A
rubber water bowl will be used to drink from — and will also be used
as a very small kiddy pool. Metal bowls or stock tanks are right out
they will be crushed and destroyed in short order.
Another markdown issue. –
And, of course, you need not grow crops
specifically for pigs — you can grow crops for market or for yourself,
and then just feed excess (or defective) human crops to pigs.
Might want to reword the final phrase of this sentence, I had to read it several times to understand what you meant.
The advantages of free materials from restaurants, breweries, and
supermarkets are (a) that they're free. The disadvantages are that
(a) they're messy, (b) they do not store well, (d) they may be labor
intensive (e.g., unwrapping 100 loaves of bread, or shoveling 500 lbs
of wet grains mash), (e) they can generate trash (e.g., 100 empty bread
bags), (f) they may attract more vermin than other options.
You skipped (c) and went straight to (d).
When pigs look for food under something, the result is not a perfectly
removed stump, stacked on the burn pile, but a stump with a hole a
inches deep next to it.
How many inches deep?
Raising Animals: Cattle
I was disappointed by the lack of information here. Hopefully this section will be as large as the section on Pigs in the second edition.
Another markdown issue.
–Might want to reword the final phrase of this sentence, I had to read it several times to understand what you meant.
You skipped
(c)and went straight to(d).How many inches deep?
I was disappointed by the lack of information here. Hopefully this section will be as large as the section on Pigs in the second edition.