The post-80s migrant workers return home to raise rabbits with an annual income of 200000.

From the initial 20 to now more than 1000; from the entertainment-based pet Rex rabbit to the monthly production of nearly 10,000 yuan of "wealth rabbit", in a short period of six years, rabbits not only bring unlimited fun to Zhang Lei, but also bring him unexpected wealth.

Recently, during an interview in Yuanzhai Township, Zhengyang County, the author met Zhang Lei, a post-80s youth, and learned about his history of becoming rich.

Zhang Lei is a grass-roots militia in Yuanzhai Village, Yuanzhai Township. After graduating from high school, he went to work in the south and worked as a breeder in a large rabbit farm in Jiangsu. It was his working life in the rabbit farm that became an important turning point in his life.

According to Zhang Lei, the job in the rabbit farm is not easy, but the furry Rex rabbit brings him fun. He devoted all his energy to his work, worked hard to study the knowledge of raising rabbits, and soon mastered the method of raising Rex rabbits scientifically. Three years later, Zhang Lei returned to his hometown, bought 20 well-bred Rex rabbits with the money earned from his work, and equipped with 20 sets of rabbit cages, and began to raise them in his own yard. "these 20 little rabbits are my babies. I watch them all the time for fear that the rabbits will make a mistake."

But in March 2009, a rabbit epidemic killed 50 of his 80-odd bunnies. Zhang Lei felt so uncomfortable that he couldn't eat or sleep, and lost weight in a few days. After all the knowledge has been used, it is still impossible to cure the disease of "bunny". In order to find out the cause, he brought the dead "bunny" to the professional training course of animal husbandry. After dissection, he found that the rabbit was infected with viral hemorrhagic disease, and the main reason was that Zhang Lei neglected to strengthen immunity.

He got up from where he fell, and Zhang Lei learned the lesson of his first failure in raising rabbits. He gathered the 30 surviving little Rex rabbits together, built 30 standardized rabbit houses, hired relevant experts as "rabbit raising consultants", and regularly checked the body of "bunny babies" to prevent various diseases in time. Pay attention to the feeding and management of improved female rabbits to ensure the technical guidance of Rex rabbits before, during and after delivery. After a period of busyness, 30 rex rabbits raised by Zhang Lei went out of the fence. For this reason, he made a net profit of more than 1000 yuan.

In 2013, Zhang Lei supported 100000 yuan in loans for migrant workers to return home to start a business, built five standard rabbit houses on his 3 mu of land, introduced 100 fine Rex rabbit breeds, and started large-scale breeding of Rex rabbits. keep 1000 Rex rabbits in circulation all the year round. Subsequently, he invested 3000 yuan to buy feed processing machinery and prepared pellet feed by himself, which greatly reduced the production cost. In order to improve the efficiency of breeding, he also combined with the professional knowledge he learned, took the breeding farm as the experimental base, studied painstakingly, and summed up the "three must, three do not" rabbit feeding method. Due to scientific feeding and meticulous nursing, his Rex rabbit is favored by customers because of its large weight, large litter yield, high fluff density, smooth fur and good coat color. Today, Alexander sells 2000 commercial rabbits with an annual income of more than 200000 yuan. He is a famous Rex rabbit breeder in the county.

"to engage in aquaculture, you can't fight alone. Only when you have scale can you have influence." Zhang Lei said that in order to expand the scale and lead everyone to become rich together, in 2015, he established a breeding base for Yuxin Rex rabbits in Zhengyang County, and applied for registration to establish a professional cooperative for Yuxin Rex rabbit breeding in Zhengyang County. guide the surrounding 156 militia to set up a rex rabbit farm, and at the same time successfully use the business model of "cooperative + base + farmers" to realize the industrialization of rex rabbit breeding. A few days ago, Wu Juan, party committee secretary of Yuanzhai Township, Zhengyang County, praised the Yuxin Rex rabbit breeding base founded by Zhang Lei: "thousands of rabbits are domesticated and there is a treasury to get rich. Zhang Lei returns to his hometown to find a good way for the villagers to shake off poverty and become rich."