Scientific Pig raising is not afraid of "Pig cycle"

Xu Houmei is a native of Shenjia Village, Yuexi Town, Kaixian County, Chongqing City. She is a well-known pig farmer in the local area. She raised pigs for 30 years and wrote a book called "Getting Rich Classic".

"At that time, the villagers were generally poor and lived on agriculture. There is no flour mill near the village. The villagers have to go to the market town a few kilometers away to get rice and flour." Xu Houmei, unwilling to live a poor life, thought: "I am young and strong, why not set up a flour mill, which can not only make money, but also bring convenience to villagers."

The net profit at the end of the first year was 12,000 yuan. In this way, the couple accumulated the "first bucket of gold" by doing flour grinding business.

As more and more bran was ground, the processing workshop could not stack up. Xu Houmei thought of using bran to raise pigs, which could not only solve the problem of more bran, but also raise pigs to make money. In order to learn breeding technology, Xu Houmei often participates in training, buys books about pig breeding from bookstores, also invites technicians from the town animal husbandry and veterinary station to give guidance, and goes to pig farms in surrounding towns to learn skills as soon as she has time. Slowly, she mastered the living habits and growth characteristics of pigs and accumulated experience in raising pigs. Later, Xu Houmei saw that the business of the flour mill was getting worse and worse, so she simply closed the flour mill and concentrated on raising pigs.

At present, Xu Houmei's Hongchun Family Farm has 3 pighouses and 3 biogas digesters with a total area of 1800 square meters, 43 breeding sows and more than 500 commercial pigs, with an annual profit of more than 700,000 yuan.

"As we all know, there is a 'pig cycle' in the pig industry. If you want to make money from raising pigs, you have to adapt to it and have a way to deal with it." He said,"First of all, you have to stick. No matter whether the price of pigs is up or down, we must insist, because there will be a rise when there is a fall, if you don't feed when you fall, you can't catch up when you rise. We should also dare to invest in improving the conditions of pig farms and reduce costs by scale breeding." Xu Houmei believes that large-scale breeding pigs, but also must establish their own breeding pig breeding system,"outsourcing piglet fattening single-hit breeding mode, high cost, market risk, and epidemic situation is not easy to control, external constraints are many, if you want to long-term development, you must build your own breeding pig farm to take the road of self-breeding."

"Scientific management of pig farms and prevention and control of diseases are important events related to the survival of pig farms." For this reason, Xu Houmei specially hired animal husbandry veterinarians to be responsible for feeding management and disease prevention and control, but also often carried out technical training for breeders, so that they could better master breeding technology and prepare complete feed.

"There's actually no secret to raising pigs. As long as you persevere, dare to invest, have your own breeding system, and add scientific management, you'll earn money." Xu Houmei said.

From Kaizhou Daily