How much does it cost to raise 20 beef cattle?
Beef cattle are a type of cattle raised mainly for beef production, characterized by a full body, fast weight gain, high feed conversion efficiency, good meat production performance and good meat quality and taste. They not only provide people with meat but also provide people with other secondary food products. In China, the main excellent breeds include Simmental cattle, Charolais cattle and Limousin cattle. Below let us take a look together at how much it costs to raise 20 beef cattle!
How much does it cost to raise 20 beef cattle?
1. Barn cost: Generally, a barn for raising 20 cattle only needs 100 sq m. An old house can be used, or a very simple shed can be built, with a cost of about 20000 yuan, and the cost apportioned each year is very low.
2. Calf cost: A good-breed Simmental calf of about 400 jin needs 6500-6700 yuan/head. Adding transport, quarantine and other expenses, the delivered price comes to about 6800-7000 yuan/head, and the cost needed for 20 head is 140000 yuan.
3. Feeding cost: Under normal circumstances, good-breed Simmental cattle are mostly slaughtered at 1300-1400 jin. Except in the high-temperature summer months, they can gain about 100 jin per month on average at other times. By this calculation, at least 10 months of feeding are needed to reach 1300 jin, and the whole process requires about 2800 jin of concentrate feed and about 6000 jin of roughage. Calculated at 1.3 yuan/jin for concentrate feed and 0.1 yuan/jin for silage straw, the total feeding cost is 4240 yuan, and the cost needed for 20 head is 84800 yuan.
4. Other costs: vaccine and medicine costs 100 yuan/head (including foot-and-mouth disease and bovine pleuropneumonia serum), water and electricity 150 yuan/head, depreciation 50 yuan/head, labor 500 yuan/head, totaling 800 yuan/head, and 20 cattle need 16000 yuan in total.
5. Total cost: The cost needed to raise one head is 12040 yuan, the breeding cost for 20 cattle is 240800 yuan, and adding the 4000 yuan barn cost (calculated at 5-year depreciation), the breeding cost is 244800 yuan.
How much can you earn by raising 20 beef cattle?
1. Selling price: The slaughter price of fattened cattle is around 12 yuan/jin, and one fattened cow weighing 1300 jin can sell for 15600 yuan.
2. Total sales: Calculating one cow selling for 15600 yuan, the total sales of 20 cattle are 312000 yuan.
3. Profit analysis: Profit = 312000 yuan - 244800 yuan = 67200 yuan. Raising 20 cattle can earn 67200 yuan.
How can the cost of beef cattle breeding be reduced?
1. Do a good job in feed production: The largest expense in raising cattle is feed. In order to reduce cattle-raising costs, first do a good job in feed production. In particular, green feed and roughage should be more self-supplied and less purchased, and commercial feed should be used as little as possible or not at all, which can both ensure a stable supply and reduce costs.
2. Balanced feed supply: Ensuring a balanced supply of green feed throughout the year is the basis for stable production, high yield and normal reproduction. Achieve feeding (grazing) fresh green feed in summer and autumn, feeding silage in winter and spring, and keeping green feed available throughout the four seasons. Cattle can gain 1 kg of body weight for every 25-30 kg of green grass consumed.
3. Persist in self-breeding and self-raising: On the basis of improving the reproduction rate, persist in raising young cattle at home. This can not only prevent bringing epidemics in when buying cattle, but also greatly reduce cattle-raising costs. Raising 1 young cattle only costs 500-600 yuan, while buying 1 young cattle externally costs 1500 yuan.
4. Rational use of materials: Proper storage of materials, timely maintenance, extending the service life, rational manure accumulation, using cattle manure to produce biogas, saving energy and so on all help reduce cattle-raising costs. In addition, doing a good job in epidemic prevention and disease elimination and ensuring all survive and all are strong can also reduce cattle-raising costs.