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During the autumn harvest, Yang Yun went to the pond every morning and evening to watch the hatching of the eggs. And those eggs did not disappoint Yang Yun, and the chicks finally broke out of their shells on the first day of the ninth lunar month. This time, 100 eggs and duck eggs were hatched each, and Yang Yun counted them, and there were 70 chicks that were successfully hatched artificially, which is already a very high survival rate. I don't have much experience the first time, but as long as I try a few more times in the future, the success rate of hatching will be as high as more than 90%.

And Yang Yong and them, looking at the newborn chicks, were particularly excited, this was the first time they saw a live chick, breaking out of the shell. Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou, the two little radish heads, directly held the newborn chicks in their hands carefully and carefully observed the chicks.

Kong Tianyou observed the chickens for a long time, and finally he told Yang Yun that he also wanted to raise a few chickens. Yang Yun naturally agreed to his request, but Yang Yun told him that if the chicks were to be fed at home, they had to be fed on the poultry farm for a few days before they could be given to him. Kong Tianyou said that he could wait a few days, and finally Yang Yun fed the chicks for seven days before taking six chicks for Kong Tianyou to feed.

The chicks hatched by hens on the other side of the chicken coop were also born, because there were hens over there, and Yang Yun was not too worried. Newborn chicks are kept in a wooden pen along with the hens to prevent them from being pecked by other adult chickens.

The chicks hatched by the workers here, Yang Yun used a large wooden box to raise the chicks in captivity. Newborn chicks should pay attention to heat preservation, feed more carefully, and use warm water for feeding. The Yang family harvested two acres of corn in August, and Yang Yun ground the dried corn kernels into corn flour, mixed with a small amount of corn flour, and mixed with bran to feed the newborn chicks. Sometimes Yang Yun cooks sweet potatoes and lets them cool, stir them into sweet potato paste, and also mix a small amount of corn flour to feed the chickens.

Yingzi and Xiao Si's two families, when they saw Yang Yun feeding the chickens like this, they were all dumbfounded and speechless, they felt that these poultry ate better than people. In fact, Yang Yun did this to improve the survival rate of chicks. The chicks that the Yang family had purchased back were all chicks that had been fed by others for ten days and more than half a month. Those chicks hatched by the farmer's family, a litter of chicks, from birth to growth, do not know how many chicks will die, Yang Yun in order to prevent this from happening, so she fed the chicks so finely.

In addition, as long as these chicks are kept carefully for more than seven days, when the chicks' resistance becomes stronger, they can be stocked according to the normal method. Fortunately, the chickens are relatively small and the amount of food is not large, and Yang Yun thinks that the Yang family can afford it at present. This time, 70 chicks survived in captivity, and there were 15 litters of chicks hatched by hens, and a hen could hatch about 25 to 30 eggs, and 380 chicks hatched by that batch of hens survived. Now the Yang family has 450 chicks.

After another 7 days, the artificially hatched ducklings were born, and 75 ducklings hatched from 100 duck eggs, and the survival rate was higher than that of chicks. Instead of a mother duck, there are also five nests of hatched duck eggs, and 100 ducklings survived in those five nests. At present, there are 175 ducklings in the Yang family. Yang Yun plans to stop for a period of time, and then artificially hatch eggs, at present, everyone is in the autumn harvest, busy and tired, if you always have to get up at night to burn the pit, and go to work in the field during the day, no matter how strong people are, they can't stand such two sides.

The grain harvest of the Yang family and the Li family went smoothly, and the wheat was put into the cellar for storage after 20 days of harvesting and drying. This time, the Yang family harvested 8 acres of wheat, a total of 3,600 catties of wheat, last year a mu of land harvested 400 catties of wheat, this year an acre of land harvested about 450 catties of wheat.

With last year's high yield, this year, after the grandfather and they finished harvesting the grain, looking at the total number of catties calculated, the grandfather and they were much calmer, of course, they were still very happy, and this year was another bumper harvest year. Grandpa divided 100 catties of wheat to Xiao Si's family and Yingzi's family, and also took 300 catties of wheat to Dr. Xu's family, and Kong Zhongkan's family also received 100 catties of wheat. The Yang family has 3,000 catties of wheat left, and they will sell some of the wheat after a while. As soon as the wheat was stored in the cellar, Yang Yun immediately asked several families to hurry to the bottom of the left mountain, where there were twenty acres of wasteland, to plant burdock vegetables.

Burdock is a vegetable that is eaten with fat, fleshy roots, petioles and young leaves. In addition to being used as a vegetable, the fruit and root of burdock can be used as medicine, or baked and other methods to make burdock tea. At the same time, the seeds of burdock have an oil content of up to 18.2% and can be used as industrial oil. At present, Haoguo's oil refining technology is too backward, and these burdock seeds can only be used as pure seeds.

Burdock cabbage prefers warm climates, but burdock root itself is both heat and cold tolerant. The suitable temperature for seed germination is about 20-25 degrees, and the suitable temperature for the growth of each burdock cabbage is 20-25 degrees. Burdock root grows in the ground, very cold-resistant, can tolerate low temperatures of -20 °C, in winter the branches and leaves of burdock on the ground will die, but the straight roots of the ground, but can overwinter growth, and so next spring, it will sprout and grow leaves again.

After Yang Yun asked Dr. Xu, she knew the habits of burdock root, so she chose to sow burdock in autumn. Before sowing burdock cabbage, Yang Yun asked her grandfather to first trim the high ridge soil with a width of 65-70 cm and a height of 15 cm in the wasteland. Because burdock root is like Huai Mountain, it will stretch into the ground, and these high ridge soil will be repaired to facilitate the digging of the rhizomes of burdock root in the future.

The seeds of burdock should be plump, free of disease and insect spots, and free of damage. Before sowing, Yang Yun first took out the seeds that were picked last time and dried them for 2 days. Before planting in the ground, Yang Yun soaked the seeds in warm water at 40-50°C for about an hour. After an hour, the burdock seeds are taken out and dried, and then they can be sown in the ground.

The playback method of burdock root can be used in three methods: live broadcast, strip broadcast, and on-demand. Yang Yun uses the method of on-demand sowing to plant burdock cabbage, the distance between the front and back of each burdock cabbage is about 30 cm, and 4-5 seeds can be planted in a hole. After sowing, it should be covered with soil, about 2 cm thick. If the soil in the field is moist, the soil can be covered more thinly. Burdock sprouts emerge in about 7 days after planting.

Yang Yun waited for seven days, and finally waited for the burdock root to sprout. During this time, Yang Yun and her grandfather often watered the ground, because burdock is a plant that needs more water, from seed germination to seedling growth, it is necessary to water the ground often in time. Yang Yun originally chose the 20 acres of wasteland on the left side because she knew that burdock was a water-needing plant, and the left mountain was very close to the river, which was convenient for irrigating the burdock field.

After planting burdock vegetables, several families can finally rest for a few days, August to September, the two autumn harvest months, really tired everyone enough, everyone is tired and thin, and tanned. Not only Yang Yong and them are tanned, but even Yang Yun and Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou are also quite tanned.

The school had a holiday early in the busy farming season, Kong Tianyou was with Yang Xuan every day, Yang Xuan went to the field to pick up ears of wheat, and Kong Tianyou also followed. Kong Zhongkan knew that Kong Tianyou was following Yang Xuan and them to work in the fields, and he didn't care about Kong Tianyou, and told Kong Tianyou that he should learn how to be a farmer.

After harvesting the grain in the field, the grandfather borrowed the old cow, directly plowed the land carefully, and then sprinkled organic fertilizer, and when everyone rested for two days, the wasteland began to grow cabbage, radish and mustard greens again. Alas! Autumn is the season of harvest, but it is also the most tiring season.

Everyone rested for two days, and planted 15 acres of wasteland with radish, cabbage and mustard greens. This year, several kinds of vegetables were planted relatively evenly, and three kinds of vegetables were planted on five acres of land. The villagers went to Yang's house last year to help pickle vegetables, and everyone learned to pickle side dishes, so this year, no one in the wasteland in Zhoujia Village was empty, and everyone planted the wasteland with three kinds of vegetables: radish, cabbage and mustard greens.

After planting the three vegetables, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the busy farming season finally passed. At this time, it was already October, and Yang Yong and the others had already gone back to the school to study. And Yang Yun saw that the busy farming season had passed, and began to toss artificial hatching eggs again, with the experience of the last time, Yang Yun directly released this time, 300 eggs and 300 duck eggs, artificial incubation, and the work of burning fire resistance was still in charge of the Yingzi family.

Burdock sprouts planted in autumn in about seven days. After the burdock sprouts, when the seedlings grow 2-3 true leaves, the burdock sprouts should be thinned and seedled. At the beginning, 4-5 seeds were planted in a hole, and now that the burdock has sprouted, some seedlings should be pulled out or replanted. Some pits have 4 or 5 seedlings, and some pits have not germinated a single seed.

Each pit only needs to be left, two relatively strong seedlings, and the excess seedlings must be pulled out. For those pits that have not grown seedlings, two seedlings should be replanted. When the seedlings grow 4-5 true leaves, it is time to set the seedlings, and each pit only needs to leave the strongest burdock cabbage at the end, and the rest of the burdock cabbage must be pulled out.

Those uprooted burdock vegetables can be directly used to make vegetables and eat, otherwise it would be a pity to pull out so many burdock vegetables. After the seedlings are set, the burdock vegetable field should be cultivated and weeded, the burdock cabbage grows slowly, and the seedling stage is most afraid of "grass eating seedlings", so it is necessary to cultivate and weed in time. In addition to weeding, it is also necessary to loosen the soil, remove insects, and water. The most important thing is fertilization, burdock has a high demand for fertilizer, from planting to harvesting, and then a secondary fertilizer is applied in the middle.

Yang Yun attaches great importance to these 20 acres of burdock vegetables, and goes to the field every day to check the situation of burdock vegetables. Dr. Xu also attached great importance to the burdock vegetables planted by Yang Yun this time, and he went around the field with Yang Yun whenever he had free time. With the guidance of Dr. Xu, Yang Yun is very optimistic about the twenty acres of burdock vegetables. (To be continued.) )