What do I talk about as a technician in a pig farm? ...

Because of my professional study, I was lucky enough to participate in the pig-raising practice in an intensive pig farm in the capital of stoves in summer for more than one month, and learned about the primitive life of the aquaculture industry, which was basically completely isolated from the outside world.

My pig farm is a mature intensive farm. Personnel entering the site are required to be strictly disinfected, and clothes and luggage worn from the outside should be carefully checked and disinfected. Pork products, even snacks containing pork, should not be brought into pig farms to avoid the introduction of foreign pathogens and lead to the outbreak of the epidemic. Accordingly, veterinarians and breeders in pig farms also strictly limit the number of factory trips. They can only go out for two and a half days' holiday every month. If they need to buy daily necessities, they usually report to the field director. The director will go out to buy it regularly and distribute it to everyone. Of course, you have to collect money, not free. In addition, industry regulations require farms to be built in remote areas far away from residential areas to prevent breeding pollution from affecting residents' daily lives, so it is not surprising that pig farms are isolated from the world.

In addition to buying staple food, rice, noodles and other seasonings, the vegetables planted in the field and the fruits intercropped in the pig house can basically be self-sufficient in a huge pig farm. Most of the three areas, delivery room, pig house and fattening house, adopt the "soaking manure" manure treatment mode. After the pig manure is soaked in water, it communicates with the biogas digester in the field, and after fermentation, it produces biogas needed for daily life in the pig farm. The director is one of the investors and is responsible for the daily operation of the pig farm. Because a brand feed is widely used in pig farms, the brand company specially sent a technical director to the pig farms to take charge of technical guidance. When I was practicing in various blocks, it was the technical director who appointed the block veterinarian as the "master" to guide me.

delivery room

The owner of my delivery room is Xiao Lu, who graduated from the Veterinary College. He is in his early twenties younger than our contemporaries, but these interns are still used to calling him "Brother Lu Xiao" affectionately. Although Xiao Luge is young, he is very familiar with his business. Postpartum care of sows, newborn health care of piglets, empty arms and stress management of caring for pigs can all be done by one person.

Every morning, Xiao Hu's brother will go to three delivery rooms to give iron supplements and vaccinations to newborn piglets and give anti-inflammatory infusion bottles to postpartum sows. The procedure is not complicated, but the huge stock, mosquitoes in the delivery room and excessive humidity caused by the cooling of the water curtain make the sanitary conditions of the working environment very poor, very hot and humid, and the sweat on the veterinarians and breeders who feed the injection back and forth is wet, dry and wet. Summer is coming, and the piglets in the pig farm have serious diarrhea. Veterinarians need to change different drugs the next day to relieve symptoms. Hip muscle injection requires the veterinarian to grab the hind leg of the pig with one hand and inject it with the other hand. It is common for sick pigs to spray yellow excrement on their faces and necks. At the end of the morning, basic light-colored clothes will be dyed light yellow. If it is not replaced in time at noon, it will cause the special effect of "humanoid mobile pig toilet"

Most sows in the enclosure are listless, exhausted, lying or standing, and the space is narrow, and they can't even turn around. The purpose is to prevent sows from crushing piglets and causing economic losses. However, it is inevitable that piglets will be crushed to death, and the breeder will be fined for poor management. If the piglet dies of other reasons instead of being crushed to death, something will happen to shirk the responsibility.

The keeper of the delivery room is a young couple. Once, because of the dead pig, they quarreled with Brother Deer. The breeder said that Brother Xiaolu killed the pig because he had taken too many vaccines. Brother Xiaolu said that poor management led to the death of the pig. Such things happen so often that even the field director didn't disturb them.

However, if the accidental death of the piglet comes from 1 delivery room, the 40-and 50-year-old breeder's aunt and uncle will directly scold Brother Xiaolu. As the breeder couple in 1 delivery room are older, they can be regarded as elders or relatives of the director. Brother Lu won't refute, but will only walk away after they scold.

In hot weather, sows often suffer from heat stress. If it is not handled properly, it may lead to the death of sows, and the economic loss caused by sow death is great, which is also a major event. Generally, directors don't blame veterinarians, but directly blame the technical director. Since the summer, seven or eight sows have died in pig farms. The farm director is very dissatisfied with the ineffective measures of the technical director. Hot weather and complicated feeding conditions make it difficult for technical directors to reduce mortality. So there are rumors in the pig farm that the company will recall the technical director and send experts to solve the problem. Complex interpersonal relationships in a simple environment require pig farm workers in all positions to have the ability to deal with various problems.

Male pigsty and empty pigsty

My "master" in the boar house is Director Wang, a veterinarian who has worked in a pig farm for many years. Mainly responsible for sperm collection of boars and breeding of empty sows. Director Wang is usually gentle and kind to people, but once he encounters an emergency to catch pigs or deal with stressful pigs, he will instantly become irritable and his attitude towards people around him will change 180. If you make a mistake in front of him at this time, you will definitely be scolded or abused by him. Brother Lu has been scolded by him, so he can't wait to walk around when he sees Director Wang at ordinary times. When he had to talk about his work, he left immediately without saying a word. Other people in the pig farm have a similar attitude towards Director Wang.

There is a small-scale empty sow house between the male pig house and 1 delivery room. We don't go very often, because the equipment is simple, the sanitary conditions are extremely poor, and there is no water curtain to cool down, which makes people feel a hot and humid smell as soon as they enter. Aunt Li, the breeder in charge of the empty sow house, is about fifty years old. Her hair with little hair is pulled into a short ponytail and tied behind her head, and her hair is basically white. Every morning, she pushes 100 Jin of feed back to the pigsty by herself with an iron cart. The process is very hard, and people in the pig farm take it for granted that this is her own work, and most of them ignore it. But if the boys we practice together see it, they will take the initiative to help push the cart and unload the feed into the pigsty. Later, Aunt Li's heavy manual work in the empty pigsty spread among several interns. Everyone usually helps her when she is not too busy, and later she develops into chatting in an empty pigsty when she is free.

Aunt Li's wife died early, and she raised her two daughters and a son by herself. Now both daughters are married. In order not to cause trouble to her adult daughter, Aunt Li still insists on working in a pig farm to raise her son who is still in college. She said, "My daughter has her own difficulties. I have the strength to feed and sweep feces, but I don't know what other industries do. "

One day, Aunt Li said that her son called for a computer and asked us what kind of computer we could buy for 3,000 yuan. We recommended several brands to her. Obviously, she doesn't understand the field of electronic products. She asked us to take a pen to help her write it down. At present, her monthly income in the pig farm is more than 1000 yuan, which is less than that of the husband and wife breeders in the delivery room and fattening pig house. However, she seems to be quite satisfied. Every time she talks to us, she always smiles and always chooses beautiful melons for us to eat.

Fattening pigsty

My "master" in fattening pigsty is Master Zhang, a barefoot veterinarian. Although I haven't received formal veterinary professional education, I have been a "native veterinarian" for many years, which can basically treat common diseases in fattening pigs. Master Zhang is slender and wears a pair of glasses. After graduating from college, all his children became well-paid white-collar workers. He is single and has no financial pressure.

Once, a beautiful woman in white appeared in the pig farm and lived in Master Zhang's house. The farmer joked with Master Zhang behind his back and said, "Your wife is really beautiful." Master Zhang didn't affirm or deny it, just smiled and didn't answer. I asked the intern who came with me if the new woman was a relative of Master Zhang. He suddenly laughed and told me that the farmers all said that the new arrivals were sex workers that Master Zhang had found from outside. A few days later, they took the money and left. Last time they came, they were even more beautiful than this. I was very surprised to hear this and got a new understanding of the boring and hard life in pig farms.

It is not easy to give an injection to a fattening pig weighing more than 100 kilograms. Sometimes, pig farm veterinarians will be injured by flesh and blood, so Master Zhang does not ask interns to enter the pigsty. Most of the time is to help him carry the medicine box, fill the medicine and get the medicine. There is only one pigsty where I dare to go in for an injection, that is, the isolation ring for sick pigs. Most of them are sick pigs lying on the ground or even dying, and they don't eat much feed, and they don't get better after a shot every day. Master Zhang felt that sick pigs were poisonous and discouraged young people from contacting them, so he arranged for me to fill out a form to count the feed stock.

From then on, every day before dinner, I would run around the pig houses in the fattening area with the report, count the number of feed bags left in each pig house, and count how many bags of feed I ate compared with yesterday's stock. In fact, there is a daily surplus grain consumption form at the entrance of each pig house, but except for a few cultured breeders who fill out the form every day, most breeders are waiting for me to fill out the form because they can't read. Because this is the last job before eating, every time I fill out the form of pigsty, it is one step closer to eating, so farmers in the fattening area will see a smiling girl filling out the form at night, bringing good news of "Fill it out and go to eat".

postscript

When I left the pig farm, the midsummer sunshine was still like a sharp bayonet, cutting my bare skin. When I was packing, I heard that another sow in the delivery room was convulsing because of heat stress. We suspect that Brother Lu will prescribe an injection for it immediately, and the technical director may be on his way to the delivery room. The pig farm is still the same as before, and there is no scene to see the interns off. We walked out of the gate of the pig farm and took many detours before finding a path to leave this wild ridge by car. After getting on the bumpy minibus, we embarked on our own life journey.

This year, the pork market continued to rise, changing the downturn of the aquaculture market in previous years. Many farmers who have survived the severe winter have ushered in a good day to make a lot of money, and many people in other industries are also trying to join the aquaculture industry to make money. As animal husbandry practitioners, they like this situation. However, we still hope that with the continuous development of large-scale aquaculture, the working and living conditions of aquaculture practitioners will be improved and animal welfare issues will be paid attention to. More people will have more understanding and attention to animal husbandry and more understanding and respect for aquaculture practitioners while enjoying delicious food and ingesting animal protein.