How much profit can you make raising 10 meat donkeys in a year?
Donkey meat is tender and tasty with high nutritional value, and has long enjoyed the reputation of “dragon meat in heaven, donkey meat on earth”. For the past ten years it has sold well in markets everywhere and its price has been rising steadily; compared with pork, beef, mutton, horse meat and chicken, it is higher than all of them, with the market price at almost about 2 times that of horse meat. Let us take a look below at how much profit raising 10 meat donkeys brings in a year!
How much does it cost to raise 10 meat donkeys in a year?
The cost of raising meat donkeys mainly includes the cost of buying donkey foals, feed costs, donkey shed construction costs, vaccine and medicine costs, and so on. The price of a meat donkey foal weighing more than 200 jin is about 2500 to 3000 yuan. Each day it needs 3 jin of concentrated feed (cornmeal, bran, soybean meal, cottonseed cake, rapeseed cake, etc.) and about 10 jin of roughage (crop straw, rice straw, weeds, etc.), with feed cost equivalent to about 6 yuan. If raised for 10 months before being sent to market, the total feed cost is 1800 yuan. The donkey shed construction cost apportioned to each donkey put in is 100 yuan, vaccine and medicine costs are 50 yuan, and labor and water and electricity costs are 500 yuan. Therefore, the total cost of raising one donkey is 3000 yuan + 1800 yuan + 100 yuan + 50 yuan + 500 yuan = 5450 yuan, and raising 10 meat donkeys for a year costs 54500 yuan.
How much profit does raising 10 meat donkeys bring in a year?
The profit from raising donkeys is the sale price of the donkey minus the raising cost. Usually each donkey raised for 10 months reaches a body weight of 600 jin. Generally, a meat donkey in good condition sells for 14 to 16 yuan per jin. Sold at an average price of 15 yuan per jin, a 600 jin donkey sells for 9000 yuan. Subtracting the total investment in raising the donkey of 5450 yuan, the profit from raising one donkey is about 3550 yuan, and for raising 10 meat donkeys the annual profit is roughly 35500 yuan.
What is the market prospect for meat donkey farming and how do you raise them?
1. Large demand: Donkey meat is tender and tasty and has long enjoyed the reputation of “dragon meat in heaven, donkey meat on earth”. It is much favored by consumers, so donkey meat has long been in short supply, with a market gap of more than 70%.
2. Low cost: The donkey is a herbivorous animal with excellent adaptability, very strong disease resistance and easy management, and it also involves low risk, little investment and high returns, making it very suitable for entrepreneurs to show their skills.
3. Many benefits: Donkey meat has health functions such as enriching the blood and tonifying qi and deficiency. It also has the characteristics of two high and two low, and has a good health-promoting effect on patients with arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and high blood pressure.
4. Strong support: National policy encourages individual entrepreneurship, especially in agricultural breeding, where funding subsidies are provided, and local governments at all levels have also issued many funding subsidy regulations.
How can you lower costs when raising meat donkeys?
1. When raising meat donkeys, always keep the shed clean and hygienic, and use discarded weeds as donkey bedding as much as possible to reduce forage waste.
2. When feeding, feed less and add more frequently, which can save forage; feeding it all at once also easily develops the bad habit of being picky about palatable forage.
3. When feeding, feed roughage first, then feed concentrated feed or pasture according to its nutritional needs.
4. Treating roughage by salting, alkalizing or ammoniating it, or crushing it and mixing it with concentrated feed before feeding it to donkeys, can improve the utilization rate of the forage.
5. Change the bad habit of throwing forage directly into the donkey pen to feed them; forage should be placed in the trough for feeding.
6. Do not burn the coarse hard stalks left over after the donkeys eat; they can be used again to lower feed costs.