Black-bristled sows on Tianshan Farm in Yilan County’s Sansing Township often get “humped” and put in the family way by wild boars. After catching a suspect boar, farm owner Huang Cheng-te had a strange dream in which the captured tusker appeared and said the culprit was not him, but another boar. Huang then decided to release the boar back into the wild, but asked him to go back to the mountain forest and tell his mates not to come down drooling over black sows anymore.
Tianshan Farm is close to the mountains, with big orchards all around. From time to time, farmers have spotted herds of wild boar sneaking into their orchards to eat fruit on the sly. They see them, but they can’t catch them, and it makes them hopping mad. Not satisfied with eating stolen fruit, male wild boar sometimes break into Tianshan Farm’s pigsties for “forbidden fruit” in another sense. On average 30 crossbreed piglets sired by wild boar and black-bristled sows are born on the farm each year.
More than 50 breeding sows are kept on the farm, which arranges for them to mate with male black-bristled pigs. The piglets they bear ought to be black, too, but some sows farrow piglets with long snouts, small ears and brown bristles. Farmer Huang, who holds a veterinary license, concludes that wild boar foraging near the piggery are attracted by the scent of hormones from breeding sows on heat, break down the wire fence and have their way with the sows, making them pregnant.
In the past, Huang has tried setting up traps beside the hog house to frustrate the boars’ intentions by catching them before they get into the pigsty. Recently, as he was patrolling the hog house, Huang spotted a male wild boar that had got into a sow’s pen, and he immediately blocked all escape routes. When his neighbors heard about it, they came round one after another to have a look. Complaining bitterly about wild boars that eat stolen oranges and get sows pregnant, the neighbors advised Huang to slaughter the boar on the spot and make a meal of it.
Three days later, a strange scene appeared to Huang in the midst of his dreams. The captured boar appeared in the dream and said that, after he sneaked into the pigpen in search of a little piggy honey for a spot of conjugal bliss, what he met instead was a big fat sow. He weighed just 100kg, but the black sow in the pen weighed 300kg. The physical difference between the two being just too great, he had lost the urge. He hadn’t done anything improper with the sow. As to the culprit who came into the pigsty every year to have his way with the sows, that was another, grownup boar, he claimed.
Sizing up the two animals’ physiques, Huang found that the boar was only one third the size of the sow, which would make things rather difficult if he wanted to have sex. Huang reckoned that what the boar said in the dream was not unreasonable and, soft hearted for a moment, he decided to let the boar off with its life.
Huang says that when wild boars break into the piggery and cause a rumpus, they induce the black sows to go into heat early. The crossbreed piglets they have later taste pretty good when they’re made into boar-wurst. These tasty sausages are a favorite with visiting travelers and have become a well-known specialty meat dish on Tianshan Farm’s menu.
(LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY JULIAN CLEGG)
宜蘭縣三星鄉天山農場黑毛母豬，常遭山豬強行交配懷孕，主人黃正德抓到可疑山豬後做起怪夢，落網山豬託夢說牠非元凶，是其他山豬所為，黃決定野放網開一面，請牠返回山林轉告同伴，勿再下山垂涎黑毛母豬。
天山農場緊鄰山區，周邊有大片果園，曾有農民目擊成群山豬進園偷吃水果，看得到卻抓不到，讓他們氣得牙癢癢。公山豬不僅偷水果，也闖進天山農場豬舍「偷情」，農場平均每年接生三十隻由公山豬、黑毛母豬交配的混種豬。
農場內飼養五十多頭母種豬，被安排與黑毛公豬交配，生下來的豬仔，應是小黑毛豬，有些母豬卻生出長嘴巴、小耳朵、棕色體毛的小豬。擁有獸醫執照的黃正德研判在豬舍附近覓食的山豬，被母種豬發情的荷爾蒙氣味吸引，破壞豬舍鐵欄，「性侵」母種豬，讓牠懷孕。
「抓到了！」黃正德以往嘗試在農舍旁設陷阱，要獵捕擅闖豬舍的山豬都功虧一簣；日前，他巡視豬舍時，發現一頭公山豬闖進母種豬的豬圈，他馬上堵住逃生去路，左鄰右舍得知後，紛紛前去察看，痛斥山豬偷吃橘子，害母種豬懷孕，應該「就地正法」，宰殺用來加菜。
三天後，黃正德睡夢中出現詭異夢境；落網這頭公山豬託夢說，闖進豬圈後，原本想找「豬小妹」燕好，不料碰到「豬胖妹」，牠只有一百台斤，豬圈內黑毛母豬有三百台斤重，雙方體型差異很大，於是失去「性趣」，絕無「非禮」母豬；至於每年跑進豬舍「性侵」母豬的元凶，是另一頭成年公山豬所為。
黃正德比對兩隻豬的體型，公山豬只有母豬三分之一，想要性侵似乎有相當難度，夢境所言不無道理，心一軟，決放牠一條生路。
黃正德說，山豬闖進豬舍擾亂，會誘使黑毛母豬提早發情，所生的混種豬被做成山豬香腸，因口感佳，頗受遊客喜愛，成了天山農場知名的特色肉品。
（自由時報記者江志雄）
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