Chapter 375 Chicken Matchmaker, Relatives
Old hens during the hatching period are unreasonable.
Not to mention humans, even the dogs at home would dare to peck at them if they came near.
These hens in the chicken house are like this. Wang Susu said that they laid eggs very frequently for four or five days in the past few days, and then suddenly they built a nest in the bushes on the hillside.
I don’t know if it’s because people often collect eggs, but they don’t go back to the chicken coops Chen Ling built for them on the hillside to hatch their eggs.
Later, when Chen Ling found out, he asked Coyotito to chase them away, but they pecked Erhei very ferociously.
In the end, it was Chen Ling who carried them back to the chicken coop.
This is also because they are afraid that they will be frightened by dogs, and it will be bad for these old hens to be stimulated.
I accidentally got hit twice. The back of my hand was so painful from the pecks that I almost broke the skin.
“Okay Zhenzhen, stop making trouble with it, it’s time to peck you hard soon.”
At this time, Chen Ling climbed over the fence and walked into the chicken coop. Wang Susu and the two actresses behind him also opened the fence door of the chicken coop and walked in.
"Huh, I just thought it was too disobedient. I caught grasshoppers and tadpoles for them last year, and they actually pecked me."
Wang Zhenzhen shouted angrily, and then Squatting in front of the big flower chicken, I pinched the big flower chicken's mouth and head. Ignoring the big flower chicken's struggle, I turned around and shouted: "Brother-in-law, please release the eggs quickly, I'm holding its mouth."
Chen Ling put the two old rambler eggs and a cuckoo egg in his hand into the old hen's belly.
“Okay, let’s go.”
Wang Zhenzhen followed the instructions and let the big flower chicken go, and the big flower chicken screamed at her angrily.
The two actresses were very frightened when they saw this and hid behind Wang Susu.
"It's okay, don't be afraid. The old hen in the nest will hatch the eggs and won't move."
Wang Susu smiled and comforted them when she saw this.
The two women looked over there and saw that the big flower chicken crowed angrily twice, then lay down on the eggs and eggs again, and hatched them steadily.
Sure enough, it didn't move.
Although he is very fierce, he always sticks to his position and will not randomly run out and peck people.
The two women suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and were no longer so scared.
At this time, Wang Susu saw her sister going to catch a smaller reed chicken, so she stopped the little girl and said, "Really, don't do that to these two sisters' eggs again." If you put it in front of the chicken, it will poop it in its belly. Don't worry about it."
"Is this okay? Sister, don't fool me." Wang Zhenzhen turned around. , don’t believe it.
"I'm not fooling you. If you don't believe me, ask your brother-in-law."
Hearing what his sister said, Wang Zhenzhen shook her pigtails and turned her head to look at Chen Ling with questioning eyes.
Chen Ling smiled and stroked the little girl's braid twice: "You will know if I'm fooling you or not."
"Okay, then I'll try it, hee Hee."
Wang Zhenzhen slapped his hand away and smiled.
Then he took two eggs, gently placed them in front of the reed chicken, and pushed them forward: "Here, here, I'll give you two more babies, will you hatch them?"
Next to The two actresses also watched intently.
After seeing the two eggs, the reed chicken stood up without saying a word, pulled the eggs in front of him with his beak, then moved his head quickly, and took the two eggs. One after another, they were stuffed under his stomach.
Then he sat down steadily.
“Wow, it’s so amazing. This hen can actually pick up her own eggs and hatch them, and bird eggs can do the same.”
As soon as the two actresses saw this scene, they seemed to have discovered some new world. They hurriedly came forward and squatted down to look at it with curious eyes.
Wang Zhenzhen also clapped her hands happily and said: "It's fun, I'll give it two more eggs."
Chen Ling heard this and held her down: "Don't take the eggs, hatch them." What are there so many birds for? Isn’t this enough for you to play with? If you want to hatch eggs, go get some of the goose eggs and duck eggs you just picked up in the morning and hatch them.”
“Hey, okay. , I’ll get it right away.”
No bird eggs, no matter duck eggs or goose eggs, Wang Zhenzhen nodded quickly and ran out.
After a while, he ran back with the basket.
The basket contained some duck eggs and goose eggs.
Then they were given to two actresses, one big and one small, and they put them in front of these old hens in their nests, and they had a great time.
Even though his hair and face were covered with chicken feathers, he still had a happy smile on his face.
This caused Ruirui to lean forward and hum, wanting to join them.
"It's just fun here. After we finish filming, we must stay here for a while."
"That's right, I just found out that these little ducks and goslings were actually hatched by old hens."< br>
“Hahaha, that’s not the case. In addition to the old hens, we can also use a fire kang here. If you don’t have a fire kang, you can also boil water at home. Put a quilt on the water to cover the eggs. I help my mother hatch them in my hometown. Several times.”
“Wow, you are so awesome.”
“Why are these two hens nesting together?”
"Yes, these two old hens in the nest are good friends. They want to stick together day and night. My brother-in-law wanted to separate them the night before, but they ran away together again and left them alone."
The two actresses are very young, have little experience in rural life, and are quite playful. They get together with Wang Zhenzhen. The two older ones and the younger one look like they are the same age, chatting endlessly.
It wasn’t until all the crew members finished eating and wanted to go into the mountains and called them over that they reluctantly left. Before leaving, they made an appointment with Wang Zhenzhen to come back and play again.
This scene made Chen Ling and Wang Susu laugh for a while, saying that Wang Zhenzhen had made two more big friends.
Their breakfast was indeed late today. It was almost nine o'clock before they had breakfast.
After dinner, the sun was just right, and Wang Susu carried Ruirui back to the village for a consultation. Wang Zhenzhen was watching TV and doing homework in the living room.
There is nothing else to do at home, so I just wait for the little sheep to come back again to transport fish and Zhao Dahai to plant the telephone poles.
So Chen Ling released all the poultry and livestock and let them move freely.
But seeing that the three oxen were dirty, Chen Ling tied them to a nearby tree and went back to get a brush and bucket to wash them.
This scalper is raised in another house, so it doesn’t matter if it’s dirty. But when it comes to your own house, it’s better to keep it clean.
Although the final result is unavoidable, killing and eating meat, it is not pleasing to the eye at all.
Furthermore, the weather is getting warmer and warmer now. If the cow is too dirty, it will attract flies and mosquitoes easily and the smell will be strong.
When his father brought the cows to him two days ago, Chen Ling felt that the three cows were too dirty.
However, since the animals had just entered the house and had not yet adapted, they were left to rest for two days. After they had adapted to the farm's environment, water and food, they were then washed.
I was searching for water in the canal to wash the cattle. The canal was also noisy at this time, with tadpoles, small loaches, and small eels swimming everywhere in a dark mass.
A group of ducks swam in the channel, quacking, chasing these small things, and kept swallowing them in their mouths, causing the channel to make a splashing sound. On the other hand, those big geese were lying peacefully in the grass, bathing in the sparse sunlight falling in the forest, looking very comfortable.
"Huh? No..."
"Let me go, these big geese have started to nest. I wonder why you are so peaceful today."< br>
As soon as Chen Ling threw away the brush, he walked towards the grass where the big geese were lying. At first glance, it was as expected that they were nesting.
The geese raised by this farm are different from the ducks.
Domestic ducks do not build nests and cannot hatch eggs. Most of them let hens do the work for them.
The geese can still lay nests and hatch eggs.
That’s right, the paws of this big goose are like webbed feet. They don’t have claws and can’t turn eggs.
So even if you let it hatch eggs, the success rate is not as high as that of a hen hatching eggs for you.
"Come on, I don't need you to hatch the eggs. Let's keep them in a small dark room for two days."
Chen Ling bent down and took a look. There were two big geese nesting in the nest. The remaining mother geese got up as soon as they were coaxed. I'm just here to join in the fun.
So I reached out and grabbed the necks of the two nesting geese, carried them back, returned to the farm, found a large free water tank, threw it in, closed the lid and left it alone.
The tricks used to deal with goose nesting are similar to those used to deal with old hens nesting.
Generally, they are confined in a cool place, without food or drink, and without sunlight to lower their body temperature.
Otherwise, they would pierce their nostrils with feathers and prick them with sewing needles.
In the final analysis, these native tricks are all stress-inducing tricks, which will scare the dog away from its den.
Even so, it is better than medicine.
“Well, now that we have finished treating the geese, there are still old hens. Four or five old hens are enough for nesting, but we can’t let them all hatch eggs.”
“All of them. How can I go to the nest and lay no more eggs?”
At present, the old hens at home are also laying nests one after another. If there are more chickens, there will naturally be a lot of nests.
Chen Ling hurriedly washed the bodies of the three oxen, let them graze everywhere, and then went up the mountain to patrol with a group of dogs.
He planned to catch any old hen he saw showing signs of nesting in a nest later, tie it by the feet, blindfold it, and throw it in a cage for two days.
But when he reached the foot of the mountain, Chen Ling was suddenly stunned when he saw the scene on the hillside.
Among the dense flocks of chickens, many pheasants fell down, mixed in among the native chickens, pecking at small insects and earthworms in the grass. Each one had a dark brown or colorful body. It was shaking its head noisily, looking for bugs in the grass, faster than a chicken.
There was an old yellow hen that probably couldn't get enough food. It clucked angrily and pecked at a male pheasant with beautiful feathers. Unexpectedly, those pheasants didn't show any weakness and launched a counterattack with the same fierceness. The loud and long clucking sounds are mixed with the local chickens.
“Good guy, this is a pheasant from outside sneaking into the chicken flock and claiming the title of king.”
Chen Ling was quite stunned. In fact, there are also some in his own chicken flock. They were pheasants, but there were only a few of them. The little fat Liang Yiming had grown up from the chicks that Wang Zhenzhen and the others had caught at the village primary school last summer. There were only six or seven of them.
However, there are not only six or seven pheasants among the chickens now, but sixteen or seventeen.
After Chen Ling was stunned, his heart was filled with deep surprise: "Good guy, I didn't expect that I could get such a harvest by raising a few pheasants in the chicken flock. It actually played a role in chickens." The role of matchmaker and chicken lure has attracted so many pheasants.”
The so-called chicken matchmakers and chicken lures are the same thing as bird matchmakers and bird lures.
Let’s talk about bird farmers. They are crazy about birds. When they have nothing to do, they will set up a few nets in the fields or outside the woods to net birds.
Especially during bird migration in spring and autumn, large flocks of birds pass by in the sky.
However, it is not easy to get them online.
Gotta bring them down from the sky.
How can you seduce birds flying in the sky?
This is the role of bird media and bird attractants.
Go and see, many bird netters will hang their own birds nearby when they are holding up their nets. This bird they raise is a bird matchmaker and bird attractor. When the birds flying in the sky hear the call, they will come down.
At this time, the birdkeeper holding the net seized the opportunity to drive away the birds, and all the birds that flew down would hit the net.
The chicken matchmaker and the chicken lure are similar to this one.
It is used to deal with pheasants, bamboo chickens and various mountain pheasants.
Of course, the biggest and most obvious effect is between people of the same kind.
"Grandma, most of these foreign pheasants are female. They must have been seduced by seeing my male pheasants growing strong and beautiful."
< br>"In this case, let's ignore them for now, wait until the fight is over and they are well adjusted, then just lay eggs here with peace of mind. From now on, there will be more wild eggs to pick up every day."
Chen Ling rubbed her hands, happy. It's on the face.
He originally came to catch the broody hens, but now he changed his mind and decided not to alert the snake yet, but to let his excellent chicken matchmaker use his charm to see if he could keep these flocks of pheasants.
As for the hens in the nest, it’s okay to go up the mountain to catch them after dark.
“Tsk, tsk, I really didn’t expect an unexpected harvest. So I have to find some wild duck eggs this year to hatch some wild ducks, and I can also be a duck matchmaker and duck lure next year...”< br>
Chen Ling waved and called the dog back, thinking happily in his heart.
Actually, there are many precedents for raising wild ducks in the village, but when they grow up, they usually have to be eaten.
Otherwise, even if wild ducks are domesticated, they are relatively wild and can fly.
When I grow up, I am easily abducted by wild ducks outside and fly away with them.
Chen Ling is not afraid of this. With such good conditions in his family, he is not afraid of it flying away after he is raised.
Those pheasants are a good example.
Chen Ling has never clipped their wings and let them fly freely, but after raising them for more than half a year, he follows the large army of chickens back to the chicken coop on time every day without any signs of escaping.
"Come on, in this case, while there is no one at home, I will make some fish fry in Dongtian first, and then go out to look for wild duck eggs in the afternoon."
After making a plan, let the dog out, Chen Ling He went back to the farm and started working on his own.
Now that the lotus flowers are growing in the lotus pond, Chen Ling plans to raise some of his favorite koi here this year.
As for the ornamental fish sold in those three ponds, after the lambs are shipped and sold, they can just buy a batch of cheap fry on the way back.
After all, what you earn is the price difference.
Just buy it at a low price, keep it for a month, repair the flaws with the spiritual water diluted at home, and then sell it at a high price. That's it.
"Aling, come out soon, we have a relative here."
At almost noon, Chen Ling just put the fry into the lotus pond and was about to add some water to Yu Qian's bird. He heard his wife's joyful voice coming from outside the door.
(End of this chapter)