I have to say that after doubling the number of staff, everyone is indeed much more relaxed.
The woman working in the chicken coop is Li Hongniu, a migrant worker from another province. She's in her forties and has three grown children back home, including her eldest daughter, who's already married. To earn more money for her two sons to marry, she gave her land to her parents, and the couple decided to venture out.
When Li Hongniu came here, she said that she was good at raising poultry, and she was not lying.
She has not yet fully mastered the scientific breeding process in the chicken coop, but she is currently taking care of all the ducks and geese on the riverbank outside, especially the white geese.
Previously, Liu Ni's focus had been on chickens, followed by ducks, and finally geese. The geese on their farm were on their own, aside from feeding. Geese don't lay many eggs a year, so hatching depends on their mood. If they hatch, they hatch; if they don't, they forget it.
So up to now, they only have a pitiful twenty or thirty geese.
But things were different after Li Hongniu came. She would observe the activity levels of the twenty or so geese. If she found any that were too lazy to go out for a stroll on the street, she would drive them to the river. She said that geese needed to exercise more to avoid getting sick.
When the goose shows signs of brooding, she will promptly replace the softest grass, give food and water in measured amounts, and check the eggs from time to time to see if there is any blood in them.
The same goes for the ducks. She takes them out as soon as they lay eggs, cleans the duck house, and washes the feed and water troughs. Since she arrived, the farm on the east side has become professional.
Lin Yulan is responsible for managing the thousands of Ross chickens in the old chicken coop. Li Hongniu is mainly responsible for managing the ducks and geese, and helps in the old chicken coop in the remaining time. After all, there are almost two thousand chickens. No matter how the assembly line operation is carried out, Lin Yulan cannot handle it alone.
As for Liu Ni, she plunged into the world of hatching and raising chicks and couldn't extricate herself.
I also made a water temperature incubator with paper taped on it to record the time, the number of times the sieve was adjusted and the eggs were turned.
An incubation period takes 21-25 days, and the incubation interval between two incubators is about 5 days. In this way, only 10 days of eggs can be hatched in a month, and the rest can only be sold.
Liu Ni originally wanted to make two more eggs to reduce the waste of breeding eggs, but was stopped by Chen Chunhua.
It is true that more chicks can make more money, but... they really don't have enough manpower. Don't you see that Lin Yulan and Li Hongniu are busy like tops every day?
Moreover, Liu Ni stayed in the chicken coop and refused to leave as soon as she started hatching the chicks. Chen Chunhua was really worried that she couldn't handle it.
Now Li Hongni also lives in the chicken coop, sharing a room with Liuni, with two wooden beds on each side, very simple. Liuni can go home to take a shower, but Li Hongni can only wipe herself with a basin of water. Fortunately, it is cold now, otherwise who can bear it?
Chen Chunhua began to wonder again whether she should build a dormitory. Right now, she only had Li Hongniu, but what about later? The job posting was still up, and she wished she could hire ten or eight people to help out at once.
In the mushroom house, maybe young people really learn things faster.
Chen Chunhua gave a piece of paper she had written to Sun Chuanfang and Liu Guoping and asked them to follow the steps.
Boys must do some physical work, such as working in the material stacking shed, and Liu Guoping is the only one who can do it. Chen Chunhua expressed her sympathy and told him, maybe you can help me find someone else to stack the materials?
However, different mushrooms require different proportions of nutrients for cultivation. The culture medium of Agaricus bisporus is a bit smelly, but the others are fine. For example, the enoki mushrooms that Chen Chunhua recently successfully produced, as well as the other two types of mushrooms, oyster mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms.
What they mainly need are sawdust, rice bran, sugar and gypsum. Liu Guoping is responsible for mixing them in proportion and sterilizing them at high temperature, which means boiling them for several hours.
The job of the girl Sun Chuanfang is not really easy either. She is responsible for inoculating and cultivating the bacteria.
Chen Chunhua set up a special single room in the old mushroom house. Anyone who entered had to wear work clothes, sleeves, masks and latex gloves.
The inoculation process nowadays is quite different from the way Chen Chunhua would simply tear the mushroom into small pieces and plant them years ago. You use a knife to cut off a portion of the mushroom root and peel the skin starting at the cut. Then, you chop the flesh into small pieces the size of rice grains, use tweezers to grab a small piece, and place it in a canning jar. The jar is then capped and placed in the adjacent incubation room.
Knives and tweezers must be sterilized with the flame of an alcohol lamp every time they are used. Even the mushrooms have to be turned over the fire several times to sterilize them. This job requires carefulness and patience, and Sun Chuanfang does a good job.
Chen Chunhua is responsible for post-germination management, determining when to water, ventilate, and raise the temperature. Every day, she also runs back and forth between the two mushroom rooms to check for bacterial infections and to see if any bad mushrooms need to be thrown away.
She was the one who took the two of them up and down the stairs, and when the mushrooms grew, they would go together fully armed to pick them.
The autumn harvest ended and early winter arrived. In early December, the first batch of Agaricus bisporus mushrooms in the 235-square-meter new mushroom house were officially grown and ready to be picked. Three people started harvesting with small baskets. This time they harvested a total of 250 kilograms.
Sun Chuanfang was a little stunned when he saw the number on the scale. "...Madam, how much do these white mushrooms cost per pound?"
Chen Chunhua: "...It's the most expensive, 60 cents per pound."
The two employees were dumbfounded. "No, sister, it's been two months, and you only made 150 yuan from your most expensive room? You still want to pay us? And you're even tricking us into thinking there's a bonus?!"
Chen Chunhua gave them a calm look, then directed them to tidy up the mushroom bed, remove the old roots and dead mushrooms, cover them with moist fine soil in time, and then spray nutrient solution.
The two young men obeyed her orders obediently. Two or three days later, Liu Guoping came running out shouting, "Boss lady! Boss lady! He's making a name for himself! That Bai Bai has made a name for himself again!"
Just one week after the first crop of mushrooms was harvested, they started the second crop, and a week after that, the third crop.
We've just finished harvesting our second crop of Agaricus bisporus, and it's time to harvest the Enoki mushrooms over there. Enoki mushrooms are grown in bottles and can be removed by simply grabbing the base of the stem with tweezers and pulling. Adding a little water and nutrients to the bottle will produce a second crop in a week.
After harvesting the enoki mushrooms, the shelves in another room were also filled with oyster mushrooms. In another room filled with logs of wood, the smell of shiitake mushrooms was almost overflowing from the crack in the door.
After rotating through the two mushroom houses, the third crop of Agaricus bisporus is ready to be harvested. While the mushrooms are being harvested here, there are still overtime workers working overtime at night to pile the materials and inoculate them.
Week after week, the two young men never rested throughout the winter.
He covered his face with a mask and wore gloves on his hands. He was sweating in the middle of winter. When he took off the mask and gloves, his skin was wrinkled, but he still had a smile on his face.
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