Incubating duck eggs to make money

(Baonghean.vn) - In Hung Hoa commune, Vinh city and Hung Nguyen district, there are many families that hatch duck eggs, earning high profits and creating jobs for many workers.

Many families in Hung Hoa, Vinh City have both developed farms and provided a source of eggs to hatch duck eggs for sale.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Son's family, hamlet 2, Hung Tan commune, Hung Nguyen district has 5 duck egg incubators and 3 quail egg incubators. Every day, they supply the market with tens of thousands of chicken, duck and quail eggs. In Hung Nguyen district, there are also dozens of households incubating duck eggs.

Many families develop integrated livestock farms, providing their own source of hatching eggs for sale. Mr. Phan Van Duong's family (Hamlet 2, Hung Dao) has an integrated livestock farm with 10,000 laying ducks and 10,000 laying quails.

To have a stable output, his family invested in buying 5 incubators for duck eggs, 3 incubators for quail eggs, and also bought a refrigerated truck to transport eggs to other provinces from Binh Dinh to Hanoi and Hai Phong. Each year, Mr. Duong's family farm supplies the market with 8,000 - 10,000 duck eggs and nearly 10,000 quail eggs, with a net profit of more than 70 million VND/month.

In Hung Hoa commune (Vinh city), there are 11 families specializing in hatching duck eggs, supplying over 100,000 duck eggs to the Vinh city market every day. Each household has 1 to 2 incubators, many households have 5-6 incubators, such as Duong Xuan Thang (Phong Phu hamlet) has 6 incubators; Mr. Ho Thanh Chuong's household in Khanh Hau hamlet has 3 incubators, supplying 1,600 duck eggs to the market every day; revenue reaches nearly 150 million VND/month, after deducting expenses, profit is 15-20 million VND.

Select eggs to put in the incubator.

After hatching duck eggs, households earn a profit of 500 VND/egg.

Currently, eggs are incubated by machine, after 17-21 days, they are examined under light to remove eggs without embryos. Eggs incubated by automatic machines have a success rate of 96-98%. The price of imported eggs is about 1,800-2,000 VND/egg. After incubating into balut eggs, the price is from 2,800-3,000 VND/egg. After deducting the cost of electricity, machine depreciation, and labor, the profit is 300-500 thousand VND/egg.

The job of hatching balut eggs can be done all year round without depending on the season, not only creating jobs and stable income for many families, but also solving employment for hundreds of workers right in the locality.

Thanh Tam