How do you raise specialty livestock? Getting four key points right is crucial

First key point: Find the right project

"In specialty breeding, you must choose a good project according to local conditions." Among these, the consumer market is very important. Before choosing a project, you should investigate the local and surrounding markets, and you should choose a project in your area that already has a market but does not yet have a large amount of breeding.

Second key point: Analyze the market

You must have a sense of timing in the market and choose to breed what has a large shortfall. For example: "China's annual demand for scorpions is nearly 5000 tons, but the market can actually supply only 400 tons." Because scorpion breeding has a long cycle, it requires enough patience and capital investment. Therefore, when you have identified a project, you must have a comprehensive understanding of the market.

Third key point: Management level

The specialty breeding market is good, but you must be proficient in technology and have a good reputation because specialty breeding has relatively high requirements for its site and for the technical skills of practitioners, and there are strict requirements for the performance and characteristics of the breed and for breeding technology. For breeders, breeding technology is the key to success.

Fourth key point: Breed selection

In specialty breeding, selecting excellent breeds is the key to success. For example: for rare poultry, the egg production rate, fertilization rate, hatching rate, survival rate, feed-to-meat ratio, growth speed, and so on, due to differences in quality, their production performance varies greatly, and inferior products have no economic benefit at all. Therefore, households introducing breeding stock must not covet cheapness and lose the greater for the lesser.