Dawn: raising chickens under the forest to achieve a double harvest

On January 4, Shilong Village, Shilong Town, Jingshan County, Hubei Province, the Peach Blossom Valley family farm surrounded by mountains has a quiet environment, and groups of native chickens are full of vitality under the woods everywhere. Some are leisurely looking for insects, and some are flapping their wings to chase and play.

"at the beginning of starting a business, I wanted to invigorate the forest and become rich. I planted green seedlings and timber forests such as pine and Chinese fir trees, but I often faced the problem of weeding." Farmer Li Ming said, "later, I saw the native chickens eating worms in the forest, making the woodland barren, and the scattered chicken manure fertilized the trees, so I had the idea of raising chickens."

In 2013, Dawn transferred 2000 mu of woodland and began to raise native chickens under the forest.

In order to improve the flavor and quality of chicken, Liming farm adopts the "553" model, that is, 50 chickens are raised in an average of 1 mu of woodland, 500 chickens (covering an area of 10 mu) are raised in a group, and chemicals, hormones and feed additives are never used. let the chicken take worms, ants, earthworms and weeds as staple food, self-prepared cereals as supplementary food, drink mountain spring water.

"most of the traditional chickens are raised in captivity, which can be put on the market in 45 days. The farm begins to raise young chickens and begins to lay eggs after about 120 days, and the laying period lasts about 150 days. It takes about 300 days to sell. Using the way of circular culture, while selling the last batch of native chickens, we began to raise the next batch of young chickens. " He introduced.

With high-quality products, we also want to sell. Liming is very resourceful. In addition to traditional channels, he also sells through Taobao and Wechat moments. "during the" double 11 "period in 2015, more than 2 million eggs were sold through e-commerce platforms." He told the author, "in order to make consumers feel more at ease about the quality of their products, the farm spent 38000 yuan to establish a real-time monitoring system. With the help of the network platform, netizens can view surveillance videos and understand the growth status of native chickens."

When asked about the income, Liming took out a calculator and carefully calculated the economic account: "there are 30, 000 chickens on the farm, each chicken lays 70 eggs on average, one egg is 0.75 yuan, and the total income of eggs is 1.575 million yuan. After the native chicken does not lay eggs, each chicken can produce 3 jin of chicken on average. according to the market price of 18 yuan per jin, 30, 000 chickens can produce 90, 000 jin of chicken, with a profit of 1.62 million yuan. When a local chicken under the forest removes the costs of chicken seedlings, corn, wheat and green fodder, the net profit reaches 50 yuan. "

In fact, Liming also forgot to calculate his "timber account". The farm has more than 2000 mu of pine and fir trees, as well as about 200mu of red-leaf Photinia, Magnolia, osmanthus, privet, Liriodendron and other economic seedlings, with economic benefits of 1 million yuan.