How Much Profit Can Mud Snake Farming Yield Per Mu

The mud snake is a delicious meat-type snake with relatively large market demand. Relying entirely on wild snakes makes it very difficult to meet market demand, and the market gap is relatively large, so how much profit can one mu of mud snakes bring?

Suppose you want to build four 10-sq-m breeding pools for breeder snakes, at 30 yuan per sq m, then the cost is about 1200 yuan. Four transition pools for raising young snakes, 12 sq m in total, also at 30 yuan per sq m, cost 360 yuan. Three commercial snake farming ponds, 300 sq m total, cost about 900 yuan. If you farm 400 breeder snakes, you only need to buy 100 adult breeder snakes, about 0.5 kg each, at 32 yuan per kg, which is about 1600 yuan. And to raise these 400 breeder snakes to maturity, the feed cost is about 1500 yuan. The mud snake is a creature that is very easy to raise and does not get sick easily, so treatment costs add up to about 400 yuan. Adding 1000 yuan in unpredictable expenses, the cost of farming 400 mud snakes is less than 8000 yuan.

So what is the profit from farming these 400 water snakes? The 100 breeder snakes introduced at the beginning need three years to reproduce to 400 snakes. By the second year, the profit mainly comes from commercial water snakes. In the first year, buy 75 female snakes, and by the second year the young snakes born and surviving number about 945. Keep 300, sell 645, for a profit of about 9675 yuan. After deducting the feed costs, labor costs and treatment costs of the first and second years, the profit is about 8000 yuan, which basically recovers the initial investment. By the third year, the 75 female snakes bought in the second year produce a total of 945 surviving offspring, which can all be sold, each weighing 0.5 kg and selling for 15 yuan, for a total income of 14,180 yuan. Subtracting various other expenses of the third year, the profit is still 12,000 yuan. In the fourth year, there will be nearly 3800 water snakes that can be sold, and after subtracting feed costs and other expenses, the income is about 52,000 yuan. Cumulatively, 65,000 yuan can be earned in four years.

For mud snake farming density, the raising density also needs to change according to the size of the snake seedlings. Generally, for raising adult mud snakes, about 12—15 per sq m. If calculated by mu, that is 666 sq m * 12, which is 7992 snakes. That is, 6.5 divided by 4 divided by 400 multiplied by 7992 equals 326,475 yuan.