What are the common misconceptions about wild boar farming
Author: Zhu Gaofu QQ353478278
The special wild boar is a new breed that has continued to sell well in recent years under the general climate of a sluggish farming industry. It mainly eats green and roughage feed such as green grass, corn stalks and sweet potatoes, with extremely low cost, only one third that of domestic pigs. Its meat is especially tender, fresh and savory, and its lean meat rate is as high as 85%. It is truly safe meat and a green nourishing food, and it is extremely popular in the market. At 30—40 yuan per kg, it still falls short of demand. One wild boar produces about 20 piglets per year and can yield a profit of 0.5—0.9 ten thousand yuan, more than ten times the benefit of domestic pigs. In addition, because it has long lived in nature, its disease resistance and survival rate are stronger than those of domestic pigs, making farming relatively safer. Therefore, farming wild boars has become the first choice for many investors.
However, during our many years of farming wild boars, we have found that some farmers who have not received training from legitimate farms commonly have the following farming misconceptions:
1. Weaning too early
When farming wild boars, many farmers artificially wean the piglets early in order to have them bred early and brought to market early. However, wild boars have underdeveloped mammary glands, a small milk yield and a short milk release time. Weaning too early easily leads to piglets being small in size, weak in constitution, poor in adaptability to the environment and gastrointestinal function, and prone to disease. According to many years of feeding observations at Zhaobao Ecological Farm in Yongding County, Fujian Province, wild boar piglets are best weaned at 45 days.
2. Unreasonable feed
Wild boars are naturally tolerant of roughage and like eating green grass, green vegetables and so on. Green and roughage feed accounts for 70%, and their food intake is small, requiring only two meals a day. However, when some farmers raise wild boars, they feed only complete-price feed, making the wild boars too fat and causing them not to come into estrus. Although normal estrus can be achieved after measures such as increasing exercise and restricting feed, the time is generally delayed by several months, which both delays time and wastes feed, increasing costs.
3. Not paying attention to epidemic prevention
Many farmers do not value the use of vaccines, or they copy things mechanically and use them in a non-standard and unscientific way. Scientific immunization should be based on local epidemic conditions to formulate a complete immunization program.
In addition, some farmers have a weak awareness of sanitation and epidemic prevention. Farms are casually opened to visitors, and disinfection measures are rarely taken. In fact, disinfection is the simplest, most effective and most fundamental measure to prevent disease occurrence. Zhaobao Ecological Farm in Yongding County, Fujian Province cleans and disinfects once every five days, and sets up three levels of disinfection pools at the farm entrance, the production area entrance and the pig house entrance. People entering and leaving must disinfect and change work clothes. In 13 years of operation, there has never been a single epidemic outbreak, which shows the effectiveness of epidemic prevention.
4. Not paying attention to pig house hygiene and environmental disinfection
Pigs have a large amount of excrement, which easily causes the reproduction of bacteria and pathogenic microorganisms. If pig house hygiene can be maintained, the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms is minimized to the greatest extent, and disease transmission can be eliminated. However, at present most farms have poor hygiene, with sewage flowing everywhere, stench filling the air, and many mosquitoes and flies. It is reported that one fly can carry 6 million bacteria, extremely easily causing epidemics and outbreaks of disease and affecting farming benefits.
5. Not paying attention to technical learning and technical training
Although wild boars are stronger than domestic pigs in disease resistance and disease occurrence, there are still many basic points that must be mastered. At present, some farmers have not undergone professional training from legitimate farms when introducing breeding stock, resulting in the above problems during the farming process. In addition, when farming, they do not pay attention to technical learning and cannot promptly observe changes in the wild boars' mental state, feed intake, water intake, activity and urine and feces, so problems that arise cannot be solved in time. Due to differences in technology and management, their reproduction rate, survival rate, growth speed and economic benefits also differ greatly.
6. Not paying attention to pig breed quality
Some farmers who introduce breeding stock, because they seek convenience and cheapness, or are deceived by illegal farms, introduce special wild boars containing only 12.5—25% purebred wild boar bloodline. Their appearance and quality are already almost the same as domestic pigs, and their disease resistance, tolerance of roughage, lean meat rate and nutritional components are all relatively poor. How can good benefits be achieved in this way?