(1) Let me talk about the characteristics and advantages of quail breeding:
1, low investment. A grandfather in our village lives alone and raises at least six or seven thousand quails in his yard. Quails are usually timid and don't fly around, so the space occupied by quail breeding is relatively small. In addition, as long as quail is not under the influence of fright or other factors, its physical quality is relatively strong, and the expenditure on disease prevention and control can be appropriately reduced; The price of buying quails is not high, a few cents each, and you can buy them in large quantities.
2. Cultivated quails are divided into laying quails and meat quails. Eggs and quails mainly lay eggs, and quail eggs are an indispensable food in the North for the Chinese New Year holiday. However, if eggs and quails are sold after laying down, the price is relatively low and the meat quality is average. Meat quail specializes in selling meat.
3. Grandpa, who raised quails in the village, once calculated an account, saying that he would raise 1 10,000 quails, and he could produce more than 300 kilograms of quail eggs a day during the peak laying period. After more than one year, the quails would lay fewer eggs and sell meat. In this way, once the profits are superimposed, after deducting the cost of feed maintenance, you can earn 1 10,000 yuan a month. (But this data is theoretical.)
(2) The risk of quail breeding.
1, the first thing to consider is the market of quail. Judging from the situation in rural areas in northern China, quail eggs are the most important demand for keeping quails now. In northern China, whenever there is a wedding or funeral, quail eggs are usually served, and quail eggs are particularly popular. But apart from some northern regions, do the vast southern regions also like to eat quail eggs? The answer I got is no, so there are limitations in the sales of quail eggs, which are doomed to be unsuitable for most farmers.
2. Secondly, considering the meat quail, it can be said that the sales of meat quail are even more unreliable. When I was a child, there were vendors specializing in selling quail meat in the village. At that time, my father also bought us some to eat, and later my mother bought two stews to eat. However, the ultimate goal of quail breeding by farmers is of course to make money. In order to increase the output, meat quails fed with feed can indeed be sold for forty or fifty days, but the taste of such quails is really bad, not as delicious as chicken, and the price is still expensive, and fewer and fewer people buy them.
3. The third is that quail, a small bird, is very timid. Although it has strong self-resistance, it is easily frightened. After being frightened, it is prone to hunger strike and illness. Many farmers have bought quails, and many of them have not been fed because of improper handling.
(3) summary.
To sum up, it should be easy to understand why many people are unwilling to breed quails, and the actual profit of breeding quails is not as high as the theoretical profit.
Of course, there are many successful quail farmers in northern China, but their investment is generally higher and their breeding technology is more professional. For most ordinary farmers, the willingness to breed quail is not strong.
For other special aquaculture, such as breeding pheasants, pigeons, snakes, etc., there are actually risks and opportunities.