What about the breeding prospects of donkeys?

With the improvement of people's living standards, the demand for animal food is gradually diversified, high-quality, and green, donkey meat and water and other products are very popular. High protein, low fat, delicious taste, can cook a variety of dishes. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that dragon meat is in the sky and donkey meat is underground in China, which shows that people have long recognized donkey products. Donkey meat restaurants can be found everywhere in some large, small and medium-sized cities, but there are no tables with hundreds of surnames.

The prospect of donkey culture

The prospect of developing donkey industry is very considerable, with low breeding cost, a wide range of feed sources, straw, straw, leaves and so on. Farmers have better farming conditions, 95% of the feed can be produced by themselves, and the feeding cost is lower, which is a very good sideline. Raising donkeys is also a good project for laid-off workers in cities and towns and demobilized soldiers to start their own businesses. It can turn straw and forage into meat and return it to the field after belly. It is a high-quality farm fertilizer and can grow green pollution-free vegetables and grain. Donkey is a very good breeding livestock, strong disease resistance, small food intake, not picky food, feed consumption is about 1/2 of the horse. If you don't love your job, get out of it when you have enough to eat. Heat-resistant and cold-resistant. In recent years, people pay more and more attention to the unique nutrition and delicious flavor of donkey meat and the medicinal value of donkey products. In order to improve the competitiveness in the domestic and international markets, it is imperative to produce pollution-free donkey meat. at present, the prospect of donkey breeding is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

1. Too few resources.

2. There are few large-scale farming.

3. The benefits of raising donkeys have not yet been realized. According to the current breeding volume, it can only meet 30% of the market.

Advantages of donkey culture

1, easy to raise: like to eat crop straw, forage grass, weeds and so on, the amount of food is small, only equivalent to 1 big 3 of cattle, the breeding cost is low. Meat donkey is resistant to rough feeding, likes to eat corn straw and wheat straw, as long as the forage is good, almost no concentrate, and reproduce fast, the growth period is shorter than cattle, horses, etc., about 1.5 years.

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

3. Serviceable: donkeys are good helpers in farm work.

Benefit analysis of culture

At present, the breeding methods of commercial donkeys are mainly divided into breeding methods, fattening methods and mixed methods.

1. Mode of reproduction

The price of buying an adult Texas female donkey is about 4000 yuan, and two foals can be born in 3 years. At the end of 3 years, after the lactation period of the second foal expires, the first foal has grown into an adult donkey, and the price is about 3800 yuan, plus the price of the second foal after weaning is 1800 yuan. The total income for three years is 5600 yuan.

The cost of the female donkey is 1100 days (3 years) × 1.5 yuan = 1650 yuan, and the first colt is sold at the age of 1 year and 7 months, and the first 6 months (180 days) are mainly breast-feeding.

The feeding cost: (570180) days × 1 yuan ≈ 400yuan, the third colt was sold at 6 months, mainly lactation before sale, and the feeding cost was ignored.

The cost of breeding: the cost of twice breeding is 100 × 2200 yuan.

Total cost: 1650 yuan, 400 yuan, 200 yuan, 2250 yuan.

Benefit analysis: the income of raising a female donkey for 3 years is 3350 yuan, with an average of 1100 yuan / year.

2. Fattening mode

The price of buying a foal with an age of about half a year is about 1800 yuan, and the price is about 3000 yuan after fattening for about 6 months. The average breeding cost is 2 yuan per day, including 2 jin of fine fodder per day and 8 jin of coarse fodder per day. The fattening cost of each donkey is about 1800 yuan, the breeding benefit of half a year is 1000 yuan per head, the forage cost of a donkey is about 150 yuan per head, and the price of adult donkey is about 1500 yuan.

3. Mixed mode

The mixed method is a comprehensive way of breeding and fattening, investing and buying a female donkey. after fattening and adding the donkey, the forage cost of the two donkeys is 300 yuan. a year later, the donkey gets a profit of 2000 yuan. such a donkey can earn nearly 1,000 yuan a year, and the cost can be recovered in less than two years.

Summary

Whether for farmers or large-scale breeders, the economic benefits of raising donkeys are considerable, especially farmers raising donkeys, with unique advantages, almost do not need to consider the cost of labor and forage, and can be used for service and raise a donkey. it can increase farmers' income by more than 1000 yuan.