Main description:

Combine pork chops with profit and bring home the bacon the frugal way!

Profitable Homestead Pigs takes you on a journey deep into small-scale pig raising, showing cost-effective methods to produce sustainable, affordable, high-quality meat for your family or for profit. Filled with creative workarounds to radically reduce costs, from piglet to pork chop, it covers:

Picking piglets, transport, housing, bedding, and safety
Creative approaches to feeding and keeping hogs healthy and happy
Butchering, pricing, products, and marketing and selling options
A numbers-driven approach to sound financial decisions
Financial analysis, tools, worksheets, and creative cost-saving solutions.

Whether you raise a few pigs for the fun of it and to feed your family or you are looking to add to your farm's bottom line, Profitable Homestead Pigs is the go-to guide to raising health, happy pigs humanely and frugally for a quality product and a reasonable profit.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Pig Vocabulary and Selection
Chapter 2: Transporting Pigs
Chapter 3: Housing and Containing
Chapter 4: Feeding and Watering
Chapter 5: Butchering
Chapter 6: Pricing Pork for Market