Then, she very skillfully opened a private message, which was from Su Xiaolei.

Su Xiaolei's situation is somewhat special. Because she has too many things to deal with every day, she simply doesn't have time to go to the mall to select goods, especially some items that she particularly needs and that are relatively scarce.

These kinds of items are often snapped up by other sharp-eyed players shortly after they're listed.

When she went to check again, it was already sold out.

Therefore, she needs an agent to help her purchase the items she needs from the shop on the trading channel.

Su Xiaolei happened to be the perfect candidate.

She has plenty of time to help Jiang An find and buy these items.

Jiang An only needs to pay a tiny extra price to get what she wants, which is nothing to her, but it is a timely help for Su Xiaolei, who desperately needs money.

"Brother Jiang An, I bought 10 kilograms of chicken feed for 2,000 trading points, and 4 electronic components. Please check them!"

After Jiang An opened her private message, she saw the message. She smiled because this wasn't their first collaboration, so she was very familiar with the process.

Jiang An quickly transferred the corresponding transaction points and wages to the other party, then clicked the extract button to retrieve the items from the virtual warehouse.

After placing the electronic components on the clutter shelf in the workshop, I carried the chicken feed to the breeding shed.

He placed the chicken feed outside the chicken coop, where several bags of the same thing were piled up. But in Jiang An's eyes, this amount was far from enough.

Those adorable little chicks have now grown into adult chickens, and the amount of food they need every day is astonishing.

Especially after the hens start laying eggs, their demand for food increases dramatically, and the current storage capacity is simply not enough. If there is no chicken feed available for sale on the trading channel, these chickens will face the possibility of going hungry.

Therefore, Jiang An has been thinking about whether there are other foods that can replace chicken feed while maintaining its unique effects.

However, due to limited capabilities, a satisfactory solution has not yet been found.

Faced with this predicament, Jiang An could only continue his search, determined not to let the chickens go hungry, as he couldn't bear to part with more than a dozen eggs a day.

Because of the chicken feed, many hens can lay two eggs a day.

Jiang An skillfully filled the empty water trough and feed trough with chicken feed and water, and then began to collect today's harvest—eggs—from the chicken coop.

These hens seem to enjoy giving her surprises; they set a new record today by laying sixteen eggs!

This means that each hen laid two eggs.

Looking at the green-shelled eggs in the basin, Jiang An couldn't help but smile broadly.

Now, she has accumulated more than fifty fertilized eggs, and her long-awaited plan to hatch chicks can finally be put into practice!

After cleaning the chicken coop, Jiang An took out a few tender vegetable leaves from his storage ring and threw them into the coop without hesitation.

As for the roosters, she thought about it and finally decided to keep them all. After all, one rooster wasn't enough. If something happened to the only rooster, wouldn't its plan to hatch chicks be ruined?

Then she went to the storage room, searched carefully, and finally found the egg incubator.

Jiang An stared at the incubator in front of him, lost in thought.

After much deliberation, she finally made a decision—to put the incubator into the breeding chamber to hatch the chicks.

After all, once these fertilized eggs hatch into chicks, they need to be fed and grow here.

She already has a clear plan for the next steps: once the chicks hatch successfully, she will keep them in a breeding cage for a while; once they grow a little bigger, she will move them to the chicken coop to be fed together.

As for when trading will begin, that depends on the specific circumstances.

After all, nobody knows how many chicks these 50 fertilized eggs will hatch.

The incubator is very simple in appearance. On top is a lid that can be lifted. After opening the lid, you can see rows of grooves arranged neatly inside, a total of fifty, which are just the places to put fertilized eggs.

Once the lid is closed, the outermost part has a slot for inserting an electricity card. Simply insert the electricity card, and the incubator will start working.

Jiang An spent a considerable amount of money to acquire it. Although its appearance is simple, its function is not simple at all; it can speed up the incubation of the fertilized eggs inside.

All she needs to do is use a small amount of electricity from her card.

She took out a small basket of eggs from her storage ring; this was all she had in stock.

After checking each egg in the basket to make sure they were all fertilized, they were carefully placed into the grooves.

This was her first time hatching chicks, so she couldn't afford to be careless.

Jiang An then discovered that two of the eggs did not have white spots, indicating they were not fertilized, so he took them out and set them aside.

After all, this incubator can only hold fifty fertilized eggs, and if not carefully inspected, it could lead to hatching failure or wasted resources.

Therefore, Jiang An was very cautious about these details.

After all, two eggs are enough for her and the little turtle to each have one!

Soon, Jiang An carefully placed the 50 fertilized eggs into the incubator, carefully closed the lid, and then inserted the power card.

As the incubator's startup sounded, it officially began its work.

Only after confirming that everything was in order did Jiang An leave the breeding chamber with peace of mind.

On the way back, Jiang An realized that his electricity card reserves might not be enough, so he sent a private message to Su Xiaolei, asking her to buy more electricity cards in the trading channel or privately.

After all, her current power cards were all obtained from opening boxes or on the Giant Tree Island, and such resources seem to be becoming increasingly scarce.

Although Jiang An didn't have many electricity cards, she didn't actually need many.

Currently, only the steamship's lights, rice cooker, kettle, and refrigerator require the use of electricity cards.

However, these electrical appliances are not entirely indispensable.

For example, the energy system on a steamship can replace electric cards to provide power; and as for refrigerators, their role has been greatly reduced since they came into use for food storage.

As for ice, it's incredibly easy to make in this cold world.

So, Jiang An bought some containers and molds on the trading channel, then poured purified water into them, and in a few seconds to a few minutes, he could easily get solidly frozen ice blocks.

Despite the limited space in her storage ring, she still managed to store a considerable amount of ice products.

However, this incubator incident made her realize that electricity cards may become a scarce resource in the future.

Since she doesn't lack trading points, there's no harm in collecting more.