Wild goose farming helps farmers realize their dream of prosperity

Su Xing, the appointed village Party secretary, was busy working in the chicken farm. "Wild geese are very popular in the south, especially in South China and the Jiangnan region, because their production cycle is relatively long, at least six or seven months, or even more than a year. Unlike broiler chickens, which are ready for market in about two months. Wild goose meat is quite delicious, with fine muscle fibers and high quality, and the market prospects are very good, with considerable returns." Zhang Renjiu, general manager of the Yinhe Special Economic Animal Breeding and Reproduction Base in Dongfeng County, said proudly while chasing the wild geese. As soon as one entered the Yinhe Special Economic Animal Breeding and Reproduction Base, plump wild geese immediately waddled up with honking calls to greet visitors. The person chasing the wild geese behind them was none other than the farm owner, Zhang Renjiu.

Zhang Renjiu, quick-witted and hardworking, found his way to prosperity through wild goose farming. According to Zhang Renjiu, the wild goose, also known as the wild swan goose, is a large migratory bird and a type of swan, with characteristics of a high survival rate, strong reproductive capacity, large body size and a mainly herbivorous diet. It is not only a delicacy on people's dining tables, but also has excellent nutritional and medicinal value. Wild goose farming is an emerging specialty breeding industry in Dongfeng County, with great market space and economic benefits. Because wild geese grow quickly and have strong disease resistance, and can be raised both in pens and in open range, it is a good project for making a fortune. It was precisely because he saw this business opportunity that, after investigating from multiple sources, Zhang Renjiu made up his mind and acted on it right away. In March of this year, Zhang Renjiu officially began farming wild geese. He invested more than 6 million yuan to establish breeding bases in Taisheng Village, Dongfeng Town, Dongfeng County, and near the Mayi Reservoir in Sanhe Township, and carefully raised the purchased goslings. After several months, the wild geese raised by Zhang Renjiu had already reached more than 30,000.

To ensure the quality of the wild geese, Zhang Renjiu kept thinking things over and drawing on experience, insisting on open ecological farming. The more than 30,000 wild geese are uniformly fed corn, soybean meal and the like, without adding any concentrated feed or additives, so the wild geese raised are all green ecological products. At present, this breeding base is the only wild goose breeding base of considerable scale in Dongfeng County, and Zhang Renjiu has also become the veritable "first person" of wild goose farming in Dongfeng County.

In just over a month, Zhang Renjiu's wild geese will be ready for market, which will bring him a considerable income. "We will keep a portion as breeding geese, and can still sell more than 20,000, worth five or six million yuan. After deducting feed costs and labor costs, the income is still quite considerable. Now we operate as one household, but in the future we can expand to thousands of households; raising a thousand or eight hundred per family is a very simple matter." Zhang Renjiu is full of confidence about the development prospects of wild goose farming. He hopes that in the future this farming technique can be promoted so that the folks in the surrounding areas can also walk the road to prosperity together.