Chapter 263 Chicken Coop

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

Both of them are actionists. They went back to discuss it for a while that night, and the same preparations were opened the next day.

Since you plan to raise chickens, the chicken coop is naturally covered.

Even Fangzhou had set aside a lot of flat land at the foot of the mountain beforehand, but he was preparing to build a chicken coop without reclaiming it into cotton fields, so he invited people to work.

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

The floor of each room was not sealed, but after the frame was built, it was nailed one by one with a two-finger-wide sturdy long wooden strip, leaving a finger-wide gap between each two. The chickens in it overnight can pull the feces and they can leak down the gaps. You only need to clean the feces with a special shovel with a long handle on the bottom floor or the movable bottom floor in the middle of the chicken house. The chicken house is clean and the air is fresh, which can prevent the breeding of germs.

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

In addition to these two rooms, a slightly smaller room was built separately for hatching eggs for hens and feeding newly born chicks.

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

On the ground next to the chicken coop, several flat grounds with a length and a width of one and a half meters are built with smooth blue bricks, which are specially used to feed the chickens, and are scattered around the chicken coop, so that the chickens will not be crowded when eating. one place.

Lian Fangzhou plans to raise 2,000 chickens to try this year, and 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. The rest of the surrounding areas are also planted with fruit trees.

After the chicken coop 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 also good for the chickens to peck.

Coops are being built and fences are starting to be drawn. In order to prevent weasels, wild mice, etc., Lian Fangzhou specially custom-made a barbed wire mesh up to two and a half meters in the city, and built a masonry foundation with a height of about ten centimeters below, and installed barbed wire on this masonry foundation.

Then, go to Lin's orchard to buy some vine roses, plant them along the barbed wire, and let these thorny roses climb up the barbed wire. It is not only a beautiful scenery, but also shading and blocking the outside sight. Do it all.

After these tasks were arranged, Qin Feng was ordered to send someone to follow up, and there was nothing to do 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 buy from households in rural areas.

Most of the chicks hatched by others are raised by themselves, and the eggs that are not hatched are saved and sold. Don't say that 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 enough chickens for 21,200.

Lian Fangzhou made inquiries from various sources, only to find out that there was a family in Xiaowang Village in the eastern suburbs of the county who knew how to cook kang chicken.

The so-called kang chicken is a secret skill that is not passed down. There are very few people who know it. There are at most one or two families in a county, or even none.

In Xiaowang Village, this family with the surname Wang will have this for generations.

They have a specially built kang at home. When chickens are needed, they put eggs into the kang one by one, and then incubate the eggs through the temperature passed by the charcoal fire.

There are no other tricks, it's all about experience.

In these years when there are no thermometers and no instruments to rely on, it is not easy to maintain a temperature suitable for hatching eggs by feeling impartial.

Without twenty or thirty years of experience, it is absolutely impossible.

If the temperature is too low, the chicks will not be able to hatch, and if the temperature is not high enough, the chicks that are barely hatched have poor resistance. Usually, it is difficult to feed them, and they do not seem to be energetic enough. When the temperature is high, the eggs will become oligarchs, and the chicks will still not hatch.

Today, the family of Wang in Xiaowang Village is his 50-year-old man who is in charge of this event.

Whenever the kang chicken is cooked, Lao Wangtou will sit on the kang all day long, eating, drinking and leasing almost without leaving the kang head, just to feel the temperature of the kang chicken all the time. Maybe get a good night's sleep.

After all the chicks hatched, the old man with a shaggy beard, sunken eyes, and an unbelievably haggard expression could always sleep for three days and three nights in one breath!

The chickens that come out of the kang are for sale. People who need to buy chickens to raise usually buy them in the spring, so Lao Wangtou Kang chickens are only cooked in the spring.

A chick can be sold for eight to ten cents. In the spring, there are three or four kangs. After removing the cost of buying eggs, there is almost a year's worth of household money.

When Lian Fangzhou, Ajian, and Lian Ze found his house, they heard that if Lian Fangzhou had 2,000 animals, Lao Wangtou would be in a bit of trouble.

His family can only cook 700 chickens on the kang at a time. He has just sold one of the kangs, and he has to rest for about ten days before continuing.

Lian Fangzhou opened his mouth for 2,000. Although he really wanted to make this money, he couldn't do anything about it.

Lian Fangzhou hurriedly said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's just right! You can divide the kang three times and give it to me! Don't worry, after one kang, it's enough to rest as usual, and then the next kang!"

Lian Fangzhou knows that this kind of delicate work is completely controlled by experience, and people's mental state can only be adjusted to the best before they can go wrong.

Old Wangtou was very happy, nodded and smiled again and again: "That's great, Miss Lian! It's no problem, I'll be able to have a kang in a few days! When it's almost over, I'll ask someone to send you a letter, 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 and thanked, and couldn't help but ask again, "Since you can cook chickens, I wonder if you can cook ducks?"

Old Wang was stunned for a moment. This kang chick is an ancestral skill. For so many years, father and son have never thought of kang chick as well as kang duck.

"This, I really don't have it..." Old Wangtou spread his hands and smiled, secretly saying "Ashamed!", if I had thought of this kang and some ducklings to sell, wouldn't it be another way to make money?

But soon, Lao Wangtou no longer regretted not thinking of this way of making money. Because even if you want to try it, it's not that easy.