Raising pheasants earns 300 million VND/year in Nghe An

(Baonghean.vn) -As the first person in Quynh Luu to bring pheasants home to raise, Mr. Vo Van Tham in hamlet 4, Quynh Hoa commune has been successful with this breed of animal, his family earns 300 million VND each year.

In 2009, by chance reading the newspaper and seeing a high-income pheasant farming model of a household in the North, Mr. Vo Van Tham learned about it and decided to bring this pheasant breed home to raise at home. To have the breed, Mr. Tham went to Thuy Phuong Livestock and Poultry Institute (Hanoi) to buy 100 pheasant eggs to incubate and breed.

After 4 months of raising, the birds began to lay eggs, each female laid 250 - 300 eggs/batch, the weight of the bird eggs was 65% of the weight of chicken eggs. He put the eggs in an experimental incubation, the result was that after 24 days, they hatched into chicks with a hatching rate of over 80% of the total number of eggs incubated.

Commercial pheasants will weigh 1.5-1.7 kg/bird.

Mr. Tham said: "Raising pheasants is healthier than raising chickens, has fewer diseases, grows quickly, and the food is suitable for local conditions such as bran, rice, vegetables, fruits... and the profit from raising pheasants is higher than that from raising chickens."

Each pheasant lays 1 egg/day, and on average 1 female lays 250-300 eggs/batch.

Currently, Mr. Tham's cage has 60 breeding pheasants, the breeding season is from the third lunar month to the end of October. In each breeding season, his family sells over 4,000 breeding birds to the market, priced from 17-20 thousand VND/bird. In addition to selling breeding birds, starting from July, he continues to raise about 1,500 - 1,800 pheasants to sell meat. After 4 months of raising, each bird weighs an average of 1.5-1.7 kg/bird.

According to breeding techniques, 1 male pheasant will be raised with 3 female pheasants to have a good breeding ratio.

Mr. Tham shared: “Thanks to raising pheasants for many years and being known by the market, the output for the product is very stable. From around October onwards, commercial pheasants are exported to provinces such as Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Binh Thuan...”

The pheasant chicks are 5 days old.

From raising pheasants for breeding and meat, his family earns over 300 million VND each year. In addition to raising pheasants, his family is experimenting with raising 30 more guinea fowls for breeding, increasing the family's income.

Mr. Tran Van Dung - Chairman of Quynh Hoa Commune People's Committee said: "Mr. Vo Van Tham's pheasant farming is a farming model with higher income than other livestock breeds in the locality at present. In addition to enriching his family, Mr. Tham also helps local people develop the pheasant farming model, enthusiastically instructs them on bird farming techniques and sells the chicks at a cheaper price than the market price so that people can develop their family economy".

Viet Hung