Wu Haifeng, a villager in Youyang, Chongqing, made a fortune by raising porcupine.

Porcupine is eating food.

The villagers of Dali Village, Gongtan Town, Youyang Autonomous County raise porcupine (stinging pig). The head of the household is Wu Haifeng. When it comes to raising porcupine, he is very excited. He began to raise porcupine in 2007, and now it has been 8 years. The spirit of porcupine moved him, and porcupine made him realize his dream of becoming rich.

In 2007, when 32-year-old Wu Haifeng was working in Guangzhou, he found that porcupine sales were hot and prices were ridiculously high in major restaurants. Isn't this the thorn pig in our hometown? The people of Gongtan, who grow up in the forest with good vegetation, know a lot about piercing pigs, that is, the piercing pigs that cut off a large area of the mountain grain at night. Yeah, why don't you catch some and raise them? I'm afraid you can get rich, too! Wu Haifeng immediately went home, introduced four groups of porcupines and began to raise them. Over the course of a year, the income of the sold porcupine is less than 20,000 yuan, and the porcupine is very wild, seeing its owner, jumping and barking, and sometimes even attacking people. His hands were full of injuries, and Wu Haifeng was very helpless.

"the porcupine is a very spiritual animal, and you have to be close to it since you were a piglet." When he went to buy porcupine seedlings in Hunan, the boss inadvertently made Wu Haifeng wake up. Since 2013, Wu Haifeng has devoted "love" to porcupines, taking good care of everything from the birth of porcupine to the appearance of porcupine.

The newly born pig was warm in Rouran, and after a few hours, the thorns on his body began to prick his hands. Wu Haifeng said that waiting next to the newborn porcupine, the maternal characteristics in the porcupine's eyes can only be understood by the porcupine breeders. It is very important to give the porcupine a dark environment, the right temperature and a quiet delivery room.

Porcupine has two and a half cells a year, 1-3 per cell. When a cell produces three, it is necessary to transfer the weak one to the female porcupine that gives birth to only one. The porcupine recognizes the piglet by smell, and the owner has to taste the suckling pig. Otherwise, the piglet will definitely be "abused" in the circle of the "stepmother".

A thorn torn from a porcupine

In June this year, five adult porcupines secretly ran out of the fence, and a month later, four of them went home one after another. When Wu Haifeng talked about this, his eyes burst into tears. "that afternoon, I was eating when suddenly a familiar cry sounded, and then my foot was touched by something. I saw that it was a running porcupine. I fed the rice from the bowl into the mouth of the porcupine, and the pig lay beside me after eating. I carried it into the circle. There is still one that has not come back, and it is estimated that it will come back. "

"if you raise porcupine, you should take care of it with your heart." Wu Haifeng said that it is necessary to record what porcupine likes to eat, which season is in estrus, and when to give birth. Porcupine does not eat much, with an annual feeding cost of up to 250 yuan. It is very important to deal with the duel of boars in estrus. Boars defeated in duels should be isolated, fasted to make them thin, grow good wounds, and must not use anti-inflammatory drugs.

"now I have 325 porcupine in my column, and every porcupine listens to me. I give them a name. If I call the name of a pig, which pig will dare to pick up food in my hand." As Wu Haifeng said, he took a cut-off melon and shouted "good boy". In the column, only a porcupine Yang started and grunted. He must have been a "good boy".

"the year before last, I sold each group by group. Each group costs NT $8000, and each group costs more than NT $60,000. last year, it was NT $10,000, and I got about NT $120000. This year, I sold more than a dozen groups, and we won't be able to count until the end of the year, which should be more than last year." Wu Haifeng especially stressed that he felt a little distressed every time he sold a group, because he had a relationship with these pigs after all.

In the course of the interview, Wu Haifeng received a total of three phone calls, one from a restaurant in Guangzhou, they wanted to order 1000 porcupine, the price of gross weight 100 yuan per jin, Wu Haifeng refused.

One is Ren Jun from Shangan Township, Pengshui County. he said that he had said so many times face to face that this time he must be divided into 10 groups for him to breed, and he wanted to pick up the goods tomorrow. Wu Haifeng told him to come to the farm to familiarize himself with it, learn some skills and cultivate a relationship with the porcupine. And repeatedly told him that technology transfer is free.

The other was a doctor from Shandong and asked him about the medicinal value of porcupine, and he answered them one by one.

"We are here to learn skills, and Haifeng teaches them very carefully!" Wu Wenjie, Wu Haijun, and Wu Xike from the same village then went into the farm and studied with Haifeng for some time. They also introduced several groups from him, and gained profits. In comparison, they were many times more comfortable than raising pigs.

"Last year, I sold thorn pigs, which was 30000 yuan more than flue-cured tobacco. I didn't have much investment." Wu Wenjie said.

Wu Haifeng said that he plans to contract a piece of Stone Forest at the back of the house to create a natural environment adapted to the survival of porcupine, expand the scope of activities of porcupine, change captive breeding to stocking, and in due course, he can do sightseeing. Let friends come to zero contact with porcupine to experience the spirituality of animals.

"of course, it is my dream to set up a professional club, and I want everyone to get rich together. Raise your own porcupine and experience the health that green food brings to people. " Wu Haifeng specifically suggested that if you are interested in porcupine farming and do not understand the medicinal value of porcupine, you can contact him.

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Porcupine, also known as arrow pig, we locally call it thorn pig, is a kind of rodent with sharp thorns, thorns can be used to prevent predators. Porcupines are brown, gray and white. The thorns of different porcupine species have different shapes, but all are changed hairs, with a layer of keratin on the surface, bundles of thorns embedded in the skin, and thorns intermingled with the hair.

Porcupine is a kind of rare animal with high economic value. Because of its delicate meat and delicious taste, it is deeply loved by people and is known as Shanzhen. Porcupine also has a high medicinal value, meat, brain, fatty oil, heart, liver, gallbladder, stomach, arrow thorns can be used as medicine. It has the effects of reducing blood pressure, relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, dispelling wind, dredging collaterals, etc., mainly for the treatment of stomach, hemorrhoids and fistulas, malignant sores, cardiovascular sclerosis, leukemia and other diseases. In addition to medicinal uses, porcupine is also an advanced raw material for making buoys and decorations.