What are the prospects for meat duck farming in 2017?
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 meat duck farming.
Profitability of meat duck farming
The cycle of meat duck farming is relatively short; generally, ducks can be sold after 42 to 60 days of farming, so capital turnover is fast and several batches can be raised 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, 2000 to 3000 ducks can be raised at a time, with a net income of about 5000 yuan per batch; more than 5 batches can be raised 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 directions for meat ducks
The meat ducks currently sold on the market have a relatively high fat content, which affects consumer spending. Selecting meat duck breeds with a high lean meat rate and strengthening feeding management to increase the lean meat rate of meat ducks are issues that need to be solved in future meat duck farming. In terms of farming methods, meat ducks were mostly raised on the ground and in ponds in the past, the farming cycle was relatively long, and they were susceptible to various diseases; in the future, raised 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 an issue 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, the all-in-all-out farming method, in which the same duck house raises only one-day-old meat ducks at the same time and all are sent to market on the same day, is the development direction for large-scale meat duck farming.
Sales strategies for meat ducks
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 is for farming households to sell in batches to the cities one household at a time, or it can be organized by farmers' sales associations.
Risks of meat duck farming
1. Meat ducks are fast-growing poultry 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 have relatively many diseases, and if prevention and control are not timely, they may cause deaths over a large area.
3. The sales channels for meat ducks are relatively narrow, and under market fluctuations this often causes relatively large losses. These risks must be paid special attention to during meat duck farming, so as to increase the market rate and economic benefits of meat ducks.