1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 343 Such a big thing, and you're acting like nothing happened!
Beijing.

A meeting inside the red walls.

An elderly man dressed in a gray-white Zhongshan suit is holding a report in his hand.

"Special administrative regions in two provinces?"

"Boss, do you think it's feasible to build an East China aquaculture base in northern Jiangsu and Anhui?"

Upon hearing this, the old man sitting at the top lit a cigarette with a match.

"This young comrade has quite the strategic vision!"

"This 'special economic zone' idea not only solved the problem of disputes between the two sides, but also revitalized the resources of the impoverished county, and promoted regional cooperation between the two provinces by taking advantage of the foreign affairs reception. It can be said that it has achieved success by leveraging the situation."

"When the two provinces work together, he can take charge of coordinating the efforts."

After saying that, he took a puff of his cigarette and replied with a smile.

"It seems your move put a lot of pressure on him!"

The old man at the lower seat smiled and nodded upon hearing this.

"Young cadres need appropriate pressure to be motivated to make progress!"

"You see, if I hadn't sent the leaders from the two provinces over, this special economic zone plan might never have come out!"

The old man took a drag of his cigarette and continued.

"That's my opinion!"

"If it were ten years ago, no, even five years ago when he proposed this idea for a special economic zone, I would have shelved it without hesitation."

"When people are starving, the development of the aquaculture industry can only be put on hold."

"However, judging from the current situation, the timing of this proposal is actually quite good."

"Grain production is increasing year by year."

"Especially after the house was cleaned, people's demand for a better life, to eat meat, and to wear clothes is increasing day by day."

"At this time, as long as it is beneficial to the people, we can take a supportive attitude!"

"The development of our aquaculture industry has indeed reached a point where it needs to be accelerated."

"We cannot allow our people to work hard all their lives only to end up not even being able to afford a piece of meat."

"From the current perspective, this is indeed a new approach. The joint establishment of a development special zone by the two provinces not only avoids duplication of infrastructure construction but also integrates the resources of the two provinces."

"The collaboration between the two provinces to break down administrative barriers and coordinate the planning of transportation construction and the aquaculture industry is in line with our national strategy of 'one chessboard for the whole country'."

Then, his tone turned serious as he looked at the attendees below.

"However, the pilot program for the special economic zone involves administrative coordination between the two provinces, and it is necessary to clarify the powers and responsibilities to prevent a situation where multiple authorities are trying to manage the same area but fail to achieve any results."

His gaze swept over the heads of the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry present at the meeting.

“My suggestion is that the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry should jointly establish a special zone management committee with the two provinces, and appoint this young comrade as the executive deputy director, with each province sending a provincial cadre to serve concurrently as the deputy director.”

As the old man spoke, the soft sound of notes being taken could be heard in the conference room.

The head of the planning commission suddenly felt jealous and whispered to the person next to him who had been called out.

"Old Sha, your Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has really struck gold this time!"

"This young comrade knows how to seize an opportunity. He used foreign affairs reception as a pretext to get both provinces on the bandwagon of developing the aquaculture industry."

Upon hearing this, the leader of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry immediately defended his own.

"What do you mean by tying the two provinces to the development of the aquaculture industry? We are contributing to the development of the aquaculture industry in the two provinces. This is clearly us helping them develop their local areas."

"They should thank us!"

"When the aquaculture industry really develops there, won't the people of the two provinces be the first to benefit?"

"Hey, I haven't even said anything yet! And you're already protecting her!"

At this moment, the old man sitting at the table tapped the table with the hand holding the cigarette.

"Alright, that's settled then!"

"Tell the two provinces that the special economic zones in the two provinces will not participate in the unified purchase and sale of grain for three years, but the output value of the livestock industry must be quadrupled to meet the target."

"As for infrastructure—he turned to the director of the Planning Commission, and the Longhai Railway branch line project was launched ahead of schedule. This time, I'll see if this young comrade can break the 'provincial border economy' shackles."

"Oh, right, there's also the work of receiving foreign affairs. Although the work of the special economic zone needs to be promoted and implemented as soon as possible, the work of receiving foreign affairs cannot be delayed."

He addressed the elderly man sitting below him.

"I'll have to trouble you to accompany me this time. I really don't trust anyone else with such important diplomatic matters!"

"Don't worry, sir, I will arrange the reception work perfectly."

"I'll also go there on my way to see what this young comrade who proposed the special economic zone will be like in six months!"
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Su Wenchen, who was in the branch office, was unaware of the discussion about him from above.

At this moment, in a newly built chicken coop, the cages inside are filled with Bluewater Chickens transported from the main farm.

At this moment, Su Wenchen was intently looking at the chicken coop in front of him, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"At the time, I was always thinking about developing egg-laying hens and neglected the breeding and application of broilers."

"I never imagined that in the end, the botnet would be the real answer for this version!"

[Sixth Generation Hybrid Broiler Chicken MAX - Rapidly Grown Specialized Breed]

Current condition: Hypermetabolism
Future breeding direction: The species has reached its evolutionary limit and cannot be further bred.

Introduction: This is a fast-growing chicken breed specifically bred for industrialized farming. It has an extremely fast growth cycle of 40 days and an extreme feed conversion ratio of 1.6 to 1. Due to the excessive pursuit of growth speed, its meat fiber quality is relatively average.

Looking at the few chickens in the cage, he had spent a lot of resources these past few days raising them to their limit.

Now, with the development of this branch farm, he can easily obtain most medicinal herbs.

He originally planned to breed the bluewater chickens for meat to their maximum potential, and then use them for official receptions.

Unexpectedly, there was a pleasant surprise: after cultivating it a few times, it was discovered that it could be cultivated in a way that allowed for rapid branching.

After being nurtured to its limit, it will have the attributes he sees now.

The feed conversion ratio is 1.6:1, and the product cycle is extremely long, allowing the product to be ready for market in just forty days.

It perfectly matches their position as the main meat supplier in this branch.

Moreover, even the king of broiler chickens, the white-feathered chicken, can only reach a slaughter cycle of fifty to sixty days at this time.

It can be said that the growth and reproduction rates of these fast-growing chickens are even beyond the reach of rabbits.

After all, a chicken can lay one egg a day, but a rabbit can't; it can lay a baby every day.

After reading this,

Su Wenchen then looked to the other side and saw Blue Water Chickens that had been bred to their full potential.

[Sixth Generation Hybrid Flavored Chicken MAX]

Current state: Feeling down (due to insufficient exercise)

Future breeding direction: The species has reached its evolutionary limit and cannot be further bred.

Introduction: This is the pinnacle of hybrid chicken breeds in terms of meat quality, with snow-like deposits of intramuscular fat. When chickens are kept in a free-range, active environment for an extended period, and after a feeding cycle exceeding 140 days, each chicken will develop its own unique flavor depending on its diet and the feeding cycle.

Looking at these attributes, which are clearly different from those of fast-growing chickens, Su Wenchen knew that this was obviously an advanced version of the Blue Water Chicken.

However, the growth cycle is much longer, and each chicken will have a unique flavor due to its different diet and different feeding period.

Su Wenchen was genuinely curious about this attribute.

Does every chicken taste different?

Is it like opening a blind box?
If that's the case, then as long as the meat quality is good, the fact that each flavor is different is indeed a big surprise.

As long as it tastes good enough.

That makes people really look forward to what the next chicken will taste like.

After all, even the most delicious high-end ingredients will become tiresome if eaten too much.

However, this top-quality Bluewater Chicken can avoid this problem, mainly because the formation of this special flavor requires free-range and active conditions to be activated.

In other words, it can only be produced under the free-range grazing model in the mountains and forests.

In this situation.

The types and quantities of insects each chicken eats each day, as well as their individual exercise levels, will vary.

It can be said that they are born with countless possible permutations and combinations.

Even he himself seems unable to replicate the same flavor.

After all, he can't follow every chicken around to see how many worms it ate or how far it ran that day.

Perhaps we'll have to wait until technology advances and we have intelligent monitoring before we can try to replicate its unique flavor.

This sense of surprise also piqued Su Wenchen's interest, and he couldn't wait to try just how unique the flavor was.

Unfortunately, these chickens not only need to be raised for a long time, but they also need to be kept in a free-range, active state.

So he can only wait until later to personally experience just how unique the flavor is.

Thinking about this, he felt a little regretful, thinking he should have cultivated it earlier.

However, looking at the items consumed this time, including wild musk deer, wild ginseng, cordyceps, dendrobium, and agarwood, they are all extremely difficult to obtain at this time.

In other words, the chickens he breeds can only be used as breeding stock for reproduction.

Based on his observations of the past breeding of Moon Rabbit offspring, he believed that if these well-bred rabbits were used as breeding stock, the offspring's attributes would be slightly weakened.

However, the first generation will not have a particularly large impact.

However, if they are not fed with breeding feed, they will continue to degenerate generation after generation.

This is also why Su Wenchen has never pursued higher breeding standards for either white pigs or the current alkaline-treated rabbits.

The main reason is that only the initial, first-level breeding feed has universal applicability, because it uses the most common feed formulations.

Only for breeds like the high-end Blue Water Chicken and Moonflower Rabbit, which are developed towards the top level, will he appropriately pursue higher breeding levels.

In this way, once their farm masters the technology for breeding chickens, they can form a breeding monopoly.

Even if foreign countries manage to get second or third generations, they still won't be able to reproduce on a large scale unless they solve the degeneration problem.

While Su Wenchen was still at the chicken coop considering how to develop the next two breeds of Bluewater Chickens,

At this moment, Guo Xiangyang and Hou Guozhong rushed over.

Since this was Su Wenchen's private chicken coop, the two of them just shouted from outside.

"director--!"

"director!"

Hearing the shout, Su Wenchen put all the medicinal herbs back in their original places and put away the experimental record book before walking out of the experimental chicken coop and looking at the two of them curiously.

"what happened?"

"Is something wrong somewhere?"

Guo Xiangyang shook his head.

"It's not a problem, I heard it's a good thing."

"Director Liu from Xuzhou and Director Liang from Suxian have come together."

"But they didn't say anything specific, they just said they had something important to tell you, Director, in person."

Su Wenchen thought for a moment.

"Could it be that there's been some progress on the issue between the two provinces?"

"Otherwise, why would they come together? Let's go see what they're up to."

Just as he was about to leave, he said to Hou Guozhong again.

"Old Hou, I've been doing some experiments with the Blue Swamp Chickens that we brought in from the main farm recently."

"Find a few elderly people to come over and be in charge of managing this batch of chickens that I'm experimenting with alone."

"One type is bred to be ready for market quickly and can be kept in cages, while the other type is still raised in the same way as our old Blue Swamphens, using a free-range method."

"I have recorded some of the experimental data for the two types of chickens in the notebooks over the two chicken coops."

"You can start breeding separately according to the information I recorded above, and then expand the scale normally."

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, Hou Guozhong's eyes immediately lit up.

He looked at Su Wenchen with excitement.

"Director, have you bred our Blue Swamphens again?"

"In that case, I won't go with you. Don't worry, I'm much better at raising chickens than rabbits. I have some experience."

"You can leave the chickens to me. I guarantee that our chicken farm will develop as quickly as possible."

"I'm quite confident in this regard!"

Clearly, for Hou Guozhong, raising rabbits was for work.

Raising chickens is his true passion!

After all, this is the industry he has dedicated half his life to.

Hearing Hou Guozhong say this, Su Wenchen didn't say anything. He trusted Hou Guozhong quite a bit when it came to raising chickens.

"Alright, this batch of chickens is yours, especially the breeding chickens, you have to take good care of them!"

"Whether it's for foreign affairs receptions or the meat supply for our farm workers, we'll have to rely on them."

Hou Guozhong readily agreed.

"Don't worry, Director, leave it to me."

Later, when Su Wenchen and Guo Xiangyang were rushing to the field headquarters, Guo Xiangyang asked curiously.

"Director, should our branch farm also develop its chicken farming business?"

“This pig farm has just been built, and the alkali-resistant rabbit farm is also expanding. If we start a chicken farm now…”

"Our food supply is in serious trouble!"

Su Wenchen nodded.

"I know, but this time our chicken farm is mainly raising a fast-growing breed of chicken."

"Two regional leaders happened to be here, and I'd like to talk to them about the issue of exchanging grain for meat."

"What do you think about exchanging two pounds of grain for one pound of chicken? Would they agree to that?"

Guo Xiangyang looked at Su Wenchen in surprise.

"Director, are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"It should be three pounds of grain for one pound of chicken!"

"If we trade two pounds of grain for one pound of chicken, our farm will suffer a huge loss!"

"As far as I know, it's a breed of broiler chicken called the White Feather Chicken that was introduced from Beijing."

"The feed conversion ratio is about two and a half pounds of feed, which is enough to grow a chicken weighing one pound."

"Two pounds of grain can be exchanged for one pound of meat, even if some of the bran and other grain scraps are removed and used as feed."

"But it's not a good deal for us either!"

In Guo Xiangyang's view, this was a losing proposition. At most, he could earn some chicken manure to provide some raw materials for the biogas digester. However, considering the labor required for raising the chickens, it was not a worthwhile business.

Su Wenchen, however, spoke directly.

“What you said does make some sense, but what if our fast-growing chickens could have a feed conversion ratio of 1.6 to 1?”

Upon hearing this, Guo Xiangyang immediately fell silent.

After a moment, he asked hesitantly.

"Director, are you serious? Is it possible to achieve that ratio?"

"If we can really achieve this ratio, it will be very cost-effective. If we add some bran or rice bran to the feed, we can save a lot of money!"

"Even if you take into account the chicken manure produced, I still think two pounds of grain is too little."

"After all, raising meat is so difficult these days! We can definitely earn more."

Su Wenchen thought about it and felt that it made some sense, but he still said it directly.

"We still can't skimp on feed, as this is a fast-growing chicken with a slaughter cycle of only about 40 to 50 days."

"They must be fed enough protein and energy-rich feeds like corn."

Upon hearing this, Guo Xiangyang's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Director, how many days?"

"They can be ready for slaughter in about forty days?"

"You don't mean a chick weighing only one pound can be sold, do you?!"

"That's all bones, no one would want it!"

Su Wenchen rolled his eyes.

"Do you think I'm an idiot? A chicken weighing a pound wouldn't even make it out of the pen!"

"It is definitely true that after reaching the daily weight gain limit, the minimum standard for slaughtering broiler chickens must be at least three kilograms."

Su Wenchen knew that for people today, the 40-day slaughter standard was indeed frightening.

However, in later generations, it was quite normal for fast-growing broiler chickens to reach the slaughter standard of four or five pounds in about forty days.

Su Wenchen believes that if the daily feed is nutritious enough, their fast-growing chickens can easily reach this standard.

However, at this time, due to the limitations of feed formulation, there was no cost to feed the baby with growth feed every day to increase weight.

The attributes will definitely be reduced in different ways.

This is also why he deliberately lowered the time and requirements for slaughtering.

However, it is precisely because it can adapt to low requirements that it can solve the problem of limited meat supply in this area to the greatest extent.

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's description of the slaughter standards, Guo Xiangyang immediately swallowed hard.

"Director, you've not only improved the white pigs that grow to market weight quickly, but you've also improved the broiler chickens that grow to market weight quickly!"

"Chickens have become more widespread much faster than pigs."

"Such a big thing, and you're acting like nothing happened, so nonchalant?"

Su Wenchen raised an eyebrow.

"if not!"

"Will he just dance around wildly, shouting 'I did it!' as he runs?"

uh~
Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, Guo Xiangyang imagined the scene.

He does seem a bit unsteady!

But why do I feel a little curious to see the director perform this scene?

After all, in his eyes, although the director was young, he always gave him the impression of being calm and composed even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of him.

This makes them unconsciously overlook the director's age.

Looking back now, this kind of animated gesture is exactly what a director of that age should be doing!
(End of this chapter)