Swine

Storey’s Guide to Raising Pigs

By Kelly Klober. 320 pages, 6" x 9". Softcover. Addresses the needs of families raising one or two pigs for food as well as those raising a herd of pigs for market or show. Readers will find advice for care, facilities, buying, feeding, ... More.

Care of the Brood Sow and Her Litter VHS

Teach the basics of swine production from breeding through weaning. Compares natural service and artificial insemination, including collecting the boar. Watch as a sow farrows and learn proper procedures at birth, plus how and when to assist. Iron shots... More.

Basic Swine Reproduction PowerPoint® Presentation

Begin to learn everything there is to know about swine reproduction. This program exposes students to the terms in swine reproduction, to correct breeding times, and to detect heat cycles. Instructors include discussions on boar selection, breeding, nut... More.

How to Raise Pigs

By Philip Hasheider. 192 pages, 8-1/4" x 10-5/8". Softcover. Officially licensed by the FFA, this book goes into the details of housing, feeding, and caring for pigs; as well as breeding, showing, and marketing them – as a p... More.

Practice Swine Judging – DVD

Includes: three classes of crossbred barrows, one class of Duroc gilts, and one class of crossbred gilts. Walking, ham, side, and top views are shown of each animal with some views of pairs and the whole class. Placings and cuts by experts are given. 43... More.

Swine Breeds ID – DVD

A total of 16 common (Berkshire, Hampshire, Poland China, Spotted Poland China, Duroc, Chester White, Yorkshire, and Landrace), other (Hereford and Pietrain), and rare (Red Waddle, Mulefoot, Yucatan, Ossabaw Island, Tamworth, and Gloucester Old Spot) br... More.

Swine Production Field Trip – DVD

Visit the Texas Division of National Hog Farms and enjoy a detailed look at a state-of-the-art facility which houses more than 17,000 sows yielding 350,000 marketable pigs per year. A logical presentation thoroughly examines three phases of ... More.

Market Swine Evaluation – DVD

Swine specialists discuss factors involved in the evaluation of market hogs, such as estimating carcass traits of slaughter hogs, and equations used to derive the market value of a group of hogs in the pricing class. A group of slaughter hogs also are e... More.

Livestock Judging: Breeding Gilt Evaluation – DVD

Today’s breeding gilt is kept or culled based upon the combination of phenotype, performance records, and the projected performance of the progeny. In this program, a swine specialist discusses these factors, as well as structural soundness, sex c... More.

Livestock Judging: Market Hog Evaluation – DVD

The present-day ideal market hog has a maximum amount of muscle and a minimum amount of fat. To help judges and hog producers reach toward that idea, this DVD discusses market hog evaluation in four instructional sections: muscling, leanness, size a... More.