Liu Ni seemed to have developed a keen eye. She could easily catch the chicks that were not active in eating or had no food in their crops, pull them out and give them special treatment.
But even so, every day there were chicks that fell down and couldn't get up. Liu Ni's eyes were red from worrying about it. Every time she didn't move a chick, she felt like the sky was falling.
The first seven days are the most dangerous time for chicks. Some chicks carry a lot of yolk when they hatch. To put it bluntly, the embryo was not absorbed well during development.
These chicks typically die within seven days, and even if they are hand-fed, watered, and fed, their subsequent development is unlikely to be particularly good. This is why the old saying "big-bellied chicks have a hard time surviving" applies.
But Liu Ni refused to let one go unless it was really dead. As long as it was still warm, she wanted to give it a try.
Lin Yulan felt distressed seeing this, but she didn't tell her to give up. Instead, she worked hard to learn from Liu Ni, such as the ratio of feed and nutrients, vaccination, mixing antibiotics with water, etc. She tried her best to share the work that she could.
Chen Chunhua would always come out of the mushroom house in the west late at night and run to the chicken coop in the east to see if they were done. If they were not, she would lend a hand.
Lin Yulan asked Chen Chunhua to go back to sleep quickly. She never rested during the day or at night.
"Our home is close to here, so we can get back faster than you guys." Chen Chunhua pointed at Liu Ni with her backhand, "Your daughter hasn't slept well in a month!"
And Lin Yulan, she's thinking about getting a raise! The factory workers still leave work on time! She has no holidays or weekends, and she has to work overtime morning and night. A raise! She must get a raise!
After these chicks emerged from the incubator and successfully passed the 45-day brooding period, there were still 737 chicks left, with a survival rate of almost 95%.
As for the hen team next door, there are now 106 chicks left out of the original 108, with only two dead. The survival rate is as high as 98.14%.
It rained suddenly that day, and some chicks ran a little far away and didn't have time to return to the chicken coop, so their feathers were wet by the rain.
There were 10 of them in total, and that afternoon they huddled together in a sickly huddle, shaking and shivering, refusing food or water, and refusing to move around. One of them even started having diarrhea.
I quickly fed them some tetracycline, but after observing them for a long time, there was no improvement at all, especially the one with diarrhea, it felt like it was going to die in the next second.
Liu Ni quickly ran back to the room next to the incubator where she slept. Under the bed was a pile of animal husbandry magazines that Chen Chunhua had given her.
She remembered seeing a guide to treating chickens that got sick from being caught in the rain, but which book? Which one?!
Liuni was flipping through the book frantically. She was not as serious as she was during exams at school.
It took me almost half an hour to find a page from the latest issue of the province's animal husbandry magazine.
Use Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets to treat colds in chicks!
Liu Ni put down the book and rushed out. Halfway through, she ran to ask Chen Chunhua to borrow a tricycle.
Chen Chunhua was busy in the fields at the time, so I didn't ask her what she wanted to do. She just said she would go ride it at home.
Liu Ni hopped on her tricycle and rode frantically towards town. Her village had just been transformed into a town this summer, but there was still no pharmacy, so the only way to buy medicine was to go to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Fortunately, the provincial pharmaceutical factory produces Yinqiao Jiedu tablets, and they are sold at the nearby supply and marketing cooperatives.
It wasn't a prescription drug and was not difficult to buy. After buying the medicine, Liu Ni rushed back to the chicken coop.
Unfortunately, the one with diarrhea had already laid there motionless before she returned.
There were 9 left, and she fed them one by one, half a tablet each at a time, 3 times a day.
Except for one chicken that showed no change, the other eight began to improve after taking the medicine.
After feeding them medicine for three consecutive days and giving them chopped grass and enough drinking water, except for the chick that did not get better from the beginning and eventually died, the other eight chicks all recovered to their lively state.
While Liu Ni breathed a sigh of relief, she couldn't help but grind her back teeth.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Chen Chunhua comforted.
"With so many chickens, there's bound to be a few that eat their own chicken droppings and have diarrhea. The average survival rate on the provincial capital's ranches is only this high, which is already quite high!"
It's only been over three months since I came back from Shanghai! We have 843 more chickens! Liu Ni! You're a big contributor!
Liu Ni pursed her lips, still feeling very unwilling. She swore that the next batch of chickens must have a few more alive!
At the end of September and the beginning of October, that batch of native chickens were completely sold out. From the introduction of Ross chickens to now, a full four months, the income from selling chickens and chicken, duck and goose eggs is almost 5,500 yuan.
Chen Chunhua gave Liu Ni a total of 550 yuan, and raised Lin Yulan's salary to 50 yuan a month.
After deducting some necessary costs, you can make a steady profit of 4,500 yuan in 4 months.
In the end, only 1,000 yuan was deposited in the savings bank, and the rest... was invested.
It was mainly a mushroom house. As she wished, she built a second one, but this time it was more professional than the first one.
The new mushroom house should be 13 meters long, 8 meters wide and 5.5 meters high. Six ventilation windows of 30 cm x 40 cm should be opened on the front and back walls facing the aisle in the room, and the bottom window should be 10 cm above the ground.
The door of the room opens front and back to facilitate the entry and exit of culture medium and mushroom picking. The walls inside the room are painted to prevent air leakage, and the floor is also solid, harder than that of ordinary people's homes today, so that it can withstand the huge pressure of culture medium in the high-rise racks.
A thatched hut of suitable size was built next to the mushroom house to pile up the culture medium. The manure was previously stored in a temporary shed, which collapsed when a typhoon blew.
The new mushroom house is fully equipped with custom-made mushroom beds, all 1.2 meters wide and 50 centimeters high, with four layers per bed, and the bottom layer about 20 centimeters from the ground.
After leaving an aisle in the room, 7 rows of mushroom beds can be built in the front-to-back direction, with each row being 7 meters long.
By this calculation, the planting area in this mushroom house reaches 235 square meters.
Chen Chunhua plans to use this place entirely to grow Agaricus bisporus, and the old mushroom house will not be idle either. The mushroom trees that have had enough rest will be moved back to continue growing and growing mushrooms.
The new mushroom wood is also sawed into pieces, holes are drilled, and the fungus spawn is planted, and then it is grown in layers.
It is time for the oyster mushrooms, which had been idle for a whole summer, to go back to work.
However, this time, the amaranth has a new trick and has learned to be cultivated using a vertical frame.
Vertical rack cultivation provides better ventilation, preventing rotting. Most importantly, it maximizes space utilization. For a mushroom house of approximately 40 square meters, vertical rack cultivation provides 160 square meters more growing area than flat cultivation!
Moreover, there is enough space for mushrooms to grow, and the mushrooms that grow are more beautiful in shape and better in quality!
Well...it just cost some money to make the shelf.
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