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"Home Pork Production may well be the easiest (and most delicious) way to put meat on the table for pennies a day."
You may have become aware of the horrible growing conditions in the confinement hog operations!
If you have some spare space (it doesn't take much) perhaps you would like to raise your own "dirt hogs" for your own consumption!
You will control what goes into them! They do well on leftovers....greens from your garden or pasture....if you have room they dig for roots, insects and pretty much whatever they can get in their mouth.
Dirt hogs actually get much of their mineral requirements by eating dirt! They usually don't need iron supplements like the commercial hogs do and if they are allowed dirt, they actually develop a better immune system.
Also one of the major nutrients found in hogs that are allowed sunshine is vitamin D. They absorb it directly through their skin like we humans do! Hogs that are raised indoors seriously lack this vital nutrient, and the confinement producers are really doing an injustice to the pork consuming population just because of this one factor. Outdoor hogs store this vital nutrient in their fat. Yes, Fat and Lard from outdoor hogs is actually good for you!
This book will teach you how to raise hogs from buying piglets or farrowing your own to butchering, wrapping and freezing!
192 pages
11 chapters plus an appendix with more specific information.
You will Learn to raise your own hogs:
Breeds and Characteristics
Housing and Pen Basics
Buying Piglets
Daily management
My Pig is sick! Now what?
Manure Management
Butchering
Producing your own piglets
even a section on Biogas from Hog Manure!
I particularly like the chapter on the best part of raising hogs....eating them!
It has specific instructions for the complete butchering process, cutting the meat and what the different cuts are good for. It teaches how to wrap the meat and freezing it.
Simple Plans for a smoker to smoke your own ham and bacon.
Recipes for Sausage.....Scrapple....Making Lard.....Soap Making......Head Cheese....Pepperoni
Instructions for Roasting a Whole Hog! (Too much fun!)
Housing Plans (It really doesn't take much. I actually know a person that just builds a simple frame and covers it with one of the cheap blue poly tarps that you can buy for a few dollars)
List of Chapters
Butchering
Estimating the weight of your hogs
Recipes
Smoking
Ringing the nose
Fencing
Simple Feeders and Waterers
Learn the Breed Characteristics
How much do they need to eat?
This is a softcover book in very good condition, It contains 192 pages, Measures about 9" x 6", and is Dated 1985
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