Chapter 57: Chicken Farm

Because Xiao Ping suddenly decided to raise green laying hens, everyone in the farm was busy again. Early the next morning, Wang Dacang and Zhao Quan came to find Xiao Ping and discussed with him the location of the chicken farm.

In fact, Xiao Ping had already thought about this matter and already had a plan in his heart. One of the major selling points of green shell eggs is that the laying hens are all grown in a natural environment and absolutely do not eat artificial feed. In this regard, the farm has a great advantage, and there are still seven or eight acres of empty mountain land in the farm, which is more than enough to build a chicken farm.

Xiao Ping told Wang Dacang and Zhao Quan about this idea, and they also agreed to it. Zhao's only concern is that there are snakes and rats on the mountain, and the occasional weasel sight, all of which threaten the safety of chickens and eggs.

Xiao Ping also took this problem into account, and his solution was to fence off the entire chicken farm with barbed wire, so that animals that were harmful to chickens could enter and leave at will. When the time comes, let the panther and the ingots wander around the chicken farm every now and then, and with these two big dogs full of spirituality, it is enough to ensure the safety of the chicken farm.

After the three of them had decided, they went to the mountain to investigate the location and size of the chicken farm. According to Zhao Quan's calculations, five hundred chickens are enough for two acres of land. However, considering the future development factors, Xiao Ping decided to double the area of the chicken farm. As for the location of the chicken farm, Xiao Ping adopted Zhao Quan's suggestion and built the chicken farm in the edge area downwind of the farm, so as not to affect the environment of the entire farm.

After deciding on the location and size of the chicken farm, the next step was to start building. Anything is easier said than done, and the same is true for building a chicken farm. Because green laying hens need to be free-range, the largest area of the chicken farm is more than three acres of free activity space. The space is built on a hill and is fenced with metal mesh several meters high to prevent chickens from escaping and harmful animals from entering. In addition, there are ordinary chicken coops for chickens to stay overnight, breeder coops specially prepared for breeders, hatching rooms, young chicken coops for raising chicks, etc., which is not a small amount of work.

To build a chicken farm of this scale, it is not possible to rely on farm workers alone. So Xiao Ping contacted Boss Wang of the engineering team and handed over this matter to him. Boss Wang had a good impression of Xiao Ping, the customer who was refreshing in the checkout, and sent his subordinates to enter the construction site the next day.

Rumbling bulldozers first drove into the farm to level a piece of ground near the foot of the hill where the future chicken coop and hatchery would be located. At the same time, the engineering team also started to construct the fence of the event venue. At intervals, they buried iron rods used as scaffolds into the ground at intervals, and then tied metal mesh and painted them to form a fence that demarcated the boundaries of the chicken farm.

Don't look at the total length of the fence of more than three acres, it is only about 200 meters, but because the chicken farm is built according to the mountain, it is not easy to build this fence. It took more than a week for the engineering team to complete the fence. By this time, the foundations of the chicken coop and hatchery had been laid, and the masons had already begun to build the walls.

During this time, Xiao Ping and the workers of the farm were not idle. They cleaned up the environment of the chicken farm, and the overly dense plants had to be cleared, and there were no big trees on both sides of the fence to prevent the chickens from flying up the trees and escaping in the future.

In addition, it is necessary to ensure that there are no animals that can threaten the chickens in the area of the chicken farm, so as not to cause losses to the chicken farm. To this end, Xiao Ping led the workers of the farm to act as a force-relocation team, and with the help of the black panther and ingots, the entire field was turned over. It was no difficult task for the two greyhounds to find the hidden animals, and they found a litter of weasels, two snakes that had begun to hibernate, and several litters of rats in the confines of the chicken farm. These animals are a threat to chickens, and naturally they are ruthlessly cleaned out. …,

Zhao Quan was very satisfied with Xiao Ping's letting him be in charge of raising chickens, and his work attitude was much more serious than before. In addition to being busy with the construction of the chicken farm every day, he will also find time to go to the vegetable greenhouse to check the situation of the green laying hens. Speaking from the heart, Zhao Quan is very worried about the health of these chickens, the conditions in the vegetable greenhouse are too poor, and chicken plague is easy to occur. If this really happens, more than 500 chickens will die in a few days.

To Zhao Quan's relief, all the chickens seemed to be in very good condition so far. Even if they live in a crowded greenhouse all day long, they are all very energetic, and their appetite is also normal, and many hens even start to lay eggs, and they can pick up dozens of green-shelled eggs in the greenhouse every day.

Zhao Quan had heard that green laying hens were very delicate, and what he was most afraid of was that the living environment was crowded, which could easily cause a large number of deaths. But the situation in front of him seemed to be diametrically opposite, and the situation of all the chickens was much better than he imagined, which also made Zhao Quan puzzled.

Of course, Xiao Ping wouldn't tell Zhao Quan that it was all the effect of the spiritual liquid. If he hadn't quietly added spiritual liquid to the drinking water of the green laying hens every few days, I'm afraid the chickens would have almost died by now.

With the efforts of everyone, the construction of the chicken farm is very fast. By early December, the coop and hatchery were finally ready for use. Xiao Ping is very satisfied with this result, although Su City is located in the south of the Yangtze River, but the weather has been a little cold since December, and the chicken coop was completed at this time, at least there is no need to worry about the chickens freezing to death at night.

Now that the chicken farm has been built, it is natural that all the chickens must be moved in. It was not easy to move hundreds of chickens, and there was another wave of chickens and dogs jumping in the farm, Xiao Ping and the workers of the farm were busy for a whole day, and the green laying hens finally all moved into their new homes.

Just as Xiao Ping predicted, the green laying hens quickly adapted to the new environment. During the day, they wander outside in groups and piles, looking for food under grass and trees, and then go back to the coop for the night. In addition to letting the green laying hens find food in the wild, Zhao Quan will also provide them with things like rice bran and vegetable leaves, but definitely not feed ordinary feed, so as not to affect the taste of the eggs.

In terms of feed, the farm's green laying hens are no different from those in other places, but they are very different in terms of drinking water, and every three days Xiao Ping will add a few drops of spiritual liquid to their drinking water. Although each chicken can eat very little spiritual fluid, the effect is very significant, the most obvious is that the egg production has increased significantly.

The reason why green-shell eggs are sold so expensive has an obvious relationship with the lack of production. According to Mr. and Mrs. Guo Li, it is good for each hen to lay one egg every other day, but the fact that the hens here in Xiaoping can lay eggs every day means that the number of eggs produced by the hens has at least doubled.

This makes Xiao Ping very satisfied with his decision to raise green laying hens, even if the eggs produced in the farm are sold at the same price as ordinary green shell eggs, these more than 500 chickens can bring him a lot of income, not to mention that the number of chickens will be further expanded in the future, and the economic benefits created will naturally be more.

Not long after the operation of the chicken farm was on the right track, something happened in the demon refining pot that made Xiao Ping happy - the dendrobium could finally be harvested.

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