- the idea is not new, but, despite this, it is not very popular. Farmers prefer to raise other animals such as pigs or cows, whose meat is in high demand. It is very rare to find a rabbit on store shelves or in the market. Although its meat is considered dietary and is highly valued among consumers.

Business on rabbits - underdeveloped niche and this is its main advantage. The low level of competition and the demand for fresh homemade meat will make it easy for farmers to start their own business and achieve high results in it.

People who own a large farm have the opportunity to breed several types of animals for themselves. For example, when engaged in pig breeding, they keep several cows for their own consumption. Rabbits are usually kept in small numbers in order to enjoy the delicious meat themselves and treat the neighbors. Is it profitable to breed rabbits for sale? Let's consider several aspects.

1. rabbit meat- a rather rare product that can not always be found in pavilions or supermarkets. Chicken, beef, pork and even turkey - this is the list of the most common meat products. It can be concluded that rabbit breeding as a business is in its infancy, and this is a great chance to become someone who can take this business to a new level.
2. The rabbit has proven itself well as precocious animal. On average, one female is capable of producing 55-60 cubs per year. The age at which rabbits can be sold is 3 months. During this time, they turn into individuals weighing up to 4-5 kg. There are also relatives of a larger size, which is not always good. Since selling a carcass weighing more than 5 kg is a little problematic.
3. In order to start a rabbit business, no large required start-up capital . As the saying goes, "Moscow was not built immediately." It is enough to first organize a mini-farm, which is quite simple to do. The cages do not take up much space, they can be kept in a shed or other utility room. As for the feed, the main part (grass and hay) can be made independently.

And yet, breeding rabbits as a business: is it profitable or not? If there is any doubt, we will give a powerful argument: not only meat brings income, but also the skin of an animal. Rabbit breeding is quite promising business , which does not require huge investments and can be developed at home. To start doing this, you need to know the basics of creating a farm.

First of all, you need to decide on the organizational and legal component of your activities. There are two options here: individual entrepreneur or private household. Each of them has its pros and cons. In the first case, you will have to pay taxes, but there will be more opportunities for development. So, what is required for breeding rabbits?

Igor Nikolaev

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Experts say that raising bulls for meat is profitable. If there is experience in breeding farm animals, then they decide to open a business, but with a small number of young animals. It is recommended to purchase only 10 heads. Then you should see if this enterprise is profitable. Is it worth raising bulls for meat in the future?

Having received the first profit, it is distributed to the purchase of new livestock and related costs. In the absence of experience in rotation with cattle, they acquire 1-2 bulls and try to grow them. This is a preparatory stage for starting a business. The future entrepreneur will analyze the costs of feed base, animal maintenance, electricity, water, preventive measures related to vaccination.

After studying the business, you can figure out how to quickly raise a bull. After the first sale of meat, it will be clear how profitable it is to grow bulls for meat as a business.

Bulls are needed to get meat. Breeding livestock for beginner farmers will be accompanied by the question of where the animals will live. Before deciding on the purchase of young meat livestock, it is necessary to decide where it will be located. 1 bull will also fit in the barn, but the building must be insulated, all cracks must be sealed. For a herd of young animals of 10 heads, a barn is required. It can be built or bought. Entrepreneurs offer ready-made designs for cattle along with equipment: stall partitions, general and individual feeders and drinkers.

At first, 1 bull does not require a lot of space. Only 1.5 m 2, but it will quickly grow and gain weight. Stalls for young animals should be spacious, at least 2 m 2. The total area of ​​the cowshed is calculated, based on the fact that there is at least 11 m 2 per 1 bull. For 10 heads, it is necessary to prepare a hangar of 110 m 2.

Having received the first profit, it will be possible to expand and make a section in the barn to keep dairy calves, for young animals for growing and for the last final fattening, which lasts 3 months. Such a distribution of livestock will make it possible to rationally use the area of ​​the hangar.

Together with bulls, it is recommended to purchase 2-3 dairy cows. They will give not only milk, but also offspring. You can get a good additional income from cow's milk. Next time, you won’t have to spend big finances on the livestock of bulls.

In warm regions, cowsheds are not heated. It is enough to insulate the walls and roof with insulation. The normal temperature in the room should not be lower than +5 C, and higher than +18 C. The air in the hangar should always be fresh. If there is not enough natural ventilation, then an additional ventilation system is installed. Excess in the air vapors of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide adversely affect the health of the young.

For growing bulls for meat at home, it is recommended to consider meat breeds KRS. They are unpretentious, hardy, have good immunity, they have a high slaughter yield of meat, more than 65%. Consider Simmental animals and Herefords. They have a good acclimatization, calves grow quickly and gain weight.

Individuals of the Kazakh white-headed and Aberdeen-Angus breeds have unique meat qualities. It is known as marbled beef. Fat is not deposited in a separate fat layer. Adipose fibers permeate all muscle tissue.

Before making a decision on breeding cattle, it is necessary to calculate the initial financial investment. Analyze all calculations whether it is profitable to breed bulls for meat. Along with the arrangement of the barn, it is necessary to provide a platform for walking. These can be personal or leased pastures.

• For the construction of a cowshed with an area of ​​200 m 2, approximately 400 thousand rubles will be needed.
• Renting a pasture of 120 hectares - 8 thousand rubles. Purchase of a land plot for a cowshed, paddock, with an area of ​​1 ha - 6 thousand rubles.
• For utilities - 10 thousand rubles.
• Purchase of livestock - 100 thousand rubles.
• Purchase of inventory - 5 thousand rubles.
• Sewer pit equipment and places for dry manure - 10 thousand rubles.
• Hangar for storage of feed - 100 thousand rubles.

The farmer will spend 633 thousand rubles on the purchase of young animals and their maintenance, excluding the forage base. You can reduce costs if there is a large building for keeping young animals, a dry shed for storing feed. Utility costs are taken into account for the year: they will be distributed monthly. This will slightly reduce the financial burden on the farmer. To start, you need to spend about 100 thousand on livestock.

Feeding the young

Growing bulls for fattening involves 3 stages of fattening. At each stage, a certain diet.

• Dairy period. If six-month-old animals are purchased, then this period can be excluded.
• Fattening up to 10 months. This is the transition from dairy food to the diet for an adult.
• Growing stage. Fattening of bulls continues up to 14-16 months.
• Final period. Ration is designed for 3 months.

The grown bulls are slaughtered at the age of 16-19 months. Experts recommend purchasing calves that are more than six months old. They are at the end of their milk period. They do not need to be vaccinated because they are vaccinated from birth until 6 months of age. The next preventive measures will take place only in a year.

The purchase is carried out in the spring, when the first shoots of grass begin to appear on the pasture. Calves can be walked. This is a profitable fattening of bulls. They will gradually get used to the juicy food. This will avoid many diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract.

In the spring it is warm, a closed hangar is not needed. Before winter, you can equip a barn. In warm weather, calves are kept in open pens. In spring, animals are less exposed to respiratory diseases. The only thing that needs to be done is to treat them from helminths and insects.

When buying six-month-old bulls for meat, they prepare a forage base. It should consist of succulent fodder, hay, straw, vegetables, concentrates, top dressing with minerals. For young animals, a nursery ration is prescribed. In summer, animals eat grass and concentrates. Grain mixture for calves is steamed and given in a semi-liquid state. In order for the cicatricial section of the stomach to form correctly, animals need silage and hay.

№	Helpful information
1	Green Grass - In poor pasture, with a 6 hour walk. This will amount to approximately 6 kg per calf
2	Hay - 2 kg. Gradually, the amount is adjusted to 4 kg. In just 4 months - 240 kg. It will cost the farmer 100 rubles
3	Silage - 8 kg per calf. For 4 months - 960 kg
4	Root crops - 4-6 kg. Total - 720 kg. Required - 5,760 rubles
5	Concentrates - 2-3 kg. Total - 360 kg. Feed costs - 3600 rubles
6	A growing calf requires minerals, so the diet includes 50 g of salt, 60 g of chalk
7	In total, for the summer period it will be required - 10780 rubles, for 1 calf. For 10 goals - 107800 rubles. Your own vegetable garden can help you cut costs.

From the age of 10 months, animals grown for meat are kept in stalls. This will increase the daily gain in live weight. Walking is reduced to 4 hours. Before walking, calves are fed silage or hay so that they do not overeat juicy grass. The diet for them is slightly changed. Juicy grass is replaced with haylage. It is prepared in advance. Fattening is carried out up to 16 months. If a farmer breeds 10 bulls, then he will spend approximately 161,700 rubles on the feed base.

Up to 10 months, calves will gain weight up to 1100 g. With a stall content of 1400 g. Feeding is carried out 4 times a day. Subject to the feeding regimen, young animals will gain weight better. At 10 months, the bull will weigh 500 kg.

After the fattening period, the last months of growing bulls for fattening come. The period lasts 3 months. For fattening, a certain method is chosen, referring to the feed base that the farmer has available.

• If there is a lot of silage left, then the silo fattening method is used. This food is basic. It is given 30 kg. For 1 ton you will have to pay 1300 rubles. In total, 35.1 thousand rubles will be spent on silage.
• Hay and straw give the same amount, 3 kg each. The cost is 1800 rubles.
• Concentrates - 1.9 kg. 17.100 thousand
• Salt - 35 g.

For the last period of growing bulls for meat at home, 54 thousand will be required. If the calf weighed 500 kg, then after supplementary feeding, its weight can reach 728 kg. The output will be 473.2 kg. A farmer can get 4732 kg of beef from grown animals. Homeowners on the forums are discussing how to quickly raise a bull-calf at minimal cost. The advice given is different. It is recommended to purchase a one-year-old animal and put it on fattening for 3 months.

Expenses and income

After all the calculations for breeding bulls for meat, they sum up. In order to grow a bull for meat, it will take 10 months if they were purchased at the age of six months. The costs will be as follows:

• maintenance and purchase of livestock - 633 thousand;
• feed - 107.8 (up to 10 months) + 161.7 (growing period) + 54 (final period) = 323.5 thousand;
• personnel costs - 100 thousand;
• total spent 1,056,500 thousand rubles

The next time the maintenance costs will be reduced, because the hangar is already there, there is no need to buy silos and buildings for storing feed. Acquire only livestock and new feed. It will take about 50,000 to raise one bull for meat. They buy only feed and animals.

The main direction of the economy is the sale of meat. Buyers should be found in advance. It can be shops, cafes, meat processing enterprises. Selling beef is the most expensive thing on the market. 4732 tons of beef will be put up for sale.

• Retail price - 390 rubles. Gross profit will be - 1,845,480 rubles.
• Wholesale price - 250 rubles. Profitability - 1,183,000 rubles.
• Marble beef wholesale - 900 rubles. RUB 4,258,800

If we grow 10 bulls, then by selling meat from them we will get a good income in 10 months. It will amount to 126,500 if meat is sold in bulk. RUB 788,980 is the income if you sell beef on the market. From marbled meat, the net profit will be 3,202,300 rubles. The business turns out to be profitable if you sell fattening gobies for marbled meat.

Many copies have been broken on this subject. However, there was no clarity on this issue, and no. Opinions were divided. Optimistic theorists draw beautiful business plans and prove on paper that honor, fame and huge money await the rabbit breeder. Pessimistic practitioners laugh at the former and cite real (and, alas, common) cases from practice when the entire livestock of a rabbit farm died from myxomatosis or other diseases in two days. Many, full of enthusiasm, after a year or two, swore, give up this business. A group of realist practitioners who are purposefully and professionally engaged in breeding rabbits are in no hurry to share information about the size of their profits. Rather, they even modestly complain about low incomes, but they are building nice houses and buy new cars. Let's try to figure out whether it is profitable to breed rabbits in our time.

Reasons why it is profitable to breed rabbits

Rabbits are the fastest maturing pets. A three-month-old rabbit can weigh three kilos, a five-month-old - four. No pet is able to give such a weight gain. For flanders or rizens, even ten kilograms is by no means the limit, however, they need to be raised longer. If we recalculate the cost of feed for rabbits (grass, hay, vegetables, compound feed) by the average purchase price of meat, it turns out that it is more profitable to breed eared than pigs and, especially, horned cattle. In addition, rabbits of many breeds are ready for mating as early as 3.5 months, they breed under favorable conditions all year round. One female can give 50-60 rabbits per year. Each will grow up to 3 kg. Total comes out 150-180 kg. You will not get such efficiency from a sow. And then there are the skins.

Today, only a quarter of the rabbit meat consumed is grown in Russia. Three quarters are frozen carcass exports, mainly from China and Hungary. Opens to rabbit breeders best prospects in terms of import substitution. Moreover, domestic rabbit meat is better and better bought. The competition in this industry is still low, the prospects are very high.

Reasons why it is unprofitable to breed rabbits

Rabbits are prone to epidemics infectious diseases with a very high dropout rate. A couple of bad days can cross out the many months of efforts of the rabbit breeder.

Despite the lack of dietary rabbit meat in the country, it is not always easy to sell. Today in the Russian Federation there are no structures that would be engaged in the procurement and systematic supply of rabbit meat. Many regions practically do not consume this type of meat. It is by no means always possible to attach skins.

What to do?

• First, to make compulsory vaccination, which is neglected by many. These costs should immediately be included in the budget and protective measures should not be neglected. The money spent will be returned a hundredfold.
• Secondly, to assess the prospects of the region in terms of product sales. Where and for what money it can be sold.
• Thirdly, to apply progressive systems for keeping animals and to engage in purebred breeding. Determine the breeds most suitable for a given type of economy and climate. Buy producers in the breeding farm. In the future, at least, supplement the herd with replacement individuals from other nests.

Breeding rabbits on a personal plot on a small scale

10-20 individuals in several cages cannot be considered a business. You can provide yourself and your relatives with tasty and healthy meat. Dressing skins is more difficult: there are no procurement offices, as in Soviet times. Rare fur processing companies today give a little money for a rabbit. On the other hand, many breeders breed breeds with valuable fur properties, find ways to make the skin and sell it profitably. It is problematic to hand over excess meat to the store to a private trader, the real way is the market. Going there to sell one, two, even five carcasses does not always make sense. Nevertheless, all family members will be happy with fresh dietary meat and fur coats. Rabbit breeders who find mutual understanding with eared ones move to a higher scale of animal husbandry.

Breeding rabbits on a farm on a medium scale

IN this case We are talking about medium-sized farms. It could be LPH or farming aimed at making a profit. At proper organization can pay for itself in a year and bring owners a good income. The livestock can be several hundred individuals. For such an enterprise, it is important to determine the sales market, to arrange the supply of products. Much depends on the breed that is successfully selected for local conditions and the market. An important factor is the provision of feed and its cost. By having a market for skins or even down, additional profits can be made. You can develop such an economy gradually, investing as much as possible.

There is an opinion in society that breeding pigs as a business is a highly profitable and uncomplicated business. Is this really true, and why then do not all pig farmers become millionaires without much effort? If you want to start a business in the livestock industry, raising pigs can be a great option, but you must be prepared for the realities of reality and understand that pig farming also requires investment and labor, like any other industry. Agriculture.

Sample business plan for breeding pigs

Don't expect pigs to thrive in all conditions and quickly gain weight on kitchen waste alone. To make good money selling high-quality pork and young animals, you will need to build a solid pig barn, equip it in accordance with all requirements, feed the animals with a variety of nutritious feeds, monitor their health, regularly clean the pigsty and pay attention to breeding.

Pig farming can be a good start for a business from scratch, since for a start it is enough to buy a couple of dozen pigs and gradually expand your farm if things go well. Young growth can be sold from the fourth month of life, earning money on the sale of meat, lard and skins. In addition to the farm, you can set up your own smokehouse to earn income from your own smoked pork.

Video about the business idea of ​​breeding pigs

It will be possible to understand whether it is profitable to breed pigs only after drawing up a detailed business plan, taking into account all the features of this livestock industry. A lot will depend on which one you prefer. So, with cold keeping, the cost of building a pig farm will decrease several times, another question is whether you will be able to grow a healthy livestock of pigs in such conditions. There are many options for how you can reduce the initial costs of starting a pig farm, and we will look at some of them below.

The financial part of the pig breeding business plan is calculated as follows: for the construction of premises and for the purchase necessary equipment it will take 1 million rubles each, for staff salaries - up to 1.2 million rubles a year, for the purchase of feed - 300 thousand rubles. in year. In total, about 3,500,000 rubles will be required to start. Income from the sale of young animals will be 600 thousand rubles. per year, and from the sale of meat - 1.1 million rubles. per year, which together will amount to 1,700,000 rubles. in year. According to these calculations, the payback of the pig farm will be about two to three years.

Pig breeding

When drawing up a business plan, do not forget to include the cost of veterinary services and mandatory vaccinations for piglets in order to avoid the spread of infectious diseases that can kill the entire livestock.

Of course, this is a very arbitrary calculation, and the numbers will vary greatly, taking into account various factors. For example, you can build a pig house on your own from improvised materials or buy an old pig farm and renovate it. Having made, you will significantly reduce the initial costs of pigsty equipment, and the use of modern equipment will allow you to almost completely eliminate manual labor, reducing the cost of staff salaries. Although most domestic businessmen still prefer to work the old fashioned way than spend money on pig farm automation.

Pig feeding

In terms of feed, in the summer you can make your own grass for the pigs and use the roots from your garden as succulent feed all year round. But it will not be possible to do without compound feed, vitamin complexes and special feed additives in the industrial breeding of pigs, because the quality of the meat obtained also depends on the diet of pigs.

Secrets of success or how to make pig farming more profitable

Experts estimate the profitability of pig farming as a business at 30%, but this is far from the limit, and if you wish, you can achieve higher rates.

Video about pig breeding

To turn pig breeding into a real high profitable business please use the following guidelines:

• choose the most suitable breed of pigs for your purposes and pay special attention to the selection of piglets - it is better to purchase females and males from different suppliers in order to avoid genetic mutations, and when buying sows, take into account their productivity, milk production, number of teats and the safety of the brood;
• prevent drafts and dampness in the pigsty, periodically disinfect the premises, destroy insects and rodents;
• take care of creating suitable conditions for pregnant sows;
• hire experienced professional workers– a large pig-breeding complex will require a veterinarian, livestock specialist, several pig breeders and laborers;
• provide pigs with high-quality, nutritious, vitamin feed, while keeping in mind that feeding boars, pregnant sows and young animals has its own characteristics;
• do not forget about vaccination and regular examination of animals by a veterinarian so as not to miss the first manifestations of diseases.

Provide pigs with quality, nutritious, vitamin feed

With all the above recommendations taken into account, raising pigs as a business can be very profitable business because quality pork is always in demand. The main thing is to correctly draw up a business plan, assess all possible risks and think about ways to reduce them, as well as draw up an income plan and calculate a break-even sales level.