Small-Scale Pig Raising - Softcover

Van Loon, Dirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626548854 ISBN 13: 9781626548855

Verlag: Echo Point Books & Media, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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 ).

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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: 9781626545533 ).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Echo Point Books & Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626548854
• ISBN 13: 9781626548855
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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