A few years ago, I went to Anqing for a part-time job. I heard that the rice in Dabie Mountain area is cheaper and green and organic, so I want to buy a batch of rice to earn the difference. The wholesale price of local rice there is about 1. 1 yuan, and we basically have to go above 2.2 yuan here. At that time, I went by car with my friends. Only in mountainous areas did I find that people there are basically self-sufficient, and each family only grows about one acre, which is rarely sold to the outside world.
I chose a local local restaurant with my friends at noon. Roast chicken is authentic and our taste. Now we catch and kill one kilogram of native 30 yuan, and the actual cost of five or six kilograms of native is about 180 yuan. The friend said, let's work here and raise a group of broilers. A chicken 2.5 yuan feather can be sold for two years. According to a chicken feed 50 yuan, a chicken can earn at least 60% profit. If the breeding is 1000, the profit will reach 100000 after two years. If it's 2000, it's 200 thousand.
At first, there was an abandoned farmhouse near where we worked, surrounded by brick walls and lush vegetation, with a stream passing through it. It is simply a natural chicken farm, and it does not delay our work. My friends and I repaired several collapsed courtyard walls and bought 2000 chickens in a nearby village. Considering the chicken's weak resistance, we rebuilt several houses in the farmhouse, equipped with high-power light bulbs and cameras. Then I hired four people to patrol at night with my friends to prevent outsiders from destroying them. Secondly, I took care of the chicken in time. A person goes to 200 yuan a day, and the chicken is uncovered. A month later, little wings grew new feathers and was free to move. A * * * cost about 60,000 yuan, which basically used up our savings.
After the employees were evacuated, chickens played in the courtyard walls during the day and ate herbivorous seeds and insects by themselves, especially in the southern region. There are many unknown insects in the abandoned farmhouse. My friends and I both think that the future can be expected and that we can save food and management costs, but we have miscalculated. There are also many mice in this environment. Although they won't eat chickens, they will kill them and often scare them to death.
What is even more unexpected is that there are weasels in it. They used to work around here and seldom saw them. But since raising chickens, there have been more weasels in the garden. They are not as simple as mice, but one at a time. No matter day or night, they will always come back to steal chickens, and we have hired special people. But weasels are so cunning that they can always take one with one mouth when people are not looking.
I heard that the big goose is the bane of the weasel, so I went to the nearby market and bought four big geese and kept them in the yard with the chickens. Needless to say, the weasel is really afraid of this big goose. It seems that the smell of the goose makes the weasel sick, and there are a lot fewer mice. It seems that nature is really everything has its vanquisher. However, the smell of chicken manure is particularly bad in summer, which can spread for miles with the wind, attracting the local sparrow hawk, a carnivorous bird of prey.
This kind of free-range chicken lacks necessary intervention, and some diseases are difficult to control, especially in southern China. In summer, the rain soaked the chickens, but it was basically sunny and the temperature was high after the rain. Chickens began to get sick, and the infection was particularly fast. If you don't go to the scene for a day or two, dozens of chickens may die. My friends and I all want to see chicken farmers, and we have used many medicines to prevent them, but there are still chicken diseases.
After a year of tossing, the number of chickens decreased from 2000 to 1000. Because these chickens are free-range, they run and jump very fast, and they are frightened inexplicably every day. Most chickens have formed the habit of resting in trees. They can fly out of the courtyard wall with the help of the big trees around the courtyard wall, but there are more people working around. They just catch and kill them. Such a thing is out of control. My friends and I felt that this was not possible, so we had to find someone to catch the sales in advance, because there were many wholesale products, which cost 20 yuan a catty and 34 kilograms of a chicken, but they didn't reach 80 yuan. In the end, it was less than 70 thousand, and even if the cost was excluded, we lost more than 40 thousand. Raising chickens is really expensive.
In a word, chicken is the meat that people eat every day, especially the local chicken is more valuable and expensive, but it is simply not feasible to raise 1000 chickens in the wild, so don't do it.