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.
Contents
- Introduction
- General safety precautions
- Animal welfare
- Quality assurance
- Making sense of the skills
- Move pigs
- Load pigs
- Nose snare to restrain
- Making a metal nose snare
- Clip milk teeth of piglets
- Clip tails of piglets
- Trim boar tusks
- Castrate pigs
- Nose ring pigs
- Stomach tubing piglets
- Identify indiviual pigs
- Condition score pigs
- Recognise compromised pigs
- Intervention and caring for compromised pigs
- Techniques for injecting pigs
- Captive bolt gun euthanasia of pigs
- Prepare for the vet: a checklist
- Herd health program checklist
- Recognise oestrus in sows
- Artificially inseminate sows
- Pregnancy diagnosis in sows
- Risk management of equipment: a checklist
- Legal considerations for a pig farm
- Glossary
- What is a safe work method statements?
- Check your skill
Author: Jayce Morgan
ISBN: 9780731306312 | 116 pages | A4
Catalogue number: B737
Publisher: NSW Department of Primary Industries | 2010