Pig production can be highly sophisticated or unsophisticated. There are many different ways of producing pigs for market, ranging from more “natural” systems, where animals are farmed in paddocks, to “factory” like systems where animals spend virtually all of their life confined to small pens in large buildings with many husbandry tasks (e.g. feeding and watering) being automated.
This course develops a better understanding of pig biology and production, covering such things as:
- Breeding and Selection
- Feeding
- Diseases
- Managing the Boar
- Managing the Sow and Litter
- Fattening Pigs
- Economics and Records etc.
Learn to raise pigs, either small scale or large scale
This course develops a better understanding of pig biology and production
Pigs can adapt well to small or large properties.
There are four main requirements for the successful raising of pigs:
Pigs do however differ from other farm animals, and for this reason need to be managed differently, even though these same four requirements still apply.
COURSE STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS
There are 9 lessons as follows:
1. Introduction
2. Breeding and selection
3. Feeding Pigs
4. Pig diseases
5. Managing the boar
6. Managing the sow and litter
7. Management of Fattening Pigs
8. Economics and records
9. Managing a Piggery
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Duration: 100 hours
Course Aims
WHAT THE COURSE COVERS
Here are just some of the things you will be doing: