- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-353) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Preface -- 1: Introduction To Raising Hogs -- Hog-farming trends -- Modern pork production -- Hog myths -- Talkin' hog -- Thinking hogs -- Identify your markets -- 2: Breeds Tried And True -- Modern swine breeds -- Why purebred hogs instead of hybrids? -- Choose a breed type to match your farm -- Pigs as pets -- 3: Raising Hogs For The Family Table -- Facilities -- Essential equipment -- Buying a pig or two -- Feeding hogs -- Bringing your pigs home -- Swine finishing -- 4: Home Butchering And Pork Processing -- Slaughtering the hog -- Breaking down the carcass -- Butchering -- Putting away the pork -- Preserving pork -- There's pork in this?-pork recipes -- 5: Fitting And Showing Hogs -- Showing market hogs -- Showing breeding stock -- 6: Hog Business -- Running a manageable operation -- How many hogs for success? -- Know your market -- Shift in feeder-pig production -- Show pigs -- Farrow-to-finish production -- Finishing hogs -- Breeding-stock production -- Direct marketing your own pork -- What about organic? -- Contented hogs -- Lean and green -- 7: Preparing For Your Herd -- Drylot -- Pasture -- Fencing choices -- Range house -- Farrowing structures -- Housing for sows with nursing pigs -- 8: Selecting Breeding Stock -- Shopping for livestock -- Performance data -- Gilt selection -- Boar selection -- Bidding decisions -- 9: Managing Your Breeding Herd -- Bringing in the boar -- Bringing in gilts -- Breeding gilts -- Gestation -- Farrowing -- Pig at birth -- Caring for the newborn pig -- Postfarrowing sow care -- Care for nursing pigs -- Weaning -- Growout -- 10: Hog Health Care -- New vulnerability -- Breed your way back to vigor -- Health-care philosophy -- Just the basics -- Veterinary care -- Injections -- Parasite control -- Swine ailments and illnesses -- 11: Managing Your Hog Operation -- Record keeping -- Marketing hogs -- Hog industry: today and tomorrow -- 12: Day-To-Day Life With Hogs -- Movin' hogs the easy way -- Managing information -- Do it right the first time -- Take time to scratch their ears -- Goals -- Every pig is precious -- Buying at auction -- Hog-farm fashion -- Hog people -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Hog anatomy -- Reproductive information -- Record keeping templates -- Sample calendar year for the diversified small producer -- Resources -- Glossary -- Index.
