Shenzhou pig

Shenzhou pig is a specialty of Shenzhou City, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. Shenzhou black pig belongs to a group of Huanghuaihai black pigs, which is a famous black pig breed in Hebei Province and the only local pig breed. It has excellent characteristics such as high fecundity, good meat quality, rough feeding resistance and strong disease resistance, and is a rare excellent black pig breed. Shenxian pig is an ancient local pig breed. Although the exact history of its formation is hard to test, it has a long history of breeding, and it was really bred by working people in the local agricultural ecological environment for a long time. According to historical records, Shenzhou once governed Raoyang, Anping and Wuqiang counties. The region is barren, the people are poor, there are many grasses, and the grain output is low and unstable. The local people's livelihood must be supplemented by family sideline besides growing grain, so it is necessary to raise pigs. Because of the local production of wheat, millet, cereal, potato, beans, corn and peanuts, concentrated feed is prepared for pigs. More importantly, there are many wild vegetables in the vast area, so there is enough green coarse feed. As time goes by, in this specific agricultural ecological environment, a unique Shenxian pig has been formed after selecting the best and eliminating the worst. Shenxian pork is tender and delicious; Tolerance to coarse feeding and preference for green feeding (the length of small intestine is 24 times of body length and the length of large intestine is 7 times of its body length); Good reproductive performance, high litter rate, strong disease resistance and wide adaptability. Shenxian pig is large in size, with big ears, drooping over the nose, long and straight muzzle, straight and narrow back and waist, sloping hips, solid and powerful limbs, black skin and thick fur, thick and dense fur, and dense brown fluff in winter. 07 ~ 9, right. The head size is moderate, which can be divided into "cucumber mouth" and "five flower heads" (also divided into "big five flower heads" and "small five flower heads"), and there is also a kind of "thin hair and white skin" between "five flower heads" and "cucumber mouth". 1. "Cucumber mouth": The mouth tube is long and the end is sharp, hence the name. The nose is straight and flat with little hair, the wrinkles on the forehead are shallow, the neck is slender, the front is narrow, the back and waist are concave and long, the abdomen is slightly drooping, the buttocks are inclined, the hind legs are weak and the tail is thick. 2. "Five flower heads": the head is rough, the hair is thick and dense, and the forehead is wide and wrinkled, so it is named. The body is thick, the neck is thick, and the skin is thick and wrinkled; The mouth is wide and relatively short, with two earlobes below the corner of the mouth; The forequarters are well developed, the chest is wide and the back is slightly sunken; The hindquarters are not full, and the tail is thick and drooping; The limbs are thick and the department is soft. 3. "Thin hair and white skin": between "cucumber mouth" and "five flower heads". The body is plump and symmetrical, does not collapse, the back hair is relatively thin and short, and the mouth tube is upturned.
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