Zhong Weidong Zhang Min Chuanguan news reporter Yan Qiao
"Roaring in the mountains and forests, climbing slopes and jumping in canals, eating hundreds of grasses, drinking mountain springs, and running wolves." Recently, the reporter walked into the Tibetan fragrant pig breeding base of the Kaiyuan Xiang Pig Breeding Cooperative in Chaotian Village, Chaotian Town, Chaotian District, Guangyuan City, to explore a group of "small" pigs who are free in nature and love to run.
More than 60 acres of lush trees on the top of the mountain, low-lying places, and a dedicated "swimming pool" with an area of more than 4 acres sparkling in the sun. A Tibetan fragrant pig with black hair broke into the field of vision, in groups of three or five, sometimes bowing their heads and arching in the forest, sometimes playing and chasing, each one full of spirits.
Tibetan fragrant pig was once a unique ancient livestock resource in the western Sichuan Plateau, Yunnan and Tibet, belonging to the outer herding class, based on natural wild edible plants and fruits, its mouth is long, the hooves are fine and hard, the physique is strong, good at running, the cardiopulmonary function is particularly developed, and it has strong disease resistance and cold resistance.
"When you are hungry, you will eat wild grass and nibble wild fruits on the mountain, drink mountain springs when you are thirsty, and replenish corn, okara, and green feed once in the morning and evening." In 2018, Xu Lanfen introduced 29 Tibetan fragrant pig breeding pigs, and after 4 years of exploration, she now knows the life habits of Tibetan fragrant pigs. Xu Lanfen introduced that the Tibetan incense pig muscle is strong and compact, the growth is relatively slow, generally it takes a year and a half to get out of the pen, and the weight of the barn is generally about 80 to 100 pounds, which is a veritable "small" pig compared to the domestic pig.
Although the Tibetan incense pig is "small", it is "fragrant". Xu Lanfen introduced that at present, even if the market price of Tibetan fragrant pigs is about 35-40 yuan per kilogram, which is nearly three times higher than that of ordinary domestic pigs, it is still in short supply and needs to be pre-purchased in advance.
Deep mountain herding Tibetan incense pigs, natural stocking of natural incense. Since the breeding of Tibetan fragrant pigs, Xu Lanfen's whole body and mind have been poured into her pig raising "great cause", and now, the breeding base has nearly 300 Tibetan fragrant pigs per year, and the annual output value is about 600,000.