Chapter 505: A lot of chickens can be sold in a month
The van drove through the gate, crossed the thick thorn wall, and entered the chicken farm.
In the eyes of many people, the main benefits of raising chickens are eggs and the use of chicken manure in pasture fields. Only when the chickens stop laying eggs are they stewed.
Baron Turgot thought that there would be a large piece of grass in front of him. A large group of chickens were looming in the grass. From time to time, a few would fly up. Village girls wearing headscarves and carrying baskets carefully picked up the eggs in the grass. .
However, what appeared in front of him were rows of long houses with red bricks and red tiles. Each long house was 50 meters long, 4 meters wide and more than 3 meters high, with not a single feather in sight.
As the car drove deeper, Baron Turgot counted a total of 16 such longhouses on both sides.
The row of houses in the south is different. There is a three-story peach stone building on the left, which seems to be inhabited.
The row of bungalows on the right looks like a warehouse. There are many carts parked at the door. There are pallet-like wooden boxes stacked up next to the carts. Many people in white coats are there.
Spike asked Baron Turgot: "Sir, do you want to take a rest in the lounge first?"
"I want to see the hatched chicks, and I can take you there later. Visit.”
Baron Turgot immediately said: "If possible, I would also like to see the chicks."
Of course Spike had no problem and parked the car in the parking lot next to the Peach Blossom Stone Building. There were several other cars here. Tricycles and trolleys.
Baron Turgot followed him to the dressing room, put on a white coat and a white hat, and came to the incubator.
There was a sound of chirping chicks in the incubation room. Baron Turgot was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw the workers taking out plates of yellow chicks from cabinets.
Spike took a look and loudly asked a young man inside: "Steve, how is the hatch rate?"
Steve replied without looking back: "It should be more than 90%."
Spike said happily: "Well done, I didn't expect that we could achieve such good results in our first hatching. "
"Is the chicken coop ready?"
Steve replied: "I just saw Natasha refilling the water fountain."
Si. Pike nodded, and then said to Baron Turgot: "Steve and I grew up together in the orphanage. We are in the dormitory next door."
The workers put the chicks into transfer pallets and transported them on trolleys to the longhouse next to them, where several people were busy.
Baron Turgot saw a worker here picking up a chicken and turning it over to reveal the black chicken feet. He lifted the chicken feet upside down and opened its anus to check, and also saw whether the chicken's head was drooping or bent. Necks and then placed in separate trays.
He asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Spike replied: "Roosters and hens are raised differently, so they must be separated and check whether the chickens are healthy or not." There is no deformity.”
Baron Turgot was a little curious when he saw that there were many compartments in this long house. At this time, Spike walked out and he could only follow.
The divided chickens were quickly transported away to a long house not far from the gate.
Baron Turgot felt very hot as soon as he entered. The temperature was much higher than outside.
There is a workshop about 2.5 meters wide at each end of this long house. In the middle is a breeding area 45 meters long and more than 3 meters wide. The walls are very thick, and a fresh air generator is hung ten meters away. The flue of the air-conditioning and winter-heating stove in the workshop extends into the breeding area. There are no windows around, and the lighting inside is all by lamps.
The trays filled with chicks are first piled up in the workshop for fifteen minutes, and then placed in the breeding area after the chicks calm down.
Baron Turgot felt that he would not be surprised today, and just sighed: "I didn't expect that even the chick's mood was taken into consideration."
Spike said: "Chickens are very timid and can easily be scared to death."
"The walls here are very thick, not only to keep them warm in the winter, but also to isolate outside sounds."
As he spoke, he opened the door and led the guests into the breeding area. The ground here was covered with a layer of sawdust, with a half-meter-wide wooden bridge in the middle, and a drinking fountain and feed board next to it.
A few people here were filling the drinking fountains with water. Spike tested the temperature with his hands and seemed satisfied.
He said to Baron Turgot: "Such a chicken house can raise about 1,100 chickens. There are 15 rooms in total. Now there are 12 chicken houses."
"The chickens we raise can be sold in two and a half months. After the chickens are sold out, the wood chips with chicken manure on the ground must be taken out for half a month to make compost, and then disinfected and put in new wood chips."
"One raises The chicken cycle is three months, and the eggs are hatched for about 20 days, so the 12 chicken houses are divided into three parts. Every month, there are newly hatched chickens and existing chickens for sale.”
“There are also 3 chicken houses. A different kind of chicken is being raised in each chicken coop. That kind of chicken takes a long time to raise, but the chicken is more fragrant.”
“These chicken coops have been built one after another in the past few months. Once a batch is built, we will start raising them. "In the first two months, I bought chickens and hatched them. This month I started buying eggs and hatching them myself." Baron Turgot calculated in his mind and sighed: "So you can sell at least more than four thousand chickens a month. , you can make a lot of money!
Spike said with a smile: "Some chickens will die, let's count them as four thousand. The average wholesale price of chickens like this on the market now is 36 copper coins, which means there will be more than 800 gold florins a year if we are on the right track. ”
“But I have to pay wages, deduct various costs, and repay loans, so I don’t earn much in the end.”
Baron Turgot was moved, and now in the Kingdom of Tarago There has been a war on the border, and food prices have started to rise as the war rages on. Air-dried chicken is a good business.
He made a decision in his mind to open a chicken farm like this when he went back.
Spike talked to a worker who was filling up the water fountain for a while while the workers brought in the trays of chickens and dumped them close to the wall.
Baron Turgot was a little curious, why not put the chickens next to the drinking fountain, wouldn't it be more convenient for them to drink water?
After Spike finished speaking, he asked this question.
"On purpose." Spike said with a smile, "Let the chickens walk more and exercise, so that they can be healthy."
"Some chickens have physical problems that appear on their appearance. If you don’t come out, you can tell by watching it walk.”
Baron Turgot thinks it makes sense.
Spike led him out of the workroom on the other side, which contained feed, scales, and several large pots for mixing feed. A large pot contained broken wheat grains and wheat bran.
A beautiful girl was weighing a light yellow powder. When she saw Spike, she joked: "You came back so early, I thought you would come back at noon."
Spike replied: "Mr. Turgot came to visit us today."
He said to Baron Turgot: "Sister Natasha came from an orphanage like me. I ate a lot when I was a child. When I don’t have enough food, she can always help me steal food from the kitchen.”
Natasha said with a smile: “That’s what the aunts left for you on purpose.”
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"By the way, there is very little insect powder, so we need to purchase some."
Spike said awkwardly: "This is a bit difficult to handle. Now the business of Fuqiang powder is getting better and better. The raw materials are not enough, and I don't have enough." How shameless to ask for too much.”
“I have a plan to raise our own insects in the future.”
Natasha knows that he has tried his best and sells the insect powder as Fuqiang powder. He could make a lot of money, but it would definitely be possible to ask for help, but it would be detrimental to humanity, so he said: "Then buy more soybean meal first, and I will adjust the proportion."
Baron Turgot felt that he had heard something just now Something incredible.
He saw the weighed light yellow powder poured into the basin and asked about the smell of garlic. "What are these?"
Spike replied: "Garlic powder."
Baron Turgot thought it was just an ordinary added vegetable and didn't pay much attention.
Spike had a lot to deal with today, and soon came to another longhouse that seemed to be the newest.
The breeding area here is divided into two parts by wooden boards. Several young people are sitting there and busy, and some people help catch chickens and hand them over to them.
I saw a young man taking the chicken that was handed over, stepping on a pair of wings with one foot and stepping on the chicken legs with the other to expose his side. He used a sharp knife to make a cut on the chicken, then used a tool to open the wound, and then used two He inserted a tool into the chicken's body and fiddled with it for a while. After removing an organ, he took off the tool that supported the wound, sprayed some medicine on the wound, threw it aside, and took the next one for surgery.
Spike went over and asked the young man with the quickest hands and feet: "Stephen, can you finish the work today?"
Stephen replied without raising his head: "The chickens here can be done today. All are castrated.”
Baron Turgot frowned. These must be golden chickens. They are about one month old. The chickens’ beaks seem a bit blunt. Why are they castrated?
Spike did not explain why he wanted capons, but said to him: "These chickens will take a long time to raise, but they are delicious. One gold coin can only buy two by then."
Baron Turgot blinked, counted on his fingers, and said in disbelief: "In other words, the chickens in this chicken coop can be sold for at least five hundred gold coins?!"
Spike shook his head. The head said: "It's hard to say. If there is a chicken plague, I will have nothing."
Baron Turgot thinks it makes sense. He has heard that many chickens in a village have been killed in two places. After all the chickens died within three days, the idea of raising chickens was immediately abandoned.
Spike continued: "I plan to expand the scale and raise some egg-laying chickens in two years when I have some money."
Baron Turgot asked him: "Is this the same way?"
Spike shook his head and said: "I heard that the commander is studying a method of raising chickens to let chickens live in buildings. I will try it when the time comes."
"Chickens live in buildings?" Baron Turgot was hard-pressed. Understand, the picture of a chicken living in a house with two bedrooms and one living room comes to mind.
(End of this chapter)