Raising rare poultry in the vineyard, 86th Regiment worker Zhang Mancang increases his income and gets rich

On November 3, the reporter came to the Xinben Rare Poultry Breeding Cooperative of the Second Horticulture Company of the 86th Regiment of the Fifth Division of the **Production and Construction Corps, and met Zhang Mancang, who was feeding seven-color wild pheasants. While feeding them, he told the reporter the story of his entrepreneurship.

Zhang Mancang said that his family came to the Second Horticulture Company from Gansu and planted 20 mu of grapes, with little income each year. In order to increase income, through the introduction of the company branch, under the regiment's preferential policy for developing animal husbandry, building standard pens gave a subsidy of 20 yuan RMB per sq m, and for more than 5,000 poultry, the regiment awarded 1 yuan RMB per bird. After repeated consideration, he decided to invest 300,000 yuan to develop the rare poultry breeding industry.

He built a walled enclosure of more than 3,000 sq m, chicken houses, and a feed area. After the breeding farm was completed, he immediately purchased 5,000 wild pheasants and 200 guagua chickens from Hami and put them into breeding. At present, he has also introduced 100 peacocks.

He said that the wild pheasant is the "king of game" and "animal ginseng," eating natural grape leaves and weeds. Its growth cycle is longer than that of domestic poultry, taking 3 and a half months to mature. Generally, a male chicken now weighs 1.5Kg, and a female chicken 1-1.25Kg. The feed-to-meat ratio is 3.5:1. The seven-color wild pheasants have now matured and are selling well. Each wild pheasant sells for 100 yuan RMB. At present, more than 300 have been sold.

This year, because of continuous high temperatures for more than half a month, the quality of the 20 mu of grapes he planted was low, and the unit price was poor, generally selling for only 2-3 yuan RMB per kg. The planting income was about 30,000 yuan RMB. Fortunately, he boldly started a business and took the path of raising rare poultry to increase income and get rich. At present, it looks quite good. If all are sold, with the cost calculated at 50 yuan RMB per bird, the net profit can reach more than 100,000 yuan RMB.

Zhang Mancang told the reporter that at present, his Xinben Rare Poultry Breeding Cooperative already has 5 fixed members. They raise cattle and sheep. He plans to start his own specialized distinctive breeding operation, and in the future do more distinctive sightseeing breeding, and set up a farmhouse restaurant in the vineyard, implementing it according to customer needs. Visitors can sightsee, catch, slaughter, and cook on the spot here, and delivery to the door can also be provided.

"Pheasant lacks the fishy smell and greasiness of domestic chicken. It is a rare delicious poultry and is very popular with people." Zhang Mancang is full of confidence in the path to wealth he has chosen.

At present, in the process of promoting the functional transformation of companies and the diversified income increase of workers, the 86th Regiment respects the enthusiasm of workers and encourages workers to actively participate in the transformation and development of companies. It promotes workers' entrepreneurship and income increase. Zhang Mancang is only a microcosm of the regiment's functional transformation. There are many others like him who have embarked on the road to wealth through diversified income increase.