Picking Up a General to Plow the Fields Chapter 263: Chicken Coop

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"That's natural!" Lian Fangzhou smiled: "Otherwise, what can I do with 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 beforehand. It was not cultivated to become a cotton field and was ready to build a chicken house. At this time, he invited people to work.

The herringbone-shaped wooden shed is expected to be built side by side, independent of each other, each of which is about 13 meters long and about 6 meters wide. It is also a wooden structure, with a high top covered with cedar bark, off the ground. Hanging about half a meter in the air, there are several wooden ladders 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 wooden strips, leaving a finger-wide gap between each two. The chickens who stayed in it overnight can pull their feces and they 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, yes. Flow and ventilate, 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 small chickens with adult chickens, each room is specially separated by a small gap.

In addition to these two rooms, a smaller room was built for the hens to incubate their eggs and to 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 grounds with a length of one and a half meters and a width of one and a half meters each are specially built with smooth blue bricks, which are specially used for feeding the chickens and drinking water. As for being crowded in 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 the breeding of mosquitoes, and it is good for the chickens to peck them.

The chicken coop is being built, and the fence is starting to enclose it. In order to prevent weasels, wild mice, etc., Lian Fangzhou deliberately customized a two-and-a-half-meter-high barbed wire in the city. A masonry foundation about 10 cm high was also laid underneath, and barbed wire was installed on the masonry foundation.

Next, go to the Lin Family Orchard to buy some vine roses and plant them along the wire fence. Let these thorny roses climb along the wire fence. It is not only a beautiful scenery, but also shading and sheltering the outside. The sight can be described as a multitude of 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 is obviously unreliable to rely on scattered purchases from rural households.

Most of the chicks that are hatched are raised by themselves, and the eggs that are not hatched are 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 one hundred and two hundred chicken fry.

Lian Fangzhou asked many questions, only to find out that there is a family in Xiaowang Village in the eastern outskirts of the county seat who knows about Kangji.

The so-called kang chicken is a secret unique skill. Very few people will meet. There are at most one or two people in a county, or even none.

This family surnamed 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 age 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.

It will not work without twenty or thirty years of experience.

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

Now, 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 follow-up study.

Whenever there is a Kang chicken, Lao Wang’s head stays on the Kang for the whole day, eating and drinking Lazar almost never leave the Kang tou, just to feel the temperature of the Kang chicken at all times, for a full twenty-four or five days It's impossible to sleep peacefully in here.

After all the chicks are hatched, the old Wang with his beard and scumbag, his eyes flushed with sunken eyes, and his haggard face is so haggard that he can sleep for three days and three nights in one breath!

The chickens from this kang are for sale. People who need to buy chicks to raise 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 the spring, there are three or four kangs 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's head was a bit embarrassing.

His family can only have 700 kang chicks at a time. The kang has just been sold, and it will take about ten days to rest before it can continue.

Lian Fangzhou opened two thousand mouths. Although he wanted to make this 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 and then take another 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.

Old Wang was very happy, and nodded and smiled again and again: "This is great, even girl! This is no problem, I will be able to go on a kang bed in a few days! I will send you a letter when I am almost done. , You drive to 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 don't know if you can Kang ducks?"

Old Wang was taken aback. This Kang chick is an ancestral skill. For so many years, father and son have 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 just another way of making money if I thought that some ducklings on the kang would be sold?

But soon, Pharaoh no longer regretted not thinking of this way of making money. Because this thing is not so easy even if you want to give it a try.