How can you make money raising sheep? Practical farming methods shared

The question of how to make money raising sheep is actually not easy to answer, because as long as you master the farming techniques, you will certainly make money when the market is operating normally. But as the saying goes: "A fortune of ten thousand strings, but livestock with hair doesn't count." This shows that the farming industry carries a certain amount of risk. However, raising sheep is different from raising chickens and the like; in sheep farming there are not many major diseases that cause death in meat sheep, unlike chicken farming, where an outbreak of avian flu can very likely bankrupt you completely, so compared with raising chickens, the risk of raising sheep is slightly smaller.

At present, looking at the situation nationwide, the prospects for cattle and sheep farming are very promising. Cattle and sheep are ruminants; the grass they eat undergoes rumination and cud-chewing, which promotes a strong physique and a low probability of illness, so they are less trouble than raising pigs. In addition, cattle and sheep mainly eat roughage, so the cost is low. From the actual situation in our country, the utilization rate of grain is high, while the utilization rate of grain crop straw is relatively low, which also provides convenient conditions for developing cattle and sheep farming. From the current farming situation in our city, the existing production scale of cattle and sheep cannot even meet one third of market demand. From this angle, farming households can develop cattle and sheep farming with confidence.

How can you make money raising sheep?

① If you want to make money in the farming industry, besides having sufficient funds and operational ability, the most important thing is to master farming methods. In the early stage of raising, all expenses will be upfront costs; pay attention to budgeting from site construction to the reserve of funds for a year and a half after starting to raise, and the total amount of funds should generally be 1.5 times what you calculated, so do not rashly scale up big! The amount of funds should generally be no less than 800 yuan per animal, to prepare for a restart after failure.

② It is advisable to prepare feed yourself, because the expected profit of industry is always higher than that of agriculture, and using finished feed will squeeze your profit to a pitiful level. Where conditions permit, you can buy a pellet machine yourself or simply feed loose material. Use more straw to reduce costs; it can be ensiled or dried, and the air-drying cost should preferably be below 1 yuan per jin. Do not believe the media too much; they always exaggerate like a matchmaker, and the so-called high profit is nothing but a pretext used by some breeding farms to raise prices. When you enter the normal farming stage, the rate of return is roughly 20%-30%. This is the situation when you prepare all the feed yourself; if you rely on finished feed, then you are basically raising sheep for the feed factory.

Summary

① Farmers must learn to protect their own interests: be a bit smarter, a bit more hardworking, a bit thicker-skinned, and a bit more ruthless, and then you too can survive in the primary industry.

② Do a line of work and love that line of work; what is in books is not always the best. Summarize carefully yourself, look for profit points, and learn to observe more, think more, and try more. This is true for doing anything: persevere, be stubborn to the end, and spring always quietly arrives when you feel coldest.

③ Do not keep thinking about "eating half a jin of tofu and becoming an immortal"; raising sheep depends on growing the business over time, not on making money within a few months.