How do the costs and profits of hedgehog farming look?

Hedgehogs not only have a simple, cute appearance, they also have both medicinal and edible value. Therefore the prospects for farming hedgehogs are quite promising. Below let us take a look together at the costs and profits of hedgehog farming!

1. The costs and profits of hedgehog farming

The costs of farming hedgehogs include the cost of the young, feed cost, veterinary drug cost and labor cost. Raising them to 1 kg for market costs about 35 yuan. Calculated at a market price of 100 yuan/kg, the profit per hedgehog is about 65 yuan.

2. Hedgehog farming methods

1. Feeding methods

Hedgehogs have a very omnivorous diet. Insects, mice, snakes, frogs, earthworms and the internal organs of some animals are all favorite foods of hedgehogs. For artificially prepared feed, you can choose crushed corn and sorghum as well as various kinds of flour and melons and fruits, stir them together evenly to prepare it, and when feeding, mix animal-based and plant-based feed according to proportion. Feed once each day in the evening. Hedgehogs also have requirements for their daily intake of nutrients, and the protein content of the food each day must not be less than 30 percent. When farming wild hedgehogs, at the beginning mainly feed animal-based feed, then later slowly reduce the animal-based feed and gradually increase the plant-based feed.

2. Cleaning management

All the food in the feed that hedgehogs eat each day must be washed clean before preparation. Things like melons and fruits must be washed clean, otherwise it is very easy to make the hedgehogs sick. In addition, pay attention to the timing of hedgehog feeding, because hedgehogs are nocturnal animals and are not very active during the day, so when we feed them it is best to do so in the evening. You can feed feed and water once at that time, and the feed should also be diverse, not too single, to avoid the phenomenon of hedgehogs biting each other and refusing to eat.

3. Disease prevention and control

Because hedgehogs all have relatively strong disease resistance, there are relatively few diseases. As long as the usual sanitation work of the farm is done well and management is strengthened, basically no diseases will appear. The most common diseases of hedgehogs are gastroenteritis, skin fungus and roundworm disease. There is not much else. Usually you can feed some oxytetracycline, and you can also feed more gentamicin. For skin fungus you can apply some ointment for treatment, and for roundworm disease you can feed piperazine to kill the roundworms. Every year hedgehogs must be dewormed to prevent diseases from invading unnoticed.

4. Enclosure construction

The choice of farm can be in a courtyard, or you can build a small plot yourself with bricks, stacked to a height of one meter, ensuring it does not leak water and is built tightly. In the enclosure you can spread some leaves for hedgehogs to use as nests. If conditions permit, you can make some rockeries in the enclosure to create the appearance of a natural environment, so that it is closer to real wild life, and pile up some stones and bricks and so on.

Farming hedgehogs does not require a high level of technical skill, and they are easy to raise. It is a project very suitable for investment, and interested friends can give it a try.