Swine : Breeding, Feeding and Management
, by Dietrich, WilliamNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780548478516 | 0548478511
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/30/2007
Swine Breeding | |
Selection of a Breed | p. 13 |
Type of Swine | |
Fat or Lard Hog | |
Bacon Hog | |
Production of Type | |
Location | |
Color of Swine | |
Advantages In Marketing | |
Size, Prolificacy and Quality | p. 23 |
Size and Age of Hogs | |
Rate of Growth | |
Total Feed Eaten and Cost per Pound Gain | |
Feed Eaten per 100 Pounds Live Weight | |
Maturity | |
Prolificacy | |
Quality | |
Breeds, Principal Characteristics | p. 30 |
Bacon Breeds | |
Tamworths | |
Large Yorkshires | |
Breeds of the Fat or Lard Type | |
Berkshire | |
Chester White | |
Duroc-Jersey | |
Poland-China | |
Hampshire | |
Cheshire | |
Essex | |
Other Breeds | |
Judging Swine | p. 51 |
Fat or Lard Type and Standard of Excellence | |
Fat or Lard Hog for Breeding and Standard of Excellence | |
Fat or Lard Hog for Market | |
Bacon Type | |
Standard of Excellence for Bacon Hog for Breeding | |
Standard of Excellence for Bacon Hog for Market | |
Establishing a Breeding Herd | p. 68 |
The Grade Herd | |
The Pure-Bred Herd | |
Public Sale | |
Private Sale | |
Bred Sows | |
The Herd Boar | |
Additional Herd Specimens | |
Requirements for Success | |
Origin of the Breeds | p. 74 |
English Breeds | |
The Wild Boar | |
Sua Indica | |
Production of Breeds | |
American Breeds | |
Development op the Breeds | p. 78 |
Tamworth | |
Large Yorkshire | |
Old Yorkshire | |
Leicester | |
Small Yorkshire | |
Method of Procedure | |
Pedigree of Development of Large Yorkshire | |
Berkshire | |
Chester White | |
Original Foundation Stock | |
Todd's Improved Chester | |
Ohio Improved Chester | |
Duroc-Jersey | |
Durocs and Jersey Reds | |
Poland-China | |
Origin of Poland-China Foundation Stock | |
The Poland Hog | |
Russian Hog of the United States | |
The Byfield | |
The China Hog | |
The Irish Pig | |
Irish Grazier | |
Berkshires: the Development of the Breed | |
The Hampshire (Thin Rind) | |
Cheshire or Jefferson County Swine of New York | |
Essex Swine | |
Large Blacks and Lincolne | |
Methods of Breeding | p. 101 |
Pure-Bred Swine | |
Out Crossing | |
Line Breeding | |
Close Breeding | |
Inbreeding | |
Character of Offspring | |
Grading | |
Cross Breeding | |
Swine Breeding | |
Swine Feeding | |
What Is a Hog? | p. 117 |
Water | |
Protein | |
Fat | |
Ash or Mineral Matter | |
Sources and Character or Building Material | p. 123 |
Food Nutrients | |
Coefficients of Digestibility | |
Protein | |
Carbohydrate | |
Fat or Ether Extract | |
Mineral Mattel | |
Dry Feeds | |
Classification and Composition of Feeds | |
Water | |
Air | |
The Common Practice of Swine Feeding | p. 135 |
Feeds | |
Water | |
Pasture | |
Summer Feeding | |
Winter Feeding | |
Hogging Down Corn | |
Work of Experiment Stations | |
The Wolff-Lehmann Feeding Standard | p. 143 |
Nutritive Ratio | |
Requirement of Nutrients | |
The Standard and the Pig | |
Results from Use of Standard | |
Method of Feeding Developed by the Author | p. 146 |
Factors in Feeding | |
Maintenance Requirement | |
Factor of Waste | |
Feed Available for Making Gains | |
Requirement of Nutrients | |
Water Requirement | |
Protein Requirement | |
Carbohydrate Requirement | |
Ether Extract Requirement | |
Mineral Matter Requirement | |
The Pig as a. Machine | |
Variety in Ration | |
The Appetite of the Pig | |
Influence of Environment | |
Influence of Previous Generations | |
Feeding too Much and too Little | |
Large Gains and Economical Gains | |
Selection of Feeds | |
Method of Calculating Rations | |
Method of Procedure | |
Compounding Rations | |
Grinding Grain | |
Effect on the Distribution of Protein | |
Effect on Palatability | |
Effect on Water Supply | |
Hard and Small Seeds | |
Soaking Feeds | |
Cooking Feeds | |
Effect on Compounding the Ration | |
Effect on Variety and Protein | |
Effect on Water Supply | |
Changes in Rations | |
Effect on Coefficient of Digestibility | |
Effect oh Protein Metabolism | |
Effect on Habit | |
Giving the Pig Its Feed | |
The Feed Trough | |
The Feed Yard | |
Individual Feeding | |
The Number of Feeds per Day | |
Influence on Factor of Waste | |
Results | |
Feeding the Herd and the Pigs | p. 198 |
Feeding Sows | |
Gilts | |
Old Sows | |
Feeding the Boar | |
Feeding the Pigs Before Weaning | |
Feeding at a Separate Trough | |
Feeding with the Dam | |
Management | |
The Breeding Season | p. 209 |
Number of Litters per Year | |
When to Breed | |
Show Hogs | |
Market Requirements | |
Pork Hogs | |
Age of Gilts | |
Condition of Sire and Dam | |
Prolificacy | |
Useful Age of Sire and Dam | |
The Sire | |
The Dam | |
Breeding the Sow | |
Farrowing Time | p. 218 |
Feeding the Sow Before and After Farrowing | |
The Litter | |
How Many Pigs per Sow | |
Handling the bow and Litter | |
Black Teeth | |
Identification Marks | |
Ear Marks | |
Castration | |
A Normal Pig | |
Ruptured Pigs | |
Spaying | |
Recording | |
Herd Records | |
Weaning the Pigs | p. 236 |
Self-Weaning | |
Removing a Part of the Litter | |
Removing All the Litter | |
Prolificacy and Milking Qualities | |
Shelter for Swine | p. 241 |
The Large Hog House | |
Serviceableness | |
Sanitation | |
Plan of the House | |
Interior View | |
The Floors | |
Cost of Hog House | |
Location as to Pasture | |
Hog House and Pastures | |
Use of the Hog House | |
Individual Hog Houses | |
A-Shaped Cots, Front and Rear | |
Large Col | |
A Portable Panel Fence | |
Method of Construction | |
Tuberculosis | p. 267 |
Prevalence of the Disease | |
Source of Infection | |
Skim Milk | |
Country Slaughter Houses | |
Other Means of Infection | |
Duration of the Disease | |
Kind of Pigs Affected | |
Method of Handling a Tubercular Herd | |
Hog Cholera | p. 275 |
Cause of the Disease | |
Manner of Spreading the Disease | |
Prevention of the Disease | |
Government Hog Cholera Serum | |
Preparation, Use and Curative Properties of the Serum | |
Objections to the Serum Method of Treatment | |
Lice | p. 286 |
Means of Combating | |
Mud Wallow | |
Water Wallow | |
Rubbing Post | |
Rubbing and Spraying with Oil | |
Dipping Tank | |
Other Ailments or Swine | p. 294 |
Worms: Their Cure and Prevention | |
Scours | |
Overfeeding | |
Sudden Changes | |
Treatment | |
Contagious Form | |
Rickets | |
Coughing | |
Rooting | |
Thumps | |
Marketing Swine | p. 302 |
Demand and Supply of Hogs | |
Handling and Shipping Hogs | |
Selling Hogs on the Market | |
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