Chapter 332: Happy Life in Taoyuan Village
The autumn wind blows by quietly, and all the trees sway gently. The colorful autumn leaves fluttered in the air, everything looked poetic and breathtaking.
Today, Yike rarely pestered Ziyi to work with him. Ziyi went to study a tilling machine with Su Lao and others. They hoped to develop the machine by the time the spring ploughing starts next year.
Ziyi is working hard to better build Taoyuan Village, and Yike also wants her to follow his lead and work hard for the happy life of the villagers in Taoyuan Village.
Since Yike is the designer of Taoyuan Village, she and Hu Haohan are currently surveying the terrain around the paradise. Yike wants to expand the breeding first, so she has to re-plan the breeding site.
Hu Haohan is the manager of the breeding department, so of course we have to look for him when expanding the breeding facilities.
Yike told Hu Haohan about the requirements for the future breeding site, and the two walked and talked: "The chicken coop can be built simply, semi-open. We raise chickens in the wild, and let them freely look for food in the mountains and forests during the day, and return to the shed to rest at night. In addition, different areas should be planned for different chickens. Let them move around in different areas, so they need to be separated by fences. I remember that we only separate males and females now. Are young and middle-aged chickens and laying hens separated?"
Hu Haohan replied: "No, the roosters and hens are separated, and the chicks are also raised separately. Only the young chickens are not separated. They are raised in the same area as the laying hens. We think that they will all lay eggs when they grow up, so we don't separate them."
Yi Ke nodded and said, "You are right. Raise young hens and old hens together. The old hens' food can be eaten by the young hens, which can improve the development of the young hens and speed up their egg-laying speed. However, the hens that are used to lay eggs must be docile. Aggressive hens cannot be raised together."
"I know this, but I didn't know these things originally. Haha, your godmother told me all these things." Hu Haohan said embarrassedly, "I am a manager but I am actually selling dog meat under the guise of sheep. I know nothing about raising chickens, ducks, pigs and other animals. I don't know as much as your godmother."
"This is only temporary. There is no rush now. You have time to learn slowly. The farm will grow bigger and bigger. It will not work without a decisive person at the helm. My godmother can't read. She can handle a small farm, but if it gets bigger in the future, the numbers alone will confuse her. You must take time to learn every day. One day in the future, our farm will go beyond the mountains, to the whole country, and even to the world. Do you think it will be okay without education when that day comes?"
Yike and Hu Haohan climbed to the top of the mountain in the paradise. She looked into the distance and spoke slowly.
Hu Haohan looked at Yi Ke's determined eyes and couldn't help asking, "Will that day really come? Can we really get out? We are illegal immigrants now."
"We can go out, we will definitely go out. In ten years at most, our Taoyuan Village can stand in the sun openly and the villagers of Taoyuan Village can go wherever they want. But the prerequisite is that we must have money. At any time, without money, we will be unable to move forward."
"Yes, we need money. We should work hard to make money now, and when the time comes, we can go out and see the world with the money."
"You also need to learn knowledge. Without knowledge, you are blind and you won't be able to go far. Haha!"
"Yes, study. Not only us, but the children have to study hard too. We have such a big farm, if the brats don't study, will we have to help them manage it when they get old? No, absolutely not. My brat often slacks off when he goes to study at night. From today on, I have to keep a closer eye on him."
Hu Xiangdong, who was working in the fields, sneezed loudly. He said to himself, "Strange, who is talking about me? If I knew, I would let him know why the flowers are so red."
Hu Haohan didn't know that the brat he was talking about was thinking of beating him in the face.
Yike and Hu Haohan stood on the top of the mountain in Dongtian Paradise, and they could see all the surrounding scenery and the surrounding terrain clearly.
Yike pointed to a few places in the distance and said, "Start from there and end there. Fence it all off first, then divide it into three areas, one for pullets, one for laying hens, and one for broilers. Build a chicken coop near our cave. Use bamboo and wood to build a shed with a herringbone frame. The roof should be two meters high, and the north and south eaves should be 1.5 meters high. Remember to dig drainage ditches on the east, west, and north sides of the shed. Install electric lights in the shed, and equip it with chicken troughs, waterers and other utensils. Is the chicken trough made of bamboo or wood?"
"It's still bamboo tubes. We went to the mountains to find big bamboo tubes. We also used wood for a while, but we found that wood is very easy to mold and is not as durable as bamboo tubes."
"It needs to be disinfected regularly, otherwise it will easily breed bacteria. Also, the isolation zone for each area needs to be wide, otherwise if the chickens in one area get sick, the chickens in other areas will also be affected."
"Chickens have very poor resistance and are most susceptible to illness. Why don't we raise them outside the range of large chickens and move to another hill?"
"Yes, you can raise some of the pullets in the orchard and some across the stream in Paradise. The roosters can be moved there as well, but they will have to be moved here when they grow more than one pound."
Yike and Hu Haohan changed directions again. Yike pointed to the place where chickens were raised before and said, "Expand those chicken farms. Only raise roosters here. Roosters weighing more than one pound and half-grown roosters should be kept away from those big roosters."
"The area that needs to be fenced off is not small, and we also need to build a chicken coop, but some people are busy." Hu Haohan looked at the place where his finger was pointing, and it was a very large area.
"Do what you can. Let's use the old method and wrap branches around trees and use them as fence posts. Next year, when we have time, we can transplant some trees and thorny brambles. Then we will form a natural fence, just like our chicken farm now. I'll ask my godfather to assign some people to build a chicken coop and fence for you. There shouldn't be many people. After all, we can't delay the reclamation of the land there."
"I understand this. There are so many people in the mountains now. Only by cultivating more fields next year can we continue to expand other production."
"It's good that you understand. Uncle Hu is a very clear-sighted person."
"Hehe, your uncle does have some foresight. The planting department is the foundation of other departments. Everything can be delayed, but the planting department's affairs cannot be delayed."
"Yes, there are still too few people. I hope that Grandpa and Ziyi can develop the tiller they are researching. Then we won't have to worry about lack of manpower. A small tiller can do the work of more than a dozen people."
"So powerful?" Hu Haohan was a little unconvinced.
"Haha, seeing is believing, hearing is not. You will believe it when you see it."
"Then I'll have to take a good look at it then."
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