What are the common misconceptions in wild boar farming?

1 Weaning too early

Many farmers, when raising wild boars, artificially wean the piglets early in order to breed them sooner and bring the piglets to market earlier. Because wild boars have underdeveloped mammary glands, a small milk yield and a short lactation period, weaning too early easily leads to piglets that are small in size, weak in constitution, poor in adaptability to the environment and gastrointestinal function, and prone to disease. Breeding practice has shown that wild boar piglets are best weaned at 45 days.

2 Unreasonable feed

Wild boars are naturally tolerant of coarse feed and prefer green fodder such as green grass and green vegetables, and they eat little. In artificial rearing, green fodder should account for 70%, and they need to be fed only 2 meals a day. However, some farmers feed wild boars entirely on complete formula feed, causing the wild boars to become too fat and not come into estrus. Although methods such as increasing exercise and restricted feeding can restore normal estrus in sows, it generally takes several months of delay, which not only wastes time but also wastes feed and increases costs.

3 Not paying attention to epidemic prevention and hygiene disinfection

Many farmers do not pay attention to the use of vaccines, or their immunization methods are not standardized.

In addition, some farmers have a weak awareness of hygiene and epidemic prevention and rarely take disinfection measures. In fact, disinfection is the simplest, most effective and most fundamental measure for preventing disease. The pig house should be cleaned and disinfected once every 5 days, and three levels of disinfection pools should be set up at the entrance of the farm, the entrance of the production area and the entrance of the pig house; all personnel entering and leaving must be disinfected and change their work clothes.

Pigs excrete a large amount of waste, which easily causes the multiplication of bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms. If the pig house can be kept hygienic, the multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms is minimized, and the spread of disease can be eliminated. However, at present most farms are poor in hygiene, with sewage running everywhere, stench filling the air and many mosquitoes and flies, which very easily causes the epidemic and outbreak of disease and affects farming profits.

4 Not paying attention to technical learning and training

At present, some farmers have not received formal professional training when introducing breeding stock, resulting in many problems during the breeding process that affect farming profits. In addition, they do not pay attention to technical learning during breeding and do not promptly observe changes in the wild boars' mental state, feed intake, water intake, activity and defecation and urination, so problems cannot be solved in time when they arise. Due to differences in technology and management, the reproduction rate, survival rate, growth speed and economic benefits of wild boar farming also differ greatly.

5 Not paying attention to the quality of breeding stock

Some farmers introducing breeding stock, out of convenience and cheapness, or because they are deceived by unscrupulous farms, introduce special wild boars that contain only 12.5%-25% pure wild boar bloodline, whose appearance and quality are already almost the same as domestic pigs, and whose disease resistance, tolerance of coarse feed and lean meat rate are all relatively poor. How can good benefits be achieved this way?