Chapter 141 Build a chicken coop and peppercorns to bear fruit
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After the meal, Kiko cleaned up and washed the pots and pans and chopsticks. Jiang Yichen and Lai Shun'er built a chicken coop together.
The location of the chicken coop is located in a mountain wall recess on the south side of the base platform, where the location is leeward, the ground is dry, and the ventilation is no problem, and it is only a dozen steps away from the entrance of the cave, which is easy to take care of.
The current chicks are only ten days old, very weak, and there are many natural enemies, such as birds of prey, snakes, weasels, mice, etc., and even omnivorous birds and magpies are in danger, so they must be kept in captivity for a period of time, and larger ones can be stocked.
The chicken coop must also be tightly guarded and not allowed to be invaded by foreign enemies.
Lai Shun'er went to the forest to cut some thick branches and wattles, cut off the branches and leaves, and sawed them into keels of different lengths with a hand saw according to the size measured by a steel tape measure.
The second step is to assemble the keel with nails and wire into a two-part skeleton, one part as a roof and the other as a fence.
Together, the two of them first put up the skeleton of the roof and fixed it to the mountain wall with iron skewers. The roof is covered with a bamboo mat and a plastic sheet to protect it from the rain.
Then the fence skeleton is erected, with a height of about one meter and four, and the columns on both sides are also connected and fixed with the mountain wall.
Bamboo mats were attached to the inside of the fence to seal it, and two hinges were screwed on the north side to make a movable door so that people could enter and exit to feed or sweep the manure.
Lay some hay in the inner part for the chicks to rest.
After more than three hours of tossing, a simple chicken coop was completed, and the disinfectant was sprayed on the floor and wall with a watering can for disinfection.
Jiang Yichen then brought the bamboo baskets, grabbed the little ones out one by one, and moved them all into their new homes.
When the chickens first arrived in a strange place, they were a little uncomfortable, and they opened their small eyes and looked around timidly.
However, the so-called chickens have a lot of strength, and more than a hundred brothers have gradually become bolder, and after a while, they will return to normal, chirping, clapping their wings to chase each other, or looking for food all over the ground.
"Brother Chenzi, raising chickens is actually quite troublesome, if there is a chicken plague, a large number of deaths, and bird flu or something. I looked at the chicken farmers in those villages, and every once in a while they were disinfected, and they were injected with this and that injection, and there were many tricks. Lai Shun'er looked at the lively and cute chickens in the chicken coop and was a little worried.
"It's okay, these chickens of ours are fed special nutritious water, and their bodies are strong. Besides, I've been vaccinated before. Jiang Yichen comforted.
In fact, according to the real yàn for such a long time, he feels that the space ice water has a strong nourishing effect on plants and animals, such as special seasoning crops, which have never been sick since they were planted.
Of course, some time ago, there were insects in the vegetable field, just because the vegetables tasted good and attracted foreign invasions, and the vegetable seedlings themselves were still very healthy.
Although the number of times it is applied to animals is not much, the razor clams, sea cucumber seedlings, shrimp seedlings and chicken cubs purchased this time have a very low mortality rate and a very good health condition after a few days of hard work.
In fact, if the animal's own immunity is strong enough, it can completely resist many viruses. Besides, the island is isolated from the outside world, and the chicken plague and bird flu on the land will not drift across the sea.
So these things are a headache for ordinary professional chicken farmers, and he is not very worried. Of course, it also depends on the actual situation in the future.
Several food bowls and water bowls were scattered in the chicken coop, millet was placed in the food bowl, and special mixed water was poured into the water bowl, and the chicks rushed up one after another, competing for food and water.
It's settled here, so don't worry about it for now. Lai Shun'er took Jiang Yichen to the field.
The seasoning field is like the one in the school nursery, full of lush greenery and full of life. The vegetable field is relatively inferior, and the traces of gnawing on many vegetable leaves are still vivid. After all, some of the previous insect plagues, the losses are still not small, and they are still recovering.
On the side of the vegetable field, the vines of cucumbers and zucchini have grown more than a meter, and a bracket has been specially built for this purpose.
"By the way, Brother Chenzi, I almost forgot to tell you, the pepper trees and big material trees over there are starting to bear fruit." Lai Shun'er pointed to the east side of the spice field.
Jiang Yichen took a look, and sure enough, a row of twelve pepper trees and large material trees had grown to more than two meters high.
Between the branches and leaves of the pepper tree, clusters of small round red sè fruits are revealed, densely hugging together, sè is bright, like rubies, which is lovely.
The large material tree, on the other hand, is much more low-key, with green octagonal fruits, which require close observation to see, but there are quite a few of them.
It was a pleasant surprise, it had been months since the twelve trees were planted, and I didn't even know when they would bloom.
Jiang Yichen approached a pepper tree, and only then did he see clearly that the small round fruit was slightly larger than ordinary mung beans, and the surface was pitted with many small protrusions.
To be honest, this is the first time he has seen the original fruit state of peppercorns, and after some rizzles, these small red sè fruits will turn into brown sè, and the peel will crack, which is the common pepper for seasoning.
Suddenly, there is a burst of fragrance wafting from the nose, and the smell is pure and refreshing. Based on this feeling, the final harvest of peppercorns should be of the highest quality.
So far, he has seven kinds of home-grown special spices, and all of them are widely used in Chinese food, although the proportion of the huge spice family is not much, but it is enough, and he does not want to add new varieties for the time being. Unless you want to cook Western food later.
In fact, in the mid-range catering market, consumers basically just want a taste, just delicious on the line, and the texture of food raw materials is not high.
For example, the mouth of the multi-mille-feuille cake, the current market is hot, and consumers are like clouds. But in addition to the special green onion and ginger, other flour, meat filling, cabbage, oil, etc. are all ordinary genuine goods, and there is nothing special about it. The same is true of Dingxiangyuan Malatang. Due to the market positioning, it is enough to do this.
However, the high-end catering market that the plan wants to enter in the future is not so simple, in that consumption level, most of them are those who travel from south to north and are well-informed, such as bosses, celebrities, officials, gourmets, etc., these people have many opportunities to contact high-end food, and their tongues are often very tight, and it is almost impossible to win their favor only with special seasonings.
The so-called looking at the essence through the surface of things, high-level diners can completely precipitate the original flavor of the ingredients through the skin of the seasoning packaging, natural green, healthy and delicious, that is the standard of ingredients they pay the most attention to.
Therefore, Jiang Yichen's current experiment with Xing's seafood farming is aimed at this.
He walked among the pepper trees and the big material trees for a while, reminding Lai Shun'er to pay attention to observation, and when the time comes, he should hurry up the harvest and not cause waste.
Lai Shun'er agreed, and to see that there was nothing else, he returned to the outside of the cave and washed the big water tank again, and then carried the bucket to the gourd depression to fetch water.
The capacity of the tank is not small, and it took Lai Shun'er five picks of water back and forth to fill most of it. There was no lid, and I found a piece of cardboard to make do with it first, and a large aluminum scoop was put on the top, and it was all worked.