Raising Pigs Successfully [Paperback]

Kathy Kellogg (Author), Bob Kellogg (Author), Kathy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1985

Everything the home hog-raiser needs to know, with innovative ideas and insights gained through years of experience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Williamson Publishing Company (September 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913589152
• ISBN-13: 978-0913589151
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #661,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The Kindergarten Pig Book, February 10, 2007

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Michael Britton "God's Way Farms" (Midland City, Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Raising Pigs Successfully (Paperback)

I just wasn't impressed with the detail of this book. Unless you know NOTHING of raising pigs, don't buy this one. The "Storey's Guide to Pigs" by Kelly Klober was much more informative, buy it. Sorry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful tidbits, August 28, 2011

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Chris Mathews (Portland OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Raising Pigs Successfully (Paperback)

Interesting reviews here, which I think reflect the wide variety of experience on the part of the reviewers.

As a first-timer, I found the book useful, especially how to calculate the weight of a pig (heart girth ^2 * length / 400). I also thought their viewpoint (that breeding a sow was more difficult than buying weaners) honest.

There is enough information here not available in the Storey guide
[...]

that I think it is worth your time to get a hold of the book and read it. Particularly, estimating the weight of a pig (without scales) as well as processing and butchering the pig on your own.

This is a book geared at the homesteader looking at raising 1-3 hogs.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very successful, May 10, 2009

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karenbrat1 "karenbrat1" (Inland Northwest, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raising Pigs Successfully (Paperback)

Unlike the title, this book is actually quite discouraging about raising pigs -- that is, breeding your own in your backyard. I gather the authors raised their own litter ONCE and decided it was so much trouble they never did it again. It's also rather dated at 24 years old.

I'm going to buy the Storey Guide to Pigs, and Small Scale Pig Raising (OOP but many used available), and hope they are a better help. Meanwhile I have learned a lot from Yahoo e-groups Homestead Hogs message board, and Walter Jeffries' blog at sugarmtnfarm.com.