Daily Life of Pig Farming in 1970

50

"This, this...are pigs afraid of dirt? Sometimes I see them playing happily in the stinky water, right?"

　　When Suda and Ma Yan heard this statement for the first time, they were shocked and didn't understand.

　　Su Yaoyun nodded affirmatively and explained in front of Su Da and his wife, "That's because the weather is hot and pigs have few sweat glands on their skin, so they lie in puddles or other moist places to dissipate heat."

　　"In fact, pigs are also very clean. Brother and sister-in-law, haven't you noticed that pigs usually poop and pee in specific places, but don't you solve these problems near where they lie down?"

　　Ma Yan and Su Da usually feed the pigs a lot and come to the pig house frequently. After hearing what Su Yaoyun said, they looked at each other, thought about it and found that it was true.

　　Su Yaoyun continued: "Some wild boars will use their noses to push apples off the ground into the water to wash off the sand before eating them."

　　"Also, the pig house was built carelessly. The floor is flat, and there is no way to separate the wet and dry areas. It's dirty everywhere. I guess after a while, it's not feeling well and is starting to get irritable."

　　Su Da and his wife had not expected that raising pigs would involve so many twists and turns. They looked at each other, and finally looked at Su Yaoyun and asked, "So what should we do now?"

　　Su Yaoyun thought for a moment and said, "This pig is too dirty. Let's flush it with water first and then drive it to another pig house. The environment here is also very poor and difficult to take care of. The pig will get dirty if it stays here for too long."

　　Easy to get sick."

　　Suda looked at the wild boar lying motionless, sighed, turned around and went to find someone to help.

　　When everyone took great pains to clean the wild boar and drove it to the clean pigpen door, they saw the wild boar shaking its head excitedly and walking in consciously. It seemed that its spirit state was much better than before.

　　Su Yaoyun also took the opportunity to have someone hold down the wild boar, and went forward to check the wild boar's body. He found that the wild boar that Suda led everyone to hunt was indeed very good. So, he stretched out his gloved hand and patted the pig's head, "I hope you can fight for it. Our piglets all depend on you."

　　The wild boar was pinned down without struggling, and tilted its head with its bulging eyes to look at Su Yaoyun. Su Yaoyun immediately withdrew his hand. If a normal piglet did this, it might be naive, but this wild boar looked a bit sloppy and it was scary.

　　Suda paced back and forth around the wild boar. Looking at the wild boar that was not making any noise, he touched his chin and said, "Wow! This is still a clean pig."

　　In response, the wild boar grunted.

　　According to Su Yaoyun's arrangement, the sows in the village went into estrus within a few days. However, to be on the safe side, Su Yaoyun first drove the sows over to stay with the wild boars for a while, and only arranged the breeding work after seeing that the wild boars did not reject them.

　　Suda originally had some opinions about wild boars, but seeing the wild boars working so hard during this period, he couldn't help but feel pity for them, so he specially improved the quality of the wild boars' food.

　　Su Yaoyun rolled his eyes. Then, looking at the wild boar eating with a delicious crunch, he couldn't help but shed a tear for this tool pig.

　　Suda looked at the group of plump white sows with satisfaction and asked, "Yaoyun, when can we know whether the pigs have been matched?"