Chapter 335 Pig Farming
June 12, 1871.
The first town in the Kingdom of East Africa, Rufu Village.
A tragedy is taking place at the entrance of the village. If you pass by the entrance of Lufu Village at this time, all you can hear is the sound of tearing and howling.
Today, all the villagers of Lufu Village gathered at the entrance of the village to join in the fun and watch the tragedy. Some people who had not seen such a scene for many years watched with gusto, while some people who had never seen such a thing exclaimed in surprise.
The white villagers in particular had never seen such a scene before. They were extremely shocked and at the same time felt their lower body tighten, as if they had experienced the same thing.
"My God, is he really a veterinarian? He looks more like a butcher to me, and his equipment looks very different from an ordinary knife. It looks more like a flattened spoon. Is this some secret technique from your East? Andre." Yuris asked Andre, his eastern neighbor and the village security captain.
"According to your European logic, yes, treating pigs means being a veterinarian! After all, it is part of surgery. I think castrating a pig should also be considered surgery! That pig castrating knife should be considered a type of scalpel." Andre tried his best to explain to Yuris in his own language.
Yuris: "But these pigs are healthy! They don't look sick. What's the point?"
Andre: "Healthy? Have you ever eaten pork?"
Yuris: “I have eaten it!”
Andre: "That's good. When I was in Germany, I also saw your pork. It is indeed much stronger than the pork from the Far East, and it is the kind that cannot be washed clean no matter how much water is used."
Andre graduated from Hechingen School and was sent to East Africa without even attending junior high school, so he has some experience.
Andre: "So you don't castrate your piglets?"
Yuris: "Of course, no one in Europe does this. Is there any reason for this?"
Andrei said to Yurisko, "Let me tell you this. After this piglet is castrated, the meat grows faster and the smell is not so bad. If it is not castrated, the pork it produces will smell very bad."
Yuris was a little skeptical and asked, "Is that really the case?"
Andre: "Why would I lie to you? This is all based on experience from our ancestors! After all, everything has its own reason for existence. It's just that castrated pigs are tastier, and your ancestors just haven't discovered it yet."
Yuri: "I see! Does that mean that this castrated pig has grown up and no longer has a foul smell?"
Europeans also eat pork, but they do not castrate the pigs during breeding. The pork has a very strong flavor, so secondary processing is important. Most Europeans do not know how to handle pork, and usually use spices to cover up the smell of pork.
Although East Africa is one of the spice producers, the planting area is not large and the spices are mainly exported. Ernst believes that East African civilians do not need spices.
The natural way to solve the problem of the strong smell of pork is to introduce the profession of pig butcher to castrate piglets. However, according to Western standards, pig butchers are definitely veterinarians.
He looked like a butcher, but was actually a veterinarian from East Africa. He stood there as strong as a rock. Two villagers handed him a piglet. He lifted the pig's leg with one hand and held the piglet in his hand.
He casually picked up a sterilized pig-slaughtering knife from the porcelain bowl of alcohol and said, "I will split the road of life and death with my bare hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife."
In an instant, he raised his knife and cut the piglet's lychees. In an instant, two lychees fell into the bowl that had been prepared in advance.
Only then did the piglet react and screamed in pain. The veterinarian took out a needle and thread and sewed the wound a few times, then sprinkled some powder on the wound. The castration operation was completed, and the people on both sides watched carefully.
"Okay, are there any piglets in your village? If there are any that need pigs castrated, please send them here quickly. I'm in a hurry to the next village!" said the veterinarian.
There are few veterinarians in East Africa, and even fewer who can castrate pigs, so most of them are mobile workers, castrating pigs in the areas they are responsible for along fixed routes according to government arrangements.
"Gone, gone, these are the only piglets the government gave us!"
The piglets are distributed free of charge by the East African government to the villages for raising in order to increase the meat consumption of East African residents and to consume excess grain.
In East Africa, the breeding industry is divided into agricultural breeding and pastoral breeding. Pastoral breeding is easy to understand, while agricultural breeding is mainly based on confinement, with feed feeding accounting for the majority.
Previously, East Africa mainly raised cattle and horses for labor. Now the production of cattle and horses has increased, but they are mainly used for labor and transportation. Some of the ranches in the north are also used for export, but very little of them are distributed to the people of East Africa.
In fact, the pastures in East Africa are far inferior to those in other regions, and are only slightly better than those in Australia.
Europe, North and South America have moist grasslands that are most suitable for the growth of grass, while the moist areas of East Africa are rainforests, and the grasslands are divided into two seasons: rainy and dry. When the dry season comes, the grass will decrease, which is not conducive to grazing.
Therefore, in East Africa, both pasture farming and agricultural farming have always been given equal importance. The only difference is that agricultural farming is more scattered and the units are smaller, but the scale is no worse than pastoral farming.
At the same time, farming areas are naturally more suitable for feeding grains, chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep and pigs. Among them, pork is very suitable for increasing the meat production in East Africa. First of all, it only takes about half a year for a pig to be slaughtered from birth, and it has strong reproductive capacity. Secondly, as an omnivorous animal, pigs are not picky eaters at all. There are a large number of agricultural and sideline products that can be used as pig feed. Relatively speaking, the cost of raising pigs is lower than that of raising other animals.
In East Africa, there are a large number of crops such as potatoes that are grown specifically for black slaves. These crops do not require much effort to care for, are easy to grow, have a huge yield, and can be used as pig feed.
The choice of meat for Europeans is not much different from that for the Far East. Pork is the most important source of meat. Only those influenced by Arab culture do not eat pork.
The Germans are very enthusiastic about eating pork, which is reflected in the production of various sausages. However, in today's era, everyone is happy to be full, and there is no such thing as throwing it into the pot and cooking it.
This time, the East African Kingdom introduced a total of 200,000 breeding pigs, which were mainly promoted on a pilot basis in the Central Province, the Maritime Province, the Lake Province, and the South Salzburg Province. Breeding was carried out on a village basis, which means that large-scale breeding was not adopted.
Large-scale farming is risky and requires great technical skills, and one careless move could result in the annihilation of the entire herd, especially in captivity, where so many animals are kept together and hygiene issues are difficult to resolve.
(End of this chapter)
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