Do you make money by raising rabbits in 2017?

According to their different economic uses, rabbits can be divided into three categories: meat, leather and wool. Rabbit breeding has developed rapidly in some provinces and cities in the north and Guangdong and Sichuan provinces in the south in recent years, and has become a pillar industry in some areas. does raising rabbits make money? In fact, the income of raising rabbits is still very promising compared with other animals. The investment of meat rabbit breeding is small, and the input-output ratio is high, so it is a more profitable breeding project.

Input cost

1, seed purchase fee: buy 2.5kg of improved rabbit 100 yuan each, 12 only need 1200 yuan. The average utilization period of breeding rabbits was 2.5 years, and the average annual amortization was 480 yuan.

2. Feed fee: each breeding rabbit consumes an average of 125 grams of mixed feed per day (other undernourished parts are supplemented with grass and crop straw). The annual feed consumption is only 45.6 kg, and 12 rabbits consume a total of 547 kg. The feed cost per kilogram was calculated as 0.90 yuan, and the feed fee was 492.3 yuan. The rabbits were weaned for 60 days from 1 month old to 90 days old, and each rabbit consumed about 5 kilograms of feed. Each female rabbit provides an average of 35 commercial rabbits per year, and 10 female rabbits provide commercial rabbits with a total consumption of 1750 kg and a feed cost of 1575 yuan.

3. Epidemic prevention fee: 2 yuan per breeding rabbit and 0.5 yuan per commercial rabbit per year, totaling 199 yuan.

4. Cage fee: the construction of the cage can use the family's old bricks, stones, adobe, cement and white ash, etc., or it can be welded into a frame with iron bars and made of wire. The investment of each cage is 30 yuan, 12 breeding rabbit cages plus 20 fattening cages, and the capital is 960 yuan. The useful life of the cage is calculated according to 8 years, and the annual depreciation fee is 120 yuan.

5. The total input: 480 yuan + 492.3 yuan + 1575 yuan + 2866.3 yuan.

Income calculation

1. Selling commodity rabbits: there are 350 commercial rabbits per year, each with an average weight of 2.5kg totaling 875kg, with a total income of 10500 yuan according to the national average purchase price of 12 yuan / kg in normal years.

2. The treatment fee for breeding rabbits: the breeding rabbits should be eliminated as commercial rabbits after the utilization period, with an average of 4.5kg per rabbit, calculated at 12 yuan per kilogram, 54 yuan per rabbit and 648 yuan per 12 rabbits, with an annual average of 259.2 yuan in 2.5 years.

3. Rabbit dung: 12 breeding rabbits and 350 commercial rabbits can produce more than 2.5 tons of rabbit dung per ton, which can earn 125 yuan per ton.

4. Total income: 10500 yuan + 259.2 yuan + 10884.2 yuan.

Summary: the gross profit is 10884.2 yuan-2886.3 yuan = 7997.9 yuan. Raising 10 basic female rabbits can make a profit of nearly 8000 yuan a year, and each female rabbit can earn a gross profit of nearly 800 yuan a year. The ratio of input to output is 3.75, which is difficult to compare with other aquaculture and other industries. A family of three, using their spare time to raise 30 female rabbits, can earn a gross profit of nearly 24000 yuan a year, which alone can shake off poverty and run a well-off society.