Homesteader’s Library

The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
The bestselling author takes a delightful look at the occasionally amusing, often instructive, and completely admirable qualities of pigs in this indispensable book filled with both realistic and wonderfully fanciful illustrations of pigs that illuminate everything anyone wants to know about pigs.

The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary [...]

All about Pigs & Pig-Keeping – 800 Questions and Answers
Originally published in the 1950s, this extremely comprehensive book answers 800 questions about pigs and pig-keeping. Packed full of useful information and well illustrated with explanatory diagrams, this contains much of practical use to today’s pig keeper. Contents Include: Breeding – Breeding for Bacon – Sow’s [...]

Storey’s Guide to Raising Pigs
These guides give novice and experienced livestock farmers all they need to know to successfully keep and profit from animals. Each book includes information on selection, housing, behavior, space requirements, breeding and birthing techniques, feeding, health concerns, and remedies for illness. The books also cover the business of raising animals, such [...]

A Field Guide to Pigs: How to Identify and Appreciate 36 Breeds
This guide offers easy-to-understand descriptions and illustrations of the world’s most popular porcine breeds. Whether it is the massive Poland China or the roly-poly Vietnamese Potbelly, A Field Guide to Pigs is the one-stop reference for endless little-known facts, and fascinating tidbits about pig [...]

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

Pigs: The Homoeopathic Approach to the Treatment and Prevention of Diseases
Written in response to a growing demand on the part of pig farmers, here is a textbook which will provide a working manual for the homeopathic treatment and prevention of disease in pigs. The author, George Macleod, was one of the first veterinarians to work [...]

How to Raise Pigs
From choosing a breed to bringing home the bacon, this approachable, authoritative guide covers every facet of raising pigs–breeding, housing, feeding, healthcare, showing, and marketing.

How to Raise Pigs

Living with Pigs: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Porkers
People who love pigs – and believe it or not, there is a significant number of them.

Living with Pigs: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Porkers