10 years ago, when she saw these small animals, she was too scared to touch them, and 10 years later, she knows their habits very well, and her farm sells 500,000 animals a year, nearly a third of which are sold nationwide through e-commerce platforms. Her name is Qian Yingzi, and the small animal she raises is actually a turtle, and today she walked into her story with DaChaojun.
Pet turtles of about 6 centimeters can be sold for 3500 yuan
Recently, in Haining Huyue Breeding Co., Ltd., Qian Yingzi is shipping and packing small turtles that have placed good orders in boxes. The unit price of this batch of small turtles is about four or five hundred yuan.
There, Da Chao Jun saw a newly hatched stubble of turtle seedlings, the little turtles look cute, very cute, they have to continue to raise in the greenhouse for a few months, wait until before and after the Spring Festival, the diameter grows to four or five centimeters, can be separated from male and female, at this time can also be sold. A giant turtle of about 6 centimeters can be sold for 3500 yuan at a price.
"The giant turtle's abdomen is pure, and the razor turtle has a pattern, but when they grow up, their backs are also different, and the giant turtle is radial, so its ornamental value is higher than that of the razor turtle." Qian Yingzi picked up a pair of small turtles and talked about the difference between the two.
△ Giant turtle (right) Razor turtle (left)
In two years, he became a turtle connoisseur
Qian Yingzi grew up in Haining City, and in 2011, she saw that the prospects of the turtle market were very good, and she invested in raising turtles in Guangming Village, Xieqiao Town. At first, her idea was very simple, she wanted to do business as long as you invest money, who knows that this year's turtle money did not earn, but lost 1.5 million yuan. The next year, she summed up the lessons, and under the introduction of friends, she changed production and raised turtles, and taught herself breeding techniques.
While checking the information on the Internet, Qian Yingzi participated in the training in the Agricultural and Rural Bureau, and asked friends for advice if she did not understand. Two years later, Qian Yingzi went from being an aquaculture layman to a turtle connoisseur. In her farm, there are grass turtles, flame turtles, eastern turtles and so on. In 2014, she finally fought a beautiful turnaround battle, with an annual output value of more than 2 million yuan, which made her more confident in breeding turtles. In 2017, she tried to raise pet turtles, introducing seven or eight new species such as giant turtles, razor turtles, and Yellow Mud turtles.
Follow the tide and take a look at some species of turtles
△ Flame turtle
△ Yellow-rimmed closed box turtle
△ Japanese grass turtle
△ Giant turtle
In addition, the age of the species turtle must be more than 6 years, and a species turtle can lay eggs three times a year, and one or twenty eggs at a time. Every year around May, after the turtle lays eggs, Qian Yingzi will begin to hatch artificially.
Online live broadcast exceeded 1 million yuan
Today, Qian Yingzi's farm covers an area of 101 mu, which is included in the modern agricultural park of Zhejiang Province, with as many as 21 turtle breeding species and more than 500,000 turtles bred annually, in addition to selling to local and surrounding counties and cities, it is also sold to Huzhou, Hunan and other places.
Since 2019, Qian Yingzi has also tried online sales, becoming an anchor herself, but she did not expect to do a good job, selling more and more boutique turtles to all parts of the country, especially in guangzhou, which is quite popular, and e-commerce sales exceeded one million yuan. She plans to build another greenhouse of thousands of square meters to increase the number of turtles.
I didn't expect pet turtles to have big business too
Have you ever had a pet turtle?
Source: Dachao Network