Pig Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Pigs
Author:   Liz Shankland
Publisher:   Haynes Publishing Group
Edition:   H5026
ISBN:  

9780857330260


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   17 March 2011
Replaced By:   9781785211010
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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Pig Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Pigs


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Author:   Liz Shankland
Publisher:   Haynes Publishing Group
Imprint:   J H Haynes & Co Ltd
Edition:   H5026
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 27.00cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780857330260


ISBN 10:   0857330268
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   17 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9781785211010
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

History of the modern pig: how breeds have developed, guide to the popular breeds, choosing the right breed. Getting started: costs, rules and regulations, training, housing, vets and transport. Buying: when to buy and where to buy from, what to look for, pedigree or non-pedigree? Feeding: different feeds, blending, growing, amounts needed. Health and welfare: diseases, general health advice, behaviour and first aid. Eating your own: psychological preparation, planning, timings, abattoirs, transport, butchers and home butchery, selling. Breeding: choosing stock, breeding cycles, nutritional and medicinal care, mating process, farrowing, care of litter, weaning. Showing: why, how and where, classes, preparation.

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Liz Shankland has a smallholding 800ft up a mountain in Wales, where she keeps pigs, sheep, chickens and turkeys, and is a respected breeder of Tamworth pigs, and a prize-winning exhibitor. She is a journalist and broadcaster, and is the resident pig expert for Country Smallholding magazine.

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