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Chapter 316: Problems with Chick Hatching

"Your mushrooms look good. They can be rated as top grade. I never thought they can be grown!"

When the people from the supply and marketing cooperative came over and saw the mushrooms from each household in baskets, they were amazed.

"Thanks to Xiao Luo for coming up with this idea for us. Without him, we wouldn't be able to grow it. Comrade, what's the price?"

When Wang Fugui heard that it was a top grade product, he seemed very happy.

"2 cents for dry ones, cents for wet ones."

After looking at the mushrooms placed at the entrance of the village one by one, the comrade from the supply and marketing cooperative said.

"Okay, the price is fair, but you have to come here every day. This is only the first time the mushrooms have grown. From now on, the price will be more than this, not less."

Wang Luo nodded with satisfaction and approved the price.

They started weighing the goods on the spot. Each household could earn more than 3 yuan a day, and some could earn more than one yuan a day. This was a rare high income, and it was much more profitable than searching for wild goods in the mountains before. After all, it was not safe to go into the mountains, and there were dangers of snakes, insects, rats and ants.

The villagers were very happy because they had earned their first money today. In the evening, each household brought some food and drink to Wang Luo. Some gave him a pound of flour, some gave him a wild rabbit, and some gave him some dried mushrooms. Anyway, no one came empty-handed. Such a good income was all thanks to Wang Luo's help. Everyone was grateful. They knew that he had enough, but they had to show their appreciation.

This time of making money is a good start, and everyone feels that there is a future in following Wang Luo.

"Fourth Aunt, what are you doing with the eggs?"

Early in the morning, Wang Luo was planning to go to the orchard with Professor Yang and others. It was time to prune the fruit trees, and everyone went to learn. Wang Luo had nothing to do, so he went over there to join in the fun. He saw the fourth aunt next door walking home with a wicker basket carrying five or six eggs, so he asked curiously.

"The hens at home are sitting on eggs. We have nothing to do anyway, so we found a few fertilized eggs and plan to hatch a nest of chicks! The chicken farm that the village is going to build is public, so we can go and do some work. The few chicks that hatch at home are ours. We can keep them for laying eggs and exchange them for oil and salt. We can also kill them for meat during the Chinese New Year. We should save as much as we can!"

Fourth Aunt's answer was very logical. This was how it was in the countryside. People couldn't sit idle. They would make use of things wherever they could and save money wherever they could. Even if the village started to build large-scale breeding farms and various processing plants in the future, it would not prevent them from starting their own small side businesses.

"Oh, now that you mention it, I almost forgot about hatching the chicks. It would be useless to build a breeding farm without chicks. If we rely on external purchases and government help, then the daylily will be cold. We must also get the hatching part done, so that hatching, breeding, and processing can be integrated!"

Wang Luo patted his head, realizing that he was a little too proud of himself. He only imagined a bright future but forgot the most basic things and made a mistake.

Now is not as perfect as in the future. Feed processing and chick hatching are all handled by a one-stop service of a company. The farmer is only responsible for building the chicken house. The chick hatching must be put on the agenda. Hatching a batch by yourself and the state will help to provide a batch, so that a cycle will be formed in the future. After saying goodbye to the fourth aunt, Wang Luo did not go to the orchard to join in the fun. He went home directly and began to recall the problem of artificial hatching in the previous life.

At this stage, the most stupid way to hatch chicks is to have an old hen hatch them.

In rural areas, an old hen hatching chicks is called "brooding" or "lying in the nest". In February and March, the weather gradually warms up, and hens lay more eggs, usually one a day. If a hen lays eggs and lies in the nest for a long time without moving, you can't drive it out, and it whimpers and struggles when you catch it, and it refuses to get up; or if a hen doesn't like to eat or drink much, its feathers are dull, and it flutters its wings like it's sick and doesn't like to move around, and its body temperature is very high when it is easily caught, it means that this hen is brooding.

In a dimly lit and quiet corner of your home, prepare a cardboard box or basket, spread a thick layer of straw on the bottom, place the eggs to be hatched on the straw, and then place the brooding chickens in the nest, and the rest is up to it.

The hen in the nest first moved slowly to adjust her body, then began to look around, and gently used her mouth to bring the egg that was exposed outside her body under her ventral wing, so that it was completely covered under her wings, and then she began her sacred work there motionlessly day and night.

After about twenty-one days, the chicks will come out of the eggs. If the eggs do not react, they will not be able to hatch chicks.

At this point, the hen's task of hatching chicks is basically completed. During the first month, the hen has to take the chicks out to find food and protect them.

This is the dumbest method. Under normal circumstances, it is suitable for each household to hatch in this way. If a large-scale farm hatches in this way, the chickens will not be able to eat shit even when they are warm. The efficiency is too low. Can you catch a large number of hens? It is simply unrealistic.

The simplest way is artificial incubation, which is efficient and can hatch more chicks. The simplest way is electric incubation, but Wangjia Village has no electricity and people still use candles and oil lamps. Even if the electricity is connected, it is not that easy to do. The voltage is unstable and the power generation is low, so it is easy to have power outages. If we rely on this, we will not be able to hatch chicks.

We still take the most rustic method, which is to hatch chicks on the earthen kang. I still remember when I was a child, at the turn of spring and summer, there would be people in the countryside riding bicycles with camel baskets, collecting fertilized eggs from door to door and marking them. If the eggs could not be hatched, part of the money would be refunded. The main thing was integrity.

The hatched chicks can be sold. They are placed in a unique oval, shallow bamboo basket and sold in the countryside by shouting, "Chickens for sale, chicks for sale!"

The call is very unique, with a long tone. Everyone can tell that the chick seller has come. The housewives will go out and start choosing the chicks they like. They have to choose carefully because there are male and female chicks. If they choose a male, there is nothing they can do because they have poor eyesight and have to consider themselves unlucky.

Wang Luoke was too familiar with these things. His cousin's family did this in his previous life. When he was a child, he often went there out of curiosity to join in the fun. He would also take the unhatched eggs home, boil them with some salt, and eat them with the hair and meat together. This was called eating hairy eggs. In later generations, there were many places specializing in selling this. They cost more than one yuan or two yuan each, fried in oil and sprinkled with seasonings. They were really delicious when you took a bite. Of course, some people might find them disgusting. It depends on people.

The efficiency of incubation is relatively high. As long as the humidity and temperature can be controlled, there will be no problem at all. He spent his childhood in the incubation room of his cousin's house and can be said to know this very well.

I didn't expect that after traveling through time, I would be able to use this ability. It seems that there is no harm in learning more things. I don't know when I will be able to use it.

(End of this chapter)