What kind of food does Xiang Pig eat?

Xiang Pig, also known as Mini Pig, is a mammal of the family Artiodactyla, which is famous for its small, precocious and delicious meat. It is most famous for Congjiang Xiang Pig, Jianbai Xiang Pig in Southeast Guizhou and Bama Xiang Pig in Guangxi near Guizhou Southeast Guizhou awarded by the State Agriculture Department. In addition, there are Huanjiang Xiang Pig, Tibetan Xiang Pig and other breeds. Let's take a look at what Xiang Pig eats.

What kind of food does Xiang Pig eat?

Xiang pigs are mainly stocked and often eat green fodder such as weeds and fragrant rice. each reserve sow (2-4 months old) consumes an average of 0.2 kg of concentrate feed and 1 kg of green feed per day. Pregnant and lactating sows consume an average of 0.4 kg of concentrate feed and 2 kg of green feed per day. The feed of Xiang pig in the place of origin is mainly cooked food, and cooking can improve the utilization rate of feed.

Morphological characteristics of Xiang Pig

Xiang pig has a short physique, a black coat, a glossy capillary, a long head, a flat forehead, vertical and horizontal wrinkles on the forehead, obvious hairless areas around the eyes, thin ears extending to both sides, a slight depression in the waist, a round and drooping abdomen, short feet, a small tail, and white tail hair. The average weight of 6-month-old boar is 14.2 kg, the body length is 65 cm, the body height is 33 cm, and the chest circumference is 55 cm. At the age of 8 months, the sow weighs 30 kg, body length 70 cm, body height 47 cm and chest circumference 73 cm. The slaughtering rate of fattening Xiang pig is 63.6%, and the lean meat rate is 52.2%.

Feed matching of Xiang Pig

1. Bran feed: bran feed includes rice bran, wheat bran, sweet potato rattan bran, peanut rattan bran, broad bean leaf bran, soybean straw bran, etc., and the amount of pig is 10-15% of the total feed, no more than 20% at most.

2. Meal feed: meal feed mainly includes rapeseed cake, peanut cake, cottonseed cake, soybean cake, sesame cake and so on. The proportion of cake feed for pigs is 10-25% of the total feed. Soybean cake and peanut cake are nutritious and can be matched with 25%. Rapeseed cake and cottonseed cake should be less than 10%. Rapeseed cakes and cottonseed cakes should be detoxified first, and other cakes only need to be boiled or fried and fed. It is not suitable to add cake meal to piglet feed.

3. Dregs feed: dregs feed includes distiller's grains, bran dregs, vinegar dregs, powder dregs, bean dregs, bagasse and so on. The amount of pig used is 5-10% of the total feed. Pregnant sows and fattening sows should not be fed with distiller's grains. All kinds of dregs must be cooked before feeding.

4. Grain feed: grain feed includes corn, barley, wheat, sorghum, broad bean, pea and so on. The amount of pig consumption is 50% of the total feed, no more than 60% at most.

5. Animal feed: animal feed includes silkworm pupa, fish meal, bone meal, blood meal, feather meal and so on. The amount of pigs is 40.8% of the total feed, and piglets should not be fed with blood meal. The fishmeal in the feed of fattening pigs can be mixed with 10%. If it is mixed with silkworm pupa, the fishmeal can only be mixed with 5%. When using this kind of feed, we should pay attention to the proportion of calcium and phosphorus.

6. Mineral feed: mineral feed includes shell powder, eggshell powder, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate and salt, etc. The amount of pig is 1% of the total amount of feed, and the amount of salt is not more than 0.5%. If trace elements are added, it should be used in strict accordance with the regulations.

7. Green feed: green feed includes aquatic duckweed, water hyacinth, water hyacinth, water peanut and crop leaves, vines, alfalfa, vetch and so on. This kind of feed is green, juicy, nutritious and easy to digest, accounting for 40% of the total feed.