Do you make money raising hedgehogs?

Hedgehog is a precious wild economic animal with both medicinal and gourmet functions. With the improvement of living standards of residents in coastal open areas and large and medium-sized cities in the interior, the demand for game is increasing, while wild resources are sharply reduced and supply exceeds demand, resulting in prominent contradiction between supply and demand in the market. The prospect of developing hedgehog breeding is very broad. Let's take a look at whether breeding hedgehogs can make money or not.

Does breeding hedgehogs make money?

Raising hedgehogs makes money. Raising 10000 hedgehogs requires an investment cost of 410,000 yuan (50,000 yuan for farm construction or transformation, 1000 pairs of seedlings, 216,000 yuan for feed, 30,000 yuan for personnel salary and 14,000 yuan for management). When selling, it is calculated at 100 yuan/kg, 10000 hedgehogs, i.e. 1 million yuan, and the annual profit is 1 million-410,000 yuan = 590,000 yuan. Moreover, the investment cost is about 50,000 yuan from the second year.

Breeding prospect of hedgehog

1. Hedgehog's skin is called Yixiang and Xianrenyi. It is an important traditional Chinese medicinal material. It has the effects of lowering qi and relieving pain, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, promoting qi and detoxification, relieving swelling and relieving pain. It is mainly used to treat tuberculosis, cough, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and hernia, hemorrhoids and hematochezia, uterine bleeding, spermatorrhea, impotence, enuresis and frequent urination.

2, hedgehog meat protein, fat is particularly high, the main drug role to promote appetite, improve digestion, improve the utilization of protein, stimulate the hematopoietic system, so that hemoglobin, hemoglobin and red blood cells significantly increased, chemotherapy, postoperative, maternal, anemia, gastric dysfunction and other patients with the best health food, but also the elderly weak, thin children of the best nutritional food, is the treatment of various long-term diseases of medicinal products, development potential is huge.

3, hedgehog fat can cure serious diarrhea (diarrhea) blood, rub can cure alopecia scabies, have the effect of killing skin parasites. Hedgehog brain, heart, liver, gall bladder, kidney, whip soaked in wine drink, can refresh eye-catching, eliminate fatigue, fitness bones.

Advantages of Hedgehog Breeding

1. Adaptability: Hedgehogs have the habit of quiet, fear of light, daytime and night. After artificial training hedgehogs, docile temperament, slow action, small appetite, only once a day to feed. Hedgehogs are not strict with the environment. They can be raised in balconies, courtyards, abandoned houses, vacant lots, etc., as long as they build nests for hedgehogs and spread hay, pine leaves or straw in the nests.

2. Simple feeding: Hedgehog is an omnivorous animal with a wide range of feed sources. The commonly used animal feeds include insects, aquatic products, earthworms and other small animals, viscera, corn, sorghum, barley, wheat, oat, bran, bran, melons and fruits, wild vegetables, wild fruits, etc.

3. High reproduction rate: wild hedgehogs can produce 1~2 babies a year, artificially trained hedgehogs can produce 3~4 babies a year, hedgehogs generally mate naturally, female hedgehogs can produce 6~8 babies at most. Strong disease resistance, easy to manage, temperature above 5℃ can prevent hibernation. Between 25~35℃, it can reproduce all year round, seedlings can be sold in about 3~4 months, and generally can grow to 1.5~2.5 kg.

The breeding risk of hedgehog

1. Hedgehog breeding needs a large field (at least 1.5 square meters of breeding ground is needed for each pair of Hedgehogs, and 30~50 Hedgehogs are generally suitable for breeding in 100 square meters). And it needs to be in a quieter place, away from human interference.

2. Hedgehog breeding needs certain breeding experience. It is best to have certain technical accumulation before preparing for large-scale breeding. Don't read a few books and breeding videos to start large-scale breeding of hedgehogs. The chance of success is very small, and the chance of losing money is very large.

3. In order to obtain higher hedgehog breeding benefits, it is best to find hedgehog skin buyers and develop hedgehog meat sales market.

4. Wild hedgehogs belong to Class II national protected animals. Breeding hedgehogs requires a Business License for Wild Animals and Their Products, otherwise slaughtering or selling them may be illegal.