Liu Ni not only has to adjust the sieve 4 to 6 times a day, but also has to turn the eggs 4 to 6 times, 800 eggs, one by one.
Swap the eggs on the side of the sieve with the eggs in the center of the sieve to prevent the developing embryo and yolk from sticking together, and to regulate the temperature of the eggs inside and outside the egg sieve.
At the very end, she wanted to ask, can the eggs under the hen's butt also turn automatically? Why doesn't she let the hen hatch them herself?!
But what can I do? They're already half-hatched, how can I take them out? 800 eggs! That's almost 100 kilograms of eggs, and the purchase price is over 100 yuan! I can't waste them like this!
She would go home every day to wipe herself or take a bath, and spend the rest of her time squatting in the chicken coop. Lin Yulan brought her three meals a day, which made her feel distressed.
"I'll trade a night with you. Go back and get some sleep! Your eyes are as red as a rabbit's, and you smell like chicken shit! It's so bad! I can't even wash it off with a shower!"
Liu Ni munched on a steamed bun and shook her head, "No, it's already half-hatched. I can't switch hands. You don't know the pattern, and if it doesn't hatch, the loss will be huge."
There was another point she didn't say directly. Lin Yulan received a salary, while she received dividends. She had to do as much work as her salary required. How much money did her aunt spend on these two chicken coops and so many chickens?
Since she's calling it a technology investment and she's not paying a cent, then she has to come up with some technology, right? Otherwise, it would be a shame to take the money!
"Besides, Mom, this doesn't smell like chicken shit."
"What's that smell?"
“It’s the taste of unity!”
The eggs under the hens' buttocks in the natural incubator began to crack, and Liu Ni excitedly added a little more water and feed to them. By the way, she also observed her precious incubator and turned them over one by one.
Unfortunately, none of them are complete and no movement is made. Well, I will wait until the incubators are made and debugged. It is already a week late to start.
Don’t worry, don’t worry, Liu Ni is not in a hurry.
The cracks in the eggs under the hen's butt became bigger and bigger, and the chicks began to peck at the shells from the inside. In the quiet of the middle of the night, you could still hear the ding-dong sounds of them working overtime.
Liu Ni climbed up and took another look through the glass of the incubator. Oh, my God! She saw that the eggs in the incubator were also starting to have small cracks!
After almost exactly one month, all the hens in the natural incubation room woke up. Of the approximately 120 eggs put in, 12 were not hatched. One of them was pecked open by the mother hens that had woken up to supplement their nutrition.
Liu Ni mixed the eggs directly into the feed without any care. The eggs could not be hatched and people could not eat them after being left for such a long time, so she decided to return them to the producers!
Suddenly, a group of hens appeared in the open space of the chicken coop, strolling around with their chicks, and the mother hens who had just hatched their chicks were full of maternal love. Liu Ni wanted to catch the chicks to vaccinate them, but was almost pecked to death.
In the end, Lin Yulan and I locked up the hens first, and then we successfully vaccinated the 108 chicks.
Newly hatched chicks have very high temperature requirements. Even in summer, the temperature cannot reach the 35 degrees Celsius required for scientific brooding, unless a stove is lit. But the eggs in her incubator are starting to crack and need to be taken care of.
So after getting the one-day-old Marek's disease vaccine, Liu Ni decided to let the hens raise the chicks. Otherwise, one would freeze to death, and the other would make too much noise. At least natural chick rearing has a high survival rate and is much easier.
When the chicks in the incubator started pecking at their shells, Liu Ni raised the humidity to 70%-75%. Her psychrometric thermometer made Chen Chunhua jealous, so she bought one to use in the mushroom house.
Normal chicks can hatch out of their shells by themselves. After the down is dried in the box, Liu Ni carefully takes them out and places them in a wooden box prepared in advance.
The box is placed in a warm and sheltered corner, giving the newly born chicks enough sense of security. When the time is almost up, they are given another injection and then moved to another brooding room.
The hen over there has been raising chicks for a week. I am familiar with the chickens I raise myself, and I guess she won’t hug the new ones to keep them warm, so I can only start lighting the stove.
The brooding room prepared by Liu Ni is much more advanced than the simple little box that Chen Chunhua placed at home a few years ago. That one only had a light bulb for heating, and everything else depended on luck.
What Liu Ni had prepared was an entire room: the floor, walls, and utensils had all been cleaned and disinfected. There was even a disinfectant pool at the door. Absolutely formal and rigorous.
The doors, windows, partitions and mats are also made absolutely tight to prevent damage from animals and rodents. Even the brooders, feeding troughs, water troughs and insulation equipment are checked every day before the chicks arrive.
The few times that Chen Chunhua found time to come and help, she could see Liuni wiping here and touching there. She always wondered if this child had gone crazy staying in the chicken coop and had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Liu Ni was also helpless about this. She just wanted to raise the first batch of chickens well so that she could set the standard for each subsequent batch!
The bedding materials are wood chips and straw. This batch of straw was snatched from Chen Chunhua. Lin Guoqing said that one day the uncle and nephew will contract all the straw, wood chaff and sawdust in the entire village.
The stove was heated up in advance when the chicks just hatched. It was night when the chicks went in and the temperature was relatively low. It was only thanks to the stove that the temperature was raised to around 33 degrees, which was just right.
It is impossible for all 800 eggs to hatch into chicks. About 776 chicks were hatched, and the remaining 24 eggs did not move even after being left for more than a week. However, the hatching rate is already 97%, which is very high.
Liu Ni was very satisfied with this.
A brooding room is only about 20 square meters, and the 776 chicks are divided into two large brooding rooms. Perhaps because the temperature is suitable, the chicks stay quite quiet and are evenly distributed in every corner of the room.
Lin Yulan prepared the ingredients for the starter meal. The twenty or so eggs that didn't hatch were also boiled and mixed with cornmeal moistened with hot water. After filling the sink with water, everyone went to a different room and began to spread the food.
I fed it 4 times on the first day and 6 times on the second day. I didn't give it too much feed each time. The main principle was to feed it less and add more frequently to serve the ancestor.
There are just too many chicks. They poop soon after they start eating. Hundreds of chicks pooping at the same time. It's a scene... Liu Ni feels like she's been adding water, feeding them, changing their bedding, changing their bedding, changing their bedding from morning till night these past two days...
That's probably how the straw ran out...
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