I was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, when I was young, every household did not even have a courtyard wall, but each family will feed a few pigs, two or three, pigs are free-range, during the day on the street as a pig slipper, to feed, on their own to go out and call their own pigs, although the pig is a pig, but it is also humane, as long as you listen to your family "minions and babes..."
Never admit the wrong home, feed more pigs, keep one at the end of the year, sell the rest for money, and leave the one that will be a pig and slaughter it for meat.
At that time, pigs didn't have any snacks and no high-tech feed to eat, so they ate sweet potato seedlings, dried sweet potatoes, and wild vegetables. When it's time to slaughter, buy a bag of wheat bran to feed the pigs.
At that time, after school, I had to go to pick pigweed, and then the pigweed was washed and returned home in the river, chopped and chopped, sprinkled with some cooked dried sweet potatoes, and the pig shook its big mouth and ate a sense of rhythm.
Later, houses began to be built, red tile brick walls, or bungalows, but every family still left a place for pigs in the southwest corner, called a pigsty.
Every year, I still raise one or two pigs, follow the old habit, keep one, eat at the end of the year, and sell more money.
Later, suddenly it was not allowed to be raised, and it was not allowed to keep the pigsty, the pigs had to be sold, the pen had to be dismantled, and the pigs could not be kept without raising pigs.
Later, there is no New Year's pig to slaughter, to eat the New Year's pig, you must buy pigs, buy pigs are also from the pig farm, there is no personal raising, their own family can not be slaughtered, but also to the town has a qualified place to slaughter, the village people are troublesome. Later, I simply bought the meat directly.
In the past, the village was full of small pig farms, but later it was almost invisible.
I heard, you can raise pigs again? However, there is no more pigsty, and the pigs cannot be free-range.