The new chicken house, No. 3, faces south and is shaped like a horizontal T. It is 45 meters long from east to west, with a maximum span of 16.5 meters from north to south and a minimum span of 10.5 meters. It has a total height of 7.5 meters. The building area is over 1,000 square meters, with each floor covering 500 square meters.
Arched roof, steel frame structure, lightweight and heat-insulating. The first floor roof is supported by prefabricated cement steel frame and sound insulation floor is laid. The second floor roof is supported by steel frame and heat-insulating materials are laid.
Each floor of the chicken coop is more than 3.2 meters high, and the four walls are made of thick brick walls. The entire house is sprayed with lime for thermal insulation.
There are a total of 88 ventilation and lighting windows distributed on the north and south walls, 44 on each floor, with a specification of 1.4 meters long and 0.5 meters wide; in this way, the natural ventilation and lighting area of each floor of the chicken coop is 30.8 square meters.
All 88 ventilation and lighting windows are equipped with double-layer light-blocking insulation movable panels and rope-pull manual opening and closing devices. Window screens are nailed to the window frames to prevent foreign objects such as birds from entering during ventilation and lighting, meeting the needs of ventilation, lighting, insulation, and light blocking.
At the same time, 8 fans were installed on the walls on the east and west sides, 4 on each floor. By combining horizontal natural ventilation and natural lighting with vertical mechanical ventilation and artificial lighting, the consumption of electricity for lighting can be greatly reduced, so there is no need to worry even if there is a power outage.
Of course, the disadvantage is also obvious, it costs money.
The guys who came to help build the chicken coop always said during their conversations that the house Chen Chunhua built for the chickens was better than the one they built for humans.
"Exactly! They even plastered it all over and installed a fan. When it's hot at home, I just use a fan to fan myself. At most, I'm lucky enough to have a mosquito net when I sleep!"
"You can't let the chicken fan itself!" someone joked.
"Besides, chickens can lay eggs and make money, so of course they have to live well! If you can lay eggs and make money, your parents will have to support you!"
"Hahahaha, a leper can't lay eggs, but at least he can get his wife to give birth to a baby. Unfortunately, after the baby is born, he still has to eat and drink from them. Not only does he not make any money, he even has to pay for it..."
"Go away! Do your children have the ability to make money right from the moment they are born?"
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The walkways in the house are sloped 4-6 degrees from west to east, forming a ground that is higher in the west and lower in the east. This makes it easier for breeders to save the force of the feed cart when feeding, and on the other hand, when installing chicken cages, the height of the water trough can be adjusted by themselves to maintain the required water level.
It solves the previous problems of difficulty in adjusting the overall water level of the trough, frequent overflow and shallow water changes, and also makes it easier for the chickens in the cage to drink water normally.
Because it is a two-story chicken coop, they also specially installed water pipes, which can directly bring water from the river outside to the second floor, making it easier to clean and disinfect the house and enable the chickens to drink water automatically.
To this end, Liu Ni also researched and developed a mechanical manure scraper, which is equipped with a trough-type manure channel, a manure collection ditch and a cylindrical manure discharge channel, which is convenient for daily manure cleaning and can discharge chicken manure directly into the treatment pool outside the house. It not only keeps the house clean and hygienic, but also facilitates the storage and collection of chicken manure.
This stuff is a great fertilizer for the fields! Unfortunately, it can't be used in her mushroom house.
In addition, there are also sliding anti-theft emergency doors and supplementary photovoltaic lines. Even if the power supply is unstable now, they must be installed. One day the power supply will be stable, and one day, Chen Chunhua will buy her own generator!
A lifting equipment operation room and a disinfection room were built on the northwest side of the No. 3 chicken house. The lifting equipment can be used to feed and transport poultry and egg products, and disinfection measures can be taken at any time for items entering and leaving the chicken house.
On the southwest side, living lounges for breeders are set up above and below. This was Liu Ni's selfish idea, but she also had an excuse - it can prevent breeders from leaving the houses at will and frequently entering and leaving the breeding production area, which would have an adverse effect on epidemic prevention.
Chen Chunhua: ...So should we continue to build her dormitory?
"Of course, aunt, aren't you hiring people at your mushroom farm? What if a few more people come and want to live in the village? Besides, the lounge is just for resting while on duty, and you can't wash or brush your teeth. I think we still need dormitories."
That’s right, Chen Chunhua nodded and said, “Forget it, money has to be spent anyway, so don’t save on this.”
The new chicken house needs to be equipped with new chicken cages. The chicken cages are arranged in an east-west direction, and the house is designed with three rows and four aisles. After careful calculation, each floor can raise 5,130 chickens, and the two floors together can raise a total of .
Liu Ni's eyes lit up with anticipation. Could she really build two more water-temperature incubators? Then she could hatch 6,000 chickens every month!
Chen Chunhua was embarrassed. Please wait a little longer until I recruit someone...
While the chicken coop is being built, the duck coop next to it is also being completed.
The new duck house has two rooms, each 9 meters long and 8 meters wide, a near-square shape that allows the ducks to circle around. Each room can hold 500 ducks, so two rooms can hold 1,000.
Then three small rooms were built on the side to serve as warehouses, feed rooms and management offices.
There is a distance of about 10 meters between the duck house and the river surface, which is used as a duck beach, a place for ducks to feed, preen their feathers and rest. It is also covered with shells and snail shells left over after feeding the ducks to prevent water accumulation after rain.
As for the river, this river is the dividing line between Sihe Village and Hexia Village, but it is also an inland river between the two villages. Generally, no ships pass through. Chen Chunhua applied to both villages and rented the river beach extending outward. She surrounded it with a fence and made it a self-contained entity to prevent the ducks from escaping or being stolen.
In this way, basically all the remaining usable land on the east side of the village that was previously rented to her was used up. For this purpose, Chen Chunhua directly built another wall on the outside, made a gate for the farm, and hung a sign - Chunhua Poultry Breeding Base.
This name was given before the New Year. Before everyone went on holiday, Lin Guoqing helped her to go through several trips to get the breeding license and business license.
She is now a regular soldier!
Including the mushroom house, there is also a sign that says "Chunhua Mushroom Breeding Base".
However, after careful consideration, she decided to build a carriage-style mushroom house. It would cost money anyway, whether it was made of plastic or with good shelves.
The 500 glass bottles of enoki mushrooms cannot be wasted, so let’s use them first. Even if we want to cultivate them in large beds, we can grow them in the basement of mushroom house No. 1.
The wood for growing shiitake mushrooms is free, but it won’t take long, so it’s better to build the mushroom house quickly. The sooner it is completed, the sooner you can make money.
In addition, a mushroom house for growing Agaricus bisporus is built. Mushroom houses are different from chicken houses. They cannot be too large, otherwise it will affect the control of humidity and temperature. They can only be built one by one.
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