In rural areas, there are many kinds of people who raise native chickens. One kind of person is a farmer. They don't raise many chickens, about a dozen. Generally, you need to feed 10 month and weigh about 4 kg before you can sell it. If they don't count as food, they make money. If they count food, they can only lose money. There is also a kind of people who are professional households, which is called Baoshan farming. They buy chickens, breed them professionally and then put them on the market. If the local chicken market is good, these professional households will make money.
Therefore, from the above-mentioned chicken breeding situation, free-range chicken raising is also a science. After all, technology, geographical conditions and the way of raising chickens are indispensable. Then the question is, what if we contract 10 mu of land, and then develop local chicken projects and raise local chickens in a free-range way? Li Zi is also a native breeder. Here I tell you with practical experience:
First of all, how can I make money by raising chickens?
I keep about 500 chickens every year. Why do I keep so many chickens? There are several reasons. First, because of the site, I contracted 20 acres of wasteland, which is mainly to build pig houses. Therefore, in the case of limited space, I only develop in the mode of "mainly raising pigs, supplemented by raising chickens", so I can only raise about 500 chickens in the case of limited space.
Second, because of the market, we are a small city with five lines, and people's spending power is limited. If I raise more chickens and wholesale them to some chicken dealers, I won't make any money. And these 500 chickens are mainly retail, so it's just right. The profit of my 500 chickens is often greater than that of others' 1000 chickens.
In controlling the cost of native chicken, I also have a unique feeding method. When I buy chickens in spring, I should first ask the chicken dealer if he has taken Marek's vaccine. If not, I will buy a vaccine to get vaccinated immediately, because once this disease happens, it is incurable. Moreover, I also carry out strict epidemic prevention procedures for brooding and feeding local chickens. When taking medicine, I should not be careless at all.
When the chickens are fed in the heat preservation room for 1 ~ 2 months, I will release them and let them adapt to the natural environment. The advantage of this is that I will give them less food every year, so that the chickens can eat freely in my 10 acre. Especially in the pigsty, I specially planted alfalfa, Mexican corn and other forage rich in protein for pigs and local chickens. Moreover, native chickens will also look for food in pig manure and trough, so I saved a lot of food.
After autumn, my 500 chickens have grown up, and the price of such chickens in the market is around 15 ~ 20 yuan. And these 500 chickens, excluding all costs, make me earn more than 30 yuan per chicken, and 500 chickens earn 1.5 million yuan. Although I don't earn much, my main purpose is to raise pigs. This native chicken just makes money by the way.
From the above experience of raising chickens, although raising chickens can make money, compared with the labor cost, the profit of raising chickens is small, so I also earned money from raising chickens. Regarding the project of contracting 10 mu of land and free-range raising of native chickens, I will give you a concrete calculation here:
First, how many chickens are raised on 10 mu of land and what is the cost of raising chickens.
How many chickens do you need to raise freely on 1 and 10 mu of land?
The above topic is very clear. The main purpose of undertaking 10 mu of land is to raise chickens freely. Free-range farming is different from cage farming, which requires free feeding of native chickens, so the activity of native chickens is very large and the area is very large. Take the standard free-range chicken space as an example, a henhouse covers an area of 10 chickens per square meter, and the stocking area is 500 square meters/100 chickens. Therefore, this 10 mu of land needs to raise about 1000 chickens.
2. What is the breeding cost of native chicken?
Cost of contracted land:
Take our side as an example. The land contract fee here is 500 yuan per mu of fertile land and 300 mu of wasteland. In order to reduce costs, we contract wasteland. The annual contracting cost of this 10 mu of land is 3000 yuan.
Cost of building a henhouse:
And 1000 mu needs to raise 1000 chickens. If it is stocked too much, it will be bad for the growth of chickens. However, it is necessary to build a henhouse, which is conducive to the brooding and night rest of chickens. According to the simplest standard of greenhouse chicken house, this 1000 chicken needs to build a greenhouse of about 100 square meter. At present, the construction cost of sheds is one square meter in 200 yuan, so this 100 square meter needs to be invested 20,000 yuan.
The service life of the henhouse is 10 years, so the annual cost of building the henhouse is about 2000 yuan.
Cost of purchasing local seedlings and other costs:
Cost of purchasing local seedlings: Local seedlings have also increased in recent years. This spring, the original seedlings cost 3.5 yuan 2.8 ~ 1 tree, so we calculate it as 3 yuan 1 tree, and the purchase cost of this 1 ,000 original seedlings is 3,000 yuan.
Other expenses: this includes 900 yuan for vaccines and veterinary drugs, 400 yuan for water and electricity 1.000 yuan for food trough and water dispenser1.000 yuan, excluding labor costs, and 800 yuan for other facilities every year. , which is 4 1 0,000 yuan.
Food cost consumed by native chicken:
Although native chicken belongs to stocking, it is not a fast-growing variety of broilers, so the feed reward for raising native chicken is also very low. Generally speaking, the feed-to-meat ratio of local chickens is about 3.5: 1, the feed intake of each chicken in the brooding period (0-60 days old) is 5. 1 kg, and the growth period (61-kloc-0/50 days old) is1.
Therefore, according to the current feed price 1.5 kg, it takes * * * 20.5 kg of grain to slaughter a 0-day-old to 5-month-old native chicken, that is, the grain cost of 3 1 yuan. And a feeding cycle 1000 chickens' food cost comes out, and a * * * is 33,000 yuan.
Second, at the current price of native chicken, how much profit is there in contracting 10 mu of land?
Total profit from selling local chicken: The current local chicken price is about 15 ~ 18 yuan a catty, while the wholesale price is generally 14 yuan a catty. According to the chicken price of 15 yuan, chickens fed for 5 months can grow to about 4 kg. Therefore, the total profit of a native chicken is 4 kg * 15 yuan /kg = 60 yuan.
However, this 10 mu can only raise 1000 chickens, and the survival rate of chickens in the slaughter cycle is 93%, and 930 chickens are slaughtered. So the total profit of this 1000 mu of land 1000 chickens is: 930 chickens *60 yuan = 56,000 yuan.
Total cost of raising native chickens: This includes 3,000 yuan for contracted land, 2,000 yuan for building chicken coops, 3,000 yuan for buying chickens, 4 100 yuan for other expenses, and 33,000 yuan for food consumed by native chickens. So we can calculate that the total cost of raising native chickens is 45,000 yuan.
Therefore, at the current price of native chicken, contracting 10 mu of land, we can calculate that the net profit from selling native chicken is about 56,000-45,000 yuan = 1 1 0,000 yuan.
To sum up:
According to the author's rough calculation above, if we contract 10 mu of land, we can raise about 1000 chickens in a free range. The net profit earned by 1000 chickens is about 1 1000 yuan according to the current chicken price 15 yuan, and the profit of each chicken is1000 yuan.
Therefore, as can be seen from the above, the project of chicken breeding is not very good, and it is basically in the stage of low profit, which is also a profit without labor costs. And if the labor cost is included, contracting 10 mu of land to breed chickens will not only make money, but also risk losing money. Therefore, some local chicken farmers will not simply rely on raising chickens to make money, but make money through diversified feeding and comprehensive control of the cost of raising chickens to the lowest. Therefore, we should be cautious in raising chickens.