Pig Agskills
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Tocal College, CB Alexander Campus,
Paterson NSW 2421
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.
Some of the 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
Book details
| Title | Pig Agskills |
|---|---|
| Pages | 116 |
| ISBN | 978 0 7313 0631 2 |
| Catalogue number | B737 |
| Year of publish | 2010 |
| Price | $26.00AUD (inc GST) purchase online |