Chapter 901 Animal Husbandry

The people in the city became very serious at this time, and they couldn't think of the word sideline, but if they could say it from Qin An's mouth, it must be very important.

Especially the last sentence, which is related to everyone's vital interests, let them pay more attention to it.

Qin An paused for three seconds before continuing, "I just said that a chicken feather can be sold for money, but why can a chicken feather be sold for money?

This is a side hustle, which is the small-scale processing or production of agricultural products, usually for the further processing of products from planting, breeding or other agricultural industries.

In other words, the chicken feathers are processed and turned into a commodity, and they can be sold for money.

It's not just chicken feathers, such as soybeans, that can be ground into soy milk, made into tofu, tofu skin, and so on.

Beef, in the future, can be eaten, in the future farming is no longer by cattle, but by machines, it will not be long, the world does not need to rely on cattle, but by machines, because this kind of machine I have invented.

Beef, in addition to being able to sell raw meat, can also be made into jerky to sell, raw meat is not suitable for long-term storage, but jerky is different, not only can it be stored for a long time, but it also tastes very good.

On this trip, I brought a lot of jerky, and I will take out fifty of them to sell.

I have already talked about the five major industries in agriculture, and I am sure you must have a lot of questions, because in addition to farming, many people are very ignorant of the other four industries.

Others, on the other hand, know a little more about cropping and animal husbandry.

There may be some businessmen who, through what I just said, are very interested in side hustles.

To forestry and fishing may not be of interest. I don't think any of you will be interested in this.

There is nothing to talk about in the planting industry, but I still want to say one thing, that is, although it is important to grow food, you can also grow something else.

For example, if you have 50 acres of land, take 30 acres of land to grow wheat and sorghum, take 10 acres to grow melons, fruits and vegetables, take 9 acres of land to grow corn, take 1 acre to grow potatoes, and so on.

There is also what kind of grain to grow, these will be determined by the government, the reason is very simple, that is, the same land to grow the same kind of grain, then you can use the same kind of harvesting carts, ploughing carts, sowing carts, and so on.

Regarding these things, you don't need to worry about it for the time being, you just need to farm well.

At the same time, I think that in a few years, people will think that farming is better than working and renting the land to other people.

Forestry is nothing to say, because it is a long-term business, and at present the peasants cannot do it, only the aristocracy or the wealthy merchants can do it.

And I'm already doing it, because I'm currently the biggest businessman in the paper industry.

These are all small things, and what I really want to talk about is animal husbandry and sideline business, because Handan City is blessed with a unique geographical location.

Therefore, I would like to tell you about the poultry raised in the livestock industry, and at the same time tell you about my new policy, which is called the Village Union Commune.

This is a policy to help the rural people get rich, and I am afraid that it is difficult for everyone to understand the big concept, so I will take Handan outside the city as an example.

There are four villages around Handshan, each with more than 100 households, and the total population is more than 1,700.

The Village Union Commune unites all four villages to form a commune under the jurisdiction of the government and managed by the villagers themselves.

As long as the commune is established, the government will send professional personnel to help you and teach you, and it will also become a special department in Handan, and anyone can go to study.

However, I would like to remind everyone not to be too ambitious and want to participate in everything, and it is better not to blindly exploit the resources of the capital commune on a large scale when you have not found a seller.

Now it is said that the four villages under Hanshan Mountain, with a total of more than 1,700 people, have resources such as a river, a mountain, and 34,000 acres of land.

Your life now is to take care of your own land, and each family is only responsible for its own land.

But the Commune

Once established, it will not take care of its own land, but the commune will take care of 34,000 acres of land.

The commune hired people to manage the land, and then raised money to buy plough carts, seeders and harvesting carts.

In addition, there are transport vehicles, which greatly reduce the labor force and time, so that the 1,700 labor force only needs to take out two or three hundred people to take charge of the affairs in the field.

The rest of the people do the rest, which is what I would say, animal husbandry.

That is, raising chickens, ducks, sheep and cattle, etc., depending on the situation.

Personally, I recommend raising chickens first, raising 5,000 chickens, or even 10,000 chickens. It seems that there are a lot of chickens and they need to be managed by many people, but they don't need to.

Chickens can't fly and can be stocked in the mountains, as long as the commune builds large guardrails on the mountains and doesn't let the chickens escape.

In the summer, the chickens don't need to be fed at all, they just need to have more insects in the mountains, and if there are more chickens, they can also kill locusts.

Everyone knows that every summer, there are more or less locusts in the fields, which can drive chickens and ducks to the fields.

And this kind of chicken is called pheasant, also called free-range chicken, and the nutritional value is very high. The price is relatively high, which is suitable for everyone to replenish the body.

There is also a breeding method called artificial farming.

Captive farming may seem cruel, but the breeding cycle becomes very short and the egg production is very large.

The method is simple, that is, a chicken is placed in a cage with only its neck exposed to eat and drink, that is, it restricts the chicken's movement and keeps it in a cage.

When it came time to lay eggs, those hens would lay eggs almost every day, 5,000 chickens, 5,000 eggs a day.

That's not a small amount, and I think the villagers of the four villages will be very happy when they see so many eggs."

At this time, the people in the city had already imagined that they were raising 5,000 eggs a day.

It was a paradise, not just eggs, but chickens.

5,000 chickens, even if you eat one a day, you can eat at least 15 years.

Qin An continued: "This is just chickens, and the artificial breeding model can be used not only for chickens, but also for ducks, geese and so on.

And Hanshan can not only raise chickens, but also sheep, one or two thousand sheep is no problem.

In addition to the mountains, in the villages, it is also possible to raise cattle and pigs.

Especially for pigs, it only takes three months for a piglet to grow out of the cage, as long as it follows my method.

And according to my method, raising pigs not only has a high survival rate and grows fast, but the most important thing is that these pork do not have the fishy smell you imagined.

Moreover, pork will be the most popular in the future, and the price is not high, and the cost of breeding is lower than that of cattle and sheep."