1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 100 Earthworm Farming (Part )
Along with the final cooperation with Shuanggou Brigade.

Although it was not like what Su Wenchen had originally envisioned, raising chickens in the forest.

But the final result is acceptable.

This will also save manpower for their team to do other things.

After helping the Shuanggou Brigade complete the wheat harvest, Su Wenchen returned to their own brigade.

Because of the threshing and other work that needs to be done later, the tractor can't help much at the moment.

They didn't buy farm tools such as threshers, so currently the tractor is mainly used to help with harvesting and transportation.

In this way, the members of the other team can use most of their manpower directly on threshing.

After Su Wenchen returned to Ping Village, the tractor driver who had gone to the city to study also came back.

Su Wenchen finally said goodbye to driving a tractor, which was an easy job for most members, but not an easy job at all for Su Wenchen.

Because he has more important things to do now.

As I had talked with He Feihuai a few days ago, he knew that after the summer harvest, he would invite people from the county to visit their brigade’s collective chicken farm.

If it goes well.

Su Wenchen’s focus in the future may be on the state-owned chicken farm. After all, he will be a formal state official by that time.

You can't just collect benefits and not do your work!
For the big team, the management will definitely be relaxed.

Su Wenchen was not actually too worried about anything else, as the chicken farm in the brigade had basically been tapped to its full potential by Su Wenchen.

Without producing more food, laying hens are destined to be limited to this scale.

And right now, food is different from everything else.

He could exchange eggs with the state-owned factories for many things, including various defective cloths, and even bicycles, tractors, and televisions.

But the only problem is food.

Because there is no such thing as unplanned things.

After all the grain is stored, it will be arranged and there will be no waste.

Of course, he could secretly contact the grain warehouse staff, do some tricks, and get a batch of grain privately, but that would be of no significance to their brigade.

What they need is a stable channel.

This method can only be achieved by applying to the higher authorities and allocating food in a planned manner. However, once the food is really allocated from above, congratulations, you are officially included in the plan.

At this time, they need to provide the corresponding number of eggs according to the plan. Only after the eggs in the plan are delivered, the eggs produced later can be used by their team at will, which are unplanned materials.

Therefore, for their team, being formally included in the plan may not necessarily be a good thing.

This is also the reason why Su Wenchen wanted the county to find a way to start a new state-owned chicken farm, rather than directly incorporating it into the plan in the name of collective industry.

In this way, as long as he controls this state-owned chicken farm, he can not only achieve his own class leap, but also provide breeding chickens to the state-owned chicken farm so that the entire brigade can get a share of the pie.

On the other hand, as long as he controls the brigade's breeding chicken channels, he will have greater say in the state-owned chicken farm.

However, for Su Wenchen, if he wants the chickens in the national chicken farm to eat cultivated feed and lay more eggs.

Then the issue of ingredients must be resolved.

Most of the food, stone meal, bone meal and the like are easy to get.

They can all be transferred from other places through the supply and marketing system.

This is the benefit of the plan. As long as it is not edible meat or eggs that are extremely scarce on the market, it can be obtained through the powerful mobilization ability of the supply and marketing system.

However, one of the ingredients in the breeding feed is blood and flesh meal.

This is the most difficult ingredient to get right.

Flesh and blood.

Nowadays, even rat meat ends up in people's stomachs.

The cultivated feed that Su Wenchen is currently eating is all blood and meat powder ground from clam meat.

Although the quality is average, it can be used.

But as for the river clams, almost all the clams in their team’s river have been fished out.

Most of the time, they have to go to other brigades’ rivers to fish.

This thing is not eaten much nowadays. Most members think it is too much effort and there is not much meat, so it is usually used to feed chickens.

Otherwise, if you want to go to other teams to catch river clams, it's impossible.

So he not only had to solve the source of blood and meat meal from the state-owned chicken farms, but also had to quickly solve the source of blood and meat meal for their brigade.

Otherwise, it will be impossible to formulate breeding feed next year.

Egg production by hens is estimated to have dropped by half.

Even pig blood and pig offal are relatively expensive in this era. It is impossible and impossible to use them as feed on a large scale.

So in the end you have to figure out how to raise them yourself.

Su Wenchen touched his chin.

murmured to himself.

"How about raising river clams? But what do they eat? Can they keep up with the consumption of 10,000 or 20,000 chickens?"

Just when Su Wenchen was deep in thought in the yard.

Shitou from the eldest brother's house ran in hurriedly from outside carrying a small basket.

He was walking in the yard and was nearly knocked down.

Su Wenchen rubbed the other person's bald head.

"Shi Tou, what have you been doing? You got run over by a chicken!"

The other party's cricket pupa body escaped from Su Wenchen's big hands.

"Uncle, Big Lazy Egg and Little Lazy Bug haven't laid many eggs in the past few days. I think they have a poor appetite, so I specially dug up a lot of earthworms to nourish their bodies, so that they will lay eggs like before again."

Big lazy guy?
Who!

Only then did Su Wenchen remember that these seemed to be the first batch of old hens he used for experiments.

I was bored at the time, so I gave each other some nonsensical names.

But later on, when he got busy, he paid less attention to the chicken coop and asked Xiao Shitou to help feed the chickens. He gave him three eggs every day as wages.

However, Su Wenchen did not give the eggs to his sister-in-law.

I usually cook on the same day and help Xiao Shitou do it at the same time.

Because he knew that once the eggs fell into the hands of his sister-in-law, Shitou could only eat one a day at most.

The rest will definitely be sold by my sister-in-law.

In fact, he knew what the other person was thinking. He was afraid of being poor and wanted to save up good things for the future.

However, he did not quite agree. Their family would get better and better in the future and his eldest brother would become a tractor driver. There was no need to be so stingy with food.

In Su Wenchen's opinion, having a good body is better than anything else because it is the foundation of everything.

However, he had no intention of changing the other person's ideas, because sometimes changing a rural person's ideas is more difficult than killing her.

The eggs are his anyway.

No matter how he gave the stone, the other party had no choice, and it eventually ended up in her son's stomach.

So my sister-in-law had no way to deal with this matter.

However, with the supplement of three eggs a day, a boy like Shitou who is in his teens can grow very fast.

Naturally, Shitou cares more about the five chickens raised by Su Wenchen than he does.

From time to time, I would go outside to dig up earthworms and catch grasshoppers to provide a snack for the chickens.

Even when adding food, they drove away the roosters raised by Su Wenchen.

Don't let the other party snatch your food.

For this reason, both sides have fought many human-chicken wars.

Su Wenchen watched Xiao Shitou pour the earthworms in the basket in front of the chickens.

Looking at a few hens pecking at the food excitedly and the earthworms twisting and rolling on the ground, Su Wenchen's eyes suddenly lit up.

Earthworms should also be able to replace blood and flesh meal!
After all, the essence of blood and meat meal is actually to supplement chickens with sufficient protein, amino acids and the like.

Earthworms also contain these things.

So he quickly ran forward and picked up a few earthworms from the ground that had not yet been eaten by the chickens.

The hen that was pecking at the food saw that someone was snatching the food away, and she immediately ate even faster.

This made the stones beside it stunned.
"Uncle, what are you doing? You can't eat this!"

Although his uncle often prepared delicious food for him, he had never seen anyone eat earthworms.

Su Wenchen picked up the basket again.

Put the earthworm back.

"I have use for it. How about this? Help me dig a few more. I'm afraid these few aren't enough. I'll give you an extra egg tonight."

One can with egg.

Little Shitou immediately became full of energy and patted his little chest.

"Don't worry, uncle. I'm the best at digging earthworms. I have earthworms in many places, and I haven't told Niu Niu and the others yet."

"Uncle, just tell me how many you want!"

Su Wenchen thought about it.

"A dozen or so will be enough. I'll use them first. If I need more later, I'll talk about it later."

Watching the sound of the stone stirring.

Su Wenchen quickly added.

"Oh, right, I want to live a complete life, it's better not to break them!"

"Don't worry, I'm experienced in digging earthworms, and I usually won't break them!"

Having said that, he took the small shovel and ran out the door.

"Oh, I forgot to take the basket!"

Hearing Su Wenchen's shout, the other party came back immediately and took the small basket from Su Wenchen.

Su Wenchen looked at the few remaining earthworms in his hand that were still struggling.

"I'm going to get you some nutritious humus to eat, but you have to show your faceplate to me!"

As he spoke, Su Wenchen found a small wooden box, put the earthworms in it, and walked quickly towards the composting yard.

That's where their team makes compost.

Since chicken manure is produced every day after raising chickens, they built this composting yard and sent people to turn it regularly, mainly to ferment the chicken manure.

Because there is no way to use the chicken manure directly without fermentation!
This side of the composting yard is built not far from the chicken coop.

Because it would be inconvenient to transport chicken manure if it is farther away.

As I walked over, a strong smell of chicken manure hit me.

Having been trained to fight with chickens for several months, Su Wenchen has developed a strong resistance to this smell.

If it was him at the beginning, he would have covered his nose and turned around and ran away.

Now you can enter this environment leisurely and leisurely.

At this time, an old man from the brigade, with a cigarette in his mouth, was slowly turning the chicken manure with a wooden shovel.

The pungent smell of chicken manure was like floating clouds to the other party.

When he saw Su Wenchen coming, he greeted him directly.

"Manager Xiao Su is here. You are here to see the fermented fertilizer, right? I am not bragging, but I have been promoting fertilizer for many years, and this year's batch of chicken manure is of the best quality."

Su Wenchen smiled.

"Uncle Wang, you can tell whether this shit is good or not, how come you have tasted it?"

When the other party heard this, he said with a smug look on his face.

"You young people don't understand. I've been piling it up for so many years. Do I still need to taste it? I can tell if it's fertile enough by just pinching it with my hands."

(End of this chapter)