The matter of raising chickens was decided in this way, and then the matter of raising rabbits Lin Quan discussed with Denise and felt that he could also try to do it, he may not be able to raise too much in the first year, after all, rabbits can't be raised free-range like chickens, and it is estimated that they will not be able to catch them back after free-range breeding, and if they are intensively raised, just changing what they eat and feeding them water and cleaning up the excrement they produce is a lot of labor, and the farm has to recruit people!

So Lin Quan decided to breed a small amount first, try the water, and wait until he summed up the experience, and then put in a little more!

In this way, the farm has to recruit workers recently, and this time the target of recruitment is not five big and three rough men, but women who can do some fine work. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The basic education in Niger is not very good, and vocational training is impossible to talk about, so the recruited workers need to be trained, and these trainings are actually very simple, mainly to teach them some basic language and precautions, after all, this is a rural wilderness, and they cannot be required by the standards of a five-star hotel.

These things should be done sooner rather than later, and when the rainy season arrives in May, there is probably no time to deal with them.

But it's better to raise rabbits, these things can eat grass, and the soybean leaves and other plants on the farm are enough for them to eat, after all, Lin Quan doesn't plan to raise a lot.

But chickens are different, this thing eats grass is grass, but just eating grass is definitely not good, and chickens are actually degraded from birds, they also have wings, can fly short distances, which shows that their ancestors are birds, like pheasants in the wild, this thing can fly very far, although because of the size is too large, so it does not fly as far as the real bird, the main migration still relies on two small short legs, but their characteristics are actually birds.

Birds have a special digestive system, they have no teeth, so they don't chew food, they generally poke it directly in their mouths, and then they put it in their stomachs.

The stomach of birds is divided into two parts: glandular stomach and muscular stomach; glandular stomach has a thin wall, rich digestive glands, which can secrete a large amount of digestive juices to digest food; the outer wall of the muscular stomach is a well-developed muscle layer, and the inner wall is a hard cuticle. Although this grit is indigestible and has no nutritional value, it can help birds increase the friction in the stomach (the structure of the stomach is really powerful, not afraid of being worn through), making the food easier to grind and then be dissolved and absorbed by digestive enzymes!

The stomach of birds is estimated to have been seen, some people may have eaten, in Hunan cuisine, there is a dish called pickled pepper chicken offal, the main ingredient of this dish is the stomach of the chicken, that is, the muscle stomach, if the person who has killed the chicken may return, this thing is actually quite thick, the things inside are more miscellaneous, including what and chaff, when feeding chickens in the countryside, it is not rice, but rice, and the rice people can't digest it when they eat it, but for birds, this is not a difficult thing.

There are several main reasons why you want to eat grain for chickens instead of rice.

First, grain is cheaper than rice, and rice needs to be sent to the rice mill for mechanical hulling, which costs money, while rice does not!

Second, rice is larger than rice at the same weight, so feeding less grain can make the chickens feel full (their stomachs are full), and then they can reduce their consumption of food.

Third, grain is more difficult to digest than rice, and the main stability of chaff is cellulose, which cannot be digested by humans, and birds can only digest partially, so this reduces the number of times birds eat. And the rest of the food, the chicken can go to eat some omnivorous supplements, so the cost of raising chickens is reduced.

Birds are characterized by strong digestion and fast digestion. This is the reason why birds eat a lot of food and eat frequently all day long. For example, the food eaten by passerine birds in a day is about 10~30% of their body weight, and the amount of food eaten by sparrowhawks in a day is about 33~66% of their body weight.

Lin Quan raised chickens when he was a child and knew that their food was terrifying!

In the countryside, 20 free-range chickens need at least two catties of grain a day to eat, and the capacity of the chicken's muscles and stomach is only less than 50 grams, and two catties of grain are enough to fill them full, but this is not enough, they may eat more things outside than at home.

It's really hard to say how much food does a chicken need a day, but captive chickens need about 300 grams of feed, which fluctuates according to the size of the chicken, while free-range chickens are about 150-200 grams.

Lin Quan's farm can receive about 80,000 tourists throughout the winter, and on average, if one out of ten tourists eats on the farm, he needs to entertain 8,000 tourists, and because there is no pork here, chicken is the staple food.

So these 8,000 people will consume at least 4,000 chickens!

And 4,000 chickens need to consume 700 kilograms of food every day, and they can eat 20 tons a month, which is more than the number of grain consumed by farm workers combined, and the farm does not grow grain, and the rice eaten is imported from the south, according to the current market price, a pound of rice is 2 yuan, 20 tons is 80,000 yuan a month, and the final sale of 4,000 chickens has not yet been counted, and this chicken raising costs 80,000 yuan a month, which is a blood loss! Lin Quan couldn't be so extravagant!

However, it is not realistic to grow crops by yourself, because the income of crops is not as good as that of economical plants, and it takes a lot of water to grow crops, which is not groundwater, but surface water.

Unlike plants, crops have shallow root systems, not to mention whether they can survive in desert areas, even if they do, because their root systems are too short to absorb groundwater, so their water is all watered by hand.

For wheat may be better, the need for water is not as much as rice, but the land here is relatively poor, sandy land is not suitable for growing crops, wheat is not heat-tolerant, the temperature in the desert area during the day is as high as more than 30 degrees, in this case, whether wheat can survive is a problem, so they don't need to think about it.

As for the rice suitable for planting at this temperature, Lin Quan has no paddy fields at all, although rice can be planted in dry land, but it also needs a lot of water, he does not have such land, and second, he does not have so many water sources!

And because it is not cost-effective to plant in this way, this plan is still denied!

So here comes the question, learn the excavator...... What do you use to raise chickens?