Chapter 74 Chicken Raising
In addition to being a test field for Matthias, this farm also set aside an area for Monoflo to study the raising of livestock and poultry.
Wesenland imported a lot of livestock a while ago, and Monoflo took his students to help manage them. It was not until the fall that he had time to conduct his own related research.
Frederick gave him a topic: artificial hatching of chickens and ducks.
Weisenling is very convenient to raise chickens and ducks. It has a high meat-to-feed ratio, can lay eggs, and has a short breeding cycle. Frederick also thinks about down jackets, so he puts them at the top of his development list.
Frederick came to the yard where the chickens were raised and saw several teenage brothers and sisters moving wooden pallets covered with thick cloth out of a room one after another. The cries of chickens could be heard under the cloth. Voice.
A chubby lynx was lying on the side, looking at those fluffy chickens and seemed to be drooling.
It obviously has a criminal record and is now wearing a halter and tied to a nearby tree with a short rope.
Frederick went over and rubbed the fat lynx’s belly twice, and then walked into the room with the sign of “Incubation Room”.
The temperature in the incubation room is much higher than outside, the magic lights are on, and there are many chicks on the fire bed who are ready to move out, and they are screaming loudly.
Monoflo stood by the door and told his men to quickly send the chicks to the warm chick room.
Frederick went over and asked: "It looks good. How long did it take and what is the success rate?"
If you want to raise chickens and ducks on a large scale, artificial incubation must be turned on. It is not enough for a hen to hatch chicks.
Frederick lit a fire pit and a thermometer in winter to create conditions for artificial incubation.
Monoflo replied: "It takes nineteen to twenty days to incubate, and the current success rate is close to 60%."
"I ignored a problem at the beginning. If it had been solved at that time, it would probably have exceeded 80%."
"Oh?" Frederick asked curiously, "What problem?"
Monno Flo made a flipping gesture and said: "Turn the eggs, which means turning the eggs every once in a while."
"I arranged for different people to take care of the eggs. There was a girl who was particularly curious. A few days ago Fortunately, I had to pick up each egg every half a day and check it before putting it back. "The success rate of the eggs she took care of was extremely high, close to 90%."
"I initially thought this might be because the eggs were turned and heated evenly, so the success rate was high."
"This seems to be the case. I went to see the hens hatching eggs yesterday and found that the hens often turned those eggs. "Eggs."
Frederick said sincerely: "Thank you for your hard work."
It was only on the way that he asked the young man who called him that Monoflo was doing artificial incubation. It took a lot of effort, and I went into the chicken coop with a thermometer in order to determine the incubation temperature.
Monoflo said proudly with his hands on his hips: "Now I have a new goal in life, to make chicken available to all people in the world."
Frederick smiled and couldn't tell whether he was being funny or sincere, so he said: "When your family arrives, I will give you a recipe for fried chicken nuggets. Opening a store will definitely be popular."
< br>This is how the Neuweisenberg chicken nuggets appeared. Later, the fried chicken that could be eaten for 10 copper coins became synonymous with Frederick's territory in some areas.
Frederick then said: "I think the fire kang alone is too inefficient. It is better to make a big cabinet with wooden brackets like drawers inside."
He used The light element drew a "" pattern in the air and continued: "You can make a wooden frame like this, put an egg in each grid, and then connect a magic muscle to let it slowly move laterally every once in a while. It turns the eggs automatically.”
“I heard that the student from Ogilvy and Mather who made the bimetal thermometer came up with a temperature switch. You can discuss it with him and see if it can be used to automatically control the temperature inside the large cabinet. "You can also ask BASF to put some transparent hard glue on the door so that you can see inside without opening the door."
In his previous life, he had seen a commercial incubator on TV. He didn’t know the specifics of it, so he could only think of something similar, and then slowly improve it.
Monofro was not familiar with machinery, but it sounded like it was true. He nodded and said, "I'll ask Ogilvy later."
While speaking, The chicks in the incubator were all moved out, and the two came to a breeding room.
The temperature outside is still very low for the chicks now. There is a stove burning outside the breeding room, and a ceramic smoke pipe is passed in to heat the air here, and a bucket of water is hung on the pipe to increase the humidity.
The floor of the breeding room is covered with sawdust. There is no need to clean it in the future, just shovel the compost.
The little chicken won't be able to eat until tomorrow and is still hungry.
Monoflo took Frederick to the kitchen, where feed was being prepared. The wooden barrels contained dark brown liquid with broken barley soaked in it.
Monoflo said proudly: "This is my unique formula. It is developed from Falcon's formula. It has been tried on other chickens. Eating it every few days can reduce the number of chicken diseases. "
Frederick nodded and said, "That's good. If the chicken gets sick, a lot of it will die."
"I heard that many years ago, before I was born, all the chickens and ducks in several territories around us got the plague and died."
Monofro thought for a while and said: "About ten It happened two years ago. At that time, a traveling nobleman ate sick chickens and ducks here because of a falcon, and then he died."
The two walked out of the kitchen while talking. Go to the chicken coop and have a look.
The chicken pen is a circle of earth wall half a man high, with a shed on one side and fishing nets around it to prevent the chickens from flying away.
There are several houses nearby where insects are raised to feed the chickens.
Frederick looked at the chickens that were eating worms and asked: "Do the chickens only eat worms?"
Monoflo smiled and shook his head and said: "No, in addition to worms, they also feed grass. , wheat and the residue left from making Wesson sugar, and the chickens that lay eggs will also be fed bone powder."
"I will mix herbal medicine into the feed to make them eat more and grow faster."
Frederick smiled and said: "It's best to make them all as chubby as Xixi."
"I'm really convinced. The average lynx only weighs more than 20 kilograms, 豼How did you raise it to almost 40 kilograms? ”
Monofro smiled helplessly and did not answer the question, saying: "Now we gather the strongest chickens and the chickens that lay the most eggs as breeder chickens, hoping to get chickens that lay more eggs and more meat in the future."
Frederick nodded after hearing this, that’s good.
"Principal," Monofro suddenly asked uneasily, "Are you free recently?"
Frederick replied strangely: "I will go to Los Angeles at the end of the month. "Hey, what's the matter?"
Monofro hesitated and said, "We have something important to discuss with you."
(End of this chapter)