industrial lord

Chapter 74 Raising Chickens
In addition to being an experimental field for Mathias, this farm also designated a place for Monofello to study the raising of livestock and poultry.

A while ago, Wesson imported a lot of livestock, and Monofello led his students to help manage them. He didn't have time to conduct his own research until autumn.

Frederick gave him a subject: artificial hatching of chickens and ducks.

It is very convenient to raise chickens and ducks in Weisen collar, with high ratio of meat to feed, capable of producing eggs, and short breeding cycle. Frederick still thinks about down jackets, so he puts them in the first place in development.

Frederick came to the yard where the chickens were raised, and saw a few teenage brothers and sisters moving wooden trays covered with thick cloth out of a room, and chickens could be heard from under the cloth. Voice.

A chubby lynx was lying on the side, looking at those fluffy chicks that seemed to be drooling.

It obviously has a previous conviction, and it is now wearing a bridle and tied to a nearby tree by a short rope.

Frederick went over to rub the chubby lynx's fat belly twice, and then walked into the room with the sign "Hatching Room".

The temperature in the incubation room was much higher than outside, the magic lamps were on, and there were many chicks on the kang ready to be moved out, and the cries were loud.

Monofello stood by the door and told his subordinates to quickly send the chicks to the warm chick room.

Frederick went over and asked: "It looks good, how long has it been used, and what is the success rate?"

In order to raise chickens and ducks on a large scale, artificial hatching must be activated, and it is not enough for hens to incubate chicks.

Frederick lit the kang and thermometer in winter, creating conditions for artificial hatching.

Monofello replied: "Incubate for 20 to [-] days, and the current success rate is close to [-]%."

"I ignored a problem at the beginning. If it was solved at that time, it would probably be more than [-]%."

"Oh?" Frederick asked curiously, "What's the question?"

Monofello made a flip gesture and said, "Turn the eggs, that is, flip the eggs every little bit."

"I arranged for different people to take care of the eggs. There was a girl who was very curious. She was fine a few days ago, but then she picked up each egg to check it every half a day before putting it back."

"The success rate of the eggs she takes care of is particularly high, close to [-]%."

"At first I thought it might be because the eggs had a higher success rate because they were turned and heated evenly."

"It seems to be the case. I went to see the hens hatching eggs yesterday, and found that the hens often turn over those eggs."

Frederick said sincerely, "Thank you for your hard work."

It was only on the way that he inquired with the young man who came to ask him to know that Monofello had spent a lot of effort on artificial incubation, and he specially drilled chicken coops with a thermometer to determine the incubation temperature.

Monofello said proudly with his hands on his hips: "Now I have a new goal in life, to make chicken available to everyone in the world."

Frederick smiled, unable to tell whether he was being funny or sincere, he said, "When your family arrives, I will give you a recipe for fried chicken nuggets. It will definitely be popular when you open a store."

This is how the New Weissburg Fried Chicken appeared. Later, the fried chicken that can be eaten for 10 copper coins has become synonymous with Friedrich's territory in some fields.

Frederick went on to say: "I think the efficiency of the heated kang alone is too low. It is better to make a large cabinet with wooden brackets inside like a drawer."

He drew a "" pattern in the air with light elements, and continued: "You can make a wooden frame like this, put an egg in each grid, and then connect a piece of magic muscle to let it slowly move horizontally every once in a while. Then you can turn the eggs automatically."

"I heard that Ogilvy's student who made a bimetallic thermometer came up with a temperature switch. You can discuss it with him to see if it can be used to automatically control the temperature in the large cabinet."

"You can also find BASF and ask him to make some transparent hard glue to install on the door, so that you can see what's inside without opening the door."

He had seen a commercial incubator on TV in his previous life, but he didn't know exactly what it was, so he could only "think about" something similar, and then slowly improve it.

Monofello was not familiar with machinery, but it sounded like the same thing. He nodded and said, "I'll ask Ogilvy later."

During the conversation, all the chicks in the incubation room were moved out, and the two came to a breeding room.

The temperature outside is still very low for the chicks. There is a stove burning outside the breeding room, and ceramic smoke pipes are passed in to heat the air here. There is also a bucket of water hanging on the pipe to increase the humidity.

The floor of the breeding room is covered with sawdust, so there is no need to clean it in the future, just shovel the compost.

The chick won't be able to eat until tomorrow, and he's still hungry.

Monofello took Frederick to the kitchen, where the fodder was being prepared, and the wooden barrels contained a dark brown potion in which crushed barley was soaked.

Monofello said proudly: "This is my unique formula, developed from the falcon's formula, and tried it on other chickens. Eating it every few days can reduce chicken sickness."

Frederick nodded and said, "That's good. Whenever a chicken gets sick, a lot of chickens will die."

"I heard that many years ago, before I was born, the chickens and ducks in several territories around us got plague and died."

Monofello thought for a while and said, "It happened about 12 years ago. At that time, a traveling nobleman ate sick chickens and ducks because of a falcon, and then died."

The two walked out of the kitchen while talking, and went to look at the chicken coop where the chickens were raised.

The chicken pen is a half-person-high earthen wall, with a shed on one side and fishing nets around it to prevent the chickens from flying away.

There are a few houses next to it, which raise worms to feed chickens.

Frederick looked at the chickens eating worms, and asked again, "Do chickens only eat worms?"

Monofello shook his head with a smile and said, "No, besides the worms, they are also fed with pasture, wheat, and the residue left over from making Wessen sugar, and the chickens that lay eggs are also fed with bone meal."

"I will mix herbs in the feed, so that they can eat more and grow faster."

Frederick smiled and said, "It's better to make them all as chubby as Chihi."

"I'm really convinced. The average lynx weighs more than 20 kilograms. How did you raise it to almost [-] kilograms?"

Monofello smiled helplessly, ignored the question, and said, "Now we gather the strongest chickens and the chickens that lay the most eggs as breeders, hoping to get chickens that lay more eggs and have more meat in the future."

Frederick nodded after listening, that's not bad.

"Principal," Monofolo suddenly asked a little nervously, "Are you free recently?"

Frederick replied strangely: "I'll go to Lore at the end of the month, what's the matter?"

Monofello hesitated and said, "We have something to discuss with you, it's very important."

(End of this chapter)