"That's natural!" Lian Fangzhou smiled and said, "Otherwise, how can we manage such a wide area? I don't know where to go!"
Both of them are activists. They went back to discuss for a while that night, and they were all ready to leave the next day.
Since you plan to raise chickens, the chicken coop will naturally need to be built.
Even Fangzhou had set aside a lot of flat land at the foot of the mountain in advance, which had not been reclaimed into cotton fields, but was prepared to build chicken coops. At this time, he hired people to get busy.
It is expected that two herringbone-shaped wooden sheds will be built side by side, independent of each other, each about 13 meters long and six meters wide, and is also a wooden structure, with a tall top covered with fir bark, suspended half a meter above the ground There are several wooden steps with a width of more than one meter connecting the left and right sides.
The floor of each room was not sealed, but after the frame was built, they were nailed together one by one with two-finger-wide strong wooden strips, leaving a one-finger-wide gap between each two. The feces of the chickens staying overnight can leak down the gaps. You only need to use a special shovel with a long handle to clean up the feces at the bottom or the movable bottom floor in the middle of the chicken house. During the day, open the left and right ten windows for convection and ventilation. The chicken coop is clean and the air is fresh, which can prevent the breeding of germs.
Considering that it is not convenient to mix young chickens with adult chickens, each room has a special room with a smaller gap.
In addition to these two rooms, a slightly smaller room was built separately to incubate the hen's eggs and feed the newly born chicks.
The newborn chicks only need to be reared for ten days and half a month before they can be moved to a room with smaller gaps specially separated from the two chicken coops.
On the ground next to the chicken house, several flat areas of one and a half meters in length and width were purposely built with smooth blue bricks, specially used to feed the chickens and drink water, scattered around the chicken house so that the chickens would not be crowded when they were eating. one place.
Lian Fangzhou plans to try to raise 2,000 chickens this year, and building two such chicken coops is enough.
According to the original plan, she reserved two such chicken coops on the north and south sides of the mountain. The rest of the surrounding areas are also planted with fruit trees.
After the chicken coop is built, she sprinkles some herbs such as mint and wormwood all over the mountain and at the foot of the mountain to prevent the breeding of mosquitoes, and it is also good for the chickens to peck.
The chicken coops are being built and the fencing has begun. In order to prevent weasels and wild mice, Lian Fangzhou specially ordered barbed wire fences up to two and a half meters high in the city, and a masonry foundation about ten centimeters high was built underneath, and the barbed wire fence was installed on the masonry foundation.
Then, go to the Lin Family Orchard to buy some vine roses, plant them around the barbed wire, and let these thorny roses climb up the barbed wire. Countless in one fell swoop.
After these tasks were arranged, Qin Feng was ordered to send someone to follow up, so there was nothing wrong with Lian Fangzhou.
With the chicken coop, she had to find a way to get the chicks.
There are no modern hatcheries these days, and it is obviously unreliable to just buy from one family to another in the countryside.
Most of the hatched chickens are raised by themselves, and the unhatched eggs are saved and sold. Don't say people are willing to sell it, even if they are willing to buy it, how much can they have? It is not an easy task to buy enough chicken fry for two thousand one or two hundred.
Lian Fangzhou made many inquiries, only to find out that there was a family in Xiaowang Village on the eastern outskirts of the county who knew how to kang chicken.
The so-called kang chicken is a secret skill that is not passed on. There are very few people who know it. There are at most one or two families in a county who know it, or even none.
The family surnamed Wang in Xiaowang Village has known this for generations.
They have a specially built kang at home. When they need kang chicks, they put eggs into the kang one by one, and then hatch the eggs by the temperature transmitted by burning charcoal.
There are no tricks, it's all about experience.
In this year when there are no thermometers and no instruments to rely on, it is not easy to maintain the temperature suitable for hatching eggs just by feeling unbiased.
Without 20 or 30 years of experience, it will definitely not work.
If the temperature is low, the chicks cannot be hatched, and if the temperature is not enough, the chicks that are barely hatched have poor resistance and are usually difficult to feed, and they seem not energetic enough. If the temperature is high, the eggs will become widowed eggs, and no chicks will be able to hatch.
Now the Wang family in Xiaowang Village is the fifty-year-old man who is in charge of this matter, and takes his thirty-something-year-old son as a follower every year.
Whenever the kang rooster was on the bed, Lao Wangtou would nest on the kang all day long, eating, drinking, and lassing, almost never leaving the kang head, just to feel the temperature of the kang rooster all the time. Maybe get a good night's sleep.
When all the chicks hatched, the old Wangtou, who had a scumbag beard, red sunken eyes, and a haggard look, could always sleep for three days and three nights at a stretch!
The chicks that come out of this kang are for sale. People who need to buy chickens to raise usually buy them in spring, so Laowangtou Kang chickens are only cooked in spring.
A small chicken can be sold for 8 to 10 yuan. In spring, there are three or four kangs on the kang. After deducting the cost of buying eggs, there is almost a year's household money.
When Lian Fangzhou, A Jian, and Lian Ze found his home, they heard that Lian Fangzhou wanted 2,000 chickens, so the old man was a little bit in trouble.
His family can only kang 700 chickens at a time, and they have just sold one kang, and they have to rest for about ten days before they can continue.
Lian Fangzhou asked for 2,000 pieces. Although he really wanted to earn the money, there was nothing he could do.
Lian Fangzhou hurriedly laughed and said: "It doesn't matter, this is just right! You just divide the kang into three times and give it to me! Don't worry, after one kang, you'll have enough rest before going to the next kang!"
Lian Fangzhou is well aware of this kind of fine work that is completely controlled by experience. Only when one's mental state is adjusted to the best can there be no mistakes. Otherwise, as long as there is a slight deviation, it will all be lost.
Old Wangtou was very happy, nodded and smiled repeatedly: "That's great, Miss Lian! That's no problem, I'll be able to get on the kang in a few days! When it's almost over, I'll ask someone to deliver a letter to you, and you drive the car." Come and get it. I can prepare flat bamboo baskets at home, you just need to come!”
Lian Fangzhou was overjoyed to thank him, and couldn't help but asked again: "Since you can cook chickens, I wonder if you can cook ducks?"
The old Wang was stunned for a moment, this kang chicken is an ancestral skill, and father and son have not thought of it for so many years that there are kang chickens and kang ducks.
"Well, really not..." Lao Wang spread his hands and smiled, and said in his heart, "I'm ashamed!" Wouldn't it be another source of money to sell some ducklings on this kang
But soon, the old Wangtou didn't regret not thinking of this way of making money. Because even if you want to try this thing, it is not so easy.