A Detailed Guide to Sparrow Farming Methods and Technical Key Points
1. The construction of sparrow nests; this is also the first step in sparrow farming, and the last step as well.
1, 1 Build sparrow nests at a height of 2.5 m above the ground. Use cement columns or large trees as support at the base, and build the upper part into honeycomb-style multi-layer sparrow nests. Developing upward, it can reach as high as several dozen meters, covering an area of 30 sq m.
1, 2 Each ecological park can have two to four sparrow farming houses, and each farming house can breed more than 100,000 sparrows per year.
1, 3 The structure of each sparrow nest: the wall thickness is 35 cm to 50 cm, with sparrow nests built on both sides of the wall. The vertical and horizontal spacing between nests is 15 cm, and the partition wall is 5-8 cm. The entrance of each nest is 4 cm in diameter, and the nest space is 8-10 cm, roughly the same size as a human fist.
1, 4 The materials for building sparrow nests include: red brick and cement, adobe, perlite plus cement, foam board (benzene board) with mud and weeds, beverage bottles, wide-mouth glass bottles, and so on. Foam board is the fastest material for making sparrow nests.
2, Farming methods:
2, 1 This kind of farming is free-range, ecological, and natural. The sparrows fly all over the sky. There is no cost in the farming process, and no feeding is needed. The sparrows eat only natural grass seeds and insects.
2, 2 Source of sparrow stock: the young sparrows bred in the current year need to find nests to settle down and reproduce in the spring of the following year. The old sparrows have only one nest, which they keep for themselves. A large number of young sparrows need a large number of sparrow nests, that is, the holes in the wall, to breed young sparrows. When people artificially build sparrow nests for the young sparrows, the sparrows come on their own to settle, build nests, and reproduce.
3, Stability of sparrow farming:
3, 1 As long as sparrows build nests and reproduce in the completed nests, this place is the sparrows' permanent home. As long as the sparrow nests are not artificially destroyed during the sparrow breeding season, the sparrows will not leave their nests.
3, 2 In the cold regions of Heilongjiang Province, they breed three clutches per year, four birds per clutch, with one clutch each in June, July, and August, and each nest can breed 12 birds per year.
3, 3 The condition for sparrow breeding is that they breed in the season when nature has insects, because the growth of young sparrows requires eating a large number of insects. The insect season in the south is relatively longer than in the north, and for every month the insect season is extended, one more clutch can be bred.
3, 4 This is purely a natural-state farming method. During the day, the sparrows spend most of their time flying in the wild, looking for insects and grass seeds to eat. Only from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. do they gather and fly back to their nests or to large trees near the nests to spend the night. They never get sick and never need epidemic prevention. Therefore, the number of farmed sparrows can only increase year by year, and never decreases.
4, Survival characteristics of sparrows: sparrows are our closest friends among humans. The place where they live is under the eaves of the houses where we humans live. They go out early and return late, working tirelessly and hard to reproduce their offspring. They are also resident birds, never leaving their birthplace throughout the four seasons. They have well-developed muscles and highly agile flying skills. Their ability to catch insects is especially strong; they can catch both stationary and flying insects. They can fly vertically up and down and make 90-degree sharp turns in flight. Their muscles have relatively strong firmness, and the meat is dark red.
5, Uses of sparrows: they can be used as medicine, strengthen the body, and tonify the kidney and enhance yang. They are also an excellent delicacy on the dining table and a high-end gift.
6, Marketing: at present, there are no sparrow products on the market, so this is a market gap, and the sales space is especially large. At present, some people illegally catch and sell wild sparrows, but the quantity is limited and cannot meet people's consumer demand, and there is no pricing power. If sparrows can be bred in large quantities and a satisfactory long-term supply quantity can be achieved, then the pricing power for sparrow sales will be in hand. In the future, the sparrow farming business will certainly get better and better, and the returns will grow larger and larger.
7, Sparrow farming in an ecological park can be developed into high-end food, high-end gifts, and tourism products.
7, 1 During the breeding season, the old sparrows feed insects to the young sparrows, coming and going busy and flying back and forth. As soon as the old sparrow arrives at the nest, the young sparrows chirp noisily. This will add a lot of sightseeing fun for young people and children.
7, 2 If a camera is installed in each nest among the sparrow nests and played on the ground, it can also attract viewers to watch how sparrows lay eggs, how they feed the young sparrows, and how they guide the young sparrows out of the nest for training.
7, 3 If glass is installed on the inner side of the sparrow nests, and the remaining central space is used to let visitors go inside to watch the sparrows lay eggs, hatch, feed the young sparrows insects, and how they guide the young sparrows to leave the nest, the sightseeing effect would be even greater.
8, Most suitable farming areas: orchards, forest land, barren hills and slopes, and large-grain crop planting areas (corn, soybeans, etc.).
9, Least suitable farming areas: small-grain crop planting areas (wheat, rice, rapeseed, millet, etc.).
10, Future prospects of sparrow farming
10, 1, Because sparrow farming is very simple, anyone can do it, and it can be done anywhere. The farming process does not require feeding and has no cost.