Deng Jiemin's porcupine farming is on the road to prosperity.

At the porcupine breeding base of Deng Zemin, a villager of Wenguang Village, Wenjing Town, the author saw the legendary porcupine for the first time. Their whole body was brown and their backs were covered with black and white spikes. From a distance, they looked like a big hedgehog.

Walking into the nursery, I saw the mother porcupine approaching by a stranger while arching the baby pig hard towards the corner of the enclosure, while standing up the spikes all over her body, the sharp thorns that collided with each other made a "squeak" sound, and kept saying, "poof. Poof. " Donovan's voice. I often see pictures of all kinds of animals stabbed by porcupines on the Internet. Deng Jieming, the owner of the farm, said with a smile: "the lactation porcupine is easy to be frightened. It thinks you are going to hurt its cubs and is warning you!"

Deng Jieming and his wife are both authentic farmers, and the family's economy is supported by his wife's farming and his going out to work. In 2011, Deng Jieming saw porcupine farming on TV. After carefully watching the introduction of breeding technology, he was interested in the industry. After hearing the news of someone raising porcupine in Zhenyuan County, he immediately went to inspect it. After coming back to discuss with his wife, Deng Jieming borrowed 60,000 yuan from relatives and friends, introduced five pairs of breeding pigs from Zhenyuan, built an enclosure on his own land, and began porcupine breeding.

"Porcupine is full of treasures, and meat, brain, oil, heart, liver, gallbladder, stomach, and arrow thorns are all medicine. a commercial pig usually has about 30 jin, and the price is 2000 yuan per pig. In Jingdong County, we are all slaughtered and delivered to the door!" Deng Jieming said: porcupines do not pick food, but eat corn, wheat, fruits and vegetables, wild vegetables, and weeds, because without feed, the cost of breeding is even lower than that of ordinary pigs, and the profit of a porcupine can reach several hundred yuan.

"at present, my farm has more than 150 adult pigs and more than 30 young pigs. The selected breeding pigs are kept to breed their young, and they are also sold, while the rest are sold as commercial pigs." In 2014, Deng Jieming, who made some money from porcupine farming, was more optimistic about the market prospect of porcupine farming, borrowed more than 600,000 yuan from credit unions, expanded the scale of breeding, bought 6.5 mu of barren mountains in the village, built a porcupine breeding base, and planted some herbs that porcupine like to eat, such as drilling wind, Mutong, plantain, mint, Bidens bipinnata and so on. "now people's living conditions are better, and they pay more attention to health care. Porcupine is regarded as a treasure of nutrition and health care in many places, and we are no exception here. If we feed all kinds of herbs for a long time, the medicinal value of domestic porcupine is not lower than that of the wild." When it comes to porcupine farming, Deng Jieming appears full of confidence.