CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Cao County Scorpion Breeding (Cao County Scorpion Breeding Base)

1. Someone in my family wants to raise scorpions and wants me to inquire about the market and sales of scorpions. I don’t have any friends who know about this, but I have heard a lot about it?

Scorpions are Chinese medicinal materials, which belong to special breeding. It is a rare project. The sales channel can be sold at the Chinese medicinal materials wholesale market. There are many buyers. The current market price is about 700 yuan per kilogram of live ones. We are a scorpion breeding company in Cao County, Shandong.

2. CCTV7’s program on getting rich: raising scorpions?

What is said on TV is a bit exaggerated. In reality, scorpions are not that easy to raise. We have been raising scorpions in Cao County, Shandong for five or six years.

3. How to breed and reproduce scorpions?

Main technical indicators and technical level: Wild scorpions are usually caught before the end of June and from August to October. Scorpion nests can be found on hillsides and around rocks based on the white feces discharged by scorpions. The main methods of breeding scorpions are natural breeding (without heating) and temperature-controlled breeding (with heating).

Natural scorpion breeding, without heating, simulates the living habits and breeding habits of wild scorpions. Most of them are raised outdoors, but some are raised indoors. Because there is no heating, the cycle is too long, at least 3 years, but the investment is small and the management is simple.

Raising scorpions under controlled temperature can greatly shorten the breeding cycle and help the growth of young scorpions. As long as the temperature and humidity are well controlled, the breeding cycle can be shortened, but it requires careful management.

The temperature and humidity created by semi-underground solar scorpion farming are not rigid values, but a fairly wide range of temperature and humidity. It fundamentally solves the contradiction between temperature and humidity. It requires little investment, has good benefits, and is easy to manage.

4. What are the profits of scorpion breeding and what is needed?

I can earn about 20,000 yuan a year.

Buy 5,000 scorpion seedlings and adopt a completely free-range breeding model. During the breeding process, only some concentrated feed is needed. The scorpion breeding pond is built by yourself. The scorpion seedlings cost 3 yuan each, and the cost of feeding 5,000 scorpion seedlings is 4,000 yuan. After feeding for one and a half years, they can be marketed, and the market price is more than 800 yuan per kilogram. If they are well raised, the net profit can reach more than 20,000 yuan.

5. How much does scorpion breeding equipment and greenhouse heating equipment cost?

At the beginning, you can just use the spare house at home to breed scorpions. There is no need to build a greenhouse. Try to reduce investment as much as possible. Heating equipment is cheap. The coal briquette stove we use for breeding scorpions costs 200 yuan each. If you have a spare house, 1,000 yuan in total is enough. We breed scorpions in Cao County, Shandong.

6. What is the minimum cost of raising scorpions?

What is the lowest cost of raising scorpions? It depends on how you want to raise them. In the process of raising scorpions over the years, I have communicated with many people who said that they have raised scorpions. Their methods of raising scorpions are also varied. Let's discuss the lowest cost of raising scorpions based on their methods of raising scorpions.

Let's talk about the lowest cost method first. For example, some people catch a few scorpions in the mountains, put them in a plastic basin at home, and call it breeding scorpions; some people catch some scorpions themselves, build a small pond in the yard, and put them in it, and also call it breeding scorpions; there are also people who often come to visit my scorpion farm, and buy dozens of scorpions by the way, saying that they will go home for a simple experiment. For these, it can be said that the cost is the lowest, or even no cost. However, I think these methods are not even the most basic experiments, they can only be said to be simple attempts, just for fun.

There is also a very low-cost experimental way to raise scorpions, which is to make a simple insulated box by yourself, and use an automatic temperature and humidity controller to control the temperature and humidity. Raising dozens of scorpions in this way seems a little more formal, and it seems to be able to guarantee the minimum temperature and humidity for the scorpions. However, I think this method is really difficult to test the real effect of scorpion raising, because raising scorpions is not about ensuring the temperature and humidity, because other environmental factors that affect scorpions cannot be avoided.

From my personal experience in raising scorpions, beginners can invest as little as possible when they first start raising scorpions. They can raise a small number of scorpions at first, focusing on mastering the techniques and experience. However, no matter how few scorpions they raise, they must be raised in a formal way. When I say formal, I mean that there must be a small greenhouse that can be heated, and there must be a reasonable scorpion pool and scorpion nest. Let's calculate how much this formal breeding model will cost?

If you are new to scorpion breeding, you can use an unused room or old house to transform it into a greenhouse based on the principle of minimum investment. Taking the area of ​​a greenhouse as an example, I think the minimum size of a greenhouse should be about 5 square meters. If it is smaller, the temperature cannot be controlled by the stove. As for using electricity for heating, it is not low cost. The cost of using electricity for heating will only be higher. Let's calculate how much it costs to breed scorpions in a minimum area of ​​5 square meters.

1. Insulation materials: If you use an old and unused house, you don’t need to count it as a cost. The height of the scorpion house is 2 meters. The insulation materials for 5 square meters are foam board and plastic film. The foam board should be 4-5 cm thick (the high-density foam board I bought is of good quality and costs 15 yuan/square meter). So 400 yuan is enough for insulation materials (including foam glue and tape, expansion wire, iron wire and other materials). Of course, if you want to save money, you have to do the insulation yourself, and the labor cost is not counted.

Second, heating equipment: beginners raise a small number of scorpions at the beginning, so a small coal stove in a small heating room can completely solve the problem of heating a 5-square-meter scorpion room, which is both practical and economical. The small honeycomb coal stove I bought cost 35 yuan, plus the carbon clip (shovel), chimney, high-temperature resistant tape, etc., at most 100 yuan. If the heating cost is included, 400 yuan is enough for two honeycombs per day during the heating period (based on the highest calculation. In fact, there is almost no need for heating in summer. If the breeding method is scientific and the scorpions hibernate for a short period of about 2 months in winter, the heating cost can be saved by more than half).

3. Materials for scorpion pool: A scorpion house of 5 square meters can build a scorpion pool of up to 4 square meters. The material of the scorpion pool is 3-4 cm thick prefabricated cement panels, surrounded by glass to prevent escape. The stove board I use is 8 yuan/meter (specification half a meter wide), plus a small amount of cement and sand, the labor cost is 100 yuan.

4. Investment in breeding scorpions: The normal price of breeding scorpions is 3 yuan per piece (those sold for 5 or 8 yuan are just speculation, and of course there are also wild scorpions that are sold cheaper). A scorpion pond of four square meters can breed about 10,000 baby scorpions (this is normal breeding, the breeding density is too low, the heating cost is high; the density should not be too high for novices at the beginning), and the initial production of novices is calculated as 25 scorpions. 400 breeding scorpions only cost 1,200 yuan (no need to buy male scorpions, those sold with male scorpions are all for making more money).

5. Feed cost: The feed is mealworms. If you want to reduce the cost, you need to breed them yourself. Buying 2 catties of mealworms for 400 breeding scorpions is enough for the scorpions to eat for more than a month (the normal price of large worms is 5 yuan/catties). At the beginning, buy a few kilograms of mealworms to start breeding, breed small worms yourself, plus wheat bran, breeding boxes, sieves, wheat bran, various additives, etc., a total of 200 yuan is enough. Explanation: With a single mealworm, as long as the mealworm is scientifically supplemented with various trace elements, vitamins, amino acids, etc., the scorpions can completely shed their skin and grow. If you want to experiment with adding earthworms and other feeds, the cost will be calculated separately.

6. Materials for scorpion nests: The materials for scorpion nests are egg trays. I bought them at 8 yuan per bundle (a bundle is said to contain 80 pieces, but in fact there are only more than 70 pieces, less than 80). 1,000 egg trays are enough, and the cost is 100 yuan.

Combining all the costs above, if a novice starts out in a formal way, based on the actual breeding area of ​​5 square meters, the cost of 2,500 yuan is enough. The biggest cost is the cost of breeding scorpions and heating. The breeding of scorpions can be determined according to your actual situation (you can also use your local wild scorpions for experimentation, or catch scorpions yourself, which does not cost much, but the elimination rate of wild scorpions entering the greenhouse is very high; by the same token, if you spend a high price and buy wild scorpions raised by others as breeding scorpions, you might as well catch some scorpions yourself for experimentation); if the heating method is scientific and flexible, it can also save money.

Note that the above calculations are based on 5 square meters. In fact, the smaller the area, the higher the relative cost. It has been calculated that if the breeding area is 30 to 40 square meters, the cost is about 10,000 yuan. In other words, the larger the breeding area, the lower the relative cost. However, beginners should decide according to their actual situation at the beginning. Again, beginners should try to raise as few as possible at the beginning, and don't think about making a fortune in one investment. That is unrealistic. At the beginning, you should focus on mastering technology and experience. After mastering the technology, when you can keep seeds for yourself and achieve self-breeding and self-feeding, you don't need to spend money to buy scorpion seeds (as can be seen from the above, scorpion seeds are the biggest investment). Only then can you make money.