- Paperback: 190 pages
- Publisher: Williamson Publishing Co (Dec 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0913589152
- ISBN-13: 978-0913589151
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 697,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Everything the home hog-raiser needs to know, with innovative ideas and insights gained through years of experience.
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12 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Kathy and Bob make it easy for anyone to understand the fine art of raising your own pigs for the dining pleasure of your family. An especially good book for those that plan on having a sustainable food source in times of disruption, such as Year 2000 grocery disruptions, an extended illness, layoffs, recession, depression, etc. This book will help you understand that you too can raise your own oinker for hard times. It's a CAN DO kind of book.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
The Kindergarten Pig Book
11 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
I just wasn't impressed with the detail of this book. Unless you know NOTHING of raising pigs, don't buy this one. The "Storey's Guide to Pigs" by Kelly Klober was much more informative, buy it. Sorry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Useful tidbits
29 Aug 2011
Format:Paperback
Interesting reviews here, which I think reflect the wide variety of experience on the part of the reviewers.
As a first-timer, I found the book useful, especially how to calculate the weight of a pig (heart girth ^2 * length / 400). I also thought their viewpoint (that breeding a sow was more difficult than buying weaners) honest.
There is enough information here not available in the Storey guide
[...]
that I think it is worth your time to get a hold of the book and read it. Particularly, estimating the weight of a pig (without scales) as well as processing and butchering the pig on your own.
This is a book geared at the homesteader looking at raising 1-3 hogs.
As a first-timer, I found the book useful, especially how to calculate the weight of a pig (heart girth ^2 * length / 400). I also thought their viewpoint (that breeding a sow was more difficult than buying weaners) honest.
There is enough information here not available in the Storey guide
[...]
that I think it is worth your time to get a hold of the book and read it. Particularly, estimating the weight of a pig (without scales) as well as processing and butchering the pig on your own.
This is a book geared at the homesteader looking at raising 1-3 hogs.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Not very successful
10 May 2009
Format:Paperback
Unlike the title, this book is actually quite discouraging about raising pigs -- that is, breeding your own in your backyard. I gather the authors raised their own litter ONCE and decided it was so much trouble they never did it again. It's also rather dated at 24 years old.
I'm going to buy the Storey Guide to Pigs, and Small Scale Pig Raising (OOP but many used available), and hope they are a better help. Meanwhile I have learned a lot from Yahoo e-groups Homestead Hogs message board, and Walter Jeffries' blog at sugarmtnfarm.com.
I'm going to buy the Storey Guide to Pigs, and Small Scale Pig Raising (OOP but many used available), and hope they are a better help. Meanwhile I have learned a lot from Yahoo e-groups Homestead Hogs message board, and Walter Jeffries' blog at sugarmtnfarm.com.
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