"Heavenly dragon meat, donkey meat on the ground", this sentence many friends have heard, used to describe the preciousness of donkey meat, or the value of donkey meat, from the other hand also shows that the price of donkey meat is expensive, the small helper is located in the Eastern Henan region, a pound of donkey meat on the market sold to 70 yuan, cooked donkey meat can be sold to 100 yuan / kg, all say that pork, beef price is expensive (about 3 times more expensive than pork), but compared with donkey meat, there is still a certain distance.
<h1>Why is donkey meat expensive? </h1>
As the saying goes, "things are rare and expensive", a commodity market is relatively rare, the price will naturally rise, donkeys are in this case, the market sells pork, beef, chicken, etc., but there are very few donkey meat, traced back to the upstream, the number of donkey breeding is not much, even if you want to sell in large quantities, there is not enough source.
<h1>Donkey meat is expensive, why are there not many farmers raising donkeys? </h1>
Many people have the impression that if the price of a commodity is high, it will attract many people to invest, whether it is planting or breeding, pork prices are high, everyone goes to raise pigs, garlic prices are high, everyone goes to plant garlic, but the price of donkey meat is high, but not many people raise donkeys? On this question, most people will think of the following 3 reasons:
1. Long growth cycle
Raising donkeys and pigs, raising chickens is not the same, and even with cattle raising is also a big difference, the growth cycle of donkeys is longer, such as raising pigs for half a year, a few hundred pounds, may be able to get out of the pen, and in the case of raising a year, can reach about 300 pounds, raising donkeys is not the same, breeding a year, may only be a few hundred pounds, and it does not look big, want to sell can not find a buyer, 2-3 years or even longer breeding cycle, it is better to raise pigs, raise chickens.
2, large-scale breeding is difficult
Rural ordinary farmers want to raise donkeys on a large scale is more difficult, in terms of breeding cycle, donkeys probably need a year or a year and a half to breed, and the number of breeding is also small, one at a time, there are a few cases can give birth to 2, but still a majority, the donkey grows up also need about a year, want to go out of the pen for a longer time, a small donkey selling price is not cheap, for farmers, if you only rely on the purchase of donkeys to expand the scale of breeding, not very realistic, and through their own breeding, the cycle is too long, Therefore, it is difficult to expand the scale, resulting in many ordinary farmers not wanting to raise donkeys.
3, high breeding costs
Although the price of donkey meat is expensive, but the cost of raising donkeys is also relatively high, the longer the growth cycle of donkeys, the greater the cost of feed and labor consumed, the less profits obtained by farmers, a simple calculation of an account, the price of a meat donkey cub is about 3000-4000 yuan (need to look at the weight), according to the calculation of one year's feeding time, the cost of feed consumed is about 1500-2000 yuan, labor costs are not calculated, epidemic prevention costs plus about 500 yuan, The cost is about 5000-6000 yuan, a 500-600 pounds of donkey, in addition to all costs, the profit may only be 2000-3000 yuan, coupled with the high cost of feed this year, the profit will be further compressed.
<h1>Deep-seated reasons</h1>
In addition to the 3 points mentioned above, there are not many people in the countryside who raise donkeys, and there are some deep-seated reasons, and the content mentioned below, although it cannot be fully affirmed, also has certain thinking significance.
The demand for donkey meat in the market is not affected by eating meat, but the production of donkey glue enterprises are determined, we can think about it, if the donkey is simply used for consumption, then the price of donkey meat on the market will rise significantly, for rural farmers, after the increase in profits, breeding will be more and more, and the reality is the opposite, there are very few donkeys in rural areas, indicating that donkey meat is not only for eating meat, there are other more important uses.
Some people say that most of the donkey meat on the market is large-scale centralized breeding of donkey meat, donkey meat is not the main, donkey skin is the most important, that is to say, donkey meat has become a by-product, which is the opposite of pork, chicken, etc., donkey breeding is not to eat meat, donkey skin is the focus, the price of donkey glue on the market is much more expensive than donkey meat.
For large-scale donkey farmers, donkeys will sign contracts with some enterprises before raising donkeys, these enterprises will provide certain breeding technology, and then recycle donkey skins, the price is recycled according to the market price or higher than the market price, as for donkey meat, some will also be recycled, some as long as the donkey skin of the enterprise, donkey meat has the farmers themselves to deal with sales, such a situation, both sides can accept, the enterprise got the desired donkey skin, the farmer got a good profit (donkey skin + donkey meat).
For the farmers with a small number of donkeys in the countryside, the breeding technology is limited, the quality of the donkey skin is not high, coupled with the fact that there is no way to find the recycling enterprise, the price of selling to the vendor is low, most of the profits are obtained by donkey meat, the profit is limited, the breeding cycle is so long, plus feed, labor costs, it is not as good as raising pigs, chickens or other animals, in that case, the profit will be much greater than the profit of raising donkeys, so now there are few people in the countryside who raise donkeys, and there are also people who have raised donkeys who have said, who raises donkeys who lose money, The specific situation is estimated that only the donkey owner knows best.
Regardless of whether the statement of "dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground" is accurate or the result of "hype", the current donkey meat market is estimated to be difficult to change in a short period of time. Also, what is the price of your local donkey meat?