In order to raise green, safe and pollution-free roosters, Wang Shaodong decided to use Chinese herbal medicines to boil soup and drink chickens in the chicken flock in the future instead of the traditional method of using antibiotics to prevent chicken diseases.

Raising chickens in large flocks, whether cage or free-range, whether laying hens, small roosters or broiler chickens, disease prevention is a top priority. Vaccination is only for major diseases to prevent the epidemic, but like ordinary respiratory diseases, digestive tract diseases, although they will not cause large-scale casualties, but because it will affect large groups of feed, and even lead to the occurrence of only eating feed and not growing meat, so these are the key factors affecting whether farmers make money or not.

To prevent chicken diseases, farmers start giving antibiotics to their chickens from a very young age.

In the previous life, the Wang family raised chickens for fifteen years, and many experiences were summed up until Wang Fumin was almost sixty. The innovation of using honeysuckle leaves and salvia trees to prevent chicken diseases was discovered by Wang Fumin in 2016, but by that time, Wang Fumin was too old to keep up, and it was no longer realistic to raise chickens on a large scale. However, the aquaculture industry cannot be formed into a scale, and it will not be able to make a fortune if it is done in a small way.

Therefore, in the next step, Wang Shaodong's farm should move towards brand efficiency and scale efficiency.

Now that the Wang family has money in their hands and can afford a certain amount of risk, Wang Shaodong decided that as long as the experiment of cooking soup and drinking chicken with honeysuckle leaves and salvia seeds summed up by his father in his previous life in his memory is successful, then Wang Shaodong will boldly expand the scale of breeding in the next step.

After the honeysuckle leaves and salvia trees were transported back to Wang Shaodong's farm in Taohualing Village, Wang Fumin's father and son took over the original big iron pot in the village brigade, and then set up a pot stove in the yard, and then took the honeysuckle leaves off the paper and put them in the cauldron, and chopped the salvia trees with a guillotine and put them into the pot.

This large iron pot has a large capacity, and it took six buckets of water to fill it. And now the drinking water in the Wang family's chicken coop is three buckets a day, and this large iron pot of herbal soup can be drunk for two days in a row.

Then, Wang Fumin went to the chicken coop to take care of the chicks, while Wang Shaodong was responsible for lighting the fire.

Twenty minutes later, the water in the large iron pot began to gurgle.

Wang Shaodong covered the cauldron, then burned the fire for half an hour and then smothered for another half an hour, lifted the lid of the pot, a steaming heat rose, and the whole courtyard began to float with a smell of honeysuckle mixed with salvia.

The color of the soup is already very strong, and Wang Shaodong said in his heart that it should be about the same.

At half past seven o'clock that night, after the herbal soup cooled down, Wang Shaodong and his son carried the boiled three-bucket herbal soup into the chicken coop.

When he arrived at the chicken coop, Wang Shaodong listened to the plastic sheeting, and heard a slight panting sound inside.

There has been too much rain in the past two days, and the vaccine has just been completed a few days ago, and the feed intake in the large herd has decreased.

There are three main ways to judge whether a large flock is healthy, one is to listen to the sound of chickens in the flock, the second is to judge by the feed intake of the flock, and the third is to judge by the color of the overall feathers in the flock.

Healthy chickens make regular chirping sounds, no too sharp screeching sounds, no noisy wheezing sounds, the feed intake of large flocks is also increasing day by day, and the color of the feathers of large flocks is also bright.

It is the most difficult to judge the health of a large flock by the sound of a large flock of chickens, but Wang Shaodong has many years of breeding experience with his parents, and his judgment in this regard is far greater than that of his current parents.

There was a situation in the large group, it has rained for the past two days, and the humidity has come up, although there are exhaust fans, but it is still a little difficult to get the humidity below 20.

As soon as the humidity comes up, bacteria and viruses are easy to breed in the chicken coop, the original old method is to take antibiotics, and now Wang Shaodong boiled out the herbal soup, the effect should be no worse than antibiotics.

That night, the Wang family's chicken coop drank the chicken with herbal soup.

Wang Shaodong's experience in raising chickens is definitely much more than those experts in the County Animal Husbandry Bureau, which is inherited from his father's experience in raising chickens for more than ten years.

The next day, when Wang Shaodong went to the chicken coop again, he heard a lot less wheezing in the large group.

Then the next day, Wang Shaodong drank the chicks with his father with herbal soup again, and at the same time, because the humidity in the chicken coop also came down, the overall situation reassured Wang Shaodong.

The feed intake of the large group came up, and then the large group looked quite energetic, and the next step was to get vaccinated.

In this way, there is still half a month before the next vaccination.

Raising chickens, the most important thing is to control the weight ratio, the best chicken farm, breeding small roosters can do every 1 catty of 8 taels of feed to raise a pound of live chickens, so that even if the price is a little lower, there is still a profit. And like broiler chickens, they can even grow 1 catty of 4 taels of feed and one catty of meat.

To put it mildly, almost all of the chicken thighs and chicken you eat in KFC Dex are white-feathered broiler-eating chickens, which are actually not much different from eating chicken feed.

Novice farmers who are the first to start raising chickens can control the weight ratio of feeding within three catties is considered successful.

The main factor affecting the weight ratio of feeding is a large group of diseases, novice breeding because of the lack of experience in controlling temperature and humidity, identifying the health of large groups, often because of the large group of diseases and then to treatment, not only because of the treatment of late casualties, but also because of the large group of diseases and the increase in the weight ratio.

In the long run, the price of chickens should be in the range of 4 yuan 5 to 5 yuan 5, and the feed has been rising, in 2002, the chicken feed was about 1 yuan a catty, and then in 2016, it rose to about 1 yuan 8.

If you say that every three catties of feed to raise a pound of live chickens, the cost of feed alone will reach 3 yuan, plus the cost of chicks, the cost of vaccines, the cost of chicken medicine, other costs, etc., plus a piece of about five, that is to say, if the weight ratio can not be controlled within 3 catties, then raising chickens is not profitable.

The real high-level farmers are not how to treat chicken diseases, but to prevent chicken diseases.

From the housed to the slaughter, if the large group has been healthy, the feed intake can keep up, and the management is worry-free, then the feed feeding ratio will definitely be reduced.

1 catty 8 taels raises a catty of live chickens, and the purchase price of the cart is more than 3 yuan and 3 cents, and there will be a profit.

Therefore, reducing the feed feeding ratio is the top priority of farmers, and the key to reducing the feed feeding ratio is to control a large group of chicken diseases, epidemic prevention is the key, and prevention is the core.

Watching his chicks grow up happily and healthily, Wang Shaodong believes that raising chickens scientifically and reasonably is not a troublesome thing.

Two weeks have passed, and the Wang family's chicks are growing very well, and they are not affected by the bird flu that is happening around them.