Posts by Sam Barrett

There may be many reasons why someone would want to raise their own pigs. But is it cheaper to rear your own pigs? Short answer is that it depends. It can be cheaper from a money point of view to...

Farmer is the main producer of food. Until recently, farmers were perhaps the main producers of clothing as well. They grew cotton, sheep to cut their wool, animals to use their skin for shoes and...

In the United States and other countries with a large area where free livestock are practiced in wide-open spaces, branding is primarily used to determine ownership. To this day, strict cattle...

One of the urgent problems of the twenty-first century is to provide the world's growing population with safe food. The efforts and resources of many highly developed countries are directed to...

Gestation Period Pigs have an average gestation period of 113 to 115 days or 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days. You calculate this from the first day of mating. Their heat cycle or estrus ranges from...

Poultry farming is one of the most interesting and profitable sectors of agricultural activity. And before you start breeding birds on an amateur or industrial scale, you need to get acquainted with...