Grass chickens, also known as rural chickens, stupid chicken, is China's traditional breeding varieties. In recent years, with the changes in people's consumption level and consumer attitudes, the number of grass chicken consumption gradually increased, grass chicken has become a new hot spot in rural rearing, raising grass chicken prospects.

First, from the point of view of sales, pure grass chickens are quite popular

As broiler chickens in the breeding process towel lack of movement, soft meat, and in the feeding, feed added antibiotics, hormones and other drugs, chicken products contain residual drugs, people eat will be contaminated by drug residues. With the change of people's consumption concepts and tastes, broiler consumption will gradually decrease.

And grass chickens in the breeding process, the main use of free-range way, in the natural environment of feeding grains and cereals, exercise, pollution-free, tender meat, good taste, rich in nutrients, by the people's popularity, the product in the market demand exceeds supply.

Second, from the farming cost, grass chicken farming cost is very low

First, the chicken seedling input is less. Rural chicken farming, in the purchase of chickens mainly on credit, spring on credit under the chickens, fall grass chickens grow into payment, and the price of each chicken is only about 15 yuan, the chickens invested in less, households can be raised.

Second, less feed consumption. Chickens are mostly raised in a free-range manner, the chickens in the spring, summer and fall seasons in the fields, mountains and forests in the foraging insects, grass seed-based, rural commonly known as wild, farmers only feed a small amount of concentrate in the evening can be, relative to the raising of broiler chickens, can save more than 2/3 of the feed, greatly reducing the cost of rearing.

Third, from the point of view of farming profits, grass chickens income is relatively substantial

At present, the market price of grass chickens 14 yuan / kg, 1 chicken can earn 18 yuan, deduct costs, a chicken pure earn 14 yuan. If a farmer raises 200 chickens a year, he can earn a net income of 2,800 yuan without affecting other production.

At the same time, because the grass eggs are nutritious, good taste, pollution-free, but also very popular. Sold on the market to 0.4 yuan / piece, according to each chicken annual egg production of 150 calculations, and can earn 60 yuan.

Fourth, the current grass chicken breeding problems

In the grass chicken breeding process, pay attention to chicken disease control, especially should do a good job of chicken newcastle disease prevention. Chicken Newcastle Disease is a virulent infectious disease that seriously harms chickens and is commonly known as chicken plague in rural areas.

Grass chickens infected, often without any obvious symptoms of death, mortality rate of more than 90%.

Prevention is the only way to control Newcastle disease in chickens, generally at 7 days of age in grass chickens with Newcastle disease II series of seedling eye, nose drops, 28-30 days of age intramuscular injection of I series of seedling, and then every six months intramuscular injection of the I series of seedling, which can significantly reduce the incidence of pay city disease, reduce losses and improve the efficiency of farming.