In fact, some time before July 15, the major chick hatcheries have realized that the sales of chicks have begun to shrink.

After July 15, as the avian flu was publicized by the media, the price of live chickens began to collapse like a cliff.

The original seven or eight yuan a pound of chai chicken, in less than five days, no one asked for five yuan.

The collapse of the live chicken market in Luzhong City this time, Wang Shaodong has a deep memory.

In Wang Shaodong's impression, there have been two major crashes in the live chicken market, one in 2002 and the other in 2006, both of which were caused by bird flu.

Avian influenza, also known as European chicken plague, is the number one enemy of the poultry industry.

The two major enemies of the poultry farming industry are European chicken plague and Asian chicken plague. Asian chicken plague, also known as Newcastle disease, is a group of people who died after they got it, and there was no piece of armor left.

These two types of chicken plague are mainly prevented by vaccination, and the epidemic is also prevented by drinking some antibiotics to improve the resistance of the chickens. Of course, now Wang Shaodong's family will not take any practical antibiotic methods, but practical medicinal herbs to boil soup to improve the resistance of the chickens.

In order to ensure that he has enough sources of medicinal materials, Wang Shaodong took the initiative to sign purchase contracts with several salvia growers, and in the future, the income of these salvia growers per mu suddenly increased by more than 1,000 yuan.

After July 15, a few days later, the price of live chickens plummeted so that the four farmers in the entire poultry farming area could not raise their heads.

According to their current feeding level, the price of the chicken seedlings is about 4 yuan, and it will lose money if it falls.

They don't know that when their chickens grow up and come out of the slaughter, the price of the cart is only a little more than 2 yuan. Not to mention the price of the cart, even the retail price in the rural market is only four yuan.

Counting only on retail, the chickens sold are not enough for a large flock to eat a day's feed, and it costs more money.

If you want to sell chickens by retail, unless the market price of live chickens is very high, reaching seven yuan a catty, the profit is quite considerable.

And the common people have another characteristic, the cheaper the things, the less they buy them.

The price of live chickens has plummeted, and the chick market is certainly not much better.

Originally, the chicken seedlings booked by the major farms, when they saw that the situation was not good, they even didn't even want a deposit, and directly refused to accept the goods.

The hatchery was filled with eggs at least a month in advance, and the price of these eggs was at a high level. Coupled with the incubation cost and labor cost, the cost price of a chick is also about 1 yuan 5.

And now, those large farms don't want chicks, what should I do if so many chicks hatch?

As a result, phone calls were made to promote chicks, but with low results.

It took five days for the price of chicks to fall below two yuan, but it only took three days for the price of chicks to drop from 2 yuan to three yuan.

The hatchery can't hold on, they simply don't have enough space to raise so many chicks. Not to mention anything else, the two epidemic prevention in the first week cost three cents per chick. And if the epidemic prevention is not good, it will be very risky to raise this batch of chicken seedlings in the future.

So the biggest problem in the hatchery is to get rid of these chicks as soon as possible.

Chicks eat feed!

Moreover, the more the chicks eat the feed, the more they eat, the more they can eat. 20 catties of feed for 2,000 chicks today is enough, 30 catties for tomorrow, and 35 catties for the day after tomorrow...... In less than ten days, you will have fifty or sixty pounds.

You can't buy it for three dollars, you can't sell it for 2 yuan 8, you can't sell it for 2 yuan 8, and you can't sell it for 2 yuan for 6 yuan...... In the end, the price of chicks fell to 3 cents a piece, and no one wanted it.

On the 25th day of the seventh lunar month in 2002, only ten days after the Midyear Festival, Li Hong called.

It was Wang Fumin who answered the phone, and when he asked, he heard that it was Wang Shaodong's Uncle Hongzi, and he became enthusiastic when he spoke.

Wang Shaodong was on the side, and when he heard his father's words, it seemed that it was Li Hong who called, so he hurriedly came over.

"Hongzi, what have you been busy with lately, when do you have time to come over and have fun?"

"What? Okay, when we have time, our whole family will go to your place to play, and we will also go to see the Confucian Temple of Confucius Mansion. ”

"What? It's only three cents a piece? We don't ......."

When Wang Shaodong heard his father say that he didn't want chicken seedlings, Wang Shaodong hurriedly snatched the phone and hurriedly said: "Uncle Hongzi, have the chicken seedlings fallen to three cents a piece now? Okay, I want 24,000 chickens, and the delivery will be done the day after tomorrow!"

Soon, Wang Shaodong hung up the phone.

Wang Shaodong hung up the phone, but Wang Fumin was dumbfounded.

"Dong, Dongzi, are you crazy?"

Wang Shaodong knows in his heart that now those chicken seedling salesmen are selling chicken seedlings all over the world, and the price is ridiculously low. Such a good opportunity, there are only two times in my memory of my previous life in the past 15 years, and one of them is now.

All my previous preparations were for this time.

Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, but when they come, most people are unaware of them.

Three cents is already a low price for chicks.

Because, the commission of the chick salesman is three cents each. Of course, when the chicks are seriously unsalable, the chick dealer's commission may only be about a dime, that is, the price of the chicks from the hatchery may only be a dime or two cents. As for giving it away for free, it is basically impossible, because even if the chick hatchery cremates all the chicks, it is impossible to give it to the chicken farm for free.

The chicks are cremated, there are no chickens in the chicken farm, and the chicks in the hatchery will be bought in the future.

"Dad, I'm not crazy, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. ”

Wang Fumin's face was gloomy: "What a good opportunity?"

"What does it mean that the price of chicks is so low? This shows that no farm dares to buy chickens. Let's go to the chicken at this time, and when it's time to sell, we can take the independent market, and we can have the final say on the price. ”

"However, now that the bird flu is so fierce, the people don't eat chickens, let's not say that we are going to go to the chickens now, that is, the chickens we are raising in the greenhouse now, and I don't know if anyone wants it at that time......" Wang Fumin said is actually the worry of other farmers.

Wang Shaodong said confidently: "The chickens we have now are just five months old at the end of the year, and they happen to be the roosters enshrined at the end of the year." Every family has to buy roosters to worship the family table, will this custom passed down from generation to generation be changed because of the bird flu?"

When Wang Fumin heard this, he immediately felt that what his son said made sense.

"But, twenty-four thousand chickens, where are we left?"

Wang Shaodong stood up and looked into the distance with blazing eyes: "I have my own way." ”