Resources for implementing good husbandry and biosecurity practices to keep your outdoor raised pigs protected from disease. Also yips and advice on various production practices to raise domestic pigs outdoors or on pasture.
Biosecurity for Outdoor-raised Pigs:
- 8 Essential Actions to Protect Pigs with Outdoor Access from Disease: USDA APHIS Veterinary Services (December 2017)
- Good Habits That Keep You and Your Pigs Healthy : Pork Checkoff , National Pork Board (2020)
- Pig/Swine Biosecurity Overview: Healthy Farms Healthy Agriculture (HFHA), University of Vermont
- Biosecurity for Alternative Pig Farms: Pork Information Gateway
- Exhibition Biosecurity, Keeping your pigs healthy: Kansas Department of Agriculture
- A Champanion’s Guide to Youth Swine Exhibition, Biosecurity and Your Pig Project: American Association Swine Veterinarians and Pork Checkoff
- Secure Food Supply Plans: SPS Secure Pork Supply, The Center for Food Security & Public Health, Iowa State University
- Small Scale Swine Production: University of Minnesota Extension
Practices for Raising Pigs Outdoors and/or on Pasture
- Outdoor Hog Production, Best Practices for Conservation in Bay Area, Resources, and Factsheets: UC CE Sonoma County
- Outdoor Hog Production, Best Practices For Conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area: University of California Cooperative Extension, Alameda County Resource Conservation District, North Carolina State University Center for Environmental Farming Systems (November 2015)
- Farrowing and Weaning Best Practices, Outdoor Hog Production, Best Practices For Conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area: University of California Cooperative Extension, Alameda County Resource Conservation District, North Carolina State University Center for Environmental Farming Systems
- Hog Manure Management, Outdoor Hog Production, Best Practices For Conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area: University of California Cooperative Extension, Alameda County Resource Conservation District, North Carolina State University Center for Environmental Farming Systems
- 8 Things to Know Before Moving Your Pigs Outdoors : Pork Checkoff, National Pork Board (2020)
- Conservation Practices in Outdoor Hog Production Systems: NC State University and CEFS
- Organic Management of Internal and External Livestock Parasites: ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture