Why duck down is expensive？

The weather turns cold, many consumers choose in the e-commerce platform during the promotion to prepare for the winter down jacket. But some consumers found that last year with the same model or the same amount of down jacket price increases. For the reason for the price increase, a down jacket industry practitioners said: “This year's down prices, the beginning of the basic day a price.”

Down apparel industry practitioners said: “The market becomes less down, pork prices are at a low level, making the demand for poultry decline, the lower the rate of slaughter. Fewer down, more merchants, the natural price increase.”

Cause Analysis：

The main raw materials of down apparel are duck down and goose down, and the production of these raw materials directly affects the production cost and price of down apparel. According to the principle of supply and demand, when the supply of goods can not meet the current market demand, its price will rise.

(1) Decrease in supply: As the price of pork falls, consumers prefer to buy pork, leading to a decrease in the demand for ducks and geese and other poultry, which in turn affects the willingness of farmers to farm. This has led to a lower output of ducks and geese, and a consequent decrease in down production.

(2) Increased demand: As the weather turned colder, consumer demand for down jackets increased, especially during the promotional period on e-commerce platforms, and consumers were more inclined to purchase in advance to prepare for the winter.

The highest level of duck down main source of origin is the Icelandic geese and ducks, geese and ducks inhabiting the extremely cold natural environment, only the coastline of the Icelandic region of the survival of this duck, in order to preserve their body temperature in the cold, geese and ducks feathers are very elastic, and blocking the wind and rain performance is very high. The front end of the feather is hooked, the feather layer close together, forming a large number of small air layer, with unparalleled thermal insulation, geese and ducks down quality is rated as the world's highest level of all high-grade down products; is a real gem of the feather. The duck down we can see on the market is more from the Cherry Valley duck, a kind of duck species improved on the “Peking Duck”; it is the world famous lean duck. It has the advantages of fast growth, high lean meat rate, high net meat rate and high feed conversion rate, as well as strong disease resistance. Their down into reed-like down, due to the breed of ducks of excellent quality, the whole body down snow white without color, cold resistance, the quality of down produced from the purity, warmth, smell higher than the general down products, is recognized as the world's high-quality down product categories.

As the most important poultry duck species, when the market demand for poultry market is substantially reduced, meat duck breeders face the duck smashed in the hands of the risk of not selling, it will not continue to this year, a large number of purchases of ducklings, young ducks. Resulting in the Cherry Valley ducks as the backbone of the duck down supply market in the future will produce lower than last year's average standard of duck down, then the price of duck down will be lower in the pessimistic trend of predicted production.