The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 35 The problem of chicklings

Wang Xiangdong and his son worked hard all afternoon and were sweating profusely. They finally filled the four tractors with chicken coop manure and sold them for 800 yuan.

If these chicken pen manures were sold after the fruit harvest in autumn, it would cost at least 400 yuan more, but Wang Shaodong and his son did not want to take this risk.

After work, it was already dark.

The father and son smelled of sweat, Zhao Shiling was busy making dinner at home, and then the father and son were shirtless, with a towel on each shoulder and soap in their hands, and walked towards the Liusha River in the north of the village.

Neighbor Ma Zhentang's family had finished their dinner and was enjoying the cool outside their house.

"Brother Wang, have you sold all the chicken coop manure?"

Throughout the afternoon, Wang Xiangdong's house was busy loading trucks and selling chicken pen manure. Ma Zhentang saw the tractor coming in and out.

Ma Lili's family thought that Wang Shaodong's college entrance examination results were replaced by someone else, and they still felt sorry for Wang Shaodong, but when they knew that the person who replaced Wang Shaodong gave them a compensation of 30 yuan, they might feel envious again.

In this era, there are still a small number of senior high school graduates who can be admitted to university in the first year. Most of them have to repeat for a year or even several years before they can be admitted to university. If you are in university, you can only choose to repeat it.

Repeating the study for a year, and raising the grades again, in Ma Lili's opinion, Wang Shaodong's Tsinghua University and Peking University are about to be accepted.

Because Wang Fumin received 30 yuan in return, he was actually quite satisfied in his heart. He smiled and said to Ma Zhentang: "Oh, I've been busy all afternoon, and I'm sweating all over my body. Go wash it off in the river."

Seeing Wang Fumin and his son go away, Ma Zhentang shook his head with some regret and said, "Hey, what's wrong with the world, a good number one scholar, just like this was replaced by an impostor."

"Dad, Brother Dongzi is very good. If he repeats his studies for another year, he will definitely be able to pass the Tsinghua University and Peking University."

Ma Zhentang nodded, then sighed and said, "Hey, I don't know what Lao Wang planned. Now that the chicken pen dung is out, do you want to use the chicken? It is too risky to use the chicken at this time."

People in mountain villages are not well-educated. In their eyes, Tsinghua University and Peking University are the only good universities. As for Fudan University, Zhejiang University, and Jiaotong University, most people don’t know the names of these universities.

Even Ma Lili, who has finished her third year of high school, knows very little about these universities.

When he reached the village, Wang Shaodong asked his father, "Dad, what's the name of the uncle Xu who bought our chicken coop manure?"

When the manure from the chicken coop came out, Wang Fumin only asked Wang Shaodong to call the seller Uncle Xu, but he didn't give a detailed introduction.

"He, Xu Xiwu who contracted the apple orchard in Fangjiazhuang Village."

Wang Shaodong frowned and suddenly remembered.

This Xu Xiwu is a very intelligent person. Later, in 2008, he successfully experimented with interplanting potatoes in his own apple orchard, and promoted it throughout the county.

In the next step, if your own chicken farm wants to make a lot of money, you must expand its scale.The breeding industry needs to be scaled up to make money, and when the scale increases, how to deal with chicken pen manure becomes a difficult problem in the next step.

Xu Xiwu's current apple orchard should be around tens of acres, but in a few years, the apple orchard contracted by his family will reach a scale of thousands of acres, becoming the largest apple producer in Gangcheng County.

Luzhong City is located in a hilly area, which is more suitable for the development of apple cultivation, and has a history of hundreds of years of apple cultivation.Later, in the 80s, the County Forestry Bureau introduced red Fuji apples from the Jiaodong area, and later formed a large scale.Every year in August and September when the apples are ripe, fruit merchants from all over the country will go to various orchards in Luzhong City to purchase apples.

Xu Xiwu’s apple orchard needs hundreds of tractors’ chicken pen manure a year, which needs to raise almost 10,000+ chickens to produce so much chicken pen manure.

From the present point of view, as long as Xu Xiwu is contacted, his chicken coop manure will not worry about selling in the next step.

Chicken pen manure must be disposed of in time. Chicken pen manure carries viruses and bacteria that can cause chicken diseases. In summer, if chicken pen manure is not disposed of quickly, flies will breed. .

Wang Shaodong and his son washed up, it was almost eight o'clock, and then they planned to go home for dinner.

When returning home, Wang Fumin saw his wife sitting at the gate of Ma Zhentang's house chatting with the Ma family, so he pretended that something happened at home and asked Zhao Shiling to go home.

After arriving at home, Wang Fumin asked worriedly, "Did you tell them about the 30 yuan given to us?"

"Master, no matter how stupid I am, I can't be so stupid as to talk nonsense."

Wang Fumin nodded, and then said: "It's best not to mention this matter, it's not good to let others know."

Zhao Shiling also nodded. Although she said that her son had suffered such a great grievance, the other party gave 30 yuan at once, which still made the couple feel a little embarrassed. Let the villagers know, and I am afraid they will gossip.

It is also because of this worry that Wang Fumin did not dare to deposit the money at the agency of the Rural Credit Cooperative in the village.

While eating dinner, the family began to discuss the chicken.

"As the head of the house, the shed will be tidied up tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Shall we contact the chicken seedlings tomorrow?"

Zhao Shiling reminded Wang Fumin and Wang Shaodong while feeding them.

Without waiting for Wang Fumin to speak, Wang Shaodong looked at his father and asked, "Dad, what do you think we should serve this time?"

The last time Wang Fumin's chicken farm raised Sanhuang from Guangdong Province, it was a sweet treat.

"Go to Sanhuang, this chicken is easy to raise."

Indeed, Wang Fumin, who had little experience in raising chickens last time, was able to control the survival rate within 90.00%, which is considered very successful.

However, for the past two days, Wang Shaodong has been thinking about the next batch of chicken breeds, and he has a somewhat different opinion from his father.

"Dad, don't go for three yellows, go for red jade."

When Wang Fumin heard this, he looked at his son in surprise: "Why?"

"Dad, Sanhuang is a southern variety. Although we said that the last batch of chickens raised Sanhuang, there was nothing wrong with it, but after the fall, the climate changed a lot. I am afraid that Sanhuang will not be able to adapt to our climate. Hongyu is our local breed in Qilu. , the ability to adapt to our side is stronger than that of Sanhuang. Also, Hongyu can grow to a maximum of six or seven catties before reaching its end, while Hongyu can grow to a weight of eight or nine catties. It is better than Sanhuang to sell old chickens at the end of the year. It's much more suitable. And this time the chicken plague broke out from the south, and most of the Sanhuang chicks were shipped from the south, so I'm worried..."

Wang Fumin had never raised Hongyu before, so he didn't know much about Hongyu. Hearing what his son said, he frowned: "How do you know this?"

"It's written in the book."

Wang Shaodong has been reading the book "Guide to Raising Chickens" for the past two days, and Wang Fumin and his wife have noticed this.

In my previous life, because there was no chicken hatchery in Luzhong City, I contacted from other places every time I went to feed chickens.

Wang Fumin is also relatively open-minded and can accept his son's opinions.

"However, where can I contact this red jade chicken seedling?"

Wang Shaodong smiled and said, "I have a solution."

(End of this chapter)