What is the market price of a hedgehog?
Hedgehogs not only have tender meat and rich nutrition, but also unique medicinal effects, and are deeply loved by people, with high demand, while wild resources have sharply declined, and hedgehog farming supply is insufficient, leading to a prominent contradiction between market supply and demand, so artificial breeding of hedgehogs urgently needs to be developed. Below, let us take a look at how much a hedgehog costs!
How much does a hedgehog cost?
The price of a hedgehog is generally from a few dozen to a few hundred yuan each, with prices varying from place to place.
Species distribution of hedgehogs
The hedgehog family is widely distributed across the "Old World", including Asia, Europe and Africa, and has been artificially introduced to New Zealand. In New Zealand, as an introduced animal, the hedgehog has no natural enemies, so excessive breeding has gradually turned it into a pest. Because their main food, "insects", is insufficient, they began searching for snails, earthworms and bird eggs as food.
The most common hedgehog species is the European hedgehog, widely distributed in Europe and northern Asia, and also widely distributed in northern China and the Yangtze River Basin.
The farming value of hedgehogs
1. Providing meat: Hedgehog meat is a top-grade wild game delicacy with high protein content and low cholesterol content, with strong nourishing functions and many ways to eat it. Because hedgehogs breed quickly and produce a lot of meat, developing hedgehog farming is of great significance for enriching residents' "shopping basket". With the improvement of living standards of residents in coastal open areas and large and medium-sized cities in the interior, the demand for wild game is growing, hedgehogs have been heavily hunted in the Yangtze River Basin, and their numbers are extremely scarce; in northern regions, indiscriminate hunting has worsened year by year, and wild resources are increasingly scarce.
2. Providing industrial raw materials: The whole hedgehog is treasured. Hedgehog skin is a precious traditional Chinese medicine, with effects such as lowering qi and relieving pain, stopping vomiting of food, and stopping bleeding and removing leakage. The hedgehog's brain, heart, liver, gallbladder, kidneys and fat can all be used as medicine. Hedgehog meat can also be deeply processed, such as into cut meat, convenience foods, canned products, tourism foods, etc., with great development potential.
3. Developing the economy and earning foreign exchange through exports: Raising hedgehogs will surely become an important part of the special farming industry. It can not only satisfy the market and drive the local economy, but also be sold externally and exported to earn foreign exchange.
4. For ornamental purposes: It can increase consumer goods in the spiritual field.