Meat production is a profitable business. It is profitable to breed pets in a private farm - you can provide your family with a product, and sell the surplus and make a profit.
Pig farming - profitable business
One of the promising areas in animal husbandry is pig breeding. You can start a small business from scratch, gradually expanding production. It’s enough to buy a few pigs and a pig.
Pigs - animals are premature, gain weight quickly, at the age of six months with good feed they reach 100 kg of live weight. The first mating is carried out in 8-10 months, their pregnancy is multiple - 6-14 piglets, it takes about four months, more precisely, 114 days. After weaning piglets (take them in 1-2 months), the uterus again comes to the hunt. One pig can suckle 2 times a year.
Feed consumption per 1 kg of growth in pigs is the lowest among agricultural animals; an adult eats 4 kg of dry food per day. They need compound feed with animal protein, grain mix from wheat and barley, in the winter they need to give hay. In summer, grass will save expensive concentrates. Kitchen waste can make up most of the diet. Also go to food:
- small potatoes;
- pumpkin;
- Jerusalem artichoke;
- fodder beets.
The approximate feed consumption per head during cultivation up to 120-130 kg: reverse - 40-50 kg; half a ton of potatoes; 200 kg of feed; 300 kg of crushed grain; pumpkin, root vegetables - if possible.
Promising area - fattening of bull
Growing bulls is a promising direction - beef is in great demand, always in price. Keep animals for 15-20 months and donate for meat. For their maintenance you need a cold room at the rate of 10 square meters. m per 1 head (taking into account the place for storing feed). The shed can be built from inexpensive material, such as slabs. Monthly calves are bought for fattening, up to 3-4 months they are given a pick of skim milk, one head requires 600 liters for the entire period of fattening.
To get good weight gain - 600-800 g per day - they are fed a large amount of silage, roughage, pulp, bard. In the summer, grass will replace hay, during this period they are kept in the pasture, here they work out muscle mass. In the middle of fattening, they are put on a reinforced diet, concentrates are added to the feed - 1 kg per day, mixed fodder or grain mix from barley, oats and corn, beet fodder - 3 kg, hay - 2-3 kg per 1 head. 60−90 days before the slaughter of the bulls begin to fatten intensively. The daily norm is 5-7 kg of silage per 100 kg of live weight, it can be replaced with hay from legumes.
With good nutrition, 15-month-old bulls gain weight up to 300-350 kg. At the age of one year, young animals need 6 feed units per 1 kg of weight gain, over two years old - 2 times more.
