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Pigs: Breeds and Management
Author: Sanders Spencer
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1528769732
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years there has been an increasing resurgence in small scale pig rearing for both commercial use and exhibition purposes. With many of the older and less common breeds sinking into obscurity, and in some cases vanishing completely, this book will greatly assist all who seek to raise the profile of one of our oldest and most favourite, domesticated farm animals. "Pigs. Breeding and Management." Consists of one hundred and eighty four pages containing thirteen Comprehensive Chapters: Breeds of Pigs. (Including Scales of Points). Selection of the Boar. Management of the Boar. Selection of the Sow. Management of the Sow. Mating. Management of the Young Pigs. Exhibition Pigs. Breeding Cross-Breds. Housing Pigs. Experimental Pig Feeding. Pig Census and Value. Diseases of the Pig. Bacon and Ham Curing. There are also twenty four full page vintage black and white photos of various pig breeds. This is a fascinating read for any pig breed enthusiast, farmer or smallholder, with much of the content remaining useful and practical today.
A Guide to Raising Pigs
Author: Kelly Klober
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Care, facilities, breed selection, management.
Small-scale Outdoor Pig Breeding
Author: Wendy Scudamore
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2015-05-31
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1785000640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Small-scale Outdoor Pig Breeding is a comprehensive guide to breeding and rearing pigs in natural conditions without compromising their well-being. The book provides support for novice pig-keepers hoping to breed their own pigs. Moreover, it also acts as a valuable reference for more experienced breeders and offers information about different breeds of pigs and their respective needs. Topics covered include: choosing a breed; selecting a boar; hogging and mating; gestation care; farrowing; and hand rearing. This invaluable reference guide to breeding and rearing pigs is aimed at all pig-keepers, whether novice or more experienced, and also smallholders, farmers and rare breed enthusiasts. Fully illustrated with 77 colour photographs and diagrams.
Pigs
Pigs
Author: Neville Beynon
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781852237547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide to managing modern and rare pig breeds. Chapters cover the history of the pig, the market and its influence on breeds and systems, feeding, welfare, and showing and carcass competitions. This book is aimed at smallholders, experienced pig farmers and agricultural students.
Harris on the Pig
Pigs
Pigs
Pigs, Breeds and Management
Author: Sanders Spencer
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9781230439839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... PIGS. BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. CHAPTER I. BREEDS OF PIGS. It has been freely asserted that the original wild pig, from which all our many cultivated breeds or varieties are descended, was of a rusty grey colour when young, the colour deepening as the pig reached maturity, and becoming a dark chestnut brown, with its hairs tinged with grey at the extremities as old age crept over it. For this opinion, which is expressed with great confidence by persons who have travelled considerably, there is much to be said. From residents in many foreign countries to which we have shipped pigs, we have learned that the semi-wild pig of the several countries is of a rusty or a slate colour, which with care in selection can be made of a lighter or of a darker shade. Climate and soil also undoubtedly affect the colour to a considerable extent; thus in Sierra Leone the pigs were described to us by the Hon. John Smith, one of the greatest benefactors of that country, as very small in size and bone, with comparatively little lean meat, and nearly black in colour, particularly the old pigs. In New Zealand the native pigs are very similar. In the colder portions of Siberia the pigs were stated by a resident to be "very small, of a slate colour and mostly bristles." It appears to be the same as regards the colour of the native pigs of all countries--this has become fixed, or at all events materially affected, by the colour of the lair in which it has to make its resting and hiding place. Thus in those countries where the climate is such as to produce a profusion of darkcoloured and rank herbage--as in tropical countries--there the wild pig is found to be of a colour approaching black; on the other hand, in the temperate zone where the herbage is sparse and the...
