The post-80s couple returned to their hometown to raise porcupines determined to lead the villagers to become rich together.

Tambiya is feeding porcupines.

Chubby body, long and sharp thorns, hear a little sound, the whole body of thorns immediately erect, this is wild in the lovely porcupine. On March 2, the reporter saw Wenjie porcupine farm in Xianglu Village, Wofo Town, the spacious farm was divided into small "suites", in which there lived three porcupines of different sizes, a little closer, they heard a "rustling sand" and "click click" sound.

The owner of the farm is a couple born after 80. Tam Biya, 34, who was feeding the porcupine, told reporters that the "rustling" was the sound of the porcupine eating and the "clicking" was the sound of the porcupine tail swinging.

Reporters saw that these porcupines were black or black brown, head and neck have slender, straight and backward curved mane, three-valve mouth, looks like rabbits. And its back, buttocks and tail are born with thick and straight, white alternate spindle-shaped thorns, these thorns are empty in the middle, specialized by body hair, easy to fall off, some tips also have inverted hooks, like a sharp arrow, very hard and sharp.

"Porcupines are also called porcupines. Due to the decreasing number of wild porcupines, they are also listed as protected animals by the state. The porcupines look docile, but they also have a lot of personality. When they get angry, even I dare not approach them." Tan Biya said.

Tan Biya and her husband, Wang Peng, were in the building materials business in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province until 2015. Although the income is good, but the couple always feel that working is not a long-term solution, always have the idea of returning home to start a business.

An accidental opportunity, the introduction of special breeding porcupines on TV aroused their interest. After that, Tan Biya looked up a lot of information about porcupine breeding. The more she looked at it, the more she felt that porcupine breeding was "reliable".

In 2015, the couple learned that there was a porcupine farm in Wulong that was very successful now, so they immediately went to learn breeding technology, then went back to their hometown to invest 400,000 yuan to build a farm, and introduced 14 groups (one male and two females as a group), a total of 42 breeding pigs to start breeding.

Tan Biya introduced, Porcupine is very easy to raise, It is omnivorous animal, And domestic pig eat everything, Almost do not need any concentrate feed, Cost is very low, And especially love clean; In addition is porcupine immunity is particularly strong, Lifetime do not need epidemic prevention. Once two porcupines fought, one of them had a piece of skin torn off its back, and it grew well two weeks later.

"Although porcupine looks ugly, its whole body is full of treasures. Its meat, brain, fatty oil, heart, liver, gall bladder, stomach, and arrow thorns can all be used as medicine. It has the effects of lowering blood pressure and relieving pain, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, expelling wind and dredging collaterals, and has the reputation of 'animal ginseng.'" Wang Peng told reporters that at present, the market price of pork is more than 160 yuan per kilogram, more than five times that of domestic pigs. The growth cycle of a porcupine is 8 months, and it can be sold for a net profit of more than 1,000 yuan. It is more profitable to sell piglets.

"January 23rd, February 21st." The reporter noticed that on the circle wall of the farm, there were white and red chalk dates. Wang Peng said that white indicates the breeding time of porcupines, and red indicates the days when porcupines check out pregnancy. It turned out that Tan Biya not only set up breeding files for porcupines in each circle, but also specially indicated the different situations of porcupines to remind herself. "You can't be careless." Tan Biya said,"Breeding pigs are the most valuable, porcupines can be bred about 8 jin." A female porcupine can have at most two litters a year, usually one or two per litter."

Tan Biya told reporters that most of the sows this year have to give birth, and now they are expanding the breeding scale, but also especially "hire" understand breeding technology brother-in-law Zhou Youling when the pig farm full-time "administrator", solve the couple's worries.

"Although it is currently in the exploratory stage, I am very optimistic about the prospects of raising porcupines. When the first batch of pigs come out of the pens and earn money, I plan to set up a cooperative in the village to provide free technology to the villagers, provide seedlings at low prices, recycle finished pigs, lay a good foundation for the masses to become rich, lay a good foundation, set a good example, drive one party, and let the surrounding farmers become rich together." Tan Biya said confidently.