Why does adding garlic to feed make pigs healthier?

Key tip: Adding garlic to pig feed can not only boost immunity, but also improve the environment, enhance pork quality, and increase growth speed. This is the first time you've heard of it, right? In Yongyuan Village, Yongyuan Town, Daowai District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, there is just such an expert breeder. Through nearly 4 years of breeding, she has gained a lot of experience.

Her name is Ma Haiyan, and she is an ordinary specialized breeding household in Yongyuan Town, Daowai District, but her breeding method is different from other breeders.

According to her own account, when she first started breeding, Ma Haiyan also followed the traditional method. A chance opportunity gave her inspiration: since garlic has disinfecting and immunity-boosting effects, could it also play a certain role in breeding? So, based on the knowledge she had, she crushed garlic and mixed it with a biological bacterium called probiotics into the feed, and put it specifically in one pig house for an experiment. After 1 year of observation, she found that not only was the ammonia smell in the pig house much less, but the fattening pigs in the experiment all grew well, and the meat quality also changed noticeably.

With good experimental results, she extended this breeding method to her own breeding pig farm. Starting in 2008, she added appropriate amounts of garlic and probiotics that help digestion and growth to all feed. After 1 year, not only did the number of fattening pigs she raised for slaughter increase from the original 4000 to 5000, but because the fattening pigs she raised had good meat quality and high quality, the selling price was also higher than that of other breeders, and her annual income reached more than 200,000 yuan.

Does this breeding method increase breeding costs? Ma Haiyan explained that at the beginning of the year there was not much snow, and various epidemics spread easily. To avoid infection, many nearby farms either adopted closed breeding, or simply had the feeders eat and live in the pig houses to avoid bringing bacteria in. But at Ma Haiyan's farm, she only did a little simple handling, and when we entered the pig house we only put on an outer coat. She said that the pigs she raised already had very strong resistance, and ordinary epidemic diseases could hardly invade them.