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The pig industry is committed to intensive indoor pig production as well as indoor straw-based production and extensive outdoor systems. This illustrated manual provides up-to-date information for successful pig keeping.
Topics covered include: getting started; breeding for future generations; making the most of nutrition; management - pigs and people; the breeding sow; raising piglets; market considerations; pig health matters and the way forward.
If you are going to keep pigs on the same land all year or are going to breed pigs, you will need to address the issue o
Like many areas of farming and livestock, pig-keeping has its own lexicon and terminology. This glossary of pig terms sh
There are 9 British rare breeds of pig, here we look at each in detail.
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