The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 42 A new weapon to prevent chicken diseases
A big steamed stuffed bun, two boiled corn cobs, and boiled water in a large enamel teacup. This is Wang Shaodong's lunch today.

Looking at her son who was busy and sensible inside and out, Zhao Shiling nodded with satisfaction and said, "Son, you have been quite tired these two days. It has rained and cooled off. Let's sleep in your room for a while."

But Wang Shaodong said to his mother with a smile: "I'm not tired, Dad, it's hard work for you to stay up in the chicken coop at night, you can sleep in the house for a while. Mom, you help Dad raise chickens while doing housework. You are very tired, you should go back and rest."

Wang Fumin and his wife looked at each other and smiled, both of them were very satisfied with their filial piety to their son.

"No, Dad is not tired."

"Then, why don't we all stay here in the chicken coop, it's pretty cool here anyway."

The shed is empty, and the chicken coop surrounded by three people and a plastic sheet looks lonely.

It was raining heavily outside, and cool air blew in from the open door of the greenhouse, causing the temperature of the entire greenhouse to drop by three or four degrees.

Wang Shaodong walked to the small hen house, lifted the plastic corner, got in, looked at the thermometer and hygrometer inside, and then came out and said to his parents: "The temperature is not bad, 28 degrees, humidity 35, a little high, but In this rainy day, the humidity can be kept below 40."

Wang Fumin nodded and said, "The humidity is dropping, which means that the exhaust fan you bought is working. If you can have two exhaust fans, the effect will be even better."

Wang Shaodong did buy two exhaust fans, but he took one in the greenhouse and put the other in his room.

"I actually bought two, but the other exhaust fan has no place to put it."

Wang Fumin bypassed the small chicken coop surrounded by plastic and walked into the greenhouse.

Wang Shaodong saw his father looking up at the top of the shed, so he followed.

"I heard from your Uncle Zhentang that his cousin told him that he must be well ventilated when raising chickens in summer. The exhaust fan you made is very good. I think we will make a row on the top of the middle of the shed next. Exhaust fan, then we don't have to worry about this rainy day."

Large flocks of chickens in rainy days can easily cause digestive and respiratory diseases, so farmers are very afraid of rainy days.

"Dad, on rainy days, the chicks are prone to illness due to the large temperature difference between day and night, so we should pay attention."

Wang Fumin heard that it was going to rain heavily, and he was prepared for this.

"Oh, this, son, you are right. Isn't this the water I gave the chickens to drink just now, and I added some antibiotics?"

Feeding antibiotics to chickens can make chickens less sick, but everyone knows the dangers of antibiotics, so chickens that are often fed antibiotics are not good after they reach consumers.However, in most cases, almost all chicken farms are feeding antibiotics to chickens. Otherwise, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no problems in large groups at a humidity of around 40 and a temperature of around 30.

In his previous life, after years of research, Wang Fumin discovered that boiling water with leaves of honeysuckle and danshen berries, and then giving water to chickens had the same effect as taking antibiotics.

Wang Shaodong suddenly thought of this, and hurriedly said: "Dad, don't use antibiotics in the future, it is not healthy for people to eat chickens fed with antibiotics."

When Wang Fumin heard this, he frowned: "What if we don't use antibiotics? If the chick gets sick, it will be troublesome."

In fact, almost all the five-month-old roosters slaughtered in the live chicken market are fed with antibiotics.Eating such chickens will have an impact on human health. The best way is to buy chickens that are about five months old and raise them for two months, then the problem will not be serious.

However, most urban people do not have this condition, so if you want to eat chicken, the best way is to go to the rural market to buy chickens raised by farmers with leftovers. Such chickens are not available. questionable.

"Dad, I have a simple method, which is guaranteed to be more effective than antibiotics."

"What kind of local method?" Wang Fumin was very interested.

"It is to use the seeds of salvia miltiorrhiza and honeysuckle leaves, boil water in a large pot, and then use it to drink chicken, drink it every three days, and ensure that there will be no problems throughout the summer."

Wang Fumin didn't understand the reason behind this, but after hearing what his son said, he vaguely felt that this was a feasible solution.Honeysuckle can clear away heat and reduce fire, while Danshen can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and protect the heart.Although the other parts of the two Chinese herbal medicines are not as effective as honeysuckle and salvia miltiorrhiza, they must have this effect.And for little chicks, it doesn't have much effect.

"Well, this method can be tried. Salvia, we have plenty of it on the mountain here, and it's not troublesome to dig it on the mountain. It's this honeysuckle, and there aren't many on the mountain here."

Wang Shaodong smiled. Of course, my father doesn't know now. The distance from their village is less than ten miles away. In fact, these two things are very rich.

"Dad, I've heard people say that there are several families that grow red sage in Dalongmen Village. Let's wait for the weather to go and have a look and ask them if they sell the saplings. Let's buy them for ten cents a catty. Definitely happy."

Originally, it was worthless and could only be dried as firewood. If it can be exchanged for money, then those farmers who grow red sage root will be happy.Although Dalongmen Village is a village in Tainan City, it is very close to Taohualing Village. About three miles west of Qingquanling Village is Dalongmen Village. There is a mountain between the two villages.

Then Wang Shaodong continued: "To the east of Fangjiazhuang Village, on the small road along the river, I saw a large piece of honeysuckle before, which seems to be planted by humans. Let's go buy some honeysuckle leaves from them, it shouldn't be a big problem."

Fangjiazhuang is to the east of Taohualing Village, no more than six miles away.

"I said son, you are much more careful than your father and I. Hey, I told your mother just now that you may be really good at raising chickens."

Wang Xiangdong smiled. He found that his father's view of him was slowly changing.

"Dad, I like to raise chickens and climb mountains in this mountain village. This kind of life is much happier than working hard in a big city."

When Wang Fumin heard his son talk like this, he gave his son a blank look and said, "You seem to have lived in a big city, okay, son, it's raining heavily now, and the cicada monkey in the poplar tree row They must have crawled out a lot, let's catch some of them, and let your mother fry them in peanut oil at night, let's have a drink or two."

"Okay, okay, that's great, Dad, I'm fifteen... I don't eat cicada monkeys for days."

The memory of my childhood once again appeared in front of my eyes. In the poplar grove by the river in the north of the village, the cicada monkey crawled out of the ground on the tree. When Wang Shaodong caught it when he was a child, he ran home happily. After a while, and then deep-fried with peanut oil, the soft and crispy fried cicadas are ready.Wang Shaodong has not eaten this food for 15 years, and he almost slipped his mouth just now.

This dish is really a good accompaniment to wine.

(End of this chapter)