Mountain Village Chicken Tycoon

Chapter 11 Hard Work

Although raising chickens is hard work, it is still easy to make money. Control the temperature and humidity, feed water and feed in time, do a good job in epidemic prevention and timely treatment of chicken diseases, and the survival rate of a batch of chickens can even be controlled to 90.00%.

Of course, for novice chicken farmers like Zhao Qingshan and others, if they can control the survival rate to more than 92%, it is considered a success.

The 1-day-old Malik's vaccine has been immunized in the breeder factory, and then the second chick immunization is the 4-day-old Newcastle disease vaccine nasal drip immunization.

Of course, for a novice chicken farmer like Zhao Qingshan and his family, if they want to complete the epidemic prevention of more than 1 chicks with their family of three, it may not be a task that can be completed in three to five days.

In order to support the chicken farmers, the Agricultural University also made a promise in the contract that it will send technicians to help the Zhao family with epidemic prevention when the chicks are 4 days old.

At one o'clock in the evening on the day when the chickens were put into the shed, Zhao Qingshan's family of three began to be busy feeding the chicken feed for the first time.

Nongda No. 1 chick feed is a special feed for white feather chickens.

The feed has been mixed. For 1-day-old chickens, the amount of feed for the first time is only about 5 grams.For the more than 1 chickens of the Zhao family, the feed amount on the first day should be about 5 grams, with an error of no more than 2 grams. The specific situation depends on the temperature of the chicken coop and the condition of the chicks.

Zhao Qingshan and Zhang Huifen, while carefully driving the chickens, spread the cut plastic sheets on the floor of the chicken coop.The bottom of the chicken coop is covered with a layer of fine sand, the fine sand is covered with wood chips, and the top is covered with crushed wheat straw.

Stepping on the ground of the chicken coop, it is very soft.

The little chicks already knew Zhao Qingshan and his family of three. As soon as Zhao Qingshan and Zhang Huifen entered the chicken coop, those bold little chickens jumped on their feet and pecked at their toes.

Most of the little chicks are very timid. They stretched their necks and looked at the two humans from a distance, guessing in their hearts, what are they going to do?

In the middle of the chicken coop, there is a chimney made of red bricks about [-] centimeters high and [-] centimeters wide for heating when it is cold.

It is more difficult to start a fire with a horizontal chimney, especially in winter, and special tools are required to guide the smoke from one end of the greenhouse to the other, and then discharge it from the vertical chimney to the outside.

The entire greenhouse is relatively backward, but it has already met the standard of financial subsidies.

Now Zhao Qingshan has received the financial subsidy money, a total of 5000 yuan.At that time, the construction cost of the large-scale labor contract negotiated with Liu Yutang was 1 yuan. If this is the case, the wages will be settled by the end of the year. For this amount alone, Zhao Qingshan still has [-] yuan in his hand.

Zhao Zhijiang didn't care whether raising chickens made money or not. He even encouraged his son to build more greenhouses.

However, Zhao Qingshan rejected his father's request. He felt that his steps should be steady step by step. If his steps were too big, it would be easy to mess up.

The mother and child spread out the plastic sheeting, and then Zhao Zhijiang pushed the trolley into the shed, and carried a plastic bag of feed into the chicken coop.

The chickens under the age of 10 days have been covered with plastic sheeting since they started feeding. The plastic sheet is covered with chicken feed. The chickens can eat as much as they like, without any restrictions.

After the feed entered the chicken coop, Zhao Qingshan, who had laid out the plastic sheeting, came over with his mother to help Zhao Zhijiang sprinkle feed into the chicken coop.

For the first feeding, 120 catties of feed was thrown in at once, and then all the feed was evenly sprinkled on the plastic sheet.

As soon as the feed was sprinkled, the chicks were eating very well, and the feed on the ground began to become scarce.

Seeing that his chickens were so edible, Zhao Qingshan's family of three knew that these chickens were really good.

Good chicklings are the key to raising a batch of chickens.

"Dad, Mom, go to sleep, I'll just watch here."

Zhao Qingshan said to his parents with a smile all over his face.

"Where can I sleep, and I have to drink water later, how can you be so busy alone."

Zhao’s chicken coop is relatively simple and has no automatic drinking water equipment. To drink water for the chicks, they use a plastic bucket that is turned upside down on a sink.Then the water in the sink will flow into the sink under the action of gravity, and after the water in the sink has overflowed the air intake hole at the buckle position, under the action of atmospheric pressure, it will prevent the water in the sink from continuing to flow. nasty.The chicks will drink water around the circular tank. As the water in the tank becomes less and lower than the air intake hole, after the air enters the tank, the water will start to flow into the tank again.

The drinking vessel of this design can hold 3 liters of water, and the diameter of the sink is about [-] centimeters, allowing [-] chicks to drink water together at the same time.

There are now 50 small drinking buckets with sinks in the chicken coop, and these drinking buckets need to be filled with water every one to two hours.

The work of watering is much harder than the work of feeding.

Chicks must never be short of water. Once they are short of water, it will cause very serious consequences.

Short-term water shortage will cause the chicks to lose their appetite, severe water shortage will cause the immunity of the chicks to decline, and long-term water shortage will lead to the death of the chicks.

Of course, the so-called short-term is within a few 10 minutes, and the long-term water shortage is only about a day.

If there is no water in the chicken house for a day, it is normal for a large group of casualties to be 20.00%.

The metabolism of chickens is very fast. One day in the life of a chicken is equivalent to ten days in a human life.

Hearing what his parents said, Zhao Qingshan nodded, then got out of the chicken coop, turned his head and raised his head and said to his parents who were still in the chicken coop: "Dad, Mom, don't stay inside, come out and cool off."

Zhao Zhijiang and Zhang Huifen also felt panicked in the heat, and followed their son out of the chicken coop surrounded by plastic sheets.

Now the temperature inside the chicken coop has exceeded 31 degrees Celsius.

After the chickens eat, they metabolize and dissipate heat, which further increases the temperature of the chicken house.

Now only one-third of the 600-square-meter chicken shed is used, and then, as the chickens grow bigger and bigger, the Zhao family will first expand the shed to expand the area occupied by the chicken coop in the shed.Then, when one greenhouse can no longer accommodate so many chickens, the chickens will be transferred to the other three greenhouses.

In the shed next to the chicken coop, there is a folding bed, a low square table, two benches, and several horses.

The family of three sat down with smiles on their faces. The family could not see the future, but now, the future of their family is bright.

(End of this chapter)