Raise rabbits to create money and widen the way to become rich

Workers are checking the growth of meat rabbits in a rabbit farm in Shangkeng village.

Shangkeng Village, Chengdong Town is a famous rabbit village in Meixian District, with more than 2000 female rabbits and 100000 meat rabbits a year, with sales exceeding 4 million yuan. However, the rabbit industry is not a traditional advantage industry in Shangkeng village. Shangkeng Village from small-scale, sporadic breeding to large-scale rabbit farming, has become a well-known rabbit village, rabbit leader Guo Wangming contributed.

"in the past, there were not many rabbit farmers in our village, but now there are 13 rabbit farmers, of which Guo Wangming was the first one to raise rabbits on a large scale. We saw that he gradually joined the ranks of raising rabbits after he became rich by raising meat rabbits. " Ah Yong, a villager of Shangkeng Village, said that he knew nothing about raising rabbits before, and it was Guo Wangming who came up with various breeding methods to share with them. Today, he can increase his income by raising rabbits by fifty or sixty thousand yuan a year.

For Guo Wangming, how to raise rabbits, how to develop the cause of raising rabbits, spent a lot of painstaking efforts. "in 2008, I returned to the village to seek development. In the early stage, I learned that Shangkeng Village was near the three Bird Wholesale Market, and at that time, the price of meat rabbits was good, and the supply of meat rabbits fell short of demand, so I thought of breeding meat rabbits. With less investment and a short breeding cycle, the first batch of meat rabbits raised more than 10 rabbits and began to think about the skills of raising rabbits. when they had confidence in their hearts, they raised hundreds of rabbits, and earned more than 10,000 yuan that year. " Guo Wangming said.

With the "first bucket of gold" for raising rabbits, Guo Wangming decided to expand the scale of breeding. But he also encountered some problems, such as the loss of hundreds of rabbits when they got sick. "Rabbits are prone to various diseases, especially during the rainy season, and rabbits weaned for less than a month are more likely to get sick. The traditional treatment is to give rabbits medicine and injections, but this will also fall into the strange circle of getting better after taking medicine and dying after stopping taking medicine. Therefore, it is impossible to raise rabbits on a large scale without mastering scientific breeding methods and innovative feeding methods. " Seeing the news about the application of probiotics in raising pigs and chickens in other areas, he immediately thought of applying probiotics to raising rabbits. While discussing the application of probiotics with technicians from the Meixian District Animal Husbandry Bureau, he purchased strains from other places for cultivation, which were used to feed rabbits and sprayed in the barn. After a period of time, Guo Wangming found that the prevalence rate of meat rabbits decreased significantly. After overcoming the difficulties of breeding, he thought about using rabbit droppings. "traditional rabbit cages allow rabbits to mix all kinds of droppings together, and no one wants to collect them. Later, I modified the cage myself and separated feces from urine so that rabbit dung could be fully utilized." Guo Wangming said that he has about 4000 rabbits in his current stock and can earn 50, 000 yuan a year by selling rabbit dung alone.

Since the beginning of large-scale breeding in 2009, Guo Wangming's rabbit-raising business has gradually grown, and the villagers have also seen the way of "money" from Guo Wangming's rabbit-raising career, and have asked him for advice and joined the ranks of rabbit-raising. Guo Wangming also took the lead in setting up professional cooperatives to provide technical guidance to farmers to purchase rabbits, forage, and spray probiotics for farmers to ensure the quality of raising rabbits. After driving some villagers to raise rabbits together to increase their income, he is still thinking about how to further combine rabbit raising with accurate poverty alleviation to help poor families get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible.