The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 49 Chinese herbal medicine to prevent chicken disease experiment

In order to raise green, safe and pollution-free young roosters, Wang Shaodong decided to use Chinese medicinal materials to make soup and drink chicken instead of the traditional method of using antibiotics to prevent chicken diseases.

When raising chickens in large groups, whether they are caged or free-range, whether they are laying hens, cockerels or meat chickens, disease prevention is the top priority.Vaccination is only to prevent major diseases, but like ordinary respiratory diseases and digestive tract diseases, although they will not cause large-scale casualties, they will affect the feeding of large groups, and even lead to the situation of only eating feed and not growing meat. , so these are the key factors that affect whether farmers make money.

In order to prevent chicken diseases, farmers began to feed them antibiotics from a very young age.

In the previous life, the Wang family raised chickens for 15 years, and many experiences were not summed up until Wang Fumin was almost sixty.The innovation of using honeysuckle leaves and salvia seeds to prevent chicken diseases was discovered by Wang Fumin in 2016. However, by that time, Wang Fumin was old and could not keep up with energy. It was no longer realistic to raise chickens on a large scale.However, the breeding industry cannot be scaled up, and it is impossible to make a fortune by doing small things.

So in the next step, Wang Shaodong's farm should move towards brand benefits and scale benefits.

Now that the Wang family has money in their hands, they can afford certain risks. Wang Shaodong decided that as long as the experiment of making soup and drinking chicken with honeysuckle leaves and salvia sage seeds summed up by his father in his previous life in his memory is successful, then Wang Shaodong will boldly expand the scale of breeding in the next step. .

After the honeysuckle leaves and salvia were transported back to the breeding farm of Wang Shaodong's family in Taohualing Village, Wang Fumin and his son took over the big iron pot from the village brigade, and then set up a pot stove in the yard, and then put the honeysuckle The leaves were rolled off from the paper and put into the cauldron, and the red sage root was chopped up with a guillotine and put into the pot.

This large iron pot has a large capacity, and it took six buckets of water to fill it up.But now the Wang family's chicken coop drinks three buckets of water a day, and this big iron pot of herbal soup can drink for two days in a row.

Then, Wang Fumin went to the chicken coop to take care of the chicks, while Wang Shaodong was in charge of lighting the fire.

After 10 minutes, the water in the big iron pot began to gurgle.

Wang Shaodong covered the big pot, and after half an hour of fire, it was stuffy for another half an hour. When he lifted the pot lid, a steaming hot air rose, and a wave of honeysuckle mixed with salvia miltiorrhiza began to float in the whole yard. the taste of.

The color of the soup was already very thick, and Wang Shaodong thought that it should be almost the same.

At 07:30 that night, after the herbal soup cooled down, Wang Shaodong and his son carried the three buckets of herbal soup into the chicken coop.

When he arrived at the chicken coop, Wang Shaodong lay down on the plastic sheet and listened, only to hear a slight panting sound inside.

There has been too much rain in the past two days, and the vaccine has just been vaccinated a few days ago, so the feed intake in the large group has declined.

There are three main ways to judge whether a flock is healthy, one is to listen to the sound of chickens crowing in the flock, the second is to judge by the feed intake of the flock, and the third is to judge by the color of the overall feathers in the flock.

Healthy chicken flocks make regular chirping sounds without too sharp harsh sounds or noisy panting sounds. The feed intake of large flocks also increases day by day, and the color of feathers in large flocks is also increasing day by day. They are also bright.

Judging the health of a large group of chickens is the most difficult by the sound of their crowing, but Wang Shaodong has many years of breeding experience with his parents, and his judgment in this aspect is far better than his own parents now.

There was a situation in the large group. It has been raining for the past two days and the humidity has risen. Although there are exhaust fans, it is still difficult to reduce the humidity to below 20.

Once the humidity rises, bacteria and viruses are easy to breed in the chicken coop. The old way is to take antibiotics, but now the herbal soup made by Wang Shaodong should be as effective as antibiotics.

In the evening, Wang's chicken coop drank the chicken with herbal soup.

Wang Shaodong's experience in raising chickens is definitely much more than those experts in the County Animal Husbandry Bureau. This is because he inherited his father's experience in raising chickens for more than ten years.

The next day, when Wang Shaodong went to the chicken coop again, he heard that the panting sound from the large group was much less.

Then the next day, Wang Shaodong drank the chicken with herbal soup with his father again, and at the same time, because the humidity in the chicken coop also dropped, Wang Shaodong was relieved of the overall situation.

The feed intake of the large group has increased, and everyone in the large group seems to be very energetic. The next step is to vaccinate again.

In this way, there is still half a month before the next vaccination.

The most important thing in raising chickens is to control the weight ratio. In the best chicken farms, small roosters can raise a pound of live chickens for every 1 taels of feed, so even if the price is lower, it is still profitable.And like broiler chickens, they can even grow a catty of meat with 8 taels of feed per catty.

To put it bluntly, almost all the chicken legs and chickens eaten in KFC Dexter are white-feathered meat chickens, which are not much different from eating chicken feed.

The novice farmers who first started raising chickens are considered successful if they can control the ratio of breeding weight to less than three catties.

The main factor affecting the weight ratio of breeding is large flock disease. Novice breeders lack experience in controlling temperature and humidity and identifying the health of large flocks. They often treat large flocks when they are sick, which will not only cause casualties due to late treatment, but more importantly The most important thing is that the ratio of rearing body weight has increased due to large groups of diseases.

大车走鸡价格长期来看应该在4块5到5块5之间的区间，而饲料一直在涨钱，2002年的时候鸡饲料差不多有1块钱一斤左右，然后到2016年的时候涨到1块8左右。

If one catty of live chickens is raised for every three catties of feed, the cost of feed alone will reach 3 yuan, plus the cost of chicklings, vaccine costs, chicken medicine costs, other costs, etc., plus about one yuan and five yuan, also That is to say, if the feeding weight ratio cannot be controlled within 3 catties, then raising chickens is not profitable.

The real high-level farmers are not how to treat chicken diseases, but how to prevent chicken diseases.

From feeding to slaughtering, if the large flock is healthy, the feed intake can keep up, and the management is easy, the feed-to-feed ratio will definitely drop.

1 catty 8 taels to raise a catty of live chickens, and the purchase price of the cart is more than 3 yuan and 3 cents, and there will be a profit.

Therefore, reducing the feed-to-feed ratio is the top priority for farmers, and the key to reducing the feed-to-feed ratio is to control large flocks to prevent chicken diseases. Epidemic prevention is the key, and prevention is the core.

Seeing the happy and healthy growth of his little chickens, Wang Shaodong believes that raising chickens scientifically and rationally is not such a troublesome thing.

Two weeks have passed, and the little chickens of the Wang family are growing very well, and they are not affected at all by the happenings of bird flu around them.

(End of this chapter)