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How to correct bad habits in pigs? Sharing practical methods

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Pig farmers often find that some pigs gnaw on wooden posts, bite feed troughs, root around in the soil, and even dig up the pen until it looks like "artillery craters." These pigs refuse to settle down and sleep, eat but fail to put on weight; there are also pigs that defecate and urinate in their bedding, making cleaning work very troublesome. These are all bad habits in pigs, and they can be solved through correction. Pigs rooting around in soil, gnawing on wooden posts, biting feed troughs, and refusing to settle down to sleep are caused by a single feed type and a lack of minerals. First, take 50 kg of clean yellow clay, 25 kg of coal ash, and 150 g of ferrous sulfate, mix them thoroughly,

@#@227@#@farmers often find that some pigs gnaw on wooden posts, bite feed troughs, root around in the soil, and even dig up the pen until it looks like "artillery craters." These pigs refuse to settle down and sleep, eat but fail to put on weight; there are also pigs that defecate and urinate in their bedding, making cleaning work very troublesome. These are all bad habits in pigs, and they can be solved through correction. Pigs rooting around in soil, gnawing on wooden posts, biting feed troughs, and refusing to settle down to sleep are caused by a single feed type and a lack of minerals. First, take 50 kg of clean yellow clay, 25 kg of coal ash, and 150 g of ferrous sulfate, mix them thoroughly, pour it into a corner of the pigpen, and let the pigs lick it freely; second, appropriately add salt, bone meal, fish meal, oxytetracycline, and growth hormones to the pigs' feed. Generally, after one week, bad habits such as rooting around in the soil gradually disappear. To change the bad habit of pigs defecating and urinating in their bedding, first, try to make the pigs enter the bedding late at night and leave the bedding early the next morning. For "lazy pigs" that are fond of sleeping in the morning, they should also be driven out of the bedding early to defecate and urinate; second, for the evening feeding, give feed with as little water content as possible, and do not feed them too full; third, frequently replace the dry soil or dry chopped straw bedding so that the pigs have a comfortable, dry bed.

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