Raising rabbits to become a start-up star, thousands of meat rabbits are in short supply every month.

Chen Chengge is an ordinary farmer in Lixin Village, Bandi Town, Dingtao District. He started small-scale breeding of meat rabbits. Over the past six years, the number of rabbits he raised has grown from 20 breeding rabbits to nearly 5000. Orders are in short supply. In the future, it is planned to set up original seed farms and meat rabbit breeding cooperatives to lead villagers to become rich together.

Over the past six years, the scale of raising rabbits has grown from 20 to 5000.

Beside the straight country road of Lixin Village, Bandi Town, Dingtao District, in the middle of the trees lies a rabbit house of nearly 2100 square meters, which is Chen Chengge's meat rabbit breeding base-Lixin rabbit farm.

In the rabbit farm, many single rooms 50 centimeters wide and 60 centimeters long were built with bricks, in which there were one or more rabbits with different colors, one by one living in their own "elegant rooms". Some were sleeping soundly and some were having a good meal. At this time, the owner of the rabbit, Chen Chengge, was checking the separation of the cubs of the female rabbit.

"when I heard that raising rabbits made money, I started small-scale farming at home. At that time, I didn't have much experience and technology, so I had to constantly sum up experiences and lessons and pay a lot of tuition fees. Later, when I heard that there were people who raised rabbits well, I went to learn breeding techniques. After mastering the technology, I started my own business." Chen Chengge said that since then, with rabbits as a partner, over the past six years, his rabbit farm has grown from 20 breeding rabbits to nearly 5000 now.

According to Chen Chengge, at present, Rex rabbits are mainly raised in rabbit farms. This kind of rabbit has short growth cycle, high litter rate and high meat yield, up to 4 kg per adult rabbit. His rabbit is not only big, fat and tender, but also has a special fragrance when cooked, which has been in short supply in the local area.

"at present, we have signed order contracts with two buyers, which are mainly sold to nearby towns and hot pot restaurants and restaurants in Heze, selling thousands of meat rabbits every month." Chen Chengge said: at present, there are 500 female rabbits in the rabbit farm, and there are 15 female rabbits giving birth at a time, which usually takes three or four months to give birth. The current market price is 5 yuan per kilogram. This batch of rabbits alone earns about 200000 yuan. Excluding feed, labor and other costs, the income is considerable.

Plan to set up original seed farms and cooperatives to bring villagers to common prosperity.

Chen Chengge, who embarked on the road to becoming rich, is not stingy with breeding techniques and teaches each other with money. Whether they are farmers in this village or from other places, as long as they come to ask for advice on breeding techniques, he always teaches them a series of techniques such as seed selection, mating, reproduction, ingredients, epidemic prevention, and so on.

"I have also gone step by step from an ignorant layman to the present. I understand the difficulties without technology and experience, and I am also glad that friends who have just started a business can take fewer detours. I am not afraid of others to develop, because in a place, the overall scale is large, have an impact, sales will not be worried. " Chen Chengge said.

Talking about the future development, Chen Chengge said that at present, the breeding scale is constantly growing, and the next step is to open up the market, let the meat rabbit enter the market, occupy the market, and let the rabbit meat meet the consumers directly. It is planned to set up an original breeding farm to provide excellent breeding rabbits for villagers with breeding plans in the village, and to establish a meat rabbit breeding cooperative, so as to drive more people to become rich under the guidance of the cooperative.