What are the methods and techniques for artificially raising wild boars?
Seeking the methods and techniques for artificially raising wild boars?
(Agricultural Wealth Network) Seeking the methods and techniques for artificially raising wild boars?
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1. Raising wild boars
After buying wild boars, put the male and female wild boars into pens for artificial domestication. Wild boars are timid and afraid of people at first. In order to change this weakness, small wild boars are generally purchased for domestication, mostly weighing 10-22 kg, because such wild boars are not old in months, are easy to tame, and are extremely malleable. During the domestication process, it is best to raise a little more than half of the wild boars together with a young domestic pig, at a ratio of 8:2. In such an environment, young wild boars and domestic pigs of the same month age will quickly form a herd, letting the domestic pigs lead the young wild boars in activities and foraging. The wild boar is an omnivorous animal, and generally it is fed 2 times a day like domestic pigs. Because of its wild habits, it is good at eating raw food. Tender corn, red sorghum, winter melon, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanut vines, sweet potato vines, millet ears, pumpkins, and eggplants commonly found in farm households are all foods it likes to eat. When first raised at home, it should be fed together with staple food. After one month, feed half raw food and the other half with domestic pig feed, such as cornmeal, bran, tofu residue, and starch residue, adding an appropriate amount of salt. After the wild boars have basically adapted to the penned environment, feed them with compound feed for domestic pigs. However, some root plants should also be appropriately added.
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2. Pen construction
Wild boar pens are best selected in higher terrain, easy to drain, and convenient for lighting and ventilation. The original domestic pig pens can also be slightly modified for raising them. For newly built pens, the outer pen area requires a cement floor. The pen requires the inner pen area and outer pen area to be matched. The inner pen area is for wild boars to sleep and give birth, about 3 m long and about 2.8 m wide, plus a shed, built in the style of a general pig pen. The outer pen area is for wild boars to urinate and defecate, eat and drink, move around, and sunbathe, about 3 m long and about 2.8 m wide. The enclosure wall is faced with cement, with a building height of 1.7-1.8 m. At the base of the wall where drainage is convenient, a drinking water pool can be built with bricks, stone, and cement, 1 m long, 0.5 m wide, and 230 cm deep. It should be noted that the drinking water pool should not be too deep or too narrow; otherwise, when the weather is hot in summer, the pigs will lie in the pool to cool off, which can cause pregnant sows to suffocate and the fetuses to die. A 1 m wide passage should be left between the inner pen area and the outer pen area to facilitate the free entry and exit of wild boars. The pen door is generally left at the front of the inner pen area.
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3. Breeding techniques
The wild boar has coarse and sparse hair, generally gray or grayish yellow. Adult sows weigh 90-130 kg, are sensitive to external environmental reactions, and generally have 6-7 pairs of teats. Under artificial feeding conditions, a female wild boar produces 2 litters per year, with an average of 6-10 piglets per litter. The suitable breeding time is 5-6 months after birth, at a body weight of 40-60 kg. Generally, the principle is to breed first-litter sows early and multiparous sows late. When a wild boar is in estrus, the external genitalia are obviously red and swollen. When the external genitalia change from red to dark purple, then from swollen to slightly wrinkled, or when the sow is pressed by hand on the rear and stands still, this is the best breeding time. The breeding time for male and female wild boars is about 40 minutes, slightly longer than that of domestic pigs. According to experience, it is best to use repeat mating, that is, to mate again after an interval of 6-8 hours. In this way, the conception rate of the sow can be significantly improved. When a female wild boar is in estrus and suitable for mating, the male wild boar can also be driven into the sow pen for 1-2 days. At this time, the male wild boar can mount and mate multiple times at night. After confirming successful mating, drive the male wild boar out, and observe after 20 days whether the female wild boar is in estrus. Generally, the estrous cycle of a female wild boar is 18 days. If it is not in estrus, it proves that the female wild boar has mated successfully.
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4. Breeding stock selection
A wild boar breeding farm must have 1-2 purebred wild boars. As the saying goes: if the sow is good, one litter is good; if the boar is good, one slope is good. This shows the importance of breeding stock. Choosing a good breeding male wild boar is of vital significance to the performance of the offspring. Generally, purebred male wild boars with long bodies, high legs, pointed snouts, and other wild boar characteristics are retained as breeding stock. If the offspring produced by crossing wild boars with domestic pigs are used as breeding stock, the bred offspring will show atavism, that is, the produced pigs will partly not look like wild boars in appearance, but like domestic pigs. Therefore, special wild boars from two-way crosses should not be retained for breeding. In terms of blood relations, inbreeding should also be prevented, so as to help the offspring have strong disease resistance and grow rapidly.
5. Development value and utilization
Special wild boars produced by crossing wild boars with domestic pigs, using purebred wild boars as the sire and Duroc and Landrace as the dams, have the characteristics of stable genes and fast growth and development, and show excellent development momentum in the market. According to expert measurements, wild boar meat is tender, nutritious, and has a high lean meat rate. Its carcass lean meat rate is 6-8 percentage points higher than that of domestic pigs, and the linoleic acid content in the muscle is 1.5-2 times higher than that of domestic pigs (linoleic acid is currently considered one of the most important fatty acids for the human body). Wild boar meat is rich in protein and unsaturated acids, and contains 17 amino acids. Wild boar ham sausage and wild boar flavored cured meat processed from wild boar meat sell well in domestic and overseas markets. In markets such as Nanjing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, each 500 grams of wild boar meat sells for 15-30 yuan. After domestication, wild boars have maintained their original appearance and body shape and have the characteristics of game flavor, strong disease resistance, tolerance to coarse feed, and strong herd-forming behavior, and are therefore highly favored by people. With China's accession to the WTO and the improvement of people's living standards, health-type meat foods will surely be favored by more and more people. Based on this, wild boar farming will have unlimited business opportunities.
Cost: raising 10 head (2 male and 8 female) requires 120 sq m of pig housing and exercise yard, with an investment of 12000 yuan; purchasing breeding pigs requires 15000 yuan, and feed is about 7300 yuan per year. One sow produces 18 piglets per year, totaling 144 head. Each piglet takes 5 months from birth to slaughter, and the feed cost is about 350 yuan, totaling 50400 yuan (350 x 144). The total investment is about 85000 yuan.
Profit: commercial pigs, calculated at 65 kg, at a selling price of 20 yuan per kg, can generate an income of 187200 yuan. Raising one group of special wild boars can reach an annual net profit of 100000 yuan.
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1. Raising wild boars
After buying wild boars, put the male and female wild boars into pens for artificial domestication. Wild boars are timid and afraid of people at first. In order to change this weakness, small wild boars are generally purchased for domestication, mostly weighing 10-22 kg, because such wild boars are not old in months, are easy to tame, and are extremely malleable. During the domestication process, it is best to raise a little more than half of the wild boars together with a young domestic pig, at a ratio of 8:2. In such an environment, young wild boars and domestic pigs of the same month age will quickly form a herd, letting the domestic pigs lead the young wild boars in activities and foraging. The wild boar is an omnivorous animal, and generally it is fed 2 times a day like domestic pigs. Because of its wild habits, it is good at eating raw food. Tender corn, red sorghum, winter melon, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanut vines, sweet potato vines, millet ears, pumpkins, and eggplants commonly found in farm households are all foods it likes to eat. When first raised at home, it should be fed together with staple food. After one month, feed half raw food and the other half with domestic pig feed, such as cornmeal, bran, tofu residue, and starch residue, adding an appropriate amount of salt. After the wild boars have basically adapted to the penned environment, feed them with compound feed for domestic pigs. However, some root plants should also be appropriately added.
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2. Pen construction
Wild boar pens are best selected in higher terrain, easy to drain, and convenient for lighting and ventilation. The original domestic pig pens can also be slightly modified for raising them. For newly built pens, the outer pen area requires a cement floor. The pen requires the inner pen area and outer pen area to be matched. The inner pen area is for wild boars to sleep and give birth, about 3 m long and about 2.8 m wide, plus a shed, built in the style of a general pig pen. The outer pen area is for wild boars to urinate and defecate, eat and drink, move around, and sunbathe, about 3 m long and about 2.8 m wide. The enclosure wall is faced with cement, with a building height of 1.7-1.8 m. At the base of the wall where drainage is convenient, a drinking water pool can be built with bricks, stone, and cement, 1 m long, 0.5 m wide, and 230 cm deep. It should be noted that the drinking water pool should not be too deep or too narrow; otherwise, when the weather is hot in summer, the pigs will lie in the pool to cool off, which can cause pregnant sows to suffocate and the fetuses to die. A 1 m wide passage should be left between the inner pen area and the outer pen area to facilitate the free entry and exit of wild boars. The pen door is generally left at the front of the inner pen area.
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3. Breeding techniques
The wild boar has coarse and sparse hair, generally gray or grayish yellow. Adult sows weigh 90-130 kg, are sensitive to external environmental reactions, and generally have 6-7 pairs of teats. Under artificial feeding conditions, a female wild boar produces 2 litters per year, with an average of 6-10 piglets per litter. The suitable breeding time is 5-6 months after birth, at a body weight of 40-60 kg. Generally, the principle is to breed first-litter sows early and multiparous sows late. When a wild boar is in estrus, the external genitalia are obviously red and swollen. When the external genitalia change from red to dark purple, then from swollen to slightly wrinkled, or when the sow is pressed by hand on the rear and stands still, this is the best breeding time. The breeding time for male and female wild boars is about 40 minutes, slightly longer than that of domestic pigs. According to experience, it is best to use repeat mating, that is, to mate again after an interval of 6-8 hours. In this way, the conception rate of the sow can be significantly improved. When a female wild boar is in estrus and suitable for mating, the male wild boar can also be driven into the sow pen for 1-2 days. At this time, the male wild boar can mount and mate multiple times at night. After confirming successful mating, drive the male wild boar out, and observe after 20 days whether the female wild boar is in estrus. Generally, the estrous cycle of a female wild boar is 18 days. If it is not in estrus, it proves that the female wild boar has mated successfully.
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4. Breeding stock selection
A wild boar breeding farm must have 1-2 purebred wild boars. As the saying goes: if the sow is good, one litter is good; if the boar is good, one slope is good. This shows the importance of breeding stock. Choosing a good breeding male wild boar is of vital significance to the performance of the offspring. Generally, purebred male wild boars with long bodies, high legs, pointed snouts, and other wild boar characteristics are retained as breeding stock. If the offspring produced by crossing wild boars with domestic pigs are used as breeding stock, the bred offspring will show atavism, that is, the produced pigs will partly not look like wild boars in appearance, but like domestic pigs. Therefore, special wild boars from two-way crosses should not be retained for breeding. In terms of blood relations, inbreeding should also be prevented, so as to help the offspring have strong disease resistance and grow rapidly.
5. Development value and utilization
Special wild boars produced by crossing wild boars with domestic pigs, using purebred wild boars as the sire and Duroc and Landrace as the dams, have the characteristics of stable genes and fast growth and development, and show excellent development momentum in the market. According to expert measurements, wild boar meat is tender, nutritious, and has a high lean meat rate. Its carcass lean meat rate is 6-8 percentage points higher than that of domestic pigs, and the linoleic acid content in the muscle is 1.5-2 times higher than that of domestic pigs (linoleic acid is currently considered one of the most important fatty acids for the human body). Wild boar meat is rich in protein and unsaturated acids, and contains 17 amino acids. Wild boar ham sausage and wild boar flavored cured meat processed from wild boar meat sell well in domestic and overseas markets. In markets such as Nanjing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, each 500 grams of wild boar meat sells for 15-30 yuan. After domestication, wild boars have maintained their original appearance and body shape and have the characteristics of game flavor, strong disease resistance, tolerance to coarse feed, and strong herd-forming behavior, and are therefore highly favored by people. With China's accession to the WTO and the improvement of people's living standards, health-type meat foods will surely be favored by more and more people. Based on this, wild boar farming will have unlimited business opportunities.
Cost: raising 10 head (2 male and 8 female) requires 120 sq m of pig housing and exercise yard, with an investment of 12000 yuan; purchasing breeding pigs requires 15000 yuan, and feed is about 7300 yuan per year. One sow produces 18 piglets per year, totaling 144 head. Each piglet takes 5 months from birth to slaughter, and the feed cost is about 350 yuan, totaling 50400 yuan (350 x 144). The total investment is about 85000 yuan.
Profit: commercial pigs, calculated at 65 kg, at a selling price of 20 yuan per kg, can generate an income of 187200 yuan. Raising one group of special wild boars can reach an annual net profit of 100000 yuan.