In the past, the pig was often referred to as the farm mortgage lifter. Farmers could have a ready source of cash in selling feeder pigs, market hogs, or breeding stock in a relatively short amount of time. The pig's quick growth from birth to market size is around six months. Pigs are one of the few livestock animals that will really only provide you with one product, which is meat. It makes them less flexible but also simplifies any farming program.
The Art of Small-Scale Farming with Pigs: A Little Book Full of All the Information You Need provides you with the necessary resources and information needed to get started. You will learn how to raise and care for pigs, by choosing the right breed, how to house, pasture, feed and breed them, what to do if they are ill and the butchering process. This book also contains a list of resources for all types of livestock farming as well as a special chapter of real stories from real small-scale farmers. If you are interested in raising pigs on your small farm, then this is the little book full of all the information you will need!