Why is chicken expensive and eggs expensive? Consumers believe that native chickens do not eat feed, but eat grass seeds and insects, which has high nutritional value and is very expensive. Orchard chickens can meet the needs of consumers and are also beneficial to orchards. Weeds and insects in the orchard can be used as chicken essence, and chicken essence fertilizer is a good fertilizer to increase soil fertility in the orchard and help fruit trees bear better fruits. At first glance, this model is really good, but you can't ignore its shortcomings.
2. The shortcomings of orchard chickens
The chicken garden suit looks beautiful and can reach every circulation point, but it can't be checked carefully. First of all, chickens can not only eat insects and grass seeds, but also there are not enough insects in the orchard! You need to match the food with the chicken. Otherwise, the chicken will peck the fruit and fly to the tree, which goes against the original intention of orchard breeding.
Secondly, the number of chickens should not be too large, and the limit is to raise 50 or 60 chickens per 1 mu orchard. If hundreds of chickens are raised, it will do great harm to the orchard. The soil is hardened, chicken manure is everywhere, and fruits are easily polluted, which fundamentally affects the price of fruits. If the number of chickens raised is small, it is meaningless. How can we make money?
The third disadvantage is that farmers and friends all know that fresh chicken fine fertilizer will "sow" crops, so it must be fermented before fertilization. The chicken manure in orchard obviously did not go through this process, but damaged the fruit trees. Therefore, it is impossible to realize a large orchard chicken farm. It's best to grow some home-cooked chickens. If you focus on yourself, you will lose.
3. Thinking about ecological agriculture
There is a high demand for free-range chickens and earth eggs in the market, which shows that the forest farming model is still accepted, but the choice of fruit trees is not ideal. In fact, you can consider breeding under other trees. Farmers here planted a large bamboo forest next to the orchard to raise chickens, which not only delayed the planting of the orchard, but also operated the chicken industry.
Before developing ecological agriculture, please consider whether the primary and secondary relationship is planting or agriculture. In order to balance the two, it is best to divide the two areas into the same area without interfering with each other.