Description
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 ).
Author: Dirk Van Loon
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
Published: 06/27/2014
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781626548855
ISBN10: 1626548854
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | Animal Husbandry
- Cooking | Specific Ingredients | Meat
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