Pig Agskills

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Description

Description

Pig Agskills

Description

Practical skills on the care of pigs. Covers pig husbandry, health care, breeding programs for sows and raising piglets. Highlights animal welfare standards for pigs. 112 pages, paperback, Aust

Content

  • 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

 

Additional Info

Additional information

Weight 743 g
Dimensions 29.5 × 21 × 1 cm