Does it make money to raise porcupine in 2019? What are the breeding techniques?

Porcupine, also known as arrow pig, belongs to the national third-level protection of animals. At present, many domestic farmers have carried out large-scale porcupine farming, which not only enriches people's vegetable baskets, but also reduces people's hunting and killing of wild animals, so will raising porcupine make money in 2019? What are the breeding techniques?

Will it make money to raise porcupine in 2019?

Porcupine has the advantages of low cost, wide source of words and easy to manage. Generally, each person can raise 400-500 porcupine per year, and there is no need for a special person to raise a small amount of porcupine.

Porcupine has a stable market in China, porcupine has been regarded as Shanzhen game and has a long history. In recent years, people's understanding of the nutrition and health care value of porcupine has been improved, and the number of prey in the wild has decreased sharply and is on the verge of extinction. The wildlife country has also increased its protection efforts, and it is becoming more and more popular as an artificial game porcupine. Therefore, the porcupine breeding market has great potential and high economic benefits, and it is an outstanding one among the special breeds.

According to the cost, the current market price of porcupine breeding pigs is 4000 yuan per pair, and the feed cost of piglets from birth to market (12.5kg body weight) is 200yuan, 2 babies per year, 4 pigs per year, and the market price is 140yuan / kg. The cost can be earned back in the first year of aquaculture. According to the average peasant household's 10 pairs of farming, it can earn 20,000 yuan in the second year, and then the annual profit can reach 60,000 yuan.

In addition, the thorns of porcupines can also be sold, and if possible, they can also start their own porcupine ecological leisure tourism projects, which can increase their economic value several times.

Second, what are the techniques of porcupine breeding?

1. Breeding site

Porcupine is suitable for breeding in rural slopes, caves, miscellaneous houses, improved pig houses in Germany, but to ensure that the breeding site is warm in winter and cool in summer, clean and hygienic, and clean up porcupine feces in time.

2. Feeding of porcupine

Wild grass, wild fourth, porcupine breeding economic vegetables, leaves, roots and corn, sweet potato, sweet potato vine, green vegetables, radish, pumpkin, bitter cabbage, watermelon peel, sugar cane, wild vegetables can be used as porcupine feed, considering nutritional balance, corn flour, wheat bran or rice, rice and so on can be added and fed once a day in the morning and evening.

3. Disease prevention

Porcupine has strong disease resistance and rarely has plague. When intestinal diseases occur occasionally, they can be fed with common dysentery drugs 1-2 times.

Generally speaking, the whole body of porcupine is treasure, and its meat, brain, fat, heart, liver, gallbladder, stomach and arrow thorns can be used as medicine, its breeding benefit is still obvious, and it is suitable for breeding in most parts of our country.