Book: Pig Keeping - Housing, Feeding And General Management This book is a complete guide to all aspects of pig keeping. Full of practical advice, instruction, and useful diagrams and photos, it focuses mainly on the three most important aspects of pig keeping - Housing, Feeding and General Management. Contents Include: Policies in Perspective - Choosing the System - Housing - Pig Keeping Equipment - Feeding in Theory - Feeding In Practice - Feeding A Matter of Choice - Breeding Better Pigs - Management Breeding Stock - Management Farrowing - Management Rearing - Management Fattening - Health and Disease - Copper or Gold? - Grading Standards for Bacon Pigs - Price Conversion Table - Chemical Analyses of Feeding Stuffs - Standard Rations for Home Mixing - Useful Addresses - Notifiable Diseases of Pigs - Pork, Bacon or Heavy Hog? - Standards of Performance for Breeding and Fattening Pigs - References
Details of Book: Pig Keeping - Housing, Feeding And General Management Book: Pig Keeping - Housing, Feeding And General Management
Author: W. D. Peck
ISBN: 1443736295
ISBN-13: 9781443736299
, 978-1443736299
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 01112008
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Number of Pages: 256
Language: English