What are the common wrong feeding practices in pig farming?
Pigs are one of the most common types of meat, and their farming methods are quite simple, but raising good pigs is not easy either. After all, if you want pigs to grow big and well, there are quite a few details to pay attention to. Which behaviors are wrong during daily feeding? Let's find out below.
1. Piled-up rotting vegetables
In rural areas, many people grow vegetables, especially those who raise pigs, as they have even more vegetables at home. But people who raise pigs generally have one shortcoming: they like to pile vegetables up at home and use them directly when it is time to cook pig feed, so they do not have to go to the vegetable plot every time, saving time. This is actually not good. Vegetables are not easy to store, and pig feed is usually cooked in one big pot at a time, so piled-up vegetables may take several days before they are used again, and during this period rotting may occur. When vegetables rot, people are reluctant to throw them away and only throw away the ones that are truly inedible, while feeding the rest to the pigs. Over time, this has a big impact on pig fattening.
2. Half-cooked food
Pigs are not picky eaters. They eat both raw and cooked food, but pig feed is very much to be avoided when it is half-cooked, as this can cause indigestion in pigs and make them prone to diarrhea. Farmers often do not check whether it is cooked through or overcooked when cooking, and just feed it once they think it is ready. In the end, they find that the pigs eat less and less every day, and only then discover that the pig feed they cooked was the problem. Half-cooked pig feed easily contains some harmful substances that cannot be digested by pigs and accumulate in their bodies, and the harm of this is easy to imagine.
3. Feed troughs not cleaned for a long time
The problem of pig feed troughs has existed in our country for a long time. After all, the traditional mindset of many farmers is not to clean the feed troughs, so this habit brings many problems when feeding pigs. Feed troughs that are not cleaned for a long time have residues, and these substances will produce various bacteria after fermenting for a long time. The smell they give off will also attract creatures such as flies, increasing the carrying of germs mentioned above, which are finally eaten by the pigs. Using such feed troughs for a long time, even a very healthy pig cannot withstand it. This is a very wrong behavior.
4. Ignoring spoiled and toxic substances
Feeding this kind of thing is also relatively common in rural areas. Some things originally kept as seedlings are found by growers to be too many, and they are reluctant to discard them, so they use them to feed pigs, or some spoiled vegetables are ultimately chosen to feed pigs. Behaviors like these are all incorrect. Many people will say that everyone feeds this way and the pigs have no problems, but if everyone raises two pigs, one fed this spoiled stuff and one fed clean, normal feed, the gap will show. Moreover, this kind of situation does not mean the problem is only serious if the pig dies. If the pig cannot grow big, is the problem not serious?
The above are some wrong behaviors in pig farming. Everyone should pay attention to these things when raising pigs. These are not just things to talk about, because when problems occur, the impact is relatively big.