The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 127 Successful free-range chicken experiment

The sunshine in spring is always so bright, the second month of the lunar calendar is coming to an end, and the spring month is coming soon.

Wang Shaodong's chickens have been raised on Songbai Mountain for more than 20 days. Now they are several times bigger than when they first came here, and the bristles have grown out.

The purpose of raising chickens on the mountain is to be able to raise chickens on the mountain like pigs and sheep. If it is successful, then the cost of feed can be saved by a large amount, and the profit of raising chickens will increase by a large amount. .

And the free-range chickens, because they ate the grass seeds and worms on the mountain, and exercised while running on the mountain, so the taste must be much better than those raised in the greenhouse chicken coop.

If we want to really realize raising chickens by putting chickens on the mountains like raising sheep in the future, the two problems that need to be solved most are how to reach the destination of the chickens; secondly, how to ensure that the chickens will not be lost at the destination.

Regarding the first question, when the chickens were young, there were [-] chickens, but now they weigh less than [-] catties. Just put the chickens in cages, and then use a tractor to pull them to the place where they need to be stocked.However, when the chickens weigh four or five catties, and so many chickens weigh one or two tons, it is not easy to transport them with three tractors, let alone one tractor.

Ever since Wang Shaodong and the others went up the mountain, they have been thinking about this question.

In the end, Zheng Tao thought of an idea.

Zheng Tao's idea is to use two-meter-wide plastic screens to build a relatively narrow corridor between the chicken house and the destination of the chickens, and then one person will knock on the pot in front to lead the chickens to the destination.

Chicken flocks have a characteristic, that is, they like to run in one direction together, and because there are passages blocking them, occasionally naughty chickens will not go to other places, and behind the flock, there are Wang Shaodong and Zheng Hui who are separated. It can be guaranteed that nothing will go wrong.

On the first day when the chickens were released, the destination chosen by the three young people was very close to their chicken coop, only 30 meters away, so the length of the corridor was only 30 meters.In fact, Wang Shaodong bought a total of 5000 meters of gauze, which can pave a two-and-a-half-kilometer corridor and basically cover the entire Songbai Mountain.

Then the solution to the second problem is to use the gauze net to encircle a larger area of ​​the city, and then patrol outside the gauze net alone, beware of small animals, especially rabbits, who break the gauze net, and the other two Individuals manage the flock inside the gauze.

Different places need to enclose different areas. Generally, it is more than enough to enclose an area of ​​[-] square meters for [-] chickens to move around.The small bugs, grass seeds, pine nuts and so on in such a large area are enough for chickens to eat.

There are too many pine nuts on the Songbai Mountain. If you bend down and grab a handful of soil, there are several pine nuts.

In this way, Wang Shaodong bought a total of 500 meters of two-meter-wide gauze.

These gauze nets are strung together with iron wires, and then propped up with a bamboo pole every three meters.Moreover, for the repaired corridors and places where chickens are raised, some feed should be fed appropriately, at least to ensure that the chickens can eat grass seeds and insects there for a week.So after repairing the tunnel at one time, it can be used continuously for a week.

Then, while the natural free-range chicken farm here is still being used, another free-range chicken farm and corridor can be built.

In the entire Songbai Mountain, I dare not say that there are too many chickens, and the source of food can be guaranteed when [-] chickens are stocked.

And the 30 chickens that Wang Shaodong and the others are raising now don't need to go far at all. They can find enough food within [-] meters around Wang Shaodong and his chicken coop.

The gauze around the corridor and the chicken farm was laid out the day before, and it was checked several times to ensure that the wires at the lower end of the gauze did not have too much gap for the chickens to get out.

On the day of releasing the chickens, when the sun came out, Wang Shaodong and the others started to act.

Originally, this group of chickens lived in a small chicken house with an area of ​​only ten square meters. Now, after several expansions, their activity range has reached [-] square meters.

The door of the chicken coop was opened, Zheng Hui entered the chicken coop and drove the chickens outside, while Zheng Tao was holding a washbasin and a stick in his hand, beating the washbasin with the wooden stick while calling for the chickens.

In fact, Wang Shaodong and the others have been preparing for today's operation.For example, now that Zheng Tao is beating the washbasin with a wooden stick, a conditioned reflex has long been formed in Xiaoji's heart.

Every time the three of them feed the chickens, they will do this kind of action. Over time, when the chickens hear this movement, they will think that it is time to eat, and they will immediately run to the person who hit the washbasin with a wooden stick.

Zheng Hui is at the back of the flock, making sure no chicken is left behind.

Wang Shaodong was on the outside of the gauze to ensure that no chicken would come out.

However, while following the flock of chickens to the destination, Wang Shaodong noticed the problem in his heart.

If the chick got out from his side, I could catch the chicken faster and plug it when I found a loophole, but if I found a problem on the other side, there was nothing I could do.

It seems that the next step is to hire someone to help him raise chickens.

And the next step is to wait until the scale of pine nut chicken farming on Songbai Mountain continues to expand, and then a lot of manpower will be needed every day just to build tunnels and free-range chicken farms. It seems that there are still many people to be hired on Songbai Mountain.

According to Wang Shaodong's own plan, the number of chickens raised on the entire Songbai Mountain will reach [-].

Because the chicken farm is relatively close today, Wang Shaodong and the others soon drove [-] chickens to the destination.

The little chicks who have been living in a small space of [-] square meters suddenly came to a huge space of [-] square meters, and they all felt very excited.

Zheng Tao sprinkled some feed on the [-] chickens to ensure conditioned reflex, and then ran to the place where the corridor and the free-range chicken house bordered, and blocked the exit of the corridor with gauze.

"Hahahaha, Brother Dong, these chicks are so happy."

Zheng Hui and Zheng Tao were very excited. The little chicks ran around together for a few laps, and then slowly began to scatter around to find food to eat.

Wang Shaodong and the others had already fed these worms on Xiaoji Mountain, so when they got here, they were not afraid of the little worms they saw. The chick was swallowed hard.

Looking at everything in front of him, Wang Shaodong was really happy.

"Great, great, Zheng Hui and Zheng Tao, we succeeded!"

It's totally worth it to suffer and suffer on the mountain these days!
(End of this chapter)