The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 40 The Coming Cloudy Sky
It is hard work to vaccinate chickens in summer. After vaccinating 2000 chicks, the four of them were sweating profusely.

After the vaccination, the more worrying thing is that there will be a stress reaction in the large group, which will affect the feeding of the large group, and even cause sporadic casualties in severe cases.

Free-range breeding in large sheds, the strong chicks in the large group will bully the weak chicks, and casualties are inevitable. In general, if the survival rate of the chicks can be controlled above 90.00%, it is considered very It worked.

The casualty rate of chicks is the highest in the two weeks after the chicks are free-ranged to the greenhouse.So the fifty chickens donated by the chicken farm were actually supplementary casualties.

After the vaccination, it was already 11:30 at night.Now Wang Fumin and the others are not very efficient in this work. After raising two or three batches of chickens, four people will vaccinate 2000 chickens, and it will take about four to 10 minutes for them to finish their work.

After it was over, Wang Fumin, Ma Zhentang and Wang Shaodong went to the Liusha River in the north of the village to wash for a while, and then went home to rest.

The weather forecast said that there would be heavy rain in the next two days, and the three of Wang Fumin and the others did not dare to stay in the river for a long time.

That night, Wang Fumin slept in the chicken coop and was in charge of watching the chickens. When the cubs were young, they were afraid that the weather would suddenly turn cold.If the temperature suddenly drops by four or five degrees, the chicks will huddle together, and the chicks huddled underneath will die of suffocation due to lack of oxygen.Especially on rainy days in summer, the air humidity is high, and the chicks are wet after being crowded together. Even if there is no lack of oxygen to die, it may cause diseases such as dysentery, and the consequences are very serious.

There is a lot of rain in summer, so it is necessary to prevent gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases.

After waking up the next day, Wang Shaodong saw that the weather was gloomy and the air was very hot, so he knew that the rainstorm was not far away.

This heavy rain has been brewing for a long time, and the memory of the previous life suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Around the few days when the results of the college entrance examination came out to fill in the application form, a heavy rain that lasted for three days washed the entire small mountain village.

After thinking of the heavy rain, Wang Shaodong immediately became nervous.

It is rainy and rainy, and the windows of the chicken farm cannot be opened, which will definitely cause the humidity in the house to be too high, which will easily cause a series of chicken diseases.

Thinking of this, Wang Shaodong immediately ran into the chicken coop and said to Wang Fumin, "Dad, it's going to rain, and the weather forecast says it will be cloudy."

In the past two days, because the family of three took turns taking care of the chicks in the chicken coop, there was no time to watch the weather forecast.But how do you increase the credibility of what you say?I can only lie and say that I watched the weather forecast.

When Wang Fumin heard this, he shook his head and sighed, "Hey, the little chicken is afraid of the weather changes in the first two weeks, so we have to watch more from the chicken coop these two days."

Wang Fumin obviously didn't know the consequences of the continuous cloudiness this time, so Wang Shaodong walked around the chicken coop to observe.

The 100-meter-long chicken coop has a closed small chicken coop surrounded by thick white plastic sheets in the middle. The chicks are now being raised in this area of ​​about tens of square meters.The closed chicken house is covered with wheat straw and wood chips, and under it is a layer of fresh dry soil.As the chickens grow up day by day, the enclosed chicken coop will gradually expand, and finally the entire [-] chickens will be completely dispersed and raised in the entire greenhouse.

After turning around, Wang Shaodong found that when designing the greenhouse, the ventilation mainly depended on opening the windows, and no consideration was given to the fact that it was impossible to open the windows when it rained heavily in summer.

Seeing this, Wang Shaodong became a little anxious.

The heavy rain was impressive. Wang Shaodong remembered that the heavy rain was heavy and the flood in the river was fierce. A large grass carp weighing more than [-] kilograms washed down from the Shizi River on the other side of Qingquanling. .

Such a large amount of precipitation, such a long period of continuous cloudy days, and the chickens in my own chicken farm are only so big, if some measures are not taken, it will not work.

Suddenly, Wang Shaodong looked up and saw that there seemed to be a circular hole on the roof of the shed, and asked quickly, "Dad, what is that?"

Wang Fumin looked up and said to Wang Shaodong, "That's the chimney hole used for burning the furnace in cold weather."

Although the exit of the chimney is now covered with plastic sheeting, it can still be seen that that place is different from other places.Because it is summer now, and the little chicks don't need to use the floor stove for heating, so the chimney has been demolished long ago.

Wang Shaodong patted his thigh, nodded and said, "There is a way."

Then, Wang Shaodong ran back to the house, asked his mother for 200 yuan, got on his motorcycle and left without saying anything.

Wang Shaodong knew that it was only morning and the heavy rain would not fall yet.

The continuous rain started at noon today and continued for three days.

After riding his motorcycle, Wang Shaodong went directly to a street of hardware stores in the county seat. After inquiring, he found a store specializing in ventilation and exhaust fans for breeding greenhouses, and bought two for 190 yuan.

Now the chicken coop for raising chicks is relatively small, and one exhaust fan is enough. Wang Shaodong bought two as spares.If the exhaust fan is broken on a rainy day and you can't fix it yourself, you will be in trouble.

After buying the exhaust fan, Wang Shaodong didn't dare to waste time, so he returned directly to Taohualing Village.

After returning home, Wang Shaodong unpacked in a hurry, took the exhaust fan and went into the chicken shed.

Wang Fumin and Zhao Shiling are laying plastic sheeting on the floor of the chicken coop, and then sprinkle the chicken feed on the plastic sheeting for the chicks to eat.

The chicks are too small to be fed in a trough, so this troublesome method can only be used.

"Dad, come and help me."

Holding the exhaust fan in one hand and the pliers in the other, Wang Shaodong said to Wang Fumin.

Wang Fumin had never seen an exhaust fan before, and it looked a bit like a fan, so he asked, "What is this?"

"Exhaust fan, when there are more rainy days, the air in the chicken coop is too humid and needs to be exhausted."

Hearing what his son said, Wang Fumin felt that his son must have read it from a book again, so he nodded without asking in detail, and then asked, "Where do you put it?"

Wang Shaodong raised his head and pointed to the mouth of the chimney, and said, "That's it."

The size of the exhaust fan is about the same as the mouth of a chimney, and the exhaust fan bought by Wang Shaodong has a waterproof function and is specially placed on the roof.

Seeing that things were bought, Wang Fumin could only let his son do what he needed or didn't need.

Wang Shaodong climbed up to the roof of the shed, and then directed his father Wang Fumin to pass things up and down. After working for a long time, he installed the exhaust fan.

Zhao Shiling was puzzled, shook her head and asked, "Is it so troublesome to raise chickens?"

Wang Shaodong thought, this is not trouble, it is experience.

I came here with my father's experience in raising chickens for so many years in the previous life, so I naturally know more than my parents.At the same time, Wang Fumin and his wife also discovered that their son raised chickens without any ambiguity at all, even better than the couple.

(End of this chapter)