Learn how to raise pigs on your homestead, including instructions on slaughtering, housing and feeding pigs.

Raising Pigs for Meat If you’ve never kept a pig before it is highly recommended that you start by raising a couple of weaners to supply your freezer and see how you do.

Deal chose this breed for their hardiness, an important trait when you raise animals outdoors.They also produce really good meat, colored a deep red along the shoulders.

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally ...

While much of the appeal of “natural” meat, at least as far as advertising goes, is to return to the way Americans raised animals 60 years ago, on small farms with rusty tractors and pig pens, the ...

A primary school’s plan to slaughter two young pigs that have been reared by pupils on its mini farmyard has found itself at the centre of a heated debate between parents and campaigners. The ...

These are dark days on many American pig farms. Coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the Midwest have created a backlog of pigs that are ready for slaughter but have nowhere to go.