Effective duck egg raising model

Previously, agricultural land along the West Canal in Tay Ninh City specialized in cultivating rice, fruit trees or various vegetables. In recent years, many livestock farming models have appeared along the canal banks, including shrimp farming, fish farming, etc. In some places, duck farming models are more profitable than other crops.

Chickens and ducks are traditional livestock raised by people through small-scale farming on a family scale. For a long time, in the province, there have been many flocks of ducks with a scale of thousands, which can be raised in the form of free-range farming or semi-concentrated farming in barns.

In recent years, many concentrated duck farms have appeared, many of which follow biosecurity guidelines, raising ducks on biological bedding, which has helped to overcome the problem of disease spreading among duck flocks, especially the cyclical outbreak of avian influenza.

Duck farming on the floor.

During the period when the prices of duck eggs and duck meat were unstable, some farms reduced their herds or temporarily stopped raising ducks, but the duck farm of Mr. Vo Van Thanh in Ninh Son ward, Tay Ninh city still developed effectively with the model of raising ducks to sell fresh eggs, processing fresh eggs into century eggs, salted eggs, and balut eggs.

Knowing how to diversify egg products, Mr. Thanh's duck farm always has enough goods to supply the market every day, from which the duck farm has been maintained and expanded to this day. Currently, Mr. Thanh's farm has a scale of 8,000 ducks, raised in the form of laying ducks for eggs.

Mr. Thanh's duck farm always has enough goods to supply the market every day.

Mr. Thanh said that because the average annual income from rice cultivation is low, since 2012 he has boldly converted rice cultivation to closed-loop duck farming combined with fresh eggs to make century eggs, which has been effective so far.

Recalling the difficult early stages of his career, Mr. Thanh shared, Since 2012, he has been on his own with 3,000 square meters of mixed-use land. After a period of reclaiming the primitive land, he has transformed it into fertile land for rice cultivation. Due to the weather conditions of the land near the West Canal, with a small area, he only grows two rice crops a year. He realized that he only had enough to live for the whole year but not enough to cover the family's living expenses. Due to many difficulties, he also worked as a hired hand to support his family.

The duck egg farming model brings high economic efficiency.

Mr. Thanh added that by the end of 2012, thanks to learning and researching more on newspapers and radio, he found that raising egg-laying ducks was profitable, low-cost, and took advantage of his land near the river, so he decided to switch from rice production to raising super-laying ducks for egg production.

Realizing that raising animals has high economic efficiency, he boldly continued to expand the area by 1 hectare, with the attention of the Ninh Son Ward Farmers' Association, seminars on technology transfer, including a model of raising animals using modern technology but ensuring quality and safety, and the process of organizing production to develop the economy. In particular, he also applied a model of expanding animal raising combined with making century eggs to achieve high economic efficiency.

From 3,000 ^m2 of garden land, Mr. Thanh gradually expanded his duck farm to 3 hectares. Through many years of raising animals and gaining more experience in the profession, Mr. Thanh always pays attention to the health of the livestock, is vigilant against diseases, organizes regular vaccinations, especially in cleaning the barn, and the source of food for the ducks is always carefully selected, so as to benefit the flock, but at the most reasonable cost.

At first, he harvested about 3,300 eggs a day. Mr. Thanh sold fresh eggs and put them in an incubator to sell duck eggs. When there was a backlog of goods, he made century eggs. Century eggs can be preserved longer, have a higher selling price and earn more profit. Century eggs and salted eggs cost 2,600 VND/egg, duck eggs cost 3,000 VND/egg, and fresh eggs cost 2,000 VND/egg.

Diversifying many types of products, from duck eggs of livestock, these products can regulate the quantity back and forth, ensuring the market demand at each time. This is also an advantage for Mr. Thanh's farm to survive when the duck farming industry is facing difficulties.

Tay Ninh City Farmers' Association visited Mr. Thanh's duck egg incubation model and duck farm.

Mr. Huynh Quoc Tuan - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Tay Ninh City said that this is a large-scale model of livestock farming that ensures environmental hygiene. The model operates effectively, bringing stable income to local workers.

In the coming time, the Association will coordinate with relevant agencies to create conditions for Mr. Thanh and members to access science and technology in animal husbandry, so that the model can develop sustainably.

The Association also hopes that the model will be widely applied in many localities, helping many households have the right direction in economic development, creating stable income, improving the quality of life and contributing to building new rural areas.

Nhi Tran

Source: https://baotayninh.vn/hieu-qua-mo-hinh-nuoi-vit-de-a182072.html