A Practical Guide to Farm Skills
RRP $28
NSW Department of Industry and Investment

This is a practical guide to caring for pigs.

The 112-page paperback covers pig husbandry, health care, breeding programs for sows and raising piglets.

It also highlights animal welfare standards for pigs.

Topics covered include:

  • General safety precautions.
  • Animal welfare.
  • Quality assurance.
  • Move and load pigs.
  • Clip milk teeth and tails of piglets.
  • Trim boar tusks.
  • Castrate pigs.
  • Nose ring pigs.
  • Stomach tubing piglets.
  • Condition score pigs.
  • Recognise, intervention and caring for compromised pigs.
  • Techniques for injecting pigs.
  • Captive bolt gun euthanasia of pigs.
  • Recognise oestrus in sows.
  • Artificially inseminate sows.
  • Pregnancy diagnosis in sows.
  • Legal considerations for a pig farm.
  • What is a safe work method statement?
  • Checklists: prepare for the vet, herd health program and risk management of equipment.