Abstract:With the increasing awareness of food safety and environmental protection, ecological farming has become a key direction for the sustainable development of animal husbandry. This paper takes the willingness to adopt ecological farming technology as the dependent variable and employs an ordered multinomial Logit regression model and Shapley value decomposition to systematically explore its influencing mechanisms from five dimensions: decision-maker characteristics, production and management characteristics, organizational characteristics, environmental characteristics, and cognitive and expectation characteristics. The results indicate that: (1) Decision-maker characteristics have the most significant impact, with gender effects being more pronounced in large-scale farms than in smallholder farmers; (2) Among production and management characteristics, the proportion of poultry farming income in household income has a significant positive effect on adoption willingness, whereas farming experience has a significant negative effect; (3) Organizational characteristics do not show a significant impact on adoption willingness; (4) In terms of environmental characteristics, government subsidies negatively influence adoption willingness among smallholder farmers but positively affect large-scale farms, while the frequency of technical training and ease of information access significantly promote adoption; (5) Regarding cognitive and expectation characteristics, recognition of the economic benefits of ecological farming and the willingness to expand farming scale significantly enhance adoption willingness, whereas risk concerns have an inhibiting effect. Smallholder farmers focus more on short-term risks and returns, while large-scale farms prioritize long-term benefits. Based on these findings, this study proposes policy recommendations such as differentiated training and promotion, expanding information channels, optimizing policy support, establishing regional adoption models, and fostering industrial chain collaboration to facilitate the widespread application of ecological farming technology and promote the sustainable development of animal husbandry.