American Ranch

Chapter 435 Intensive Breeding
The pork that can be bought on the market is basically feed pigs.

Pigs are raised in buildings, pigs are raised in farms, and the pig house should be kept clean and disinfected frequently.The key is what kind of food to feed the pigs, so as to ensure good meat quality, concentrated feed must be rejected.Feeding grain feed, grass feed, such pigs basically need a normal growth cycle before they can be sold...

Pigs with good meat quality will certainly not worry about selling them. If the reputation is good, it is not difficult to sell a catty of pork for a few dollars more.

Wang Xinghua and the others wanted to open a separate breeding farm, and Chen Mo recommended them to mix and match the three breeding methods.

For feed pigs, because of the short feeding period, the risk is the least.As for pig feed, you can buy it from outside. Wang Xinghua and the others also have technicians, so they know how to mix feed.

Then there is a mix of grain-fed and grass-fed, which can save costs, and they should try more.

The last thing is forage feeding. Yunshan Ranch has planted three types of forages. The three types of forages are harvested at different times. There are silage feed, energy feed, dry storage feed and pasture chaff powder. They are fed with grass. Although the feeding cycle is long , but the cost of feed is cheap.

Since last year, the price of food has increased, and there is also the problem of the depreciation of the renminbi, so that the price of pork has also increased.

The current slaughter price of hairy pigs (three-yuan pigs), the lowest price that can be found is 8 yuan per catty, and in some places it is even 10 yuan per catty.Even if it costs 8 yuan a catty, 200 catties are slaughtered, and a piglet costs 1600 yuan... Feed pigs, feed costs, piglet costs, drug costs, labor costs... According to the breeding scale of the breeding building, the cost of a pig is about 1300—— 1350 yuan.The profit of a pig is only two or three hundred yuan.

8 yuan a catty of hairy pigs is a very good price.There is room for this price to rise, but when the scale of breeding in Yunshan District increases, it should impact the market price, and the price of hogs will definitely fall.Whether the price of pork rises or falls is one of the reasons for the scale of breeding, and the main reason is the price of grain.

Grass-raised pigs are also sold at two hundred catties, and the cost of a pig is about 1200 yuan.

Centralized breeding, low labor cost... Although the feeding cycle is more than 300 days, the labor cost will not be much higher.It is also 8 yuan a catty, and the profit of a pig is about 400 yuan.The price of feed pigs will fall, but the price of grass-fed pigs will definitely not fall, and the price will rise...

Grass-fed pigs have a longer growth cycle and better meat quality.As long as word of mouth can be made, if the price of grass-raised pigs can be bought for 11 yuan per catty, the profit of that pig will exceed one thousand.

Although it is farmed in buildings, the feed they eat is organic pasture.

The Chinese are no longer Chinese for more than 20 or [-] years. Chinese people pay more attention to food, safety and health.The taste of the grass-raised pigs is closer to the pork that people of Chen Mo's age ate when they were young...

Chen Mo calculated the cost for Wang Xinghua and the others.

This cost is a seriously overestimated cost, and such a high cost may not be needed in the actual breeding process.Especially after the scale of breeding farms in the future, the price of piglets should be reduced.And for the medicines used by pigs, in order to raise high-quality pork that can be exported, the amount of medicines used must also be controlled.In addition, Yunshan Sewage and Waste Treatment Center can provide very cheap electricity bills... These can further reduce costs.

Chen Mo and the others have also set up a laboratory to study ecological feed with pasture as the main raw material, provide more comprehensive growth nutrition for meat pigs, and allow meat pigs to be slaughtered within the growth cycle.

In addition to raising pigs, it is necessary to achieve isolation between floors. It is best to raise pigs in one building and sheep in the other, so as to form isolation.To raise mutton sheep, each floor can raise 1500-2000 mutton sheep.The sheep mainly eat grass, and if they are slaughtered in six months, the feed cost for a sheep is only about 6 yuan.

Chen Mo and the others only provide a plan, and they decide by themselves how to choose.

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The feed mill started to make silage feed.

The raw materials of silage feed are divided into three categories: the first category is raw materials with high sugar content and easy silage, such as corn stalks, gramineous forages, sweet potato seedlings, etc.

Such raw materials are rich in sugar, and there is no need to add other substances with high sugar content during fermentation.

The second category is raw materials with low sugar content but high feed nutritional value and not easy to ferment.

The third category is low sugar content, low nutritional content, poor palatability, and raw materials with high sugar content must be added.

"Boss, the ratio of pasture planting in the future has to be changed." Kang Si has been staring at the factory construction during this time, and spent the rest of his time studying pasture with researchers.

In the past, ryegrass was used as silage feed, and some corn flour was used for fermentation.Sweet Elephant Grass as Dry Stock Feed...Alfalfa Grass this as Grass Meal Feed.

The sugar content of sweet elephant grass is too high, not only can be used as energy feed, but also can be directly used as green storage material, and it can be directly fermented without adding corn flour.

Sweet elephant grass has a huge yield and has the potential to be used as a universal feed.

"Okay, what's the ratio?" Chen Mo said after seeing more than a dozen types of fermented feed in the laboratory.

"5 to 2 to 1. Sweet elephant grass 5, ryegrass 2, alfalfa 1. Sweet elephant grass contains a lot of sugar, especially the straw, which can be directly fermented after being squeezed...and directly fermented, it can even ferment Liquor. The juiced sweet elephant grass mixed with ryegrass is directly fermented without corn flour, which is the most economical way. The sugar water squeezed from sweet elephant grass can be used to make syrup. The direct sugar content of sweet elephant grass is It is about one-third of sugarcane. And sweet elephant grass stalks have less water content...Under the same weight, the proportion of sugar produced is about the same."

Sugarcane has a high water content.

Sweet elephant grass stalks have less water content...

Sucrose in daily consumption, starch in food, cellulose in plants, etc. are all sugars.

The sugar that can be directly extracted is sweet, and the sugar that is sweet like grass is less than that of sugar cane.

"There's no need to add more work to yourself. Besides, we just purchased 50 corn, which must be made into feed and sold..."

"Corn is processed into cornmeal and mixed with alfalfa bran powder, which is a very good grain feed for fattening. In San Bernie, our alfalfa fattening feed is like this. The effect is very good and can catch up with pure grain feed."

"How much is the ratio?"

"6 to 4, 6 alfalfa, 4 cornmeal. Or other ratios are fine..." Kang Si said.

Breeding pigs and sheep of Rich Farm Company began to enter the breeding building.

"You can figure it out on your own," Chen Mo said.

Corn flour is mixed with alfalfa bran powder to make concentrated feed. This ratio further reduces feed cost.

The TBL Alliance also opened a farm here, mainly raising chickens.Three breeding buildings have been built, one building has 12 floors, and the height of each floor is 2 meters. The area of ​​each building is still 3500 square meters, and 5 chickens are raised on one floor. The 2.2-meter-high single-story is divided into three-story breeding space... Hegu Animal Husbandry also invested in this chicken farm and provided a full set of technical support...

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