2016 Analysis of Meat Duck Farming Prospects and Market Price Forecast
Ducks are one of the main types of poultry and account for a large share of household farming. Farming meat ducks is a new project for farmers to get rich quickly and has broad prospects for promotion in rural areas. Meat ducks are a major processed agricultural by-product in China; some processing plants process hundreds of thousands of ducks a year, and some enterprises sign farming contracts directly with farming households, so farmers have great opportunities in developing the meat duck farming industry.
Economic Benefits of Meat Duck Farming
The meat duck farming cycle is relatively short; generally, they can be sold after 42 to 60 days of farming, capital turnover is fast, and multiple batches can be farmed in a year. The income from meat duck farming is relatively high: the net income per meat duck is about 2 yuan. Under household farming conditions, 2,000 to 3,000 ducks can be farmed at one time, with a net income of about 5,000 yuan per batch, and more than 5 batches can be farmed in a year, so the income is relatively high. Meat duck farming requires little investment; duck houses can be simple and crude, feed is mainly grain-based and relatively cheap, and feeding management is simple and requires little labor.
Development Direction of Meat Ducks
Meat ducks currently sold on the market have a relatively high fat content, which affects consumer purchasing. Selecting meat duck breeds with a high lean meat rate and strengthening feeding management to increase the lean meat rate of meat ducks is a problem that must be solved in future meat duck farming. In terms of farming methods, meat ducks used to be farmed mostly on the ground and in ponds, with a relatively long farming cycle and easy infection with various diseases; in the future, net-bed farming of meat ducks is the development direction. In terms of comprehensive utilization, combining meat duck farming with fish farming and other integrated farming to improve resource utilization is a problem to be solved for future sustainable development. In modern meat duck farming, in order to facilitate feeding management and mechanized operations, make environmental conditions easier to control, and help with disease prevention and control, adopting the all-in-all-out farming method of raising only day-old meat ducks in the same duck house at the same time and having them all leave the farm on the same day is the development direction of large-scale meat duck farming.
Meat Duck Sales Strategies
Judging from the sales situation of meat duck processing enterprises, the domestic market is still the main market that needs further development. The main sales channels for meat ducks are wholesale markets in large cities and meat duck processing plants. The sales method can be farming households selling in batches to the city one household at a time, or sales can be organized by farmers' sales associations.
Risks of Meat Duck Farming
1. Meat ducks are poultry that grow quickly and can be sent to market in a relatively short time, so professional technology and experience are required in management and sales.
2. Meat ducks are prone to many diseases, and if prevention and treatment are not timely, they may cause large-scale deaths.
3. The sales channels for meat ducks are relatively narrow, and when the market fluctuates, this often causes relatively large losses. These risks require special attention in meat duck farming, thereby increasing the market rate and economic benefits of meat ducks.