Let's not be brainwashed by the propaganda "chicken under the forest = green wealth"! Every year, over 60 per cent of the country's new farmers are lost in the first year — not to the market, but to their own “cognitive trap”. According to the ministry of agriculture and rural development's 2024 economic development under forests report, the failure rate for chicken farming projects under forests is 58 per cent, far above pig farming (32 per cent) and duck farming (29 per cent), with an average household loss of over $30,000. No words today, but the truth: the “fatal practices” that leave your blood behind are essentially the product of human weaknesses — cheapness, stalking, experience, fear of trouble — which old breeders have turned into “road signs” for profit。
# # # one, pick the forest to "glow": take "shadows" # # comforts # # the damp is killing the chicken # group
"the chicken is the safest under the shade." this was the first reaction of 90 per cent of the newcomers to the woodlands and the most fatal cognitive error. The department of livestock and veterinary medicine of the ministry of agriculture and rural development has made it clear that the core of chicken farming under the forest is “photo-oxidized balance”, which is 40 per cent wetter than the standard level of the high (>0. 7) forested land, and that the incidence of spherical disease rises to 65 per cent (only 12 per cent for normal farming). Like the lesson of shandong farmer lee: in 2023, an infested forest of the yangs was selected, and within three months, the chickens had an outbreak of fungi poisoning, 1,500 chickens had died and over 50,000 had been lost。
Why is the light more expensive than the shade? Chickens are “solar animals” that require six to eight hours of direct light per day: on the one hand, ultraviolet light can kill 70 per cent of the surface fungus (data from the ministry of agriculture and rural development's guide to the prevention of epidemiology in forest land); on the other hand, sunlight can facilitate the synthesis of chickens with vitamin d, increasing calcium absorption efficiency by 30 per cent and reducing soft shell eggs. The correct selection criteria for forests are “three glances”: tree species (pine trees, fruit trees best, summer shades of fallows), slopes (<15° anti-accumulation water), depression (0. 6-0. 7 and midday ground spots 30-40%)。
## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ii # buying seed to catch # # expensive # superstition # golden variety = high returns # # precious chicken seed survival is 30% low
“house chickens and pearl chickens sell at a high price and can earn a living” — this is the “generic trap” that newers can most easily step on. Research conducted by the chinese livestock association in 2024 showed that under-forest farming for the introduction of varieties (e. G., chicks, turkeys) was only 58 per cent, while local chickens could reach 89 per cent. The experience of the hebei farmer wang sister is more typical: in 2023, 28 dollars was spent/only 500 “seven-colour chickens”, transport stress + environmental discomfort, 200 died in three days, and the rest grew two months later than the chicken, ultimately losing 30,000。
Why "resist" local chickens? They are the result of natural choices over hundreds of years: resistance to gavage (maize + wheat can meet nutritional needs), resistance to stress (sudden warming, low noise impact) and resistance to disease (new urban disease incidence is 40 per cent lower than the introduction). Remember that the profits of the chickens raised under the forest = (live x bar price) – the cost, rather than the cost of buying a “precious variety” at a high price, would be better than choosing a local rooster — even if the price was two dollars lower and the rate was 30 per cent higher, the total gain would be 1. 2 times higher (in terms of 1,000 farm size)。
# # # # # # # iii, the disease depends on the "medicine": "vaccinating = all-powerful" and neglecting environmental disinfection is the same as poisoning
It's the best thing that's ever happened with the vaccine — it's the biggest mistake of the newest. The ministry of agriculture and rural development's code of environmental control for under-forest cultivation emphasizes that 70 per cent of chicken diseases originate from environmental degradation rather than viral invasion. Like zhang, a growing family in henan: in 2024, chickens were vaccinated against the new urban disease and avian influenza, but the manure was left uncleaned for three months, leaves rotting in “cooled piles” and eventually blighted, and in three days 120 were killed and 15,000 lost。
Environmental disinfection is more important than vaccines. The “earth method” of an old farmer is actually the most scientific: weekly excrement (90 per cent fermentation kills eggs), monthly graze of lime (0. 5 kg per square metre, inhibiting fungus breeding) and rainy season sprouts of peptaldehyde (focused root, low-lying, 70 per cent humidity) per week. There is also density control: a maximum of 80 per acre (agriculture rural standard), above which air ammonia concentrations exceed 20 ppm (safe value < 15 ppm) and the incidence of respiratory diseases increases by 50 per cent。
# # # # # # # # iv, feed-chart "lack" # # "free food = no pipe, chickens grow thinner #
“there are worms and grass in the woods without feed” — this is the most dangerous “lazy mind”. Experiments at the faculty of animal sciences of the agricultural university of china show that the average daily protein intake is only 12 grams (18 grams of demand) for chickens that feed on nature alone, and that the weight of 60 days is 400 grams less than the feeder group and the rate of eggs laid is 25 per cent lower. The lessons of hubei farmer liu are even more direct: in the summer of 2023, there was no feed, the chickens were “eating hungry” every day, the eggs were reduced by one round, the buyer was under-priced at $1. 2/kg, and 20,000 less was earned。
Scientific feed is to be “catched two heads”: no chicken before the morning (pushing chickens out for food, eating insects, grassseeds to add protein) and nocturnal feed (maize + soybeans + leaves, 50-80 grams per day, adjusted for weight). The benefits of doing so include a 20 per cent increase in the volume of chicken population activity (more stringent meat) and an increase of one grade (from light yellow to orange red, with a purchase price of 0. 8 yuan per pound), while the cost of feed is 30 per cent lower than the full-day feeding。
## # # v, defense against the enemy # # trap # # against the enemy # # trap #
"weaves, snakes when they arrive, traps, fences" — this is the most ineffective enemy defence for newers. The china rural farming safety report, 2024, shows that the cost of net protection (us$ 1,200 per acre) is high, that it is vulnerable to break-up (40 per cent for rabbits and boars), and that the protection success rate for dogs is 92 per cent, at a cost of only 200 yuan/year. The experience of chen, an embroidery farmer: in 2023, weeds were protected against the fence, which was hit three times in three months, and 50 chickens were lost; two earth dogs were later raised, only two chickens were lost throughout the year, and $8,000 was saved。
“gold combination” against natural enemies: physical + biological protection. Physically, the fence is to be buried 50 cm deep (prejudiced by weaves) and top 30 cm out of the barbed wire (prevalence against climbing); biologically, two to three local earthlings (the best of chinese field dogs, three times more alert than pet dogs) and patrol dogs at fixed times a day. And remember, the natural enemy is most afraid of “movement”, the dog barking + human activity that keeps weaves and rats away from 90% of the chicken field。
# # # # vi, out, etc. # # big # # big # # greedy # # bigger and more valuable # # feed costs eat profit #
“chicken up to three pounds to sell, make more money” — this is the “growing zone” that newers can most easily commit. Agricultural market monitoring in 2024 showed that chickens were out of the forest for 4-5 months (2-2. 5 pounds) and meat for 3:1; meat for more than 6 months rose to 4. 5:1 and feed costs increased by 15 per cent each month, but market prices were only 5 per cent higher. Uncle zhao, the jiangsu farmer, has been counted: 1,000 chickens have been out for five months at a net profit of 28,000; while 7 months have been out at a net profit of only 19,000 — more feed has lost profit。
It's better to make money when it's wrong. It's the hot season of chicken consumption in march-april and september-october each year, at a price of 1. 5-2 pounds higher than the late season. In september, for example, maize was just harvested (10 per cent less for feed), demand was high for the mid-autumn national day (20 per cent higher), and 1,000 chickens earned $8,000 more. Remember, the point of selling chicken under the forest is “ecocosystem, freshness”, so too much meat can't be sold — that's smart。
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Chickens raised under the forest are not a “lay-and-leave” business, but rather a “detail-to-death” battleground. Those old breeders who enter 100,000 years are not better luck than you, but have made six mistakes less than you: no greed, no pursuit, no sterilisation, some feeding, some protection from enemies, and others. Data from the ministry of agriculture and rural development for 2024 show that farmers who avoid these faults have an average profit rate of 35 per cent, which is three times higher than that of new entrants。
Are you raising chickens under the forest? The comment area left a message that old breeders helped you to avoid the pits — after all, the money in agriculture is made from experience, not from luck。
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