Jixi Black Pig is a specialty of Jixi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province.
Jixi black pig, Anhui pig breed, is an excellent local pig breed. Since the Qing Dynasty, Jingzhou, Jixi has raised sows as its main household sideline, and cultivated excellent local livestock breeds with rough feeding tolerance, strong disease resistance and high farrowing rate, which are called "Jingzhou Black Iron" and 1958 named "Jingzhou Black Pig". After it was extended to surrounding villages in the 1960s, it was raised throughout the county. 1982 passed the expert appraisal organized by Anhui Animal Husbandry Department and was renamed Jixi Black Pig. Together with Shan Yang Black Pig in Ningguo, it is called Southern Anhui Black Pig, and it is listed in Anhui Local Livestock and Poultry Variety Catalogue compiled by 1984. In May 2009, Southern Anhui Black Pig was listed as one of the first batch of 26 local livestock and poultry breed protection lists in Anhui Province, and was listed in the country in 20 10.
Jixi black pig producing areas are mainly distributed in Jingzhou, Jiapeng, Heyang and other towns in Jixi County and parts of Ningguo. Jingzhou Township, Jixi County, the central producing area, is a small mountain zone in Jixi County, with an altitude of more than 700 meters, surrounded by mountains and high germplasm purity.
Jixi black pig, with black hair on the back, is small and medium-sized, handsome in head, with a diamond-shaped or figure-eight wrinkled skirt on his forehead, different mouths, drooping ears, long bristles and developed hindquarters. Jixi black pig can be divided into lion head and horse face according to its head type, of which horse face accounts for more than 60%. There are usually 7-8 pairs of breasts. Due to the specific natural ecological conditions in this area, pigs grow slowly and have small body weight and physique. The adult weight of male sow is 80-90 kg. Male sows have early sexual maturity, giving birth to 6-9 pigs at first, and litter 10- 14 pigs in sow litter. The newborn weight of piglets is small, generally 0.6- 1.0 kg. Sows have good motherhood, the breeding rate of piglets is high (95%), and the weaning weight at 40 days old is 7-8 kg. Finishing pigs gain 300-400g daily, the slaughter rate of 85kg is 67%, and the lean meat rate is 4.0%.
Jixi black pig has excellent characteristics such as roughage resistance, stress resistance, strong disease resistance, mild temperament, high litter rate, early maturity and easy fattening, thin skin and tender meat, and delicious meat. Years of practice have proved that this pig is an excellent female parent for breeding binary hybrid sows. At present, the high-quality three-way hybrid pig with Jixi black pig as the first female parent, commonly known as "Tu Sanyuan", has the characteristics of fast growth, high lean meat rate, delicious meat quality, strong anti-stress and disease resistance, and rough feeding tolerance, and is deeply favored by consumers. In addition, Jixi black pork is of high quality, which is the best raw material for Hu's first-class pot, braised pork and Huangshan ham. Jixi black pork stew "griddle" is a very famous local specialty in Jixi, which is called "fragrant but not vulgar, fat but not greasy" by Mr. Hu Shi, so Jixi black pig is an excellent local pig with obvious regional characteristics, which is of great significance.
Jixi black pig, with black hair on the back, is small and medium-sized, handsome in head, with a diamond-shaped or figure-eight wrinkled skirt on his forehead, different mouths, drooping ears, long bristles and developed hindquarters. Jixi black pig can be divided into lion head and horse face according to its head type, of which horse face accounts for more than 60%. There are usually 7-8 pairs of breasts. Due to the specific natural ecological conditions in this area, pigs grow slowly and have small body weight and physique. The adult weight of male sow is 80-90 kg. Male sows have early sexual maturity, giving birth to 6-9 pigs at first, and litter 10- 14 pigs in sow litter. The newborn weight of piglets is small, generally 0.6- 1.0 kg. Sows have good motherhood, the breeding rate of piglets is high (95%), and the weaning weight at 40 days old is 7-8 kg. Finishing pigs gain 300-400g daily, the slaughter rate of 85kg is 67%, and the lean meat rate is 4.0%.
Jixi black pig has excellent characteristics such as roughage resistance, stress resistance, strong disease resistance, mild temperament, high litter rate, early maturity and easy fattening, thin skin and tender meat, and delicious meat. Years of practice have proved that this pig is an excellent female parent for breeding binary hybrid sows. At present, the high-quality three-way hybrid pig with Jixi black pig as the first female parent, commonly known as "Tu Sanyuan", has the characteristics of fast growth, high lean meat rate, delicious meat quality, strong anti-stress and disease resistance, and rough feeding tolerance, and is deeply favored by consumers. In addition, Jixi black pork is of high quality, which is the best raw material for Hu's first-class pot, braised pork and Huangshan ham. Jixi black pork stew "griddle" is a very famous local specialty in Jixi, which is called "fragrant but not vulgar, fat but not greasy" by Mr. Hu Shi, so Jixi black pig is an excellent local pig with obvious regional characteristics, which is of great significance.
Jixi black pig
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