Raising the homestead hog. (excerpted from 'Homesteaders' Handbook to Raising Small Livestock)

From: Countryside & Small Stock Journal | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: Belanger, Jd | Copyright information

Hogs are great meat producers, require only a small pen and do not smell if their pen is kept clean. Swine eat grains supplemented by protein which can be soybeans, meat meal, milk, eggs or table scraps. Instructions for butchering are include.

A few generations ago, no diversified farm worthy of the name was without a

hog, at least to provide pork for home use. But as with most other aspects of farming, it's all but impossible to make a living raising hogs on a small s...

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