The twelfth lunar month is the hottest season in the countryside every year. Not only did the people who went out come back one after another, but the most important thing was that some people in the village began to kill pigs for the New Year. Only at this time can you feel the atmosphere of Chinese New Year in the countryside, which is becoming less and less stale.
Maybe some people in the city will find it strange. Killing a pig is killing a pig. What's there to say? The pork we bought in the supermarket before the Spring Festival was also from the countryside.
In fact, this is not the same, because the pigs raised by farmers themselves are very different from those raised in rural farms!
A friend said that in order to improve the slaughter rate of fat pigs, shorten the breeding time and reduce the breeding cost, some pig farms adopted some extreme breeding methods, such as taking hormones and feeding fattening agents.
Of course, this may only be done by a small number of "dirty" factory directors.
But I am sure that most pig farms feed pigs with feed. As we all know, various additives are added to the feed, so pork is not as delicious as free-range pork.
Pigs in rural areas are different. Pigs in rural areas are free-range, running around freely every day, eating leftovers, feed and so on. , more green and environmentally friendly.
In Bian Xiao's hometown, farmers raised their own pigs, all of which boiled porridge with rice, then added a bucket of water and two bowls of bran.
After harvesting sweet potatoes in autumn, the remaining sweet potato residue is kept, and a bucket of sweet potato residue is added every day. Add two spoonfuls of bran after cooking.
There is also that these Chinese New Year pigs are generally piglets born by their own sows. There were a dozen little pigs at first. After a few months, one or two of them were kept for themselves, and the others were sold.
Is there a difference between pigs raised by farmers themselves and pigs in pig farms?
There is also the difference in meat quality. In rural areas, pigs are generally raised for more than half a year, and the small ones can grow to about 200 kilograms, and the big ones with three or four hundred kilograms are more common.
The slaughter time is also different. Pig farms are generally closed and can be released in five to six months. The pigs raised by farmers themselves are different, most of them are semi-free-range, generally more than 8 months, and most of them are 10 months.
In fact, no matter how heavy the pigs are and how long they have been raised, as long as fattening agents and hormones are not used for pigs during the feeding process. Whether fat or thin, the meat quality of pigs will be much stronger than that of feed pigs or abnormally treated pork.
If we only talk about meat quality, do you think pigs in pig farms are better or pigs raised by farmers themselves?