[Explanation] The quail eggs in the bowl used to be a symbol of the high quality of snail powder. In Weisheng's quail breeding base in Shechong Township, Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, about 400,000 quails are waiting to be eaten. It can produce 4 tons of about 340,000 quail eggs every day, and can "feed" 170,000 bags of snail powder.
Wei Sheng has been breeding quail for 17 years. He has suffered losses many times, but he has always insisted on it. He mocked himself as a "little strong man who can't be beaten to death". It was not until Liuzhou snail noodles became popular on the Internet that his career ushered in the spring.
[Explanation] With the arrival of the new crown epidemic in 2020, the demand of major customers of quail eggs plummeted in an instant. Wei Sheng saw signs of "bankruptcy" again, so he had to make group purchase orders with cooperative members one by one. New quail eggs are added every day.
But the turnaround came quickly, and it was too soon to be caught off guard.
Just after the Lantern Festival in 2020, there was an upsurge of snail noodles on the Internet, and the demand was quickly transmitted to Wei Sheng and other quail farmers. Can't find venue.
[Same period] Wei Sheng, a quail farmer in Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi
Unlike other products, we can do overtime work. We can do as much as we want every day. We can only increase the venue and space to produce their demand. Now quail eggs are in great demand. One is snail powder, and there are market ones. The demand is very high, so I tried to find a place to increase the output. When I arrived at Xinshechong, the number of breeding was about 450,000. Because this place can only raise so much, if we want to expand it, we can only go to Find other venues to do it, or drive the villagers (raise them together) to get rich together.
[Explanation] Wei Sheng, who raised quails, belongs to a chronic illness. After many losses, Wei Sheng has researched and designed an automatic feeding system. Just by pressing the switch button, he can deliver feed to tens of thousands of quails at one time, reducing the number of workers. work intensity and increase the efficiency of breeding.
[Same period] Wei Sheng, a quail farmer in Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi
Our automatic feeding saves people and time. I have 100,000 birds, which can be filled in 40 minutes. This is automatic feeding. The feed can be dropped from this pipe and branched into each trough. Feeding), at least 5 people are needed, but I can finish it in 40 minutes by 1 person (through the machine).
If 5 people (manual feeding) will take 4 hours, the fastest will be 3 hours.
There are about 12,000 birds in our row, and I'm feces like this, and it can be completely over in 5 to 6 minutes.
If it is done manually, it will take at least 6 hours for a person.
In order to ensure hygiene, we clean it every day, and the ammonia gas is very low. If it is artificially cleaned, it is impossible to remove the feces every day, and the feces will accumulate very high, so the ammonia gas will be very heavy. Although there is qi, it is not that heavy, it is very low and very low.
[Explanation] From 2005 to the outbreak of snail powder demand in 2020, Wei Sheng has cultivated quails for 15 years and witnessed the changes in the quail breeding industry in Liuzhou.
According to Wei Sheng's calculations, in a 10-month breeding cycle, a single quail earns about 3 yuan. Farmers raise 10,000 quails at home, and the annual profit is more than 30,000 yuan. In addition to the sales of manure, the annual profit is close to 5 million.
In the future, Weisheng plans to drive the surrounding breeding scale to 1.5 million.
[Same period] Wei Sheng, a quail farmer in Liucheng County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi
Quail dung can be fermented as organic fertilizer, and can obtain a part of the profit. Raising quail is a circular economy. In addition to the useless value of feathers, the bird itself can also be sold (as a meat bird) to obtain a part of the funds, so there is nothing in the body that is waste.
According to my estimation, the potential to be driven by the Xinshe Chongtun side should not be a big problem to reach the scale of 1.5 million birds. Now the snail powder factory needs a production capacity of 800,000 quails per day, as well as the demand of the retail market, so this production capacity is far from enough.
Reported by Wang Yizhao, Long Yuwen, Liuzhou, Guangxi
Responsible editor: [Lu Yan]