Fujian Qingliu: guinea fowl "fly" the whole country

The winter sun shines lazily on the earth. Li Qingchuan, from Li's hometown in Qingliu County, is busy slaughtering guinea fowls and sending them to Liancheng County, more than 20 miles from home the next morning, to more than 40 order customers in Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Shandong and other places.

At this time, his phone also kept ringing, mostly asking about the price of guinea fowl and express delivery service. "customers have no doubt about the price, but because it is fresh meat delivery, some customers will worry about the deterioration of meat quality for too long." Li Qingchuan said. In fact, the quick-frozen guinea fowl is packed in a sealed foam box with an ice bag, which can be preserved for at least four days. At present, he has sent out more than 500 guinea chickens, all of which have been delivered by SF Express, basically within three days, and none of them has deteriorated meat quality.

In 1991, Li Qingchuan retired from the antiaircraft artillery army. After returning home, he worked as a worker in a light calcium factory, worked in Jinjiang and other places, and then went home to grow edible fungi and brew cold spring wine. In particular, his old cold spring wine, very fragrant, very pure, does not go to the head, is very popular with customers, and even was brought to Mauritius by local people.

Raising guinea fowl in Li Qingchuan belongs to the way to get rich. In front of the winery, there was a large area of land leased from the locals, which was later sublet by Li Qingchuan to a Liancheng man who raised white duck. The Liancheng man earned the first bucket of gold and wanted to return to his hometown to start a business. The year before last, he proposed to cancel the lease. A large area of land, idle also have to rent, how to do? Li Qingchuan had to fight on his own.

Friends suggest: raise guinea fowl, the market prospect is very good. Li Qingchuan immediately got up and went to Changting guinea fowl farm to study and investigate. When he got home, he specially bought a guinea fowl to taste. He found that the chicken was smooth and delicious after stewing.

Guinea fowl is also known as guinea fowl, pheasant and guinea bird. Originally from the west coast of the African continent, Guinea, originally a wild bird, has become a new breed of meat poultry after domestication and breeding. As a special poultry for meat, guinea fowl has high economic value and nutritional value. it has delicate meat, delicious taste, high protein and low fat. Compared with ordinary broilers, guinea fowl has high protein and amino acid content, but low fat and cholesterol content. It is a kind of special poultry with game.

After a simple transformation of the original farm, Li Qingchuan transferred 200 guinea fowls for trial breeding in April last year.

Guinea fowl has good adaptability, strong disease resistance, simple equipment and house requirements, rough feeding resistance and easy feeding. Li Qingchuan raises guinea fowl, mainly free-range, with a staple corn coarse grain to ensure the meat quality of the chicken. "in the first three months, guinea fowl grew very fast, reaching 1.5 kilograms. Some farmers put the chicken out of the fence in order to save time and improve efficiency, but the meat is too fine to taste good." Li Qingchuan said that he extended the time for raising chickens by four months and did not appear on the market until seven months later. The meat of such chickens is no different from that of local native chickens, and the soup is more delicious.

In November, the first batch of guinea fowl was released, and 200 chickens were quickly sold out. Li Qingchuan calculated that a pearl chicken costs 7 yuan, eats an average of 0.2 kilograms of corn every day, about 0.6 yuan, more than 120 yuan in seven months, a chicken income of about 40 yuan, the first batch of chickens, he earned nearly 10,000 yuan.

In order to ensure the market supply of guinea fowl after listing, Li Qingchuan adopted the method of step-by-step breeding, and on the basis of the first batch of 200 guinea chickens, he purchased 800 guinea fowl seedlings in two batches for breeding.

After the guinea chicken went public, Li Qingchuan sold it through Wechat moments and online shopping malls. "if there are friends who have bought it, many of them have become repeat customers." Li Qingchuan said. For every new customer who hung up to order guinea fowl, he asked to add Wechat, so there were more and more customers. "Today, we have received more than 30 orders, so we have to deal with them quickly and deliver them to SF Express in time tomorrow morning." Li Qingchuan said.

At present, there are still more than 300 guinea chickens left in Li Qingchuan, which are expected to sell out before the Spring Festival. "adjust the chicken seedlings again after the Spring Festival, and strive to expand the scale of breeding and make a good profit." Li Qingchuan said with a smile.