Raise pigs or become a judge? Graduate Bao Fengxue becomes a pig herder

    On the 25th, young boss Bao Fengxue of Huangpi Sante Breeding Farm received phone calls in one day from several pig farmers in Jiujiang, Jiangxi and Enshi, Hubei, hoping that young Bao would sell them wild boar piglets and crossbred piglets for specialty breeding.

Bao Fengxue told reporters: After 3 years of domestication and breeding, raising wild boars is finally showing returns.

Bao Fengxue is feeding the wild boars.

In an enclosed hillside yard in Tianjing Village, Lutai Community, Qianchuan Street, Huangpi, the reporter met 25-year-old Bao Fengxue. This undergraduate student, who came from a rural family in Huangpi and was admitted to Wuhan University to study law, did not go on to become a judge after graduating in 2006, but instead returned to his hometown to set up this wild boar breeding farm.

"I once interned at the Hanyang District Justice Bureau for a month, and I really could not adapt to that kind of office life." Talking about his original intention of not looking for a job back then and instead going home to raise wild boars, Bao Fengxue told reporters: His parents were laid off very early, which made him establish the dream of starting a business from an early age. In his senior year, when he and several classmates and friends traveled together, they ate wild boar meat, and everyone said how much money could be made if wild boars could be raised at home. From this, he conceived the idea of raising wild boars.

Bao Fengxue went successively to Shennongjia, Tongshan and the three northeastern provinces and other places to investigate the market, and found that the price of wild boars in Wuhan and Hubei markets was 3 to 4 times that of ordinary pigs, while the cost of pen-raising wild boars was only half that of domestic pigs. Wild boar meat has good quality and good taste, but very few people actually raised them. As soon as he graduated from university, he registered Sante Breeding Farm, rented one mu of land in Tianjing Village, and began trying to raise wild boars.

Young Bao taught himself a series of techniques for domesticating, breeding and mating wild boars, and obtained the licenses for raising wild boars. For the first time, he bought back 8 adult wild boars from Shennongjia, Shandong and other places, and began trying to raise and breed them.

"Wild boars also understand human nature. At first they would refuse to eat, jump out of the pig pens, bang into walls, and even attack people. At first we did not feed them feed, only fruit; later the wild boars gradually adapted to being fed by people and no longer attacked people." Talking about the experience of raising wild boars back then, Bao Fengxue talked on and on: Once a red-haired wild boar brought back from Tongshan almost bit off his little finger.

"I mainly develop breeding stock and breeding, so for the past 3 years I have been doing reproduction and mating, and have never put them on the market for sale." To avoid the worries of nearby villagers, Bao Fengxue never put up a sign for the breeding farm. By May of this year, the scale of Sante Breeding Farm had reached more than 170 head, with 80 pig pens built, covering 15 mu, and breeds including Jiangxi golden-haired wild boar, Shennongjia black wild boar, and others. Young Bao decided to begin selling piglets externally, and to sign contracts with raisers to buy back the grown wild boars for unified market sales. As soon as the news spread, it immediately attracted many customers, and surrounding farmers also asked to raise them, so the small piglets were in short supply.

"After studying hard for 4 years, you return home to raise pigs. Do you think it is a waste?" Faced with the reporter's question, young Bao answered happily: "I think I should take more chances while I am young. I plan to expand this wild boar breeding base into a thousand-head wild boar farm. Maybe in the future I will go into law instead."