Chapter 906 Visiting a Free-Range Chicken Farm

The more Chen Ping said, the more excited he became: "If the production is large enough, and the manure of other poultry can be used to set up a fertilizer factory, which is a good thing that farmers dream of."

"Haha...... Qin An said with a smile, "Your suggestion is very good, you can set up a chemical factory to specialize in making fertilizers.

However, if you want to expand the industry, you can only build some toilets, and then let people buy them every day, then process them, and finally turn them into fertilizer.

But if you want to build a fertilizer factory, I personally recommend not to be in the village, to go to the suburbs, away from crowded places, you should know what I mean."

Everyone nodded their heads to show that they understood, especially Chen Ping, who just said it casually, and didn't expect Qin An to take it seriously.

This also moved Chen Ping very much, because Qin An listened to his words.

If someone cares about him Chen Ping, his ingenuity will be put to use.

Qin An continued, "The matter of fertilizer, I'll take you to see the hatchery later.

This is a great human invention, which has greatly reduced the labor force and allowed chickens, ducks and geese to take less time to hatch."

"The villain very much agrees with the Emperor's words." Tian Liu said.

Immediately, Tian Liu took everyone to the incubation room.

The hatchery room is a special place for egg incubation, and Qin An designed the hatchery room to ensure high hatchability, while reducing the number of hens incubating and delaying hens to continue laying eggs.

The purpose of raising chickens is to allow the hens to lay more eggs and grow faster so that they can be sold for money.

Because there is no electricity, the incubator uses a stove to transmit heating into the hatchery.

When they arrived at the hatchery, they felt a little hot, even hotter than outside.

"This is what is now called a heating pipe?" Chen Ping said in shock, he saw one after another bamboo tube pipes, and felt it nearby, and the heating kept bubbling out.

Tian Liu replied, "That's right. Do you see, the shelves in the room are all egg holders for eggs, and after the chicks hatch, the villagers take them away and clean and disinfect the chicks."

Subsequently, Qin An explained that the design of the hatchery room should meet the following requirements, such as isolation, heat preservation and so on.

We didn't visit the hatchery for long, and then we came to the free-range chicken farm next to it.

The artificial chicken farm and the free-range chicken farm are on the left and right, but there is a disease prevention and control area in the middle.

This is also done to reduce costs, anyway, free-range chickens will also be afraid of the plague, in case of illness, they also need to be quarantined.

As for whether the two kinds of chickens will be mistaken during isolation, no, there are wooden boards that can distinguish the isolation into two pieces, and it will not be unclear.

The difference between an artificial chicken farm and a free-range chicken farm is that there is not much activity in one place, and one can move freely.

Therefore, free-range chickens are not only fat, but also more nutritious, not that artificially bred chickens have no nutrition, as long as the chickens are nutritious, but free-range chickens are more nutritious. xь.

And free-range eggs are also more nutritious than farmed chickens.

On the way, Qin An has already told everyone that free-range chickens are a breeding method that allows chickens to move freely and forage in a more natural environment.

It is equivalent to letting the chicken find things on its own.

So Qin An gave the villagers a way to make insects multiply constantly, and this method is very simple, that is, to breed with carrion or thatched pits.

For this reason, Qin An asked people to build a maggot breeding house, which looks disgusting, but it is the best feed for chickens.

For the villagers, there is no need to waste extra food to feed so many chickens, it is too late to be happy, where will they dislike whether it is dirty or not, evil or disgusting.

Once there are a large number of maggots, it doesn't matter if the free-range chickens can't find the worms to eat, as long as the maggots are manually placed in the designated place, those chickens will naturally eat them.

In order not to make the chickens feel dependent, the place of placement is different each time.

Compared to artificial chicken farms, free-range

Chickens are more economical, but there are requirements for proximity to water sources, low foot traffic, and large enough location for chickens to walk around.

The crowd saw flocks of chickens walking around, staring down for a moment with each step, and then pecking the ground with their beaks or digging the ground with their paws.

Everyone watched with relish, looking at so many chickens, compared with those farmed chickens, this group of free-range chickens was obviously much more active and more energetic.

"Sir." Chen Ping asked, "Since they are free-range chickens, then they should be allowed to make their home in the mountains." Why build a chicken coop."

There is a chicken coop at the bottom of the mountain, everyone saw it, although everyone was very curious, but only Chen Ping asked.

Qin An smiled: "That's because chickens also need houses, it's not that free-range chickens are treated as pheasants, pheasants need to build their own nests, but domestic chickens need us to build nests for them.

In case the weather is cold, or it rains, these chickens will not have a chicken shed, will they freeze to death, or get sick in the rain, this loss is difficult for people to bear.

However, the chicken coop cannot be built at will, although it is not complicated, but it needs to ensure the shading, warmth and ventilation of the chicken coop.

It's not too simple for the villagers."

Tian Liu said: "It's really simple, and it's very simple to take care of it, you just need to deal with the chicken manure frequently."

Qin An smiled, "That's because they haven't reached the time to lay eggs yet, and once they do, there are eggs everywhere in the mountains, and it's a trouble for you to collect eggs.

As for the rest, such as disease management and so on, it's basically the same."

After visiting the two chicken farms, Qin An asked Tian Liu to take everyone to visit the pig farm, cattle farm and sheep farm.

Among them, the cattle in the cattle farm are all cattle, as for why they are cattle, because cattle are easy to raise, eat less, and are docile and easy to manage.

The village breeds cattle, not to sell them for money, not to cultivate the land, and a little more.

But the number was very small, there were 1,000 pigs, 300 pigs, and only 30 cattle.

It's not because the village raises more cattle, but because cattle breeding is too slow, it takes more than two years, and there is another reason, that is, the imperial court has a law that you can't kill cattle, or even eat beef.

The village was afraid of raising too many cattle, and in the end it would not be able to sell them for a good price.

Qin An thought that he was right, at present, everyone needs to use cattle to plough the land, and only after the ploughing cart is popularized can the cattle be put on the table.

Nowadays, letting the village raise cattle is just to let the villagers know the process of raising cattle, which is regarded as accumulating experience, and when they can raise cattle on a large scale in the future, they will not be able to raise them again.

However, in the grassland, some people have already used the consumption of beef to make jerky and sell it to Xianyang City.

For a whole day, everyone was in Tianwang Village, and when it was time to eat, Qin An asked the chef to make a sumptuous banquet using the chickens, cows, sheep, and pigs raised in Tianwang Village, and the whole village of 1,700 people could participate.