead pigs to form cleanly habits, which will in turn save on bedding.
Illustrated throughout with helpful line drawings, Harris on the Pig is a veritable swine bible offering the serious breeder and casual reader alike a fine education in the practices of twentieth-century weaner, sow, boar and gilt management. Ordering information (Amazon): USA & international UK & Europe

The Science and Practice of Pig Production: by Professor Colin T. Whittemore
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