Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs
Now that B.J.'s truck makes us 85% sure we can try
pigs this year, I decided it was
time to crack open Storey's
Guide to Raising Pigs
by Kelly Klober. Although some volumes are better than others,
I've enjoyed Storey's
Guides to
various new livestock we've considered adding to our homestead.
The volume on pigs is no exception, being full of a breadth of
firsthand information (although perhaps without as much depth as I'd
like in certain areas).
Klober takes the same
middle-of-the-road approach in his book that he advocates when breeding
hogs. Sure, crazy permaculturalists like me will have to look elsewhere for in-depth information on
pasturing, but so will folks who want to raise swine in confinement
settings. The book has an excellent overview of what to expect
when raising a couple of finishing hogs for the family's table, when
showing swine, and when starting your own breeding operation.
Overall, I'd highly
recommend this book for the complete beginner (like me), but I'm still
waiting with baited breath for Walter Jeffries to hurry up and complete
his book on pasturing pigs. In the meantime, I hope you'll enjoy
this week's lunchtime series --- an introduction to pigs on the
homestead.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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