Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields

"That's natural!" Lian Fangzhou said with a smile: "Otherwise, how can I manage such a wide area? I don't know where to go!"

Both of them are activists, and went back to discuss for a while that night, and they were just as ready to open the next day.

Since we plan to raise chickens, the chicken coop will naturally be built.

Lian Fangzhou also set aside a lot of flat land at the foot of the mountain in advance without reclaiming it into cotton fields just to build chicken coops. At this time, he hired people to get busy.

Two herringbone-shaped wooden sheds are expected to be built side by side, independent of each other. Each is about 13 meters long and 6 meters wide. It is also a wooden structure. The high roof is covered with cedar bark and is suspended half a meter from the ground. On the left and right, there are several wooden steps with a width of more than one meter connected.

The floor of each room was not sealed, but after the frame was built, it was nailed one by one with two-finger-wide sturdy long wooden strips, leaving a finger-wide gap between each two, so that it was closed in The feces inside the chickens that stay overnight can leak down the cracks. You only need to clean the feces underneath or on the movable bottom floor in the middle of the chicken coop with a special shovel with long handles. Open the left and right ten windows during the day for convection and ventilation. The chicken house is clean and the air is fresh, which can prevent the breeding of germs.

Considering that it is not convenient to mix small chickens with adult chickens, each room is specially separated with a smaller gap.

In addition to these two rooms, a smaller room was built for the hens to incubate their eggs and feed the newly born chicks.

The newborn chicks only need to be raised for ten and a half days before they can be changed to a room with a smaller gap between the two chicken coops.

On the ground next to the chicken coop, a number of flat areas with a length of one and a half meters and a width of one and a half meters each were specially built with smooth blue bricks, which were specially used to feed the chickens and distribute them around the coop so that the chickens would not be crowded when eating. one place.

Lian Fangzhou intends to raise two thousand chickens this year. It is enough to build two such chicken coops.

According to the original plan, she reserved two such chicken coops on the north and south sides of the mountain.Fruit trees have also been planted in the rest of the surrounding areas.

After the chicken house is built, she will sprinkle some herbs such as mint and wormwood all over the mountain and the foot of the mountain to prevent mosquitoes from breeding, and it is also good for the chickens to peck them.

The chicken coop was being built, and the fence began to be enclosed.In order to prevent weasels, wild mice, etc., Lian Fangzhou specially customized a two-and-a-half-meter-high barbed wire fence in the city. A masonry foundation about ten centimeters high was laid underneath, and barbed wire was installed on the masonry foundation.

Then, go to the Lin Family Orchard to buy some vine roses, plant them along the wire fence, and let these thorny roses climb along the wire fence. It is not only a beautiful scenery, but also shading and obstructing the outside view. Do several things in one fell swoop.

These tasks were arranged, and Qin Feng was ordered to send someone to follow up, so there was nothing wrong with Lian Fangzhou.

With the chicken coop, she must try to get chicken fry.

There are no modern hatcheries these days, and it's obviously not reliable to buy them from rural households.

Most of the hatched chickens will be raised by themselves, and the unhatched eggs will be collected and sold.Don't say people are willing to sell, even if they are willing to buy, how much can they have?It is not an easy task to buy two thousand and two hundred chicken fry.

Lian Fangzhou asked many questions, only to find out that there was a family in Xiaowang Village in the eastern outskirts of the county seat who knew kangji.

The so-called "Kang chicken" is a secret and unique skill. There are very few people who will meet. There are at most one or two people in a county, or even none.

This family named Wang in Xiaowang Village will have this for generations.

They have a specially built kang in their house. When they need kang chicks, they put the eggs in the kang one by one, and then incubate the eggs at the temperature transferred by the charcoal fire.

There is no other trick, everything depends on experience.

In this year when there is no thermometer and no equipment to rely on, it is not easy to maintain a temperature suitable for incubating eggs by feeling impartial.

Without twenty or thirty years of experience, it won't work.

Chicks cannot be hatched when the temperature is low, and chicks that are barely hatched have poor resistance and are usually difficult to feed, and seem to be not energetic enough.When the temperature is high, the breeding eggs will become oligarchs, and the chicks will not be hatched.

Today, the 50-year-old man in Xiaowang Village who is surnamed Wang is presiding over this event. Every year he takes his 30-year-old son as a follower.

Whenever there is a Kang chicken, Lao Wang’s head stays on the Kang all day, eating and drinking and Lazar almost never leave the Kang tou, just to feel the temperature of the Kang chicken at all times, not at all for 24 or 5 days. Maybe a good night's sleep.

When all the chicks were hatched, the old Wang with his beard and scum, his eyes sunken and flushed, and his haggard face was so haggard that he could sleep for three days and three nights in one breath!

The chickens from this kang are used to sell.People who need to buy chicks to raise them usually buy them in spring, so Laowangtou kang chickens are only in spring kang.

A little chicken can sell for eight to ten cents. In spring, three or four kangs are placed on the kang. If you remove the cost of buying eggs, you will have household money for almost a year.

When Lian Fangzhou, A Jian, and Lian Ze found his home, they heard that Lian Fangzhou had two thousand each, so Lao Wang had a little trouble.

His family can only have 700 kang chicks at a time. They were sold on a kang just now, and they have to rest for about ten days before they can continue.

Lian Fangzhou opened two thousand mouths. Although he wanted to make the money, he was helpless.

Lian Fangzhou hurriedly smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's just right! You just give me the kang three times! Don't worry, after the kang, you can rest enough before taking the next kang!"

Lian Fangzhou knows that this kind of meticulous work that is completely controlled by experience, people's mental state can only be adjusted to the best, otherwise, as long as there is a little deviation, it will be the end of the game.

Lao Wang was very happy, nodding his head and smiling again and again: "This is great, girl! This is no problem, I will be able to take a kang on a kang in a few days! When it is almost done, I will ask someone to send you a letter, and you will drive the car. Come and get it. I can prepare flat bamboo baskets at home, you just need to come!"

Lian Fangzhou was overjoyed and thanked him, and couldn't help but ask again: "Since you can Kang chicks, I wonder if you can Kang ducks?"

Old Wang was taken aback. This Kang chick was an ancestral skill. For so many years, father, father and son had never thought of it except for Kang chicks and Kang ducklings.

"This, really not..." Old Wang spread his hands and smiled, and said in his heart, "I'm ashamed!" Isn't it another way of making money if I thought that some ducklings on the kang would be sold?

But soon, Pharaoh did not regret that he had not thought of this way of making money.Because this thing is not so easy even if you want to give it a try.