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From the Back Cover: Kelly Klober brings thirty years of hands-on experience to Storey's Guide to Raising Pigs, a comprehensive resource for small-scale hog farmers, new and experienced. Filled with practical knowledge and expert advice, it will answer your questions and help you raise healthy, profitable pigs. The revised and updated third edition includes: an expanded breed guide; safe fencing and housing options; greener farming methods; diseases...
3) Pig years
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2022.
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"As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is mirrored in everything that surrounds her: livestock, full...
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A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in remote jungles, author Montgomery was more comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her heart to a sick piglet, with no inkling that this piglet would not only survive but flourish--and she soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had never dreamed possible. Unexpectedly, Christopher provided this traveler with something...
5) Happily ever Esther: two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing mission to give animals a home
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2018.
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The authors share the story of how after leaving the city to open their farm sanctuary, they tackled the unexpected realities of farm life and eventually accepted dozens of animals.
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[2020]
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"From their domestication to their taboo, the role of pigs in the ancient Near East is one of the most complicated topics in archaeology. Rejecting monocausal explanations, this book adopts an evolutionary approach and uses zooarchaeology and texts to unravel the cultural significance of swine from the Paleolithic to today. Five major themes emerge: The domestication of the pig from wild boar in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, the unique roles that pigs...
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