What breeding issues should be noted in special wild boar farming?
As living standards improve, people's demands for the quality, flavor and safety of meat products also keep rising. The special wild boar farming industry has quietly entered our field of view in response to modern people's pursuit of nutritious, healthful and flavorful food, and special wild boar meat is deeply loved by consumers because of its high nutritional and health value.
At present, a casual search for special wild boar farming on Baidu will turn up a large amount of information on farms, so when choosing a source of breeding stock, you must first sharpen your eyes, ask friends more, and learn from various angles about the farm's credibility, technical training, breeds raised, customer reviews and so on. Choosing a good farm and good breeding stock is the prerequisite for the sustained development of a pig farm. Many small-scale raisers have suffered losses in this respect, and the pigs they raised, because their purity was too low, sold for prices almost the same as domestic pigs.
In breeding and reproduction, one must never obtain a higher reproduction rate at the cost of sacrificing meat quality (rich wild flavor) and lowering purity. Using local sows as mother stock can increase the number of piglets born, but care should be taken that the purity of the offspring is at least no lower than 25%; otherwise, various physiological and biochemical indicators will decline, the quality will be almost the same as that of domestic pigs, and the advantages of farming will be lost. It is generally required that a female wild boar be at least 5 to 6 months old and weigh 45 to 60 kg before it can be mated. At the same time, to avoid the degradation of wild boar genes, the following points should be noted during propagation:
1. Introduce female piglets or young sows with 50% wild boar bloodline, or male piglets or young boars with 75% wild boar bloodline, raise them to maturity and then mate and breed them in the second estrus period; the resulting piglets can reach 62.5% wild boar bloodline.
2. Breed pure wild boars with first-generation crossbred female wild boars to produce special wild boars with 75% wild boar bloodline. When breeding purebred wild boars, note that you should start with young wild boars; generally choose pure wild boars weighing 10 to 25 kg for taming and raising. If the body weight is too large, the wild nature is hard to change, the plasticity is poor, and it is inconvenient for the keeper to approach it or to mate it.
3. Breed purebred wild boars with special wild boar sows having 62.5% wild boar bloodline to produce special wild boars with 81.2% wild boar bloodline.
4. Breed purebred wild boars with special wild boar sows having 75% wild boar bloodline to produce special wild boars with 87.5% wild boar bloodline.
Of course, improving the reproductive capacity of special wild boars is also linked to such aspects as the health care, feeding, management and mating of boars and sows. This requires raisers to continuously sum up experience and learn in their daily management by combining their own pig farm's environment, breeds, climate characteristics and raw materials, so as to find a management model and methods suitable for their own pig farm.