Taking raising meat pigeons as an example, the ordinary way of making money is actually similar to that of raising broilers.
Most people who raise meat pigeons first introduce some breeding pigeons, and after a period of breeding, they produce small pigeons. After the small pigeons grow to a certain standard and meet the requirements of slaughter, they are distributed to the market at the market price of meat pigeons. In order to make money, this kind of farming method must first determine a good sales market, and then increase income by a relatively large number of slaughter. However, the huge output will inevitably be accompanied by huge cost increase, so this way is just to earn hard money, and only when the scale is large enough and the market is large enough will there be relatively considerable income.
What about a higher-end way to make money? Naturally, it is not just a simple matter of raising meat pigeons. If you want a higher income, you naturally have to do something higher. For example, they are all ordinary meat pigeons, and others' pigeons will not continue to gain weight when they grow to a pound and a half, but you can select some individuals who can grow to more than a pound and a half in daily breeding for cultivation. After a period of directional cultivation and selection, some of your pigeons can stably produce individuals whose weight has increased to more than one and a half pounds. In this way, the quality of your pigeons will be higher, the market will naturally be better, and the relative unit price will also rise. When the number of pigeons with this characteristic reaches a certain level, and the heredity is relatively stable, not only meat pigeons can be sold, but also high-quality breeding pigeons can be sold. As we all know, the price of an excellent breeding pigeon is generally much higher than that of commercial pigeons.
Of course, many people will say that breeding is not something that ordinary people can do at all, and it will take many years of unremitting efforts for a professional scientific research team to cultivate a good variety with the support of the state, and it may not be successful. Let's change our thinking. It is absolutely feasible for the same batch of pigeons, the same variety, to make the quality of the slaughtered pigeons better through more refined management and high-quality breeding, so as to occupy a larger market.
Most farms that raise meat pigeons are actually extensive farming. It can be seen in many video materials that a large number of meat pigeons are mainly kept in cages. The original snow-white landing king's feathers are so dirty that he can't see the original color. All management is a mechanized process, which only requires the pigeons to reach the slaughter standard as a whole, but does not make the quality of pigeons reach the highest level. On this basis, if we can carry out more refined breeding and management, adjust the feed ratio more scientifically and reasonably, eliminate breeding pigeons and young pigeons that do not meet the standards, and classify the commercial pigeons that are slaughtered, so that the slaughtered pigeons can achieve higher quality, make extensive breeding become refined breeding, and make meat pigeons have more meat and grow bigger individuals, which is much simpler than breeding.