Scented pig, a mammal of the genus Pig in the family of Porcidae of the order Artiodactyla, is also known as turnip pig and pearl pig.

The body is short and small, covered with soft downy fine hairs, which are glossy and sparse, varying from breed to breed, with coat colors such as all-black, flower-white, and brownish-brown. The four legs are short and thin, and the tail is small; the hair at the end of the tail is white, and the all-black ones have the six-white characteristics of four hooves white, eyebrow white, and tail tip white. Because of its bimonthly weaned piglets without milky odor, so the name.

The fragrant pig is distributed in China's Guizhou Province, such as Congjiang, Rongjiang, Jianhe, Leishan, etc., and there are artificial breeding in Dushan, Libo, Sandu and Pingtang in Guizhou. With chaff, weeds, leaves as the main feed, there is no enclosure, and people have no special care for it. Strong resistance, strong digestion of crude fiber.

Sow starts to heat at the age of April, usually at the age of June, the duration of heat is 3~4 days, the gestation period is about 115 days, the number of litters is four or five on average, and the fertility is lower than that of other pig breeds.

Fattening performance

In the countryside, fattening pigs are mostly weaned at 60-70 days of age on the trough, generally using the "hanging frame" way of fattening to the green roughage, only in the latter part of the fattening when the feed concentrate. According to the rural survey from the river, 10 fattening pigs, from 3.65 kg to 37.62 kg, feeding 250.6 days, daily weight gain of 136 grams.

According to Guizhou Agricultural College in 1981 on the fragrant pig (16) fattening determination, in better feed conditions, from 90 days of age, body weight of 3.72 kilograms, raised to 180 days of age, body weight of 22.61 kilograms, daily weight gain of 210 grams.

Raised to 240 days of age, weighing 38.8 kilograms, although the daily weight gain has increased, but the consumption of mixed material per kilogram of weight gain increased. It can be seen that the fragrant pig early maturity and easy to fat, suitable for early slaughter.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Scented Pig