Profit and cost analysis of donkey farming: how much can you earn in a year?

The donkey looks like a horse, with small solid hooves and a robust constitution, and has the advantages of being tolerant of roughage, not prone to illness, gentle in temperament, hardworking and durable, and obedient to work. Moreover, since ancient times in our country there has been the saying "dragon meat in heaven, donkey meat on earth," which shows that people have long recognized donkey products, so donkey farming has very good development prospects. Let us take a look below at the profit and cost of donkey farming!

How much does it cost to raise a donkey?

The cost of raising a donkey mainly includes the cost of purchasing donkey foals, feed costs, donkey shed construction costs, vaccine and medical costs, labor costs, etc. The price of a donkey foal weighing more than 200 jin is about 2500-3000 yuan, calculated here as 3000 yuan. In terms of feed, each day requires 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.). The daily feed cost is about 6 yuan. If raised for 10 months before slaughter, the total feed cost is 1800 yuan. The donkey shed construction cost apportioned per donkey is 100 yuan, vaccine and medical costs are 50 yuan, and labor and water/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.

How much profit does donkey farming bring?

The profit of donkey farming is the selling price of the donkey minus the farming cost. Usually, each donkey raised for 10 months reaches a weight of 600 jin. Generally, meat donkeys in good condition sell for 14-16 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 donkey farming costs of 5450 yuan, the profit from raising one donkey is about 3550 yuan. From the profit perspective, donkey farming is still a very promising breeding project.

What advantages does donkey farming have?

1. Easy to raise: donkeys like eating crop straw, pasture grass, weeds, etc., and their food intake is small, only equivalent to 1/3 that of cattle.

2. Low risk: donkeys have few diseases, and the market conditions are good, with prices generally slightly higher than beef and mutton.

3. Can be used for labor: donkeys are good helpers for farm work, and donkeys raised in rural areas can also be used for labor.

4. Good benefits: the breeding benefits of donkeys are relatively high, generally about 2-3 times that of pigs.

How can donkey farming reduce costs?

1. When raising donkeys, keep the shed clean at all times, and use discarded weeds as donkey bedding as much as possible to reduce feed waste.

2. When feeding, feed less and add more frequently, which can save forage, and feeding all at once easily develops the bad habit of being picky about palatable forage.

3. When feeding, feed roughage first, then feed concentrated feed or pasture grass according to nutritional needs.

4. Treating roughage with salting, alkalization, ammoniation, or crushing it and mixing it with concentrated feed to feed donkeys can improve the utilization rate of forage.

5. Change the bad habit of throwing forage directly into the donkey pen for feeding; forage should be placed in the trough for feeding.

6. Do not burn the coarse hard stems left over after donkeys eat them; they can be reused to reduce feed costs.