Return to the small mountain village in 1986

Chapter 418 Cute little chick
After a few busy trips to collect goods, the barbed wire fence was all in place.Gao Mingcheng called Chen Dasong and others to work again.

Xiaofu Mountain is not big, but it is not small either. If you want to surround the entire mountain, you will need a lot of barbed wire. This amount of money is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Chen Dasong looked at the bundles of barbed wire, his eyes a little straight, and he couldn't help but said: "How expensive is it to buy this thing! In fact, it is also possible to weave bamboo into a fence."

Gao Mingcheng waved his hand and said grandly: "If you can get it right in one step, just do it in one step!"

When villagers grow vegetables in their own yards, in order to prevent the vegetables from being pecked by chickens, they will weave bamboo fences to surround the vegetable fields.

But trying to build a fence that can surround a mountain is also a hassle.

There happened to be no bamboo in the mountainous area where he and many cents went, so he would definitely have to spend money to buy it from the villagers, and he would also have to hire someone to weave a fence. What a hassle!

Now, once the barbed wire fence arrives, all you need to do is drive a wooden stake at a certain distance to secure it.

Fortunately, there is enough wood. Even if it is not enough, some miscellaneous trees can be cut down from the mountains on the spot.

So everyone divided the work and cooperated. Some were digging holes at the front, some were driving wooden piles, and some were holding barbed wire fences.

Each piece of barbed wire is only ten meters long, so the places where two pieces of wire mesh are connected must be tied up with wire. This way, there will be no loopholes and the chickens trapped in the mountains will not escape.

Looking at the bare barbed wire, Gao Mingcheng wondered what to plant on both sides of the barbed wire. Naturally, his first choice was vines, so that the vines could spread and grow along the barbed wire.

Several suitable plant names flashed through his mind. In fact, growing wolfberry is good, but wolfberry is not suitable for planting here.

After excluding wolfberry, honeysuckle came to mind.

Honeysuckle is a vine that is native to their region and can be seen everywhere in the mountains and on barren slopes.

Around the Qingming Festival, there are countless honeysuckles blooming in the mountains. People in the village will take the opportunity to pick some and dry them. At that time, they can either soak them in water for drinking or sell them for money.

Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is mainly used to treat exogenous wind-heat or febrile fever, heat stroke, dysentery, carbuncle, sore throat, and various infectious diseases.

Therefore, in summer, villagers drink honeysuckle water to prevent heatstroke.

In addition to honeysuckle, golden cherry blossoms are also a good choice. Golden cherry blossoms are sugar bowls and are a snack often eaten by children in the village.

Golden cherry has the effects of consolidating sperm and reducing urination, consolidating collapse and stopping vaginal discharge, astringent intestines and stopping diarrhea.It is often used to treat spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea, enuresis and frequent urination, metrorrhagia, vaginal bleeding, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.

Honeysuckle and golden cherry are two plants that, in addition to being medicinal, can also provide honey sources for bees.

Especially Jin Yingzi, who grows thorns all over her body and climbs behind the barbed wire fence, which can also scare the little boys a little.

Gao Mingcheng was thinking about it in his mind, but it was impossible to get it done right away.

Because there is no nursery specializing in this kind of business in their county, if you want to transplant, you can't buy a large number of seedlings at once. You can only dig them in the mountains slowly and then transplant them.

Thinking of transplanting, Gao Mingcheng thought again of the Polygonatum seedlings he planted last year.

After a year of growth, this batch of Polygonatum seedlings can be transplanted to the mountains this spring.

Polygonatum prefers shade, so transplant them to the shade and they will be ready for harvest in two or three years.The reason why it takes so long is because this batch of Polygonatum japonica is propagated by seeds. If the rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum is directly used for propagation, the Polygonatum odorifera can be harvested within one or two years after transplanting the rhizome.

It takes a long time to grow Polygonatum japonica, but fortunately it is also valuable, so Gao Mingcheng is willing to plant a batch. Even if he doesn't sell it, he can use it to stew himself and eat it. Isn't it quite delicious?

After working hard all day, the barbed wire fence was finally pulled up.

Gao Mingcheng stood by the pond at the foot of the mountain, looking at the newly built shed and chicken coop, and then at the brand new barbed wire fence, feeling proud.

He thought that when his son grew up, he could pick fruits and eggs in the orchard, and if he wanted, he could catch a chicken and kill it.

He also thought that when his kindergarten is opened in the future, he can bring all the children to the orchard and let them experience the fun of picking fruits.

This can be regarded as a small feature of his kindergarten. It focuses on organic vegetables and organic fruits. This is not very noticeable now, but if it is left in the future, it will be a breakthrough point.

Just thinking about this, he turned his attention to his house at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.

When he first built the house, in order not to be high-profile and arouse suspicion, he built it haphazardly. Apart from the kitchen, toilet, bathhouse and miscellaneous room, there were only three main rooms in total.

But as the children grow up, this room will definitely not be enough, so another house will have to be built.

Fortunately, he asked for a large piece of foundation at the beginning, because he was the only one living here, and he spent money to lay it out, so the extra foundation was enough for him to build another house of about [-] square meters.

If it's not enough, you can also ask the village committee to approve some more foundations. Anyway, it's easier to do things if you have money. "Mingcheng, go back to eat." Chen Dasong stood on the roadside and shouted to Gao Mingcheng.

During these days of working in the village, Gao Mingcheng ate at Chen Dasong's house for convenience. His wife's craftsmanship was good and the family was enthusiastic. After Gao Mingcheng paid for the food, he ate here.

In the past, he would eat at Grandma Xi's house, but the old village was far away after all.

At the dinner table, Aunt Liu said to Gao Mingcheng: "I asked people about it, and there are people in Kengli Village and Junling who hatch chicks for sale. Now, if those families add up, they have more than 100 chicks. Mingcheng, just drive the tractor to their house tomorrow and buy it."

Gao Mingcheng nodded and said, "Okay. I'm sorry to bother you, aunt."

Aunt Liu quickly said politely: "What's the trouble? It's just a matter of saying something."

Aunt Liu detailed the addresses of those who were selling chicks, and then said: "Mingcheng, I'd better go shopping with you tomorrow. I'll give you a selection so you don't get bad ones. . Besides, if you don’t know how to choose, someone might sell you a rooster as a hen.”

Gao Mingcheng thought about it and felt that he was really not very good at choosing chickens. The chickens he raised at home before were all chickens bought by Duomei.

So he nodded and agreed: "Okay, I'll ask my aunt to help me choose. I'll probably buy a hundred hens and ten roosters. It depends on how much stock they have."

After settling the matter, Gao Mingcheng drove his tractor and took Aunt Liu to buy chickens early the next morning.

They went to buy chickens, while Chen Dasong and his son went to the chicken coop. They had to cover the windows of the chicken coop with plastic sheets, and then started to light a fire at the fire crossing, so that the temperature inside the chicken coop would slowly increase. Get high.

About an hour later, Gao Mingcheng returned home with a full load. More than 100 chickens were pulled on the bed of the tractor.

The bed of the cart was laid with dry straw in advance, so the chicken would not be easily injured due to bumps when placed on it.

These chicks are not just hatched, but have been raised for a few days, so they are relatively large, making it easier to feed them when they are bought back.

If it is a specialized chicken farm, then the chicks they buy are just hatched from the egg incubator and then transported to the chicken farm.

Such chickens are too small and are prone to illness and death, so at the beginning, the chickens need to be fed medicine, pour the relevant medicine into Liangbaikai, and then give it to the chickens.

After a while, the chicks will be vaccinated so that they are less likely to get sick.

With medicines, vaccinations, and feed, the chicks are growing!

The average three-yellow chicken can be sold after about three months of raising. There is also a kind of fast-growing chicken that only takes 68 days. The meat quality of this kind of chicken is slightly worse.

If chickens are raised for [-] days, then the chicken farm can raise three batches of chickens a year. However, as soon as each batch of chickens is sold, the chicken farm must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected immediately, and then the second batch of chickens can be raised. Granted, after a year like this, people will be very tired and basically just spinning around.

Of course, this is the way ordinary chicken farms are raised in later generations. The chickens raised by Gao Mingcheng are not the kind of feed chickens, but free-range chickens, also called native chickens.

After he bought his chickens, he put them free-range in Xiaofu Mountain. In the early stage, he fed them fine bran, broken rice, and chopped vegetable leaves. Later, it became easier, and he just let the chickens roam the mountain in search of food.

There are pheasants in the mountains, so it is okay to raise more than 100 chickens in a small mountain of [-] acres. At worst, when there is little food in the mountains, they can be fed artificially.

The tractor stopped near the chicken house. In order to facilitate management and transportation, the chicken house was built not far from the roadside.

He first walked to the chicken coop and felt the temperature inside.

The fire had just been burning for a short time, and the temperature inside had not yet completely risen. However, it was already April, and the temperature was not that low.

Gao Mingcheng brought a bamboo basket, put the chicks in, and then moved them to the chicken coop.

The chicken coop was covered with dry straw, the water basin contained cold boiled vegetables, and the trough contained some broken rice and chopped vegetable leaves.

In order for the chickens to survive smoothly, in addition to feeding medicine, other clever processes have been taken into consideration.

Chen Dasong and his son also came to help, and soon all the chickens were moved to the chicken coop.

The chickens had just changed their environment and were huddled together, chirping.

Most of them still have yellow fluff, and each chick is cute and cute. This may be the cutest time in a chicken's life. When it grows up and changes its feathers, it will be ugly, but when the fur color becomes shiny, then Become beautiful again.

Especially the big rooster, colorful and majestic.

The hens are also different. Some are reed chickens, some are pure black chickens, and some are white chickens.

But no matter what color the feathers are, as long as the chicken tastes good, there's nothing wrong with it!
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