Pigs: Keeping a Small-Scale Herd for Pleasure and Profit (Hobby Farm)

Pigs are interesting animals. Like humans they are omnivores. They also tend to be fairly intelligent. They can also get sunburnt. They have been raised extensively primarily for meat. This book explores raising pigs. There are many different breeds, including some based on an island in Georgia. There are purebreds and mixed breeds. The commercial variety are more "machine" than animal. They are optimized for certain characteristics. 

There are a lot of details that go into raising pigs. It is interesting that the nature of intervention in typical pig raising is similar to the human medical system. We intervene in the lives and raise animals in non-standard ways. Then we need to intervene more medically and nutritionally in order for them to survive this non-standard upbringing.