What are the economic benefits and advantages of pheasant farming
The pheasant, also known as the common pheasant or mountain pheasant, has brilliantly colorful plumage and is hailed as the dragon-phoenix bird or phoenix bird. Even after artificial breeding, it remains fairly wild, fond of running and flying, and loves activity. It features fast growth, high egg production, wide adaptability and strong stress resistance. Its meat is tender and delicious, with a high dressing percentage, rich in various essential amino acids and trace elements. It is a rare game food that is high in protein, low in fat and also has certain medicinal value, increasingly favored by consumers abroad. Because the pheasant has a long tail and dazzlingly bright plumage, it is highly ornamental; giving a pheasant as a festival gift carries the meaning of wishing health and longevity, good fortune and happiness. At present, besides being exported to the international market, it is also very popular in the domestic market. Pheasant meat is not only a delicacy on the tables of guesthouses, restaurants and hotels, but is also increasingly appearing on ordinary people's dining tables.
Pheasant farming has several major advantages:
1. Low investment, quick returns: No need to build large factories or buy mechanical equipment. Old houses, warehouses, pig pens and other spare rooms can be used for raising them; simply add nylon netting to doors and windows for enclosure rearing, with low capital occupation and fast turnover.
2. Strong adaptability, simple technology: The pheasant was originally a wild animal with strong vitality and low environmental requirements. It can withstand high temperatures of 46°C and severe cold of -32°C, has particularly strong disease resistance, low risk, is easier to raise than domestic chickens, and its farming technology is similar to that of domestic chickens.
3. Wide feed sources, low cost: Pheasants mainly eat grains and miscellaneous cereals, and especially prefer tender leaves, tender grass, melon and fruit peels, and green vegetables. They have the advantages of small feed intake, wide feeding habits, fast growth, easy raising and low cost. An adult pheasant needs only one liang of daily ration, and can reach 3 jin after 100 days from hatching, with a meat-to-feed ratio of 1:3.6, consuming 10.8 jin of feed, about 11 yuan in feed cost. In northern regions or when feed is mixed on site, the feed cost is even lower.
4. Huge market potential: According to market information feedback from various places, demand for pheasants is growing day by day, with supply falling short of demand. Foreign trade departments in Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Hebei and other provinces have already purchased large quantities of pheasants for export. The export price of a pair of pheasants is as high as more than 20 US dollars. Hong Kong, China alone consumes 1.5 million pheasants each year, with each pheasant selling for 200 Hong Kong dollars; in the domestic market, pheasants have also become a hot commodity, with a purchase price of 30 to 60 yuan each. In addition, the pheasant, dressed in colorful and gorgeous feathers, has always been a rare bird for people to admire. In particular, the tail feathers of the male pheasant can also be used as feather ornaments and crafts, with each feather worth more than 5 yuan; if the pheasant's skin is processed into a specimen, each sells for 100 to 120 yuan, and the quantity demanded is relatively large. It can thus be seen that the pheasant is a special economic rare bird that combines food, medicinal and ornamental uses as well as decoration.
A pheasant farming cycle takes only 3 to 4 months before benefits can be seen. The products sell in large quantities, at high prices, with good returns and no market competition, offering advantages that other industrial projects cannot match. Taking the introduction of 100 breeding pheasants (male-to-female ratio 1:4) as an example, if each hen lays 100 eggs per year (actual egg production is much higher), 80 hens lay 8000 eggs per year. If the qualified rate of breeding eggs is calculated at 95%, and the fertilization rate, hatching rate and survival rate are all calculated at 85%, then the annual output of pheasants is: 8300×95%×85%×85%×85%=4842 birds. After more than 3 months of raising, a commercial chicken can reach 1.5 kg, and each sells for 30 to 50 yuan; even if sold at the price of a native chicken, it can still sell for 24 yuan. Annual income: 4842 birds×24 yuan/bird=116208 yuan.
Relevant experts predict that within 10 years it will be difficult to meet market demand, so starting pheasant farming at the right time should yield relatively high economic returns. It can thus be seen that artificial pheasant farming is a good project with low risk, high benefits and reliable investment. It is a new "one excellent, two high" industry in industrial structural adjustment, a new type of farming project for earning foreign exchange through export, and also a shortcut to change single-variety farming in rural areas and escape poverty and achieve prosperity!