Wild Boar Comes as a Live-in Son-in-law, Breeding Model Transformed

On November 2, Jiang Wangju drove a second-generation hybrid male wild boar to a neighboring village to mate with a villager's sow. That day, besides receiving 200 yuan in payment, Jiang Wangju also reached an agreement with the other party: after this family's sow gave birth to piglets, Jiang Wangju would buy these piglets at a price 1 yuan per jin higher than the market price.

This was already the fourth similar "deal" Jiang Wangju had made since late October.

Jiang Wangju is a resident of Guqi Village, Zhuantang Town, Qijiang. He had originally planned to adopt a breeding model of self-breeding and self-raising with sows, but due to the unexpected "visit" of a wild boar, he changed his breeding model.

A Domestic Sow Attracted a Male Wild Boar

At the end of 2012, Jiang Wangju, who had returned to the village after working elsewhere, built a small pig farm in the village. He introduced 15 sows and 1 boar, planning to make money by breeding piglets and then selling them.

After two years, Jiang Wangju's pig-raising business was neither booming nor failing, and the scale of sows at the pig farm had never expanded.

Soon it was November 10, 2014. That day, Jiang Wangju, who had just returned home from selling piglets in Zhuantang Town, noticed something unusual - there were strange noises in his pig farm. He walked into the pig farm and saw that the boar he was raising was confronting and fighting with a wild boar of about 200-plus jin.

Seeing people arrive, the wild boar, which had originally gained the upper hand, quickly ran into the mountain forest behind the house.

Why would the wild boar run to the pig farm? Jiang Wangju was somewhat puzzled. However, he quickly made a judgment: it must have been the sow in heat in his pig farm that had run out into the wild and attracted the male wild boar here.

Turning the Situation to Advantage by Introducing a "Live-in Son-in-law"

Since the wild boar knew about this place, it would certainly come again. So Jiang Wangju "isolated" the boar at the farm, turned off all the lighting in the pig farm, and quietly hid himself, waiting for the wild boar to return.

Sure enough, the next day, this wild boar appeared again at the pig farm and successfully mated with a sow.

Considering that only two sows at the pig farm were in estrus, Jiang Wangju quickly bought two more sows in estrus at a high price from another pig farm.

And that wild boar continued to serve as a "live-in son-in-law." Within two weeks, it mated with 4 sows in succession before bidding farewell to Jiang Wangju's pig farm.

Three months later, two sows successfully became pregnant and gave birth to 22 piglets, including 19 female piglets and 3 male piglets.

"From now on, I will rely on these 3 second-generation hybrid male wild boars to breed piglets." Jiang Wangju made this decision.

Second-Generation Hybrid Pigs Bring New Changes

In July of this year, seeing the second-generation hybrid male wild boars gradually grow up, Jiang Wangju simply sold the original large domestic boar.

In order to keep the wild boars at his pig farm relatively pure in wildness, Jiang Wangju also bought a female wild boar from elsewhere.

However, because the pig farm's fence was not high enough, within a few days, this female wild boar jumped out of the pig farm and ran away.

To prevent the young wild boars, which were already almost grown, from also running away and getting lost, Jiang Wangju hurriedly increased the height of the pig farm fence from 80 cm to 180 cm.

By late October, the 3 second-generation male wild boars were already able to mate. Jiang Wangju put out word: if anyone's sow mated with his second-generation male wild boars, and if piglets were born, he would buy back the piglets at a price 1 yuan per jin higher than the market price.

On the other hand, Jiang Wangju also reached an agreement with the local slaughterhouse that, for these third-generation and fourth-generation hybrid wild boars after they grew up, the slaughterhouse would also buy them at a price 1 yuan per jin higher than the market price.

"Many people who raise sows have already contacted me, and they are all willing to sign an agreement with me." Jiang Wangju said he had to thank that wild boar that had "visited" his pig farm. Its arrival set the pig farm on a distinctive path to prosperity.