Visit chicken farmers in our city under bird flu

The sudden arrival of H7N9 made the chicken industry, which was originally favored, fall into a low ebb.

How much was the impact on more than 20,000 chicken farmers in our city? Yesterday, the reporter went into the two chicken farmers in Kecheng Garden Village to visit their business status and heard their thoughts and expectations.

My country: the most hope that the epidemic will be over quickly.

In the woods on a hillside, more than 3000 local chickens were pecking their heads in the drizzle. They have to eat desperately, and the previous meal of two meals a day has been reduced to one meal a day.

"this will save money. Some eggs that cannot be sold are boiled as feed. " Chicken farmer Wu Guoyi said, "I don't know when bird flu will end, so we can only find ways to reduce costs and losses."

An account that never dares to calculate carefully.

How much loss will H7N9 bring to our country? He never calculated, "I don't dare to do it, and I don't want to do it in detail."

Wu Guoyi said that he mainly sells native eggs. In the past, green shell eggs were worth 2 yuan each, but now they are 1 yuan each; native eggs are 1.5 yuan each, but now they are 0.8 yuan each (or less, 50 cents each).

In the past, at least 1000 eggs were sold every day and the income was more than 1500 yuan. apart from the feed and labor costs of more than 600 yuan, we could still make some money every day.

Now, chickens and eggs are unsalable, the cost is increasing every day, and the psychological pressure is increasing every day.

Wu Guoyi said: "under normal circumstances, a native chicken is supplied with feed twice a day at a cost of about 0.30 yuan. after changing to a meal a day, the cost is nearly 0.20 yuan. the living cost of 3000 chickens per day is about 600 yuan, and it costs 18000 yuan a month."

"We individual farmers can afford it in the short term, but we can't stand it for a long time. Farmers with tens of thousands of chickens are facing an even worse situation and huge losses. "

Now, the first thing my country needs to do is to pull some fresh eggs to retail in the surrounding areas every day.

"as long as someone asks, give me a counteroffer and sell it no matter how many cents it is, so that the money can work and prepare more feed. If you are lucky, you can sell more than 400 eggs a day (more than 800 at most), with prices ranging from 50 cents to one yuan, with a daily income of about 300 yuan. But excluding labor, oil and food, there is a loss of about 300 yuan a day. With bad luck, if you can't sell a few a day, you will lose more than 500 yuan. " My country says.

This is not a small number for ordinary family farmers.

"now, how much has been lost? I haven't calculated it carefully. I just want to sell the eggs quickly." My country said that today, there is a backlog of more than 10,000 eggs, and there will be an increase of about 400 every day, which is his biggest headache.

Feel "market risk" for the first time

"after bird flu, broilers are almost unsalable. After Ching Ming Festival, he sold two native chickens. " Wu Guoyi said: "compared with eggs, we are not too anxious about the sale of native chicken. After this period of time, it is not too late for the price of chicken to pick up and then sell." Of course, it would be enough to make me happy for several days if I could sell two of them and open them. "

When it comes to the current situation of broiler sales, my country thinks that it is not very bad, after all, the scale is not very large.

Wu Guoyi said that a company in our city has signed an agreement with local farmers to buy each chicken at 5.5 yuan, and now the company is selling it at a very low price of 0.5 yuan per chicken. If you sell 100000, you'll lose at least 500000 yuan. What should we do? if we don't sell it, we'll lose even more! Five years ago, the 34-year-old Wu Guoyi started his business with a hundred chickens, but now it has expanded to more than 3000, with a net profit of more than 100,000 yuan last year. In the interview, he told the reporter that in recent years, his operation has been relatively smooth, and before that, he still felt that "the pace of his own development is not a little slow."

This bird flu made our country feel the risk of the market for the first time.

"the scale of breeding should not be expanded blindly," he said. "We should act according to our ability. Maybe the more we raise, the more we will lose. When doing business, it depends on the market and luck. "

Over the past month, what my country fears most is the television saying, "Please try not to come into contact with poultry and poultry droppings." What I want to hear most is that one day, the TV says, "viewers, chicken and eggs can be eaten at ease."

Chen Fanglong: still optimistic about the market prospect

Compared with our country, Chen Fanglong, a chicken farmer in his twenties, suffered a much smaller loss from bird flu this time. Because, his business model is "base + farmers + company", backed by acquisition companies.

Basically unaffected by bird flu.

In 2011, Chen Fanglong and his wife went back to their hometown to open a chicken farm, contracted 300 mu of mountain areas, and raised pheasants, black-bone chickens, Chicken Wings and Legs with Brown Sauce and other native pheasants, which made a considerable profit a year later.

The following year, Chen Fanglong began to cooperate with a boss. Chen Fanglong raised native chickens, and the boss was mainly responsible for sales. Before the Spring Festival, 2500 of Chen Fanglong's 3000 native chickens were sold through his boss. Now, there are only 500 native chickens left in Chen Fanglong's farm, laying about 200 eggs a day. He sells them at the Nanhu vegetable market for 1.5 yuan each, which can basically be sold out. The daily income is about 300 yuan, while the daily feed cost is about 150 yuan, and the daily net profit by selling eggs is about 150 yuan. Because the number of native chickens is small, bird flu has little impact on him.

It is optimistic that the market will add 2000 chicken seedlings.

"A large number of chicken farmers are not so lucky." According to Chen Fanglong's understanding of his peers, broiler farmers are greatly affected by bird flu.

His friend's chicken farm has thousands of broilers for sale, consumers are afraid to buy, these chickens are very difficult to sell. If calculated on the basis of 3000 chickens, each chicken needs 0.30 yuan for feed, and the cost is 900yuan per day, which is 27000 yuan per month. The cost of feed is huge, but the weight of chickens will not increase rapidly, so such farmers lose the most.

"although bird flu has a certain impact on the aquaculture industry, I am still optimistic about the market prospect. I am going to order another 2000 chicken seedlings in June." Moreover, the price of chicken seedlings is now half cheaper than before, from 3 yuan per feather to 1.5 yuan per feather, Chen Fanglong said.

"after bird flu, chicken seedlings will certainly be more expensive than in previous years, but most farmers still have a wait-and-see attitude." Chen Fanglong said that when there is a "danger" in business, there is a "machine." now people do not dare to order chicken seedlings easily. After this storm, farmers will focus on ordering chicken seedlings, and then the price of chicken seedlings will rise. He is quite optimistic about the future of the market.

(reporter Mao Yitao, Zheng Jingjing, intern Hong Panhong)