How much does a breeding Xiang pig cost? Price market analysis
The Xiang pig is not only a rising star in the breeding industry, but also famous in the pet world. Its biggest breeding advantages lie in its tolerance of coarse feed, strong disease resistance and strong adaptability. At present, Xiang pig breeding is becoming more and more popular. Many people want to buy breeding pigs to start raising them, but they are not clear about the price market for breeding Xiang pigs. Let us take a look below at how much a breeding Xiang pig costs!
How much does a breeding Xiang pig cost?
Domestic small Xiang pig breeding boars cost about 450 yuan, and sows about 550 yuan. A purebred Xiang pig will not exceed 45 kg in adult body weight. A Xiang pig boar weighs 14.2 kg at 6 months of age. Boars can be bred at 170 days of age. Xiang pigs reach sexual maturity early, and sows generally can come into estrus and be bred at 4 to 6 months. For Bama Xiang pig breeding pigs raised in Bama County, Guangxi, depending on quality, prices range from 600 to 800 yuan.
Notes on introducing Xiang pigs
1. Pig breed selection: Before raising Xiang pigs, you must pay attention to breed selection. When introducing breeding stock, you should strictly examine the breed's appearance, growth and development, bloodline, and whether there are genetic defects. The breed characteristics should be obvious and reproductive function vigorous, and the pig breed pedigree card should be brought back for keeping on file for future reference. Also pay attention to the local environment. The introduced Xiang pigs must conform to the local people's living and consumption level and the needs of economic development. At the same time, you should understand the characteristics of the breed, climate, feeding management, etc., so as to determine the acclimatization measures after the Xiang pigs are introduced and create the necessary feeding and management conditions. Only in this way can the benefits of Xiang pig breeding be guaranteed.
2. Introduction time: It is best to introduce Xiang pigs in late spring, so that after passing through the warm summer, they go through autumn and winter as temperatures gradually drop, and cold protection work should be done after winter begins so they gradually adapt to the local natural conditions. It is best to introduce Xiang pigs around 4 months of age or slightly older. At the young stage, pigs have strong adaptability and easily accept changed external living conditions. Newly introduced breeding pigs should not be fed separately, but should be concentrated in 1 or several pig farms, kept under good feeding and management conditions, and observed and recorded at the same time, with reproduction and breeding work done well, and gradually promoted after they adapt.
Xiang pig farm construction plan
1. Breeding Xiang pig pen: The layout of the breeding Xiang pig pen should consider favoring Xiang pig mating and the full use of the Xiang pig house. It is generally a single-row Xiang pig house, which can be divided into two rows, front and back, with a mating area in the middle. Its characteristic is that the pigs can mutually induce estrus, making it convenient to detect and check estrous Xiang pigs.
2. Gestating sow pen: There are many forms of gestating sow pens, and the raising methods are also varied. There are pens raising multiple Xiang pigs in 1 pen, and also pens with 1 Xiang pig kept alone in 1 pen. Keeping a single gestating Xiang sow in 1 pen can avoid mutual biting and fighting, crowding and bumping, and competition for food between strong and weak sows, reduce miscarriage in gestating Xiang sows, and improve the survival rate of piglets. The pig pen is made of steel pipes or wood. Its disadvantages are that it consumes a lot of materials, the construction investment is large, the sow's activity is restricted, the amount of exercise is small, leg and hoof diseases are likely to occur, and the service life of the sow is also shortened.
3. Farrowing sow pen: The farrowing pen is divided into two parts, the farrowing frame and the farrowing bed. The farrowing frame is installed on top of the farrowing bed. The farrowing frame is 1 m long, 0.3 m wide, and 0.5 m high. The farrowing bed is 1 m long, 0.8 m wide, and 0.2 m high from the ground. The mesh at the bottom of the farrowing bed can be woven from iron wire with a mesh opening of 0.5 square cm. The middle part of the farrowing pen is the sow restriction area, and the two sides are the piglet activity areas. The front end of the restriction area is provided with a sow feed trough and drinker, and a horizontal rail should be installed at the rear end to prevent the sow from backing up. At the same time, the piglet activity area should also be equipped with warming devices, such as heat preservation boxes, infrared lamps, electric heating floors and other measures, and should be provided with feed troughs and drinkers.
4. Piglet nursery pen: Newly weaned Xiang piglets still have imperfect physiological functions and poor adaptability, yet they are in a vigorous stage of growth and development, so a nursery period is still needed to provide them with a clean and warm excellent environment. Nursery pens generally mostly use welded steel-bar mesh beds. A nursery pen is generally 1 m long and 0.8 m wide, with an area of about 0.8 sq m. The mesh opening at the bottom of the net is generally preferably 0.5 square cm. Such a nursery pen can raise about 10 weaned Xiang piglets. Feed troughs and drinkers are then installed at the front and rear.
5. Growing and fattening pen: The construction forms of growing and fattening Xiang pig pens are varied. There is the form with relatively large investment, combining aluminum alloy partitions, concrete floor and metal slatted floor. There is also the form that is relatively convenient for maintenance and disinfection, combining metal partitions, concrete floor and water-flush slatted floor. There is also the form with relatively small investment but inconvenient maintenance, combining concrete partitions, concrete floor and concrete slats.