And meat, and profits

Many people are starting to grow farm animals to get normal food: butter without oil palm, cheese, not cheese products, eggs, in which no traces of antibiotics, the normal fresh meat. But this livestock "for himself" should not be unprofitable occupation!

FORUMHOUSE experts warn that if the money and labor expended to obtain a specific product, do not bring a certain profit, "the furnace is a lesson." If your terms gobies do not give the normal weight gain, and to grow them at a loss, switch on rabbits, quails, goats - yes even crocodiles. Or garden: maybe apple will give you a big profit, and the money you buy beef.

How much meat and eggs we need

To begin, figure out how many products you need to grow. For example, take a family of five.

Here are the norm in livestock products for 1 person per year recommended by the WHO:

• meat products (based on meat) - 72 kilograms;
• fish - 18 kg
• dairy products (milk equivalent) - 350 liters
• eggs - 350 pieces

The actual use of these products is much lower and the lack of fast carbohydrates we cover: bakery products, pasta, potato etc. But we do agriculture, not in order to eat, horrible. We assume the norms. So, for a family of five needed annually:

•  milk - 1750 kg / year
• meat - 360 kg / year
• fish - 90 kg / year
• Eggs - 1750 pcs / year..

What animals to keep?

On average, one cow per year gives one calf, and 3,000 liters of milk. About 500 of them will drink the calf. The remaining 2500 will be enough to head for the complete software family of dairy products, also beskorovnym neighbors can sell a little bit. During the year, the calf will grow to about 100 kg bull. Three hundred kilograms will give the three little pigs bought for fattening.

If you do not eat pork, it is possible to have a flock of sheep and rams 7-10. In addition to meat, they give 15-20 lambs.

Cow with a 3-4 success replace a goat and a goat. 8 goats, they will, it is possible to fatten to 150 kg meat.

360 kg of meat per year gives a family of rabbits 10-12 rabbits and rabbit 1-2. The advantage of rabbits is that they clog as the needs of the family, that is, you will always have fresh meat.

If your terms gobies do not give the normal weight gain, and to grow them at a loss, switch on rabbits, quails, goats - yes even crocodiles.

Let's not forget about the bird, the more so that it is easier to care for. Rooster and chickens 10-12 fully provide seven eggs and give about 100 kg of chicken meat. Needless to say, the taste and quality of all it's ridiculous to compare with the factory farms produce. If you have an incubator, it will be even more profitable.

Geese - a great bird family farmstead. 15 and three geese goose almost completely cover the needs of the family in meat and eggs (this takes into account and eggs for livestock reproduction).

Pond 100x150 meters will completely cover the needs of the family in the fish.

Based on this information, you can make all sorts of combinations: one kept geese and pig, others - sheep and chickens... Avian yard can be equipped with another guinea fowls and musk ducks - they have excellent taste meat. Eggs of musk ducks at dietary properties are not inferior quail.

Here, for example, after several years of trial and error by organized agriculture FORUMHOUSE 30hgsa.

- Myasosalnyh pigs he keeps under the scheme: one pig takes in October Korytnikov (scored in the May holidays), the second - in April (slaughter for the New Year).

- Each season buys 100-120 heads of Bashkir ducklings. Cuts as necessary part of selling. Geese does not hold, because they do not get along with the ducks.

- Chickens: laying hens - cross Loman Brown with brown and sherved hohlastye kuropatchatye. In the summer of 25 chickens were given sometimes to 28 eggs in the spring and autumn - 10-13.

- Rabbits: Soviet Chinchilla, Californians, white and gray giants. 6 male (3 workers for the replacement of 3) and 6 queens on male.

It completely covers the needs of a family of two children and two adults, and also to help get products to parents. all animals 30hgsa feeds the crushed grain mixtures (crushes itself), lure winter forage.

How to save money?

If you can reduce the cost of production of "their" meat and milk, it should not be overlooked. Especially because it is almost always.

Here's how, for example, the user FORUMHOUSE Constantine.

Constantine (member FORUMHOUSE):

In the summer of heifers and bull calves all day and night I stand in a field on a leash. I moved them closer to the field, which begins cleaning vegetables, and now do not give them anything except water. The rest - the grass and foliage, and disposal of small, sub-standard vegetables. In the field, they will stand up to the middle of October - the end of the harvest, then a month in the stall to a stable cold weather, and again - on the tops and sub-standard vegetables. Then the slaughter - and bins.

Let's count the cost Constantine to the cultivation of a young bull.

Constantine did not buy a calf, he had from his cows.
Calf drinking about 400 liters of milk.

Bull ate approximately 2000 kg and 1500 kg of bran hay. Harvested hay Constantine himself, so costs are considered at cost.
In the stall period is necessary to clean the manure - but he then goes on fertilizer garden. Thus, labor compensated.
Salt, premixes, veterinary preparations and tools of the blood-sucking insects Constantine, of course, buy.

Total, they spent about 20 thousand rubles. By slaughter calf will weigh about 450 kg, i.e. carcass weight is not less than 225 kg + offal (heart, liver, kidney ...) + + language of the brain and another 150 kg slaughter products (and it is a valuable food for farmers dogs). It turns out that even if you count the cost of labor on the bull (half an hour a day), it still turns profitable.

We emphasize once more that we are talking about the cultivation of bull for themselves. For business spending will be higher: have to count electricity, rent the farm to the slaughterhouse costs, fuel, taxes, depreciation of buildings and machinery, etc. But profits will be less.

Which affects the profitability?

Before we take up the cultivation of animals, it is necessary to do one more thing: to sit down and calculate the key points affecting the profitability. It:

• the final price of meat;
• the amount of feed taken to obtain kilograms of meat;
• specificity feeding (animal eats some special food or anything that gives foraging in the summer of itself or not, etc.);
• conditions of detention (whether warm spaces are required, cells, etc.);
• reproduction rates (how many offspring gives the animal and how much time passes before slaughter);
• time which is spent on the daily care of the animals.
  

The last item of the list - the most important. That he often makes livestock production unprofitable. If we calculate how much time vacationers spend every day for a couple of rabbits or five chickens, the meat comes out even gold and diamonds. From this point of view advantageous to cultivate a bull (400-500 kg at time of slaughter), instead of a plurality of rabbits.

Profitability of different cultures in amateur crop discussed here. This article It tells how to help the cow to calve, and how to care for the calf in the first days of his life. And this video You can learn about the new technologies in livestock production.

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