Shang Yukang, 26, is from Baima Temple Village, Chenyuan Town, Cheng County, Longnan City, Gansu Province. In 2015, at the age of 19, he raised the imperial concubine chicken in the house left by his parents with the 40,000 yuan he earned by going out to work. Seven years later, he now owns a large farm that produces 30,000 chickens a year, with a gross profit of 800,000 to 900,000 yuan a year.
looks lively, but raising chickens requires both technical experience and hard work. "Open your eyes is a chicken, close your eyes is a chicken, and at night you think of a chicken." Shang Yukang threw himself into the chicken business. There are about 6,000 chickens in a batch, and it takes about 1 hour to feed the chickens each time; if it is an adult Big chickens need to be fed twice a day, and the time spent on feeding chickens is 2-3 hours a day.
Expensive chicken breeds are not only easy to be hindered in sales, but also more expensive to raise - broiler chickens can grow to five kilograms in three months, and imperial concubine chickens can grow to two or three kilograms in six months. Once, Shang Yukang's 2,000 chickens died of 1,500 in a week, which was a heavy loss. The reason why
persisted and gradually found a breeding channel and sales channel, Shang Yukang believes that it has a great relationship with short videos: "I think the most correct way is not to raise chickens, but short videos to save me. Short videos let us These young people who have returned to their hometowns can see some hope, otherwise they will not be able to do it simply by relying on the local market." In 2019, Shang Yukang opened an account on the short video platform to share his daily interesting stories of raising chickens, which also broadened his sales. "The name 'Shancun Chicken Commander' was given to me by netizens. Once I was holding a Tibetan Mastiff in a video, followed by a group of chickens, and everyone said that I was like a handsome chicken commander. I like this comment very much, I changed my online name to 'Shan Village Chicken Commander'."
Now, Shang Yukang's farm still has animals such as ostriches, peacocks, Bama pigs and other animals, and is preparing to develop in the direction of rural tourism. He also asked villagers to help raise chickens through distribution cooperation. After the chickens were mature, they were collected and sold uniformly, leading the villagers to become rich together.
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