slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 70 The Hen
As soon as he arrived in the village, that guy made a lot of noise. There were cows and sheep bleating everywhere, as if he was in a zoo. In addition, there were many plastic baskets on the carts. You don’t need to look at it. Cang Hai Then I knew that the baskets must be chickens and geese bought by the villagers.

"Haiwazi, you have to wait a bit, when all the houses are finished, the rest will be yours." Hu Shijie was flipping through his notebook at this time, with a pencil in his ear.

Cang Hai hummed, then walked to the side, and squatted down next to Third Uncle.

"Third Uncle, why have you been away for so long and only come back after three or four days?" Cang Hai asked.

Cang Shiyuan said: "Everyone bought a lot this year. We bought half of the chicklings in Fengji Town, and the dealers who sold the chicks had to go back and transport another batch to make up the amount. There is still what you want. Little cattle, Uncle Hu selected no less than two hundred heads for you. There are three breeding bulls, and the remaining dozen are cows. All of them are fat and strong, and there are still a few cows left. Calf...".

"Is anyone from Li Lida's family here?" Hu Shijie shouted at the top of his voice.

"There is someone, there is someone!" Li Lida immediately stood up when he heard it.

"150 chickens, forty males, and the remaining whole females, let Lida have a family and count the chickens..." Hu Shijie said loudly when he saw Li Lida coming.

Before Hu Shijie could finish his words, a plastic basket over there was put on the ground. Li Licheng's wife, Qiu Shanghua, quickly counted the chickens out of the basket on the car, and every time she caught one, she opened it to have a look. Look, I put it in the basket when I saw it was a male.

Seeing Qiu Shanghua's movements, Cang Hai couldn't help praising: "I never thought Grandma Li would have such a skill."

"If it wasn't for farming, you, Grandma Li, could earn 5000 yuan a month with this skill," Cang Shiyuan said with a smile.

Hua Hai nodded after hearing this. He knew that distinguishing the sex of chickens was quite expensive, but in his hometown, he only had one or two opportunities to make money a year, so it couldn't be regarded as a profession.

Cang Shiyuan looked at the herd of cows tied in the tree, and asked his nephew, "Haiwazi, how are you going to raise your cows?"

Cang Hai said: "Tomorrow I will put it directly on the land I rented, and then throw the salt stone over there."

"You don't care?" Cang Shiyuan asked.

Cang Hai asked back: "Is there anyone else who can't do it? It's not easy to steal cattle in our place, right?"

Asked by Cang Hai, Cang Shiyuan thought about it for a while. There are loess slopes on all sides. The only way to get outside is to the west and north. If you walk to the north, you can’t go around the village. If you walk to the west, it’s Tuo In the place of Bizhan Company, the foreign boss heard that he was a friend of his nephew, and besides, the lead cow passed there, and he was not from the village, and even a fool knew that the cow was stolen.On the remaining two sides, there is a large deep ditch and steep slope twenty miles away. The place that has been washed out by rainwater for thousands of years, people will be smashed to pieces if they are not careful, let alone cattle.

"It's okay to leave it alone?" Cang Shiyuan was still a little worried, feeling that his nephew's idea was a bit strange. With so many cows, they add up to tens of thousands of yuan, and now they are just thrown into the ravine like this, and left to fend for themselves. La?Isn't this money burned!

Cang Hai said: "Buy these for a try this year, and if it doesn't work, I'll talk about it. If it works, I'll buy some next year."

According to Cang Hai's thinking, if he rented such a large piece of land, it would be a failure if he couldn't raise more than a dozen cows this year. As for next year, he will talk about next year.

Cang Shiyuan thought for a while, but still closed his mouth, and smoked in a muffled voice.

At this time, Cang Shiyuan was also thinking in his heart: Did my family also repair the old kiln?Is it okay to go back to the old kiln to raise some chickens and ducks?

Naturally, chickens can be raised in the town, but even if there is a yard, the number of chickens cannot be large. If it is large, the yard will stink, and there are no servants to live there, but it is different here. The chickens are taken out in the morning Once released, just sprinkle some millet and corn or something, and there is no question of whether it is smelly or not.Besides, looking at the current state of the village, it seems that the environment in the town is better than that of the town.Although there are street trees in the town, it is not as comfortable as living in the village.

When everyone lived in a kiln before, they looked at others who lived in big tile-roofed houses, and felt envious in their hearts. But when they really lived in a big tile-roofed house in the town, they realized that it was hot in summer and cold in winter. There is no way to compare the earthen kiln.Well, in the past, the village needed water and no water, and those who wanted fields and fields were not worth staying in. Now the village has built its own water tower, and when it is unscrewed, it is the well water from the sweet spring. It does not have the chlorine smell of the tap water in the town. is sweet.

Besides, living in the town is nothing more than doing a small business, but the village now feels much more fulfilling than living in the town. Although the money is still less, there is no need to live permanently. Come here if you have nothing to do or let the wife stay Feeding a chicken and planting a tree here is also a piece of income.

Cang Hai didn't know what was going on in his third uncle's mind, he was staring anxiously at the crowd dividing the chicken cubs.

The chicks have to be counted by hand. Although Qiu Shanghua's speed is fast, the number is large. Each family has one or two hundred chickens, and there are more than 1000 chickens in one place. How can I count them all in a short while.When it came to Canghai, naturally there was no need to count, the remaining few plastic baskets were all Canghai's.

With the help of the villagers, Cang Hai transported several baskets of chicks and some big goose seedlings back home. Cang Hai did not intend to put the chicks in the house, but directly put them in the chicken coop. A large heating light bulb was set up in the house, and it happened that there were several hens in the house last year, so the hens could bring these chicks.

Of course, the goslings are also raised together, and Cang Hai doesn't bother that god.

Compared with chickens, sheep are much easier to divide. There are two or three types of sheep in this batch. Canghai chooses Boer goats, which are the kind of sheep with brown faces and white bodies. They are very good meat sheep.

If the sheep are good, the rest of the cattle belong to Cang Hai's family. They just drove the cattle and sheep home, and after feeding the cattle and sheep, the sky began to darken.

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Early the next morning, Cang Hai got up to wash up, and first went to the chicken coop to look at his goose and chickens.

When I arrived at the chicken coop, I found a group of hens at home walking in front of the hen house with a group of fluffy chicks and goslings. Every hen was surrounded by a group of chicks. As soon as they saw Cang Hai, they immediately gathered around the hen, chirping unceasingly, while the hen looked at Cang Hai warily, as if she was afraid that Cang Hai would snatch their babies. Children do not hatch themselves.

The situation was good, Cang Hai was satisfied, and sprinkled the soaked millet in the basin into the chicken coop.

As soon as they saw food, a group of chicks immediately cheered up, chirping and starting to peck.

At this time, two big roosters also ran over, and they seemed to be ready to snatch the food from the mouth of the chick. When a hen saw that the rooster had snatched the food from the head of her child, she was furious and stretched her neck to die. He pounced on the rooster that was close to him to grab food.

The rooster was startled, and ran away with flapping wings. Unfortunately, the hen protecting the cubs did not stop, but chased after the rooster and continued to peck. sound.

The hen's arrogance seemed to have affected the other hens, and they all followed suit. Suddenly, the two roosters in the chicken coop were besieged and beaten.

In the end, the two roosters had no choice but flapped their wings and flew to the wall of the chicken coop. Standing on the wall, they watched the groups of hens with their chicks enjoying the millet grains leisurely, and clucked dissatisfiedly from time to time. Flap your wings twice.

When Cang Hai saw it, he thought to himself: Why does the situation of the prosperity of yin and the decline of yang in the whole country continue to the chicken flock?
Glancing at the two useless big roosters, Cang Hai cursed: "Things that are useless for birds, I will kill you in a few days to make side stoves, because they have grown so big in vain."

All Canghai left behind are breeder chickens. Last year, the largest roosters and hens grew up in a flock. Now seeing that the roosters and hens I left behind can’t handle even the hens, I feel that these two chickens are used to sacrifice my internal organs. What's more, they can't even beat the hens, so how can they be expected to protect the flock in the future?

The chickens are all right, the cows and sheep are also good, there are too many sheep, and the sheep house can't fit, so they have to be mixed with the cows and thrown in the small orchard of Cang Hai's house. The piglet, of course, lay lazily in the piggery, not even interested in taking a look at Cang Hai.

About to drive the sheep to the slope to graze, Cang Hai looked up and found out, good guy!It was just dawn, and the whole slope was full of sheep, which continued for a mile away. It was obvious that the villagers got up earlier than Cang Hai, and they had already occupied the best place to herd sheep.

"That's great!"

Cang Hai scratched his head, thought for a long time and didn't know what to say, what could he do for getting up later than others?

After thinking for a while, Cang Hai was heartbroken, and made up his mind to throw all his sheep and cattle on the rented land. Anyway, there were no natural enemies there, so he just went to see it in a few days.

Thinking of this, I turned around and went to my third aunt's house to have breakfast. After breakfast, I didn't rest and went straight to the preparations. I even wanted to drive the cattle and sheep to the Fenghuanggou.

Cang Hai's preparation was quite simple. He went to the small bamboo forest down the slope and cut two bamboo poles, and tied a plastic cloth to one end of the bamboo poles. In this way, two simple poles for driving sheep were ready.

In addition to the pole, Cang Hai also brought a few pieces of rock ore. Anyone who has raised sheep knows that livestock also need to add salt from time to time. If they don't eat salt, their limbs will be weak like humans.For example, Hu Shijie’s households all buy coarse salt. Canghai is going to stock it, so they buy large salt mines. Firstly, it is cheap, and secondly, it takes a long time to use. It’s not like coarse salt with small particles. soon.

After finding a few bags, they made simple chains and placed them on the backs of two cows. Cang Hai then prepared to drive the flock of sheep and cattle to Fenghuanggou.

(End of this chapter)