Plant mulberry trees and feed pigs? Pig farming that eats mulberry leaves makes more money!

Mulberry is a kind of tree with wide distribution. It is well known that mulberry is a very popular seasonal fruit, and mulberry leaves can be used to raise silkworms. But there is a kind of mulberry tree, people grow it is used to feed pigs, what's the matter?

It turns out that this kind of mulberry is specially cultivated and used to feed livestock. This kind of mulberry is also called "fodder mulberry". Fodder mulberry is different from mulberry used for sericulture. The mulberry leaves of silkworms are picked one by one. However, this kind of fodder mulberry is harvested one crop after another. You can cut four crops a year, yielding 3000 kilograms of fresh mulberry leaves per mu and about 800kg per mu of sun-dried leaves.

The protein content of feed mulberry is very high, which can reach more than 20%. But mulberry leaves contain proteins, which exist in the form of macromolecules, which are difficult to digest and absorb by pigs, so they need to be fermented. After it is fermented and decomposed, the smaller one is called amino acid, so it is easier for it to absorb more, its nutritional value is higher, and the effect of pigs is better after eating.

Pigs that eat mulberry leaves will have less subcutaneous fat, and the meat quality of pork will be very tight and delicate. Although the nutritional value of fodder mulberry is very high, pigs are omnivorous animals after all. In addition to mulberry leaves, some feed such as soybean meal and bran should be reasonably set up to make pigs grow faster.

Using mulberry leaves and tender stems as pig feed, the simplest, most suitable and cheapest method is to cut fresh food directly, dry mulberry leaves and tender stems can also be fed directly, and they can also be dried and crushed in combination with other feed. Generally speaking, it is more appropriate to add 25% Murray 30% to pig feed. These utilization methods are simple, easy and applicable, and every household can do it.