Backyard pig farming

Author: Wang Zhanhe
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The book "Pig Farming in Courtyards" is specifically designed to address the characteristics and advantages of pig farming in farmers' courtyards. Based on the practical realities of courtyard pig farming, it provides practical pig farming techniques, integrating the strengths of courtyard farming with scientific technology to promote its development. This not only helps farmers achieve certain economic benefits from courtyard pig farming but also supplements the production gaps of large and medium-sized pig farms, providing the Chinese people with a large quantity of high-quality, affordable pork products to meet the growing material needs of the population. The book elaborates in detail on various aspects of courtyard pig farming, including the selection of feeding methods, the choice of pigsty construction, the sources and breed selection of piglets, the nutritional characteristics and rational utilization methods of common feed and agricultural by-products, the physiological characteristics and feeding management methods of different pig breeds, the use of common disinfectants and vaccines in pigsties, and the prevention and treatment methods for common pig diseases. Readers can learn a comprehensive set of practical operational techniques and methods, as well as essential scientific theories from the book.