Profits and costs of ostrich farming

Now many people are engaged in the breeding industry, raising ordinary livestock and poultry, the income is relatively not as good as that of special farming. Therefore, many people have started special breeding, such as raising ostriches and selling ostrich meat. Ostriches are large and expensive, so they are favored by farmers. Let's take a look at the cost of raising ostriches and the final profit.

1. Feed cost

Ostriches mainly eat concentrate feed, corn, wheat bran, grass powder, generally a jin of concentrate feed is 1.6 yuan, an ostrich raised to sell to eat about 315 jin of feed, then the feed cost of an ostrich is about 504 yuan. If raising 10 ostriches, the feed price is 5040 yuan. There is also the price of forage grass. 10 ostriches a year need to eat 10,000 kilograms of forage grass, or green corn leaves. Growing one mu of forage grass by yourself is enough to feed. It only costs a few hundred yuan for seeds. The purchase of forage costs about 50 yuan each, for a total of 500 yuan.

2. Other costs

In addition to feed, other infrastructure and water and electricity fees, site maintenance costs, equipment renewal, maintenance fees, these miscellaneous fees add up to about 30 yuan a year, if you keep 10, it is about 300 yuan a year. The medical fee for epidemic prevention and disinfection is about 30 yuan for one animal and 300 yuan for 10 animals a year. When you buy a baby ostrich, it costs about 300 yuan for one and 3000 yuan for 10.

3. Growth and output

In general, birds are raised for ten months, with a weight of 200 jin, and the general meat production rate is 45%, that is, one bird produces 90 jin of meat and ten ostriches produce 900 jin of meat. A jin of ostrich meat is 40 yuan, and the total income is about 36000 yuan. An ostrich lays about 60 eggs a year, the price of an ostrich egg is 140 yuan, and ten ostriches lay 600 eggs, but 10 to 20 eggs should be left to hatch young ostriches. The other sales are 81200 yuan. A piece of leather is between 1000 and 2500 yuan, and about 10 pieces of leather earn about 10 to 25000 yuan.

4. Breeding risk

Although artificial domestication takes a long time, the effect of culture is not very good before, and in recent years there has been a mature culture system. The main risk of aquaculture is the lack of knowledge and methods. Acceptance of ostrich meat. There is also a market, there must be a reasonable market. There is to pay attention to epidemic prevention and other breeding skills, do not blindly pursue high income.

At present, the cost of ostrich breeding is relatively small, and the benefits seem to be considerable, but the breeding process is certainly not easy, including the possibility of cost changes. Relatively speaking, it takes a lot of risk.