As the saying goes in the countryside, "the poor don't raise chickens and the rich don't raise sheep", why not? Is there anything special?

In the past, many rural families kept some poultry, which could not only be eaten, but also increase the income from farming.

However, not all animals can be kept. The ancients summed up the experience of poultry breeding through practice and left some enduring sayings.

For example, if you are poor and don't raise chickens, if you are rich and don't raise sheep. Chickens and sheep are common animals, and there are many breeders. Why can't we keep them? Why is it divided into "poor" and "rich"? In this article, the author will talk about this matter in detail, and everyone will have an answer after reading it.

Explain the first half of the sentence "poor people don't raise chickens"

Literally, it is also easy to understand, which means that poor people can't raise chickens.

Many people will wonder, poor people have many chickens, so why not? In fact, the chicken in this sentence does not refer to a few chickens, but refers to the large-scale breeding of chickens.

There are four main reasons why this farming method will not make the poor rich:

First, if a poor family didn't have anything to eat and couldn't even guarantee three meals a day, how could there be extra food to raise chickens?

Second, large-scale farming is risky.

Presumably, everyone knows that many people in rural areas raise chickens only for self-sufficiency, and there are only three or five chickens. Once they raise more funds, they need to invest more funds and costs.

For farmers who are already very poor, the risk of opening a large farm is too great, and the cost of trial and error for the poor is high. If you lose money in the end, you may not be able to turn over.

Thirdly, chickens are prone to get sick, such as "bird flu". Chicken is a good medium. Once a chick in a flock gets sick, it will spread quickly in a short time, which may cause the whole farm to get sick.

And the chicken's resistance is weak. If it is not treated in time, it will soon die.

Fourth, there is no sales channel.

If everything goes well ahead, the peasant family has successfully raised a large number of chickens, but when it comes to realization, it will become a big problem.

When doing business, we should pay attention to resources and contacts. Most poor people have no resources, which makes selling chickens a thorny issue.

Raise chickens moderately and sell them as soon as possible after reaching the slaughter standard. The cost of continuing to raise chickens is too high, and it will consume a lot of feed for one more day. If you don't sell it all the time, it's not worth the loss.

Explain the second half of the sentence "Don't herd sheep if you have money"

Literally, this sentence is also easy to understand, that is to say: rich people can't raise sheep. Why? There are three main reasons:

First, raising sheep is very tiring.

In the past, wealthy families generally didn't raise sheep, because raising sheep was very tiring and needed to eat a lot of food. In ancient times, the food source of sheep was straw and grass, which required a lot of manpower to cut grass and straw by hand. In the long run, rich people will definitely not want to do this job.

Of course, some people will say that since rich people have money, they can hire people, but this is not a small expense. Rich people are also smart. After some calculations, if the income is not high, they will not choose to raise sheep.

Second, the cost is higher and the risk is greater. Although the price of sheep is high and the profit is large, its cost is also high. The price of a sheep is many times that of chickens and other animals.

Although it is a wealthy family, the cost of raising a group of sheep is also very high, which requires a lot of investment. Therefore, rich people will not raise sheep on a large scale and are not allowed to take great risks. In the event of an accident, they may lose their family business.

Third, grazing will affect neighborhood relations.

Unlike chickens, sheep can't be fed in cages. Sheep generally need grazing, and a lot of feces will be left in the place where they pass. If you happen to be in front of someone else's house, especially the neighbor's house, it will bring inconvenience to people's travel, and it will be difficult to deal with these feces afterwards.

Moreover, when grazing, the shepherd will take care of it badly, and the flock will deviate from the route, and it is likely to step on other people's crops and trample on the vegetables or crops that others have worked hard to grow.

After a long time, it will inevitably affect neighborhood relations. Rich families pay attention to face and will not do such things that are not conducive to their reputation.

Seeing this, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of the sentence "the poor don't raise chickens and the rich don't raise sheep". Some people say that the words of the ancients can be passed down to the present, which has certain truth and is worth learning from.

However, some people say that with the development of society, the current aquaculture industry pays attention to scientific farming and has correct and reasonable farming methods. The phrase "the poor don't raise chickens and the rich don't raise sheep" is not appropriate.

What do you think of this?