Chapter 418 Cute little chick

After several busy trips to transport goods, the barbed wire was in place. Gao Mingcheng called Chen Dasong and others to work.

Xiaofushan is not big, but it is not small either. If you want to fence off the entire mountain, you will need a lot of barbed wire, and the money is not something that ordinary people can afford.

Chen Dasong stared at the bundles of wire mesh, his eyes widened, and he couldn't help but say, "How expensive is this stuff! In fact, it's also possible to weave bamboo into fences."

Gao Mingcheng waved his hand and said generously: "If we can get it done in one step, then do it in one step!"

When villagers grow vegetables in their own yards, they use bamboo to weave fences to surround the vegetable fields to prevent the vegetables from being pecked by chickens.

But trying to build a fence that could enclose a mountain is also a hassle.

There happened to be no bamboo in the mountains where he and many other people had found themselves, so they would have to spend money to buy bamboo from the villagers and also hire someone to make fences. How troublesome that would be!

Now, once the barbed wire arrives, you just need to drive a wooden stake at certain distances to secure it.

Fortunately, there was enough wood. Even if it was not enough, we could cut some miscellaneous trees from the mountains on the spot.

So everyone divided the work and cooperated with each other. Some people dug holes in the front, some hammered in wooden stakes, and some held barbed wire to encircle the area.

Each piece of wire mesh is only ten meters long, so every two pieces have to be tied together with wire. This way, there will be no holes and the chickens kept in the mountains will not run away.

Looking at the bare wire fence, Gao Mingcheng was thinking about what to plant on both sides of the wire fence. The first choice was naturally vines, so that the vines could spread and grow along the wire fence.

Several suitable plant names flashed through his mind. In fact, growing wolfberries is a good idea, but they are not suitable for cultivation in their area.

After ruling out wolfberry, honeysuckle came to his mind.

Honeysuckle is a vine plant that is native to their local area and can be found everywhere in the mountains and on barren slopes.

Around the Qingming Festival, there are countless honeysuckle flowers blooming in the mountains. Villagers will take the opportunity to pick some and dry them. They can then make tea with them or sell them for money.

Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat exogenous wind-heat or fever due to febrile disease, heatstroke, hot and toxic bloody diarrhea, carbuncles, furuncles, throat paralysis, and various infectious diseases.

Therefore, in summer, villagers would drink honeysuckle water to prevent heatstroke.

In addition to honeysuckle, golden cherry is also a good choice. Golden cherry is also known as sugar can, which is a snack often eaten by children in the village.

Golden Rosa has the effects of consolidating sperm and reducing urine, consolidating metrorrhagia and stopping leukorrhea, and astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea. It is often used to treat nocturnal emission, enuresis, frequent urination, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.

In addition to their medicinal uses, the two plants, honeysuckle and golden cherry, can also provide nectar for bees.

Especially the golden cherry, which has a lot of thorns and can climb behind the barbed wire to deter the thieves.

Gao Mingcheng was thinking about it in his mind, but it was impossible to get it done right away.

Because there is no nursery specializing in this kind of business in their county, if they want to transplant the seedlings, they cannot buy a large number of seedlings at one time. They can only dig them up slowly in the mountains and then transplant them.

Thinking of transplanting, Gao Mingcheng remembered the Polygonatum sibiricum seedlings he planted last year.

After a year of growth, this batch of Polygonatum sibiricum seedlings can be transplanted to the mountains this spring.

Polygonatum likes shade, so if you transplant them to the shade of trees, you can harvest them in two or three years. The reason why it takes so long is that this batch of Polygonatum is propagated by seeds. If you propagate directly by the rhizomes of Polygonatum, you can harvest Polygonatum in one or two years after transplanting the rhizomes.

It takes a long time to grow Polygonatum sibiricum, but fortunately it is also of high value, so Gao Mingcheng is willing to plant a batch. Even if he doesn't sell it, he can use it to stew meat, which is also very fragrant.

After a whole day of hard work, the barbed wire was finally put up.

Gao Mingcheng stood by the pond at the foot of the mountain, looking at the newly built sheds and chicken coops, and then at the brand new barbed wire, and a sense of pride arose spontaneously.

He thought that when his son grew up, he would be able to pick fruits and eggs in the orchard to his heart's content, and if he wanted, he could even catch a chicken and kill it for food.

He also thought that when his kindergarten is opened in the future, he can bring all the children to the orchard and let them experience the joy of picking fruits.

This can be considered as a small feature of his kindergarten, focusing on organic vegetables and organic fruits. This may not be very noticeable now, but if it is placed in the future, it will be a hot spot.

Just thinking about this, his eyes turned to his house at the foot of Niuweiling Mountain.

When he built the house, in order not to be too high-profile and arouse suspicion, he built it casually. Apart from the kitchen, toilet, bathhouse and utility room, there were only three main rooms in total.

But as the children grow up, this room will definitely not be enough, so we have to build another house.

Fortunately, he had asked for a large piece of land at the beginning, because he was the only family here, and he spent some money to prepare it, so the extra land was enough for him to build a house of about 100 square meters.

If it is not enough, you can ask the village committee to approve more land. After all, it is easier to get things done with money.

"Mingcheng, go back and have dinner." Chen Dasong stood on the side of the road and shouted to Gao Mingcheng.

During the days he worked in the village, Gao Mingcheng ate at Chen Dasong's house for convenience. His wife's cooking skills were pretty good and the family was very welcoming. After Gao Mingcheng paid the food expenses, he ate here.

In the past, he would eat at his grandmother's house, but the old village was a bit far away after all.

At the dinner table, Aunt Liu said to Gao Mingcheng, "I've asked around, and people in Kengli Village and Junling are hatching chicks to sell. Right now, if you add up the chicks from those families, they have more than a hundred. Mingcheng, you can just drive your tractor to their house tomorrow to buy some."

Gao Mingcheng nodded and said, "Okay. Thank you for your help, auntie."

Aunt Liu quickly said politely, "What's the trouble? It's just a matter of saying something."

Aunt Liu then detailed the addresses of the families who were selling hatched chicks, and then said, "Mingcheng, I'll go with you to buy them tomorrow. I'll help you pick them out so you don't end up buying bad ones. Besides, if you don't know how to pick, someone might sell you a rooster instead of a hen."

Gao Mingcheng thought about it and felt that he was indeed not very good at selecting chicks. The chickens raised at home in the past were all bought by Xuanmei.

So he nodded and agreed: "Okay, then please help me choose. I will buy about 100 hens and 10 roosters. It depends on how much they have in stock."

After this matter was settled, Gao Mingcheng drove a tractor and took Aunt Liu to buy chicks early the next morning.

They went to buy chicks, while Chen Dasong and his son went to the chicken coop. They covered the windows of the chicken coop with plastic sheets, and then started to burn a fire at the fire outlet, so that the temperature inside the chicken coop would gradually rise.

About an hour later, Gao Mingcheng returned with a full load, with more than a hundred chickens on the tractor's bed.

The truck bed is covered with dry straw in advance, so the chickens are not likely to fall and get injured due to the bumps when placed on it.

These chicks are not newly hatched, but have been raised for a few days, so they are relatively large, making them easier to raise after you buy them.

If it is a specialized chicken farm, the chicks they buy are just hatched from the incubator and then transported to the chicken farm.

Such chickens are too small and are prone to getting sick and dying, so at the beginning, you have to feed the chicks medicine. Pour the relevant medicine into boiled water and then give it to the chicks.

After a while, the chicks will need to be vaccinated so that they are less likely to get sick.

After feeding them medicine, vaccinations, and feed, the chicks are growing very fast!

Generally, three-yellow chickens can be sold after being raised for about three months. There is also a kind of fast-growing chicken that only needs 68 days. The quality of the meat of this kind of chicken is slightly inferior.

If the chickens are raised for 100 days, then the chicken farm can raise three batches of chickens a year. However, as soon as each batch of chickens is sold, the chicken farm must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before the second batch can be raised. This way, people will be very tired after a year, and they basically work around the clock.

Of course, this is the breeding method of ordinary chicken farms in later generations. The chickens raised by Gao Mingcheng are not the kind of feed chickens, but free-range chickens, also called native chickens.

After he bought the chickens, he let them roam freely in Xiaofushan. In the early stage, he fed them fine bran, broken rice and chopped vegetable leaves. In the later stage, it became easier and he just let the chickens roam the mountain looking for food.

There are pheasants in the mountains, so it is also possible to raise more than a hundred chickens in the 300-acre Xiaofushan. At most, when there is little food in the mountains, they can be fed artificially.

The tractor stopped near the chicken coop, which was built not far from the roadside for easy management and transportation.

He first walked into the chicken coop and felt the temperature inside.

The fire has only been burning for a short time, and the temperature inside has not yet risen completely, but it is already April and the temperature is not that low.

Gao Mingcheng took a bamboo basket, put the chicks in it, and then moved them to the chicken coop.

The chicken coop was covered with dry straw, the water basin was filled with boiled water, and the trough contained some broken rice and chopped vegetable leaves.

In order to ensure the survival of the chickens, in addition to feeding them medicine, other sophisticated measures have been taken into consideration.

Chen Dasong and his son also came to help, and soon all the chicks were moved into the chicken coop.

The chicks had just changed their environment and they huddled together, chirping.

Most of them still have yellow fluff, and each little chick is cute and adorable. This may be the cutest time in the chicken's life. When they grow up and shed their feathers, they will become ugly, but when their feathers become shiny, they will become beautiful again.

Especially the big rooster, which is colorful and majestic.

The hens are also different. Some are white-bellied chickens, some are pure black chickens, and some are white chickens.

But no matter what color the feathers are, as long as the chicken tastes good, there’s nothing wrong with it!

(End of this chapter)