The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 113 The First Batch of Broiler Chickens
On the chicken farm side, the Wang family signed a ten-year chicken coop lease contract with Ma Zhentang, He Jiaqing and He Jiaxiang. After the new year, on the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in 2003, Wang Fumin contacted the manufacturer who bought the chicken coop equipment last time.

This time, the Wang family installed six sets of equipment at a time, and transformed all the remaining six sheds on the side of the farm into chicken coops.

In this way, the number of chickens that Wang's family can serve in a batch can reach [-].

In the breeding industry, the scale cannot be increased, and small businesses will never make a lot of money.

And now Wang Fumin and the others have also accumulated a certain amount of breeding experience. In the next step, as long as the operation process is strictly regulated, the risk of chicken disease in chicken raising is actually completely controllable.

In large-scale chicken farms that produce tens of millions of chickens every year, there are very few chicken diseases that cause mass casualties.

The entire area of ​​a large chicken farm is strictly disinfected, and the breeding workers must be disinfected before entering the chicken coop. When the chickens enter such an environment, they are just like people in a nursing home all day long. How could it be dangerous?

Wang's chicken farm was remodeled on the twentieth of the first lunar month, and then Wang Shaodong went around to inquire about chicken seedlings.

There is not much room for choice of broiler chicken breeds, mainly white-feathered broiler chickens, which are slaughtered in about six weeks, and the average weight of slaughtered chickens can reach more than five catties.

Qilu Province is a large province of traditional white-feathered broiler breeding.In 38, 2015 white-feather broiler group enterprises with large breeding volumes in the country raised a total of 31.3 billion white-feather broilers, accounting for 50.00% of the country's total output. Among them, the breeding volume in Qilu Province was about 16 billion.

Qilu Province has advantages in raising white-feather broiler chickens in terms of climate conditions, transportation conditions, market conditions, manpower conditions, and feed conditions, so the development of white-feather broiler chicken industry in Qilu Province has broad prospects.

White-feather broiler chickens were introduced from abroad in the 80s. At the beginning, the domestic people did not have the habit of eating white-feather broiler chickens, and the market was not opened. Therefore, the first people who raised white-feather broiler chickens were some foreign trade companies, mainly responsible for exporting to Japan and South Korea. .

Qilu Province is relatively close to Japan and South Korea, and has convenient sea transportation, so it first took the lead in breeding white-feathered broiler chickens.

In his previous life, Wang Shaodong also traveled to many places in order to sell medical equipment. By chance, he also went to some large-scale ones. Among them, a family in Yu Province integrates breeding of fine breeds, feed processing, chicken hatching, broiler breeding, slaughtering and processing, deep processing of conditioning products, A large agricultural, animal husbandry and food enterprise group integrating export sales, technology research and development, vaccine production, cold chain logistics, packaging color printing, real estate development, etc., with total assets reaching tens of billions, which really shocked Wang Shaodong back then.

It is precisely because of these experiences that Wang Shaodong feels that raising chickens is definitely a promising industry.

What Wang Shaodong has to do now is to rapidly expand the production scale, and then expand the broiler breeding first, and then extend the industrial chain upstream and downstream.

At the beginning of 2003, the market was good.

The SARS outbreak in 2003 faded everyone's memory of bird flu, and chicken protein, the most easily accepted by the human body, is the best nutritional supplement, so the chicken market entered a golden age in 2003.

On the 24th of the first lunar month, Wang Shaodong ordered [-] white-feathered chicks from a large broiler chicken hatchery in Qushi after many inquiries.

Before 2002, there were many white-feathered broiler chicken hatcheries in Qilu Province. However, because of bird flu, many broiler chicken hatcheries closed down and went bankrupt. As a result, the price of chicken chicks was at a high level throughout the year in 2003.

In normal years, the price of broiler chicks in Qilu Province is around 1 yuan.The year when the price is low is less than 5 yuan, and the price is higher than 1 yuan.

The price of this batch of chicklings in Wang Shaodong's family is RMB 1, which is normal and on the high side.

The price of the same chicken fry varies greatly in different places, and the chicken fry in Qilu Province has always been relatively cheap, which is nearly one yuan cheaper than that in Liao Province.

Broiler chicks are cheaper than raw chickens, because raw chickens need to be sex-identified when they hatch. This is a technical job, and the wages for each identification are [-] cents to [-] cents.For broiler chicks, this work is not required.

The feed-to-meat ratio of broiler chickens is lower than that of Chai chickens, and it can generally reach the level of 1.8 catties of feed to grow one catty of meat.In 2002, the price of chicken feed around Luzhong City, Qilu Province was around 1 yuan per catty.In this way, adding up the three items of chicklings, feed, medicine, and labor, the cost of raising a catty of chickens is about [-] yuan.

In 2003, the purchase price of broiler chickens in Luzhong City has been fluctuating between [-] and [-], which can be regarded as a relatively stable situation.When the market is very poor in very few cases, the purchase price of broiler chickens will be as low as two yuan.In such a market situation, chicken farmers can only lose money.

Of course, in the next 15 years, Wang Shaodong will remember very clearly those few particularly bad market and particularly good market, so he will never lose money raising chickens.

As long as the chickens are raised well, it can be said that until the next wave of bird flu broke out in 2006, raising meat chickens was very profitable.

The biggest risk of losing money in raising chickens is poor control of chicken diseases. Once chicken diseases occur and the casualty rate is too high, no matter how good the market is, it is impossible to make money.

If you want to make more money, you have to extend the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and go to hatcheries, feed processing plants, slaughterhouses, deep processing plants, etc. yourself.

The chicks that Wang Shaodong contacted were produced by a large hatchery in Kong Shengren's hometown. Wang Shaodong had other things to do here and couldn't get away. Then he called Li Hong and remitted 1 yuan to him. A deposit of RMB 2000 was asked to help him make a trip, and at the same time, he verbally promised a benefit fee of RMB 1.Li Hong's character Wang Shaodong is very reassuring. In his previous life, he and his father Wang Fumin were old friends for more than ten years. Many things have already proved that his character is good, so I gave him [-] yuan, and Wang Shaodong was also very happy. Relieved.As the saying goes, there is no doubt about employing people, and no need for doubting people. If you can do this, you can really be a big boss.

Looking at chicks is also a technical task. Experienced people like Li Hong can walk around the incubator and listen to the movement, so they can basically know how the chicks are doing.

It was impossible for Wang Shaodong to master this technology in his previous life, and he has not researched it now.

Li Hong is a talented person with a good personality. Wang Shaodong has been thinking about how to recruit this person to help him work.

On the 26th of the first lunar month, after the broiler chickens were put into the house, Wang Fumin could no longer leave the chicken farm.

Every day, Wang Fumin has to go around the eight chicken coops to observe the growth of chicks and check the stock of feed.

The investment in the chicken farm is huge, and the chicken seedlings alone cost more than 14 yuan.More than 70 yuan will be needed for feed, medicine, and labor.

It is necessary to get a loan from the bank, otherwise the Wang family's capital chain will be broken, and the trouble will be serious.

(End of this chapter)