Eco Farm by Farmers on the Fly

Chapter 28: Chicken Farm

The next day, Thursday, was the day when Tagawa and Professor Lang made an appointment to go back to their hometown to see the chicken farm, and Tagawa drove to Professor Lang's hometown in the morning. Professor Lang brought his two graduate students, a man and a woman, with him.

Tagawa asked Professor Lang to help him drive the Passat with the girl, and he drove the Land Cruiser himself, and took the boy from Yongyang to the highway, and then after a 20-minute country road, he came to the forest chicken farm under construction.

The fence and small bridge of the chicken farm have been built, two excavators are digging fish ponds, and a group of workers are leveling the foundations and preparing to build a house. His father, Tian Jianguang, received a call in advance and was already waiting at the construction site.

Tagawa introduced Professor Lang and his father, and then took Professor Lang and his party for a walk along the woods and depressions. Professor Lang asked the two students to take soil and water samples from the site and prepare to go back for testing.

After a brief visit, Professor Lang said to Tian Chuan: "The environment here is still good, I am personally more optimistic about your pollution-free egg production in the forest, the key to the success of this project is still sales, how to make consumers believe that your pollution-free eggs are the decisive factor." ”

Tagawa was not worried, and replied, "I don't plan to sell my eggs through the usual channels, but use a membership-based direct sales model. The main customer groups are the city's high-end consumer groups, including some government officials, as well as mid-to-high-end club members. Selling points that attract customers include open site tours and Agricultural University signboards, as well as the credibility of recommenders. ”

At this time, Professor Lang pointed to the fish pond being excavated and asked, "What are these fish ponds going to raise?" Tian Chuan replied: "Raise soft-shelled turtles and some common fish, and at the same time provide a waterside activity space for chickens by the pool." ”

At this time, Professor Lang raised a more serious question: "Where are your chicks going to be raised? Are they in these houses?" Tian Chuan had thought about this question before, and then it occurred to him that in the coming winter, the newly hatched chicks would not be able to survive outdoors. He hurriedly asked Professor Lang, "Do you have any good suggestions?"

Professor Lang said: "The more common way is to build a chick coop, or build a greenhouse as a chick coop. Personally, I prefer greenhouses so that I can grow something when the chicks grow up and don't waste space. Moreover, during the day, it can be heated and disinfected by sunlight, which can reduce some heating costs and ensure that the chicks are healthier. ”

Tagawa immediately revised the construction plan, and directly raised the two plots of land that were originally planned to be dug into fish ponds to build a chick greenhouse. Professor Lang has ready-made chick greenhouse drawings in his hands, and he only needs to construct according to the drawings.

Tian Jianguang heard about this on the side and said: "The family is building an earthworm greenhouse, just hand over the chick greenhouse to them." ”

Several people did not delay and drove directly to the plot where the greenhouse was being built. The Tian family changed all the land to the high ground in the north of the village after the autumn harvest, the water here is inconvenient, it is a relatively poor land, and the exchange with people is very smooth, at this time the greenhouse of 7 acres of land has been under construction, the foundation has been sorted out, it can be seen that there are a total of 5 sheds. The back wall of the greenhouse is being built, the keel has been transported, and it will be built in a few days.

Tian Chuan pointed to the greenhouses and introduced to Professor Lang, "These greenhouses are all built by my family, and the bait demand for chicks in the first season is not large, so I am going to raise earthworms in two sheds, and the other three sheds are used to grow vegetables, and I can also catch up with the peak season of the Spring Festival." ”

Professor Lang suggested that Tagawa raise more earthworms, saying: "Earthworms are an excellent animal protein feed, which can be used to feed poultry, fish, and even cattle and sheep and other livestock. In fact, I recommend that you process most of the earthworms into dry products and use them as feed with cereals, which is better than fresh feeding. ”

Tian Chuan shook his head and said: "I still have to feed more fresh earthworms, which will attract more attention and be beneficial to sales." ”

Professor Lang said helplessly: "It seems that scientific and healthy breeding methods are not fully applicable to pollution-free food production, and there is no way to consider gimmick factors." ”

Professor Lang gave Tian Chuan another suggestion, that is, while it is just autumn and all kinds of wild insects have not disappeared, catch a batch in a hurry, freeze it or make it into dry products, and leave it for feed in winter and spring. Tian Chuan was very much in favor of this genius's idea, and when he asked about the method of catching and preserving it, Professor Lang said: "I only knew that there were insect attraction lamps for breeding farms, but I didn't know how to capture them efficiently." ”

Tagawa asked, "How effective are the insect lights?" and what are the types?"

As a breeding expert, Professor Lang immediately introduced the common types of insect inducer lamps to Tian Chuan, in fact, there are three categories in total, one is the most common ultraviolet lamp, which is effective for most insects and arthropods. The second is animal hormone attraction, which can attract insects of the opposite sex with special sex hormones. The third is the infrared light source attraction method, which is more effective in the environment with slightly lower temperatures. Professor Lang also told Tagawa that ordinary lights can only attract insects to the vicinity, but there is no good way to catch them.

Tagawa thought for a moment and said, "You can consider using the high-voltage shock method, setting up a pulsed high-voltage power grid around the light to kill or stun the insects that are attracted, and setting a funnel-shaped collector underneath to catch them. It's not complicated, and it should be ready in two days. While the weather is not too cool now, you can also catch a batch of bugs. ”

In addition, Professor Tian also suggested that Tian Chuan plant alfalfa or other feed plants in one of the greenhouses to provide fresh plant feed for the chickens in winter, but Tian Chuan disagreed, saying: "I can buy a large number of Chinese cabbage to feed the chickens, which is more cost-effective than planting a shed of alfalfa, which is too wasteful." ”

Professor Lang smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "I don't think about the cost, it seems that there is still a lack of practice." ”

Finally, when it comes to the selection of chicken breeds, Professor Lang prefers traditional chai chicken, saying that this kind of eggs are more attractive. However, Tagawa believes that the production cycle of firewood chickens is long, the individual is small, the egg production is small, and the feeding cost is too high, and he hopes to breed and produce varieties with more eggs quickly. Tagawa believes that the variety is not important, and the selling point of pollution-free eggs is health, as long as the health and pollution-free are guaranteed, it will be fine. In the end, after discussion, Tagawa decided to breed three varieties at the same time, including traditional chai chicken, Bailaihang chicken and Yisha brown chicken, as the first batch of exploration.

The firewood chicken is adaptable and rich in healthy gimmicks, but the cost is high and the capital is tied up for a long time. The Isha brown chicken lays many and large eggs, and has a stable personality, but it is slightly less resistant in the natural environment. Bailaihang chicken is medium in size, lively in character, and has a good egg production, and dares to fight when encountering foreign enemies, but it is easy to blow up the group, and it is easy to fight each other to injure or even die.

Tagawa raised a few chickens as a first year's exploration, and waited until the following year to adjust.

After determining the various details of the chicken farm, the time had reached more than 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone's stomachs began to growl, and Tagawa invited Professor Lang and a few people to his home, where his sister and mother had already prepared lunch. It can be seen that Professor Lang is very satisfied with this chicken farm in Tagawa, agrees to help him develop breeding technology, and agrees to sign the contract after returning to Beijing.

The lunch was very rich, with seafood and game stored in the freezer, as well as vegetables grown by the farmers themselves, as well as tofu and stewed pot in the local characteristics of the "eight bowls", and the wine was the imperial style, Professor Lang was very satisfied with the food, and joked that he would come often in the future, and Tian's mother happily agreed next to him: "Usually the house is deserted, Professor Lang, you must come to eat at home if you have practical activities in the future." Now the house is small, and when the new house is built after the New Year, you can live at home. ”

The family's new house is already under construction, and it is expected to be topped out in about a week, which is much faster than planned. After the meal, Tagawa went to the construction site of the new house to take a look, met with the supervisor again, and was quite satisfied with the overall progress and quality.

In the afternoon, Tagawa drove Professor Lang back to the capital with three teachers and students, and left the Passat at home for his parents to drive. As soon as the car arrived in Yongyang, before he got on the highway, Tian Chuan received a call from Liu Xiaojun, saying that Mr. Zhou Changjiang was sick with pancreatic cancer and was now living in the county hospital, and asked him when he would go to see it. When he was in high school, Mr. Zhou treated Tian Chuan very well, Tian Chuan had a deep relationship with him, and when he was still in the mood to return to Beijing, he parked the car on the side of the road and asked Professor Lang to drive back by himself, he wanted to see Mr. Zhou. Professor Lang was very moved by this and asked Tian Chuan to drive to the county hospital before driving back to Beijing by himself.

Tian Chuan followed the address Liu Xiaojun said and found Teacher Zhou's ward. Teacher Zhou was infusion, and only his wife was taking care of him at the bedside. Tian Chuan quietly walked to the bed, and saw that Teacher Zhou was much thinner than when he saw him during the summer vacation, and there was no flesh on his face, which was not fat, and the shape of a skeleton was faintly outlined under the loose skin, which made people feel inexplicably sad.

It was a large ward for 8 people, and there was a strange smell wafting in the room, which was mixed with the smell of disinfectant water, and it smelled very uncomfortable. At this time, the master seemed to feel Tagawa's presence, and when she looked back at him, she hurriedly stood up and gave Tagawa the stool she was sitting on. Teacher Zhou opened his eyes when he heard the voice, saw Tian Chuan, and said angrily: "Xiaojun told you that, right? I repeatedly told him not to tell you, why didn't you listen." You came over today and missed class, didn't you?"

Tian Chuan said with a smile: "Teacher Zhou, I happened to accompany Professor Lang of the school to Yongyang to inspect the practice base today, and I heard that you are sick, so I will hurry up and take a look." How are you feeling right now? What did the doctor say?"

Before Mr. Zhou could answer, he heard a nurse at the door shouting: "14-bed Zhou Changjiang, it's time to pay, you have been in arrears for a day, and if you don't pay the fee, you will stop taking medicine tomorrow." ”

Mrs. Zhou agreed with some hesitation, and Tian Chuan said, "Okay, I'll go right away." At this time, Teacher Zhou on the bed said, "Don't pay the money, I will be discharged from the hospital today." This disease cannot be cured, and it is spent in vain. ”

Tian Chuan asked Mrs. Zhou: "Can't the school's medical insurance pay, why is it so difficult?"

Mrs. Zhou sighed: "You have to pay it yourself first." I don't have a job, my children go to school and spend almost all of the family's savings, and when I was just hospitalized, the school came to condolence and gave me 2,000 yuan, which has been spent. I borrowed money from relatives, but I haven't heard back yet. ”

Tian Chuan said: "Don't worry, with us, there is always a way." I'll go and pay the money first, and I'll talk about the rest when I get back. With that, despite Mr. Zhou's obstruction, he went to the inpatient hall to pay the fee.

He had more than 10,000 yuan in cash with him, and he paid 10,000 yuan first, and when he was waiting for the receipt, he heard someone running into the hall in a hurry and coming behind him. Looking back, it was Liu Xiaojun.

Liu Xiaojun was holding a stack of money, and when he saw Tian Chuan, he didn't expect him to come to the hospital so quickly. Tian Chuan said: "I was in Yongyang when you called, and I was about to get on the highway to go to the capital, so I came directly to the hospital." What are you?"

Liu Xiaojun said: "This is not to help Teacher Zhou pay some money, Teacher Zhou is very difficult. You're not here to help Mr. Zhou pay the money, are you?"

Tagawa nodded: "Yes." Mr. Zhou has given us too much, and we have to do our best at this time. I just paid 10,000 yuan, and it should be able to be used for a few days. The level of the county hospital is too poor, don't pay your money first, we will transfer Mr. Zhou to the big hospital in the city as soon as possible. ”

After taking the receipt, the two walked to the ward, and discussed Mr. Zhou's condition on the way, but neither of them was clear, so they decided to ask the doctor about the situation first. I went to the doctor's office and found the attending doctor, who judged that it was pancreatic cancer and needed surgery, and he was not optimistic about the situation after the operation.

Back in the ward, Tian Chuan said to Mrs. Zhou: "The level of the county hospital is not reassuring, and we recommend transferring to the cancer hospital in the city." I heard that there is a Director Wang in the Municipal Cancer Hospital, who has a very high level of surgery, and a Director Liu who does interventional treatment, who is also very powerful, and both are experts who enjoy the State Council allowance. I'll ask someone and try to get to them. ”

Liu Xiaojun said: "There was a classmate named Zhang Shuai in our class, who was also a student of Mr. Zhou, and he was a doctor in the Municipal Cancer Hospital, so I contacted him. ”

Teacher Zhou was still worried about the cost, but Tian Chuan and Liu Xiaojun comforted him and said, "You don't have to worry about the cost, we have it." Liu Xiaojun also pointed at Tian Chuan and joked: "This is a rich man, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars is drizzle for him, and it doesn't hurt." ”

After comforting the two old men for a few words, they left the ward, Liu Xiaojun called his classmate Zhang Shuai, and Tian Chuan called Li Tao and asked him for help. Zhang Shuai didn't have a mobile phone, Liu Xiaojun paged, but he didn't see a reply for a long time, and Tian Chuan's phone was connected first. Li Tao did not know anyone in the Municipal Cancer Hospital, so he promised to help contact him.

At this time, Tian Chuan said to Liu Xiaojun: "Let's contact the students separately, so that everyone can do their best." Liu Xiaojun also agreed, so the two called their classmates separately and asked the classmates who made the call to relay the news to others.