Chapter 364: Pig's Trotter Rice Soup
Soon, Zhang Feng cooked the pig food.

Luo Yihang pointed to the pig house and said, "You have a good nose. You can smell something."

That’s right! Even through the door, you can hear the piglets grunting and howling. They are much noisier than before.

Zhang Feng took a large spoon and scooped it into the bucket, stirring it in circles to cool it down, and said with a smile: "Let it air dry, and you can feed it when it's cool enough."

Take advantage of this opportunity.

Zhang Feng talked to Luo Yihang about the trip to buy pigs.

This time, Zhang Feng went to the mountain city of Rongchang, and bought Rongchang pigs.

The front shoulder meat of this kind of pig is plump, tender and juicy, with gorgeous marble patterns, and the boiled meat slices are extremely tender.

The ribs are tender and light in color, with gorgeous marble patterns. During cooking, volatile aromatic substances are easily released, filling the air with the aroma of meat.

The pork belly is plump and thick, with seven layers of structure, three lean parts, three fat parts and one skin, which are clearly arranged in an orderly manner. It is the best ingredient for twice-cooked pork.

The pig's tail has a large diameter, thick and sticky skin, and has a crispy, soft and sticky texture with a strong flavor.

It is a very delicious pig.

How delicious is it?

The key to whether pork tastes good or not lies in the intramuscular fat.

Whether the pork is tender or tough, whether the meat flavor is strong or not, and whether the meat is juicy or not all depends on the intramuscular fat.

There is also a special term called imf.

Generally, 2 to 2.5 is considered acceptable, and this is what you can buy in vegetable markets and supermarkets.

Excellent pork, including local pork, can reach 3. This is why local pork is delicious.

Rongchang pigs are raised in a free-range manner. They eat cooked food, which is good for digestion and high in starch. They run all over the mountains and are very active. After they become flexible and fat, their weight can reach up to 3.5.

It's the ultimate enjoyment.

The only one with a higher weight is the Bama Xiang pig, which can reach 3.8 to 4.2 if raised casually. Unfortunately, the Bama Xiang pig is not for eating, it has more important functions.

And Rongchang pig is so delicious.

But a few years ago, it almost suffered a devastating disaster.

Originally, the number of sows that Rongchang pigs could breed was 18. However, in early , an African swine fever caused the number of Rongchang pigs to decrease sharply, to only , and they were almost extinct.

At the moment of crisis, the local area launched the "Rongchang Pig Defense War", spent 240 million yuan to buy two mobile pig houses, and moved 60 sows and 12 boars into the deep mountains for physical isolation to preserve the fire.

The animal husbandry institute freezes and preserves 30,000 sperms and a batch of sow ear tissues for biological seed preservation.

There is also a man named Lin Qixin, who is known as the "Western Native Pig King". He personally invested 360 million yuan, and the government subsidized 24 million yuan, with a total investment of million yuan. He built a breeding farm in a depression on the top of a mountain, surrounded by forests, and preserved sows and boars.

After a few years, the Rongchang pigs in the breeding farm have bred 15,000 pigs. The Rongchang pig population has basically recovered and can be sold.

Zhang Feng went there this time to find Lin Qixin.

There are introductions to the Agricultural University and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

In addition, Zhang Feng has been raising pigs all his life. After meeting Lin Qixin, the two pig farmers got along quite well after chatting.

Not only did Lin Qixin successfully buy the piglets, he also asked his nephew, Xiao Lin, to drive Zhang Feng back personally.

"Boss Lin is a big shot!" Zhang Feng said finally.

His tone was full of admiration.
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After the chat, the pig food had cooled down.

Luo Yihang and Zhang Feng each carried a bucket and went into the pig house to pour the cornmeal and vegetable paste into the trough.

It is said that vicious dogs pounce very fiercely, but in fact, hungry pigs pounce on food much more fiercely than dogs. Just like drinking water just now, the piglets rolled and crawled into the trough, slurping and eating.

The little pig was miserable afterwards, eating pig's trotters soaked in rice...

"How come he ran in again?" Luo Yihang said with a smile.

Zhang Feng stepped into the pig house and gestured at the piglet's neck.

Compare the feeding trough again.

"The trough is still too high, and it's inconvenient for the piglets to eat." Pointing at the piglets' necks, he explained to Luo Yihang, "The Rongchang pork is good quality, but there are few of them. In addition to consuming a lot of feed and growing slowly, there is another biggest problem: their necks are short. They can't stick their heads out of the bars to eat the feed in the trough. The effect of large-scale farming is not as good as free-range farming."

Large-scale pig farms usually start with 10,000 pigs.

A pig is in a long fence. It cannot turn around or move. It can only lie down except for eating.

Automatic feeding and water supply.

Pigs have to stick their heads out of the bars to eat and drink.

The Rongchang pig has a short neck and cannot stick its head out. Just this slight difference reduces the number of pigs raised by several orders of magnitude.

"It's okay, we plan to raise them in the wild anyway, and we have fenced them off on the mountain." Luo Yihang said indifferently. "But uncle, we raise pigs mainly for their manure. If we raise them in the wild, how will we collect the manure?"

"That's okay. Pigs like to be clean. I'll feed them for a few days, collect their feces and pile them in one place. Then they'll know where to defecate. Then I'll have to arrange the feed, water and sleeping areas. Anyway, everything has to be in order and be where it should be."

There is knowledge in everything. Since Zhang Feng has an idea, Luo Yihang will not care.

after awhile.

The piglets were full.

His belly finally became round, and he walked around in the pigpen grunting.

Quite lively.

Zhang Feng smiled and muttered, "It's because we are kindhearted that we let them run around. In other places, pigs are not allowed to move around for fear that they will lose weight."

"What do you mean by losing weight? The piglets are losing weight as soon as they arrive?" A loud voice came from outside the door.

Soon after, Luo's father, Luo's mother, as well as Seventh Master, Amber, Grandpa Gou and a group of other old men came in.

The man with the loud voice was Uncle Luo Luo. They heard that the Luo family was going to raise pigs, so they came to see what was new.

Ever since Luo Yihang rented the fields on the platform and got a lot of things, the grandfathers in the village always go there in groups. They are very nimble and everything they see is new to them.

Luo Yihang silently counted the heads and found that Uncle Cui was not there. It seemed that Uncle Cui had lost the bet this time and was forced to watch the stall at the door.

"Hang, what's wrong with your pigs? They all have black eyes. Now let me make a rule that anyone who eats your food must be punched twice before eating it." Master Qi laughed as he looked at the piglets in the pigsty.

He has never seen Rongchang pig.

Then it was Amber who was also curious, "Didn't the Zhang family say they wanted to raise native pigs? Why are they white pigs?"

Amber hadn't seen it either.

Finally, it was Uncle Gou who came forward. He was old and experienced. He pointed at the other old men one by one and said, "You guys are ignorant. This is a panda pig. It was born with black eyes."

Luo Yihang gave Grandpa Gou Gou a thumbs up and said, "You must have tasted and seen this before."

Uncle Luo Luo was not polite and greeted Luo Yihang directly, "Hang boy, save a pork leg for me after the New Year. This pig is really good, I haven't seen one in decades."

As he said this, he wiped the corner of his mouth and looked very greedy.

It made everyone laugh.

(End of this chapter)