Appearance is different: the appearance of lean pigs is characterized by long body, developed chest and legs and streamlined body. Fat pigs can produce a lot of fat, and the carcass lean meat rate only accounts for 35-45%. The nutritional value is different: pig fat contains a lot of fat, while lean meat contains more protein. Eat differently: both lean pork and fat pork can be used for cooking at home, but fat pork can also be used as a cold salad, which is incomparable to lean pork.
1. What's the difference between lean pigs and fat pigs?
1, with different appearance.
(1) The appearance features of lean pigs are: long body, well-developed chest and legs, streamlined body, longer body length than bust 15-20cm, fat back 1.5-3.0cm, straight back, plump legs and hips, and strong limbs.
(2) Fat-type pigs can produce a lot of fat, the lean meat rate of carcass is only 35-45%, and the back fat is more than 5.0 cm thick. This kind of pig has the advantages of early maturity, high fecundity, roughage tolerance, strong adaptability and good meat quality.
2. Different nutritional values
Pig fat and lean pork have high nutritional value. Pig fat contains a lot of fat, while lean meat contains a lot of protein, so you can choose it according to your own needs.
3. Different diets
Both lean pork and fat pork can be fried and delicious. But pork fat can also be used as a cold salad, but pork lean can't. Generally speaking, pig fat meat can be eaten more than pig lean meat.
2. What are the lean pig breeds?
1. Lean pig breeds include Sanjiang White Pig, Hubei White Pig and Zhejiang Zhong Bai Pig. You Zhu, a lean pig, has strong lean meat growth ability, more lean meat and less fat. The lean meat rate accounts for more than 55% of the chest weight, and the back fat 1.5-3.5 cm.
2. It should be noted that piglets born in lean pigs can be weaned earlier. The main purpose of weaning is to improve the utilization rate of sows and increase the number of litter. We must not neglect the management of sows at ordinary times, otherwise it will delay the estrus mating period of some sows and reduce the number of litters each year.
3. Early weaned piglets must strengthen management, so as to ensure smooth entry into the next feeding stage. The diet used by piglets must be balanced in nutrition in order to meet the growth and development needs of piglets after weaning.