Small quails should not be fed immediately after hatching, and should be fed with warm water one hour after hatching to replenish the water consumed in the body.

This is simple, there is boiled water in the thermos, put it for a day, it is not too hot, Zhou Shining took out his enamel jar, and got most of the boiled water in the tank.

First, I took a sip and tested the temperature.

Well, it's still a little hot, and the water for the quail doesn't need to be too hot, eighteen or nineteen degrees is enough.

She took the jar and shook it around the room twice, and after the water temperature was lowered, she took out the prepared canned caps, reached a shallow layer of water, and put the caps in the brooding box.

Then she began to prepare them for their first meal on earth.

She took out a wooden basin, scooped a small bowl of cornmeal from the noodle bag under the table, added a little oxytetracycline powder to it, and after stirring it well with her hands, she patted the dry powder on her hands and walked to the stove.

The fire of the stove was still relatively fast, and the steam had been bubbling for a while, so she lifted the lid of the pot and pressed the nest head on the grate with her hand, feeling that it was steaming, so she took out two chopsticks, inserted the thin end into the eye of the grate, and lifted the whole grate with one hand.

The rice porridge below has bloomed, and a red-skinned egg can be faintly seen rising and falling in the porridge pot.

She picked up a spoon and fished out the eggs inside, then scooped a scoop of cold water with a scoop of water and put the eggs in to cool down.

After a short while, she reached in and took out the egg, quickly smashed the shell, peeled the egg, and then with a force of both hands, the egg was broken in the middle, revealing the yellow-orange yolk inside.

Zhou Sining's goal was this egg yolk, walked to the wooden basin, and with both hands made a skillful move, the egg yolk fell into the basin, and was immediately wrapped in cornmeal, and then she threw the remaining egg whites in her hand into her mouth, chew it, chew it, and eat it.

Baby quails are weak when they are born and need nutrients, preferably in a diet high in protein.

In fact, maggot powder is the most ideal feed for feeding little quails, but now there is none, she can only save rations from her mouth to feed these little guys, I hope these little guys can understand her hard work, can grow up healthy and happy.

She reached into the basin, crushed the egg yolk, added a little water, stirred the cornmeal in the basin, and then carried the basin to the brooding box, and sprinkled the freshly mixed feed directly under the light bulb.

Of course, she didn't forget the few that were raised alone in the paper shell, and put some feed for them, so that they didn't have to compete with other quails, and hoped that they would be full.

Seeing the quails scrambling to peck at the feed, she was relieved to cover it with cotton cloth.

After serving these little ancestors, it was now her turn to eat.

It just so happened that the porridge was also cooked, and her breakfast was white rice porridge and a nest head.

At noon, Xiaoxia came home from school, and after a turn in the yard, she heard the quail cry in Zhou Sining's house.

"Auntie, are the quails you hatched out of the shell?" Xiaoxia didn't dare to enter the house, so she stood outside and shouted.

"yes, out of the shell. Zhou Sining was making clothes on the kang, and when he heard the voice, he replied without raising his head.

"Can I take a look then?" Children have no resistance to small animals, although Xiaoxia has high emotional intelligence, but after all, she is also a child, and she also likes these little things.

"Okay, come in. Zhou Sining rolled up the fabric in his hand and put it aside.

Xiaoxia heard that Aunt Zhou was happy, so she pushed the door and walked in.

"It's time to finish eating!" Zhou Sining asked casually.

The sister-in-law of the Sun family cooks early, and the children usually eat after school, so this point should be finished.

Sure enough, Xiaoxia nodded and replied, "After eating, have you eaten, auntie?"

"Eat. The two of them said to each other such a set of unnutritious sip, and then got to the point, "Come on, go to the kang, the little quails are all in this box." Zhou Sining pointed to the brooding box on the kang.

Xiaoxia immediately crawled over to look, "Ah, auntie, why don't you still light them and don't waste electricity?"

Although she likes small animals, thrift has been carved into her bones, so she can't help but exclaim when she sees that there is a light bulb on top of the box, and it is still on.

In her house, only when she and her eldest brother are doing their homework at night, the lights will be lit for a while, and they will not be turned on at other times. Aunt Zhou actually lit up the quails in broad daylight, what a waste.

"It's a waste, but the little quails are not easy to raise, and now the weather is too cold, and they can't live at this temperature, so I'd rather spend some electricity than light the lights, just to warm them, don't you see them all crowded under the lights." Zhou Sining explained to her.

"Can't you burn coal? Like that bucket of your eggs. Xiaoxia understood, but still had questions.

"It's okay, but electric lights don't just keep warm, quails grow faster with light. Zhou Sining expressed the meaning in the simplest words.

"Oh, I see. Although Xiaoxia didn't know why the quail grew so fast, she still nodded in understanding.

"Originally, I wanted my aunt to help me hatch a few little quails, and I would give the money, but now I think it's better to forget it. There's no way my mom could have asked me to light them every day. Xiaoxia lay next to the box and looked at the little quail chirping and felt cute, and looked at the electric light on it and felt extremely dazzling.

"I think you don't want to light them every day. Zhou Sining unceremoniously exposed her lies, the Sun family is the little girl who knows how to live the best.

"No one is the same, they can only be sold for a few dollars when they grow up, and how much electricity costs to light up every day, it is not cost-effective to raise them. Xiaoxia thinks so.

The current electricity bill is five cents a time, which is very expensive, like Xiaoxia's house, the smallest wattage bulb is installed, and the lights are turned on for a while at night, and the electricity is less than one kilowatt-hour in a month, which can make Xiaoxia feel distressed enough every month, if it weren't for the early darkness now, she would also save this money.

Of course, Zhou Shining also calculated that the current electricity bill was a bit expensive, so he replaced the 60-watt bulb with a 40-watt bulb, so that it took 25 hours to use one kilowatt-hour of electricity, and the little quails needed all day light for the first two days, and then a few hours a day.

"It depends on how you raise it, you raise more at a time, and the electricity bill is shared among each quail, and the price will be reduced. ”

"Isn't there a lot of food to feed if you raise more, that's also money. ”

Zhou Sining stopped talking, Xiaoxia was right. Therefore, if you want to make money, small-scale farming is definitely not possible, and you must breed in large quantities, so that there are not so many expenses to be shared.

"Auntie, when will these quails grow hard? Why don't you raise them first, and when they can run outside, they don't need to turn on the lights, I'm here to buy a few, okay?" Xiaoxia rolled her eyes and came up with an idea again.

Although she likes these little ones, she prefers the eggs they lay, if she raises a few of them, her mother and her brother will be able to make up for their bodies every now and then.

"Okay, why not, but it's expensive. The male quail is five cents a piece, and the female quail is a dime, we are all acquaintances, if you book now, I will give you a nine-percent discount, what do you think?" Zhou Sining said with a smile.

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