Chapter 319: Maggots
At present, the number of chickens raised on the farm is relatively large, at the beginning, because they were worried that the temperature would be high, they were afraid that they would not be able to live, and they had no experience before, so they raised less at the beginning, but then after slowly groping, the scale of the farm came up. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Raising chickens is actually very simple, feed them enough, don't let them get sick, and when it's time to slaughter, they can be slaughtered and eaten.
Because the temperature here is relatively high, there are only a limited number of roosters left on the farm, and of course these attacks are not left for crowing, and people are woken up before dawn in the morning.
These roosters are left to breed, but because the temperature is very high, if every hen is mated, then the eggs they give birth to are easy to spoil, and if they will hatch naturally at this temperature, it will be very embarrassing, and such eggs are not edible, so these roosters are separated, locked in other places alone, and easily do not let them touch the hens.
But even if they get in touch with the hens, Lin Quan is very suspicious of how much they can handle in terms of their number, but according to his experience in raising chickens in the countryside, one rooster in a group of hens is probably enough, about 20:1 than you, and I don't know if this number is reliable, but if you observe it up close, you find that the rooster and the hen seem to be doing things very quickly......
"Hello boss!"
Several workers greeted him after seeing Lin Quan come in, Lin Quan nodded, signaled them to continue to be busy, leave themselves alone, and then began to patrol on their own.
The farm here is a kind of local big-flowered chicken, the size of this chicken is larger than the domestic chicken, their food is also larger, a day almost needs about 200 grams of food, but they eat more, egg production is also very fast, an average of 1.2 days can lay an egg, and this kind of eggs are quite large, an egg at least more than 60 grams, than those foreign eggs in the country.
The farm's chickens eat maggots, and every time they are fed, the workers take out the raised maggots and put them in the middle of the free-range chickens for them to eat on their own.
Chickens are very domineering, like to fight, whether it is a rooster or a hen, when they don't eat food, they always have to fight hard before they give up, which has raised chickens knows, and the chickens will be fixed when raising chickens in general chicken farms, so that they will not take up too much space, and will not fight chickens and dogs, saving trouble and effort.
But Lin Quan Farm didn't do this, because in that case they would have to lock up the chickens all day long, the temperature of the chicken coop would definitely be very high, and maybe it would be necessary to establish central air conditioning or something like that, which would definitely be very expensive, and if it was raised in captivity, the meat quality and taste would be much worse, which Lin Quan couldn't accept, so in the end it was free-range.
There is a flock of chickens in each area, the number is about 50-100, which is not a lot, but the space is not small, and they are all blocked in the woods, and the fence is set up, so that the group of guys does not run away.
If it is a farmer's chicken, some of them still retain part of the ability of birds, that is, low-altitude flight, if the net and fence are not very high, they only need to climb a little higher, it is possible to fly out, but this kind of chicken in Lin Quan Farm is not good, they eat fat heads and big ears one by one, excess weight, a pair of small short wings fluttering and fluttering does not work at all, horizontal and vertical can not fly.
So the fence on the farm is not very high.
Free-range breeding has the advantage of free-range breeding, that is, after eating maggots, the staple food, will be scattered with their heads held high after they are full, eat some grass to improve some digestion, and some chickens will peck a few stones on the ground into their own sac to help digestion, birds' esophagus are very short, chickens are also a kind of birds, they are the same, so the sac can help them digest.
However, like people, they also have digestive problems, often when they can't digest it, the feces they pull out are coffee-colored fluids, and there is a very vivid name in Lin Quan's hometown: sugar!
There used to be a joke about a blind man who reached out and touched something on the ground, and then asked a stammerer what it was, and the stammerer said, "Sugar... Sugar...
As a result, the blind man was very happy when he heard that it was sugar, and he stretched out his hand to pick it up and eat it, only to find that the taste was not right, and then he heard the stammering and finishing: Sugar...
The blind man found out that he had eaten...
This joke was told to him by Lin Quan's grandmother when he was a child, thinking of his grandmother, Lin Quan always had a lot of emotion, a rural old man who had not read much, had been in circles in the ravines and ravines all his life, and had been busy all his life with his face facing the loess and his back to the sky, and he had pulled up two generations with hard work.
When he was a child, he was always sick, and his grandmother carried him on his back at night for more than ten miles of mountain roads, wading through I don't know how many ravines and ravines, and then took him to an old doctor, he didn't remember most of these things, and grandma rarely mentioned it, every time he mentioned this matter, the look on his grandmother's face was scared, maybe it was what the old doctor said at that time that frightened her!
Lin Quan secretly touched his tears, and secretly laughed at himself for not being angry, such a big man, when he thought of these things, he couldn't help but shed tears, it was really useless.
He collected his mind, took a turn in the free-range circle of chickens, roughly observed, and found that the spirit of these free-range chickens is not bad, one by one crying, very lively, but they are also very dishonest, everywhere they go with three-toed chicken claws are planing, I don't know what to look for in the geographical area, they don't eat ready-made insects, I don't know what will make them so fascinated.
"How, how many chickens do you feed a day?"
The two workers hummed and carried a box of maggots in, Lin Quan stretched out his head to take a look, these maggots were raised white and fat, one by one round crawling around, and there were a lot of workers on their arms, but they were all wearing dark clothes with sleeves, and the white maggots on their bodies would look very conspicuous, so after putting the box down, as long as they patted it, they could all be driven down.
These maggots are all artificially bred and not dirty, mainly because they are not easy to accept in their hearts.
However, in China, the specialty dish in some places is this thing, raised white and tender, thrown into the pot, fried in oil, moist, it is said to taste good, but Lin Quan has not tried it, and he has no courage to try it.