Chapter 417: Cute little chicks
After a few busy trips to pull goods, the barbed wire was all in place. Gao Mingcheng called Chen Dasong and others to do things again.
Xiaofushan is not big, but it is not small, and if you want to enclose the whole mountain, you need a lot of barbed wire, and this money is not something that ordinary people can afford.
Chen Dasong looked at the bundles of barbed wire, his eyes were a little straight, and he couldn't help but say, "How expensive it is to buy this thing!" In fact, it is also possible to weave bamboo into a fence. ”
Gao Mingcheng waved his hand and said magnificently: "If you can do it in one step, you can do it in one step!" ”
When villagers grow vegetables in their yards, they use bamboo to weave a fence to enclose the vegetable patch in order to prevent the vegetables from being pecked by chickens.
But it was also a hassle to come up with a fence that would enclose a mountain.
He and many cents went to the mountainous land, and there happened to be no bamboo, so he must have to pay the people in the village to buy it, and he had to ask someone to make a fence, how troublesome it was!
Now, as soon as the barbed wire fence arrives, it only needs to be separated by a certain distance to drive a wooden stake and fix it.
Fortunately, there is enough wood, even if it is not enough, you can cut some miscellaneous trees from the mountains on the spot to use.
So everyone divided and cooperated, some digging pits in front, some driving wooden stakes, and some holding barbed wire fences.
Each of these barbed wires is only 10 meters long, so every two of them have to be tied up with wire, so that there will be no loopholes and chickens kept in captivity in the mountains will not escape.
Looking at the bare barbed wire, Gao Mingcheng pondered what to plant on both sides of the barbed wire, and the first choice was naturally vine plants, so that vine plants could spread and grow along the barbed wire.
Several suitable plant names flashed in his mind, in fact, it was good to grow goji berries, but goji berries were not suitable for cultivation on their side.
After excluding the wolfberry, honeysuckle appeared in his mind.
Honeysuckle is a vine plant, which is also native to them, and can be found everywhere in the mountains, on barren slopes.
Before and after the Qingming Festival, there are countless honeysuckles blooming in the mountains, and the people in the village will take the opportunity to pick some to dry, whether they soak in water to drink or sell for money, they are all okay.
Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, mainly treating external wind heat or fever, heat stroke, heat poisoning and blood dysentery, carbuncle and boils, laryngeal paralysis, and a variety of infectious diseases.
Therefore, in the summer, the villagers will soak honeysuckle water to drink to prevent heat stroke.
In addition to honeysuckle, golden cherry blossoms are also a good choice, which is also known as sugar jars, which are often eaten by children in the village.
Golden cherry seed has the effect of solidifying sperm and shrinking urine, solidifying collapse and stopping band and astringent intestine and antidiarrheal. It is often used for the treatment of spermatosis and slippery sperm, enuresis and frequent urination, collapse and leakage, and long-term diarrhea and dysentery.
Honeysuckle and cherry blossom are two plants that, in addition to their medicinal uses, can also provide a nectar source for bees.
Especially the golden cherry blossoms, who grow thorns all over their bodies, climb behind the barbed wire, and can also give the young people a little deterrence.
Gao Mingcheng pondered in his mind, but if he wanted to do this right away, he couldn't.
Because there is no nursery in the county that specializes in this type of business, if they want to transplant, they can't buy a large number of seedlings at once, so they can only dig in the mountains slowly and then transplant them again.
Thinking of transplanting, Gao Mingcheng remembered the yellow essence seedlings he planted last year.
After a year of growth, this spring, this batch of yellow essence seedlings can be transplanted to the mountains.
Yellow essences like shade, transplant them to the shade, and in another two or three years, they can be harvested. The reason why it takes so long is because this batch of Polygonatum polygonatum is propagated by seeds, and if it is propagated directly with the rhizomes of Polygonatum polygonatum roots, Polygonatum polygonatum can be harvested within a year or two after transplanting the rhizome.
Yellow essence has been planted for a long time, but fortunately, the value is also high, so Gao Mingcheng is willing to plant a batch, even if he doesn't sell it at that time, he can use it to stew meat to eat, isn't it very fragrant.
After a busy day, the barbed wire fence was finally pulled.
Gao Mingcheng stood by the pond at the foot of the mountain, looking at the newly built shed and chicken coop, and then at the brand-new barbed wire, and a sense of pride arose.
He thought that when his son grew up, he would be able to pick fruit and eggs in the orchard and, if he wished, catch a chicken and kill it.
He also thought that when his kindergarten was set up in the future, he could bring all the children to the orchard and let them experience the fun of picking fruits.
This is also a small feature of his kindergarten, focusing on organic vegetables and organic fruits, which is not very conspicuous now, but if it is left in the future, it will be a breaking point.
Just thinking like this, his eyes fell on his house at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.
When he first built the house, in order not to arouse suspicion, he built it casually, except for the kitchen, toilet, bathhouse and miscellaneous room, there were only three main houses in total.
But as the child grows up, this room will definitely not be enough, so another house will have to be built.
Fortunately, he asked for a large piece of foundation at the beginning, because he was the only family here, and he spent money to fix it, so the extra foundation was enough for him to build another house of about 100 square meters.
If it's not enough, you can also ask the village committee to approve some more foundations, anyway, it's easy to do things if you have money.
"Mingcheng, go back to eat." Chen Dasong stood on the side of the road and shouted at Gao Mingcheng.
These days of working in the village, Gao Mingcheng ate at Chen Dasong's house for convenience, his wife's craftsmanship was okay, and the family was enthusiastic.
In the past, he would eat at Grandma's house, but the old village was far away after all.
At the dinner table, Aunt Liu said to Gao Mingcheng: "I have inquired with people, and there are people in Kengli Village and Junling who hatch chicks to sell. Now there are more than a hundred chicks in the combined number of those families. Mingcheng, you can drive a tractor to their house tomorrow and buy it. ”
Gao Mingcheng nodded and said, "Okay." Trouble auntie. ”
Aunt Liu hurriedly said politely: "What's the trouble about this!" It's just a matter of mentioning words. ”
Aunt Liu carefully said the addresses of those who hatched chicks and sold them, and then said: "Mingcheng, I'll go with you to buy it tomorrow, I'll pick it for you, don't buy a bad one at that time." Also, if you don't pick, someone else might sell you a rooster as a hen. ”
Gao Mingcheng thought about it and felt that he was really not very good at selecting chickens, and the chickens raised at home before were all chickens that many beauties bought.
So he nodded and agreed: "Okay, then please trouble my aunt to help me choose." I buy about 100 hens and 10 roosters, depending on how many people have them. ”
After the matter was settled, early the next morning, Gao Mingcheng drove a tractor and took Aunt Liu to buy chickens.
They went to buy chickens, and Chen Dasong and his son went to the chicken coop, they had to cover the windows of the chicken coop with plastic sheeting, and then they had to start burning the fire at the mouth of the fire channel, so that the temperature inside the chicken coop would gradually rise.
About an hour later, Gao Mingcheng returned with a full load, pulling more than 100 chickens on the body of the tractor.
The body is covered with dry straw beforehand, so if you put the chicken on it, you won't be able to fall and get injured by bumps.
These chicks are not just hatched, but have been raised for a few days, so they are relatively large, so it is easier to feed them when they are bought back.
If it is a specialized chicken farm, then the chicks they buy are just hatched from the egg setter and then transported to the chicken farm.
Such chickens are too small and easy to get sick and die, so at the beginning, you have to feed the chickens with medicine, pour the relevant medicine into the cool white boil, and then give it to the chickens.
After a while, the chicks will be vaccinated so that they will not get sick easily.
Feeding medicine, vaccination, and feeding, the chicks are long!
The general three-yellow chicken, about three months or so, can be sold, and there is a kind of fast-growing chicken, which only takes sixty-eight days, and the meat quality of this chicken is slightly worse.
If it is a hundred days of chickens, then the chicken farm can raise three batches of chickens a year, but each batch of chickens has just been sold, and the chicken farm must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected immediately, and then the second batch can be raised.
Of course, this is the breeding method of ordinary chicken farms in later generations, and the chickens raised by Gao Mingcheng are not the kind of feed chickens, but the free-range chickens, also known as local chickens.
After his chickens were bought, they were placed in Xiaofushan free-range, and in the early stage they were fed with fine chaff, broken rice and chopped vegetable leaves, and in the later stage, it was easier, just let the chickens go all over the mountains to find food.
There are pheasants in the mountains, so it is okay to raise more than 100 chickens in the 300 acres of Xiaofu Mountain.
The tractor stopped near the chicken coop, which was built not far from the side of the road for easy management and transportation.
He first walked to the chicken coop and felt the temperature inside.
Not long after the fire burned, the temperature inside had not completely risen, but it was already April, and the temperature was not so low.
Gao Mingcheng took a bamboo basket, put the chickens in it, and then transferred them to the chicken coop.
The chicken coop is covered with dried straw, the water basin is filled with cool white water, and the trough is filled with broken rice and chopped vegetable leaves.
In order to allow the chickens to survive smoothly, in addition to feeding medicine, other Gao Mingcheng has already taken into account.
Chen Dasong and his son also came to help, and in a short time, all the chickens were transferred to the chicken coop.
The chicks had just changed their surroundings and huddled together, chirping.
Most of them are still yellow fluff, a chick is cute and cute, this may be the most cute time in the chicken's life, and when they grow up and change their moults, they will be ugly, but when the coat color is shiny, then it becomes beautiful again.
Especially the big rooster, colorful and magnificent.
And the hens are also different, some are reed chickens, some are pure black chickens, and some are white chickens.
But no matter what color the feathers are, as long as the chicken is delicious, there's nothing wrong with it!
(End of chapter)