Ostrich seedling price two or three months of small ostrich a freshly shelled ostrich hatchling 300 yuan / only? Low price, good variety, fast growth.
The ancestor of the ostrich is also a flying bird, how it became what it is today, which has a very close relationship with its living environment. The ostrich is a primitive remnant of a bird that represents an evolutionary direction in which animals in open grasslands and desert environments gradually moved toward being taller and better runners.
At the same time, the ability to fly diminished until it was lost. The African ostrich's ability to run is amazing. Its toes for running and tend to reduce, is the world's only two toes of the birds, and the outer toes smaller, inner toes especially developed. It can jump up to 2.5 meters in the air, sprint speed of more than 70 kilometers per hour. At the same time, the thick legs or African ostrich's main defense weapon, and even to the lion, leopard to death.
Ancient China Guo Yigong's "Guangzhi" "Anshi country tribute to the big bird. Goose body camel hooves, pale color, raise the head seven or eight feet high, open wings more than ten feet, eating barley, its eggs like an urn, its name camel bird." Tang Book - Tuhuo biography "" Tuhuo, Yongzheng yuan year offering large bird, seven feet high, black, foot camel-like, drumming wings, day 300 miles, can _ iron, commonly known as the humpback."
The ostrich is widely distributed in dry areas of Africa with low rainfall. In the third period of the Cenozoic Era, ostriches were widely distributed in continental Europe, and not only fossilized ostrich eggs but also fossilized leg bones have been found in Zhoukoudian, the famous origin of Peking Man in China.
In recent times, ostriches have been distributed in Africa, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula, but nowadays ostriches are extinct in both Syria and the Arabian Peninsula; their distribution was from the Sahara Desert southward to the whole of Africa, and they were introduced in Australia in 1862-1869 CE, forming a new habitat in the southeast. [1]?
Because the ostrich has a roughage tolerance, adaptability and many other advantages mentioned above, in line with the national development of "food-saving" herbivores this industrial policy, has been strongly supported by the state.
Wise Research Data Research Center shows that China has a large number of sandy wasteland and non-cultivated land that is not suitable for farming, forage resources are very rich, the development of ostrich farming prospects, which will play an important role in adjusting the structure of agricultural production and the food structure of the masses, improve the economic efficiency of agriculture, and prosperity of the rural economy.
The country attaches great importance to the development of ostrich farming, and income tax exemption and many other policy support. Ostrich farming industry in China started late, can be developed with great potential. In fact, on the wild ostrich, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, are much more than South Africa, but on the history of raising ostriches and ostriches with the ability to make a fortune, non-South Africans.
South Africans raised ostriches began in 1826, initially the number of ostriches is very small, and later due to the popularity of Western royalty to wear ostrich feathers made of clothing, ostrich a hundred times the price of an adult ostrich can only produce 1 kilogram of feathers a year, and one of the simplest ostrich shawl also need at least 15 kilograms of feathers, South African farmers have raised ostriches.
By 1913, the number of ostrich stock exceeded 1 million. However, after the First World War, the gradual decline of the European royal family, ostrich feathers demand decreased dramatically, the ostrich industry have to change jobs, some smart farmers left those breeds of the best ostrich, waiting for the arrival of new opportunities.
After World War II, the ostrich market began to rebound. South Africans learned their lesson and began to run the ostrich business on many fronts. They made ostrich eggshell crafts and opened up farms where they raised ostriches to attract tourists.
Many ostrich farmers have also joined together to set up an agricultural consortium, which is responsible for the marketing of ostrich products. In the city of Otzhorn, known as the "ostrich capital", tourists can not only taste the ostrich meat, ostrich eggs, but also have a ride on the ostrich addiction, and can even participate in the "ostrich riding competition".