pig-keeping

As feed is responsible for the majority of costs involved in pig-keeping, the rise has had a significant effect on Britain's 2,000 commercial pig farmers.

Pig farmers warn of pork price rise as their feed costs soar 2011

We love having the pigs here, but we're treating pig-keeping as a business that needs to contribute to our communal kitty.

A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones Tobias Jones 2010

It was real PG Wodehouse countryside – not that we saw any cross aunts or mad pig-keeping Lords, but just the names of places Wooton Bassett, Upper and Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water made you feel you could come across a country place where cow-creamers were stolen and hidden, and newt-fanciers ran riot.

Gig in May jinty 2003

Religious considerations may make pig-keeping unacceptable, and the possibility of transfer of disease and parasites to the human population may make extensive pig production unwise.

1. Intensive sustainable livestock production: an alternative to tropical deforestation. 1992

Importation of feeds into these countries greatly increases the pig farmer's cash outlay and, in many cases, can render intensive pig-keeping a rather marginal activity.

1. Intensive sustainable livestock production: an alternative to tropical deforestation. 1992

He thought fresh eggs were insanely dear, and his opinion of Matching's Easy pig-keeping was uncomplimentary.

Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

They wanted rest, in which to recover strength for taking up again the interesting business of living; but they approached their daily life -- their pig-keeping and bread-making, their mowing and thatching and turf-cutting and gardening, and the whole round of country tasks -- almost in a welcoming spirit, matching themselves against its demands and proving their manhood by their success.

Change in the Village George Sturt 1895

As a companion picture he drew the character of the pig-keeping Parson

The Parish Clerk 1892

On one side she saw her daughter's beautiful white face becoming the prize of a penniless officer; on the other she saw the pretty furniture, the luxurious idleness, the very silk dress on her back, being torn from them, and distributed among a crowd of Irish-speaking, pig-keeping peasants.

Muslin 1892

Indeed this is the drawback of pig-keeping, which is otherwise a most fascinating pastime; but you can escape it, and unite pleasure with profit, by merely breeding the pigs and selling the litters young.

Matthew Arnold George Saintsbury 1889