Profit and cost of raising donkeys

The image of the donkey is like a horse, the hoof is small and solid, the physique is strong, it has the advantages of enduring extensive, not easy to get sick, gentle temperament, hard-working and obedient to the mission, and our country has said since ancient times that "dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat in the ground". It can be seen that people have long recognized donkey products, so raising donkeys has very good development prospects. Let's take a look at the profits and costs of raising donkeys.

How much does it cost to raise a donkey?

The cost of raising a donkey mainly includes the cost of buying donkey, feed, construction of donkey house, vaccine, medicine, labor, etc. The price of a donkey with more than 200jin is about 25003000 yuan, which is calculated here at 3000 yuan. In terms of feed, you need 3 jin of refined feed (corn flour, wheat bran, soybean meal, cottoncake, rapeseed cake, etc.) and about 10 jin of roughage (crop straw, straw, weeds, etc.). The daily feed cost is about 6 yuan, for example, the total feed cost is 1800 yuan for 10 months, the construction cost of each donkey house is equal to 100 yuan, the cost of vaccine medicine is 50 yuan, and the cost of artificial water and electricity is 500 yuan. Therefore, the total cost of raising a donkey is 3000 yuan + 1800 yuan + 50 yuan + 5450 yuan.

How much profit does it make to raise donkeys?

The profit of raising donkey is the selling price of donkey minus the cost of raising donkey. under normal circumstances, the body weight of each donkey for 10 months reaches 600jin, the general fat donkey is 140.16 yuan per jin, it is sold according to the average price of 15 yuan per jin, and the selling price of 600jin donkey is 9000 yuan. minus the total investment of raising a donkey is 5450 yuan, so the profit of raising a donkey is about 3550 yuan. From the profit point of view, raising a donkey is still a promising breeding project.

What are the advantages of raising donkeys?

1. Easy to raise: donkeys like to eat crop straw, forage grass, weeds and so on, and their food intake is small, which is only equivalent to that of cattle.

2, low risk: donkey disease is less, and the market is good, the price is generally slightly higher than beef and mutton.

3. Serviceable: donkeys are good helpers for farm work, and donkeys can also be used for service in rural areas.

4. The benefit is good: the benefit of donkey breeding is relatively high, which is about 2-3 times that of pigs.

How to reduce the cost of raising donkeys?

1. Keeping donkeys hygienic at all times and using abandoned weeds as bedding grass for donkeys as far as possible to reduce the waste of forage grass.

2. Feeding less frequently during feeding can save forage grass, and it is easy to develop the problem of picky palatable forage at one time.

3. when feeding, first feed roughage, and then feed concentrate or forage according to its nutritional needs.

4. Feeding donkey concentrate after salinization, alkalization, ammoniation or crushing can improve the utilization rate of forage.

5. To change the bad habit of throwing the forage grass directly into the donkey pen, the forage grass should be fed in the trough.

6. Donkeys should not burn the leftover rough stalks, but can reuse them to reduce feed costs.