Golden Fishing Village

Yang Baokun is a local. Although he doesn't have much ability, he still has basic connections. He is friends with a relative of the owner of the farm.

When he learned that Ao Muyang wanted to buy chicks, he called his friend and asked him to help talk to him.

Ao Muyang thought it was unnecessary, so he bought a hundred chicks. For the hatchery, this is a retail business. Maybe the villagers now raise more than a hundred chickens.

Chicks are cheap and don't cost much. Even if you find someone, you can only save ten or twenty yuan.

But there is an advantage, the boss will help him choose chicks seriously and will not fool him with sick chicks.

The hatchery is quite large. After entering, the boss who received the call found a breeder: "Take them around the park and see what kind of chickens they want to buy."

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "You have a display area here, right? We are covered with bacteria, so we won't enter the park."

Hearing this, the breeder smiled: "Brother, you are an expert."

Modern breeding farms are closed and isolated. The purpose is naturally to prevent the spread of bacteria from the outside world, so outsiders are generally not welcome to enter the park without disinfection and sterilization.

However, this hatchery is large in scale, fully functional, and has an ultraviolet disinfection room.

The breeder took them to do ultraviolet disinfection, and then entered the breeding area.

The huge breeding farm is divided into many small areas. As soon as they entered, they first saw a kind of chick that was not much bigger than an adult's fist.

The feathers of these chickens are brightly colored. They squat on the ground one by one. It is amazing that they can squat and walk, and walk around like a ball of hair rolling.

Yang Baokun was curious: "Oh, this little chicken is interesting, they can walk squatting?"

The breeder smiled and said: "This is the East Asian bantam chicken, they either walk squatting or walk normally, but they are born with short legs."

Yang Baokun asked: "Is this kind of chicken delicious?"

The breeder laughed: "Brother, this is an ornamental chicken, they can grow so big, what you see is an adult chicken, do you think they are delicious? Even if they are delicious, they can't be eaten."

Yang Baokun was immediately amazed: "Such a small chicken? Ornamental chicken? There are still people raising them as pets? Chicken shit can stink to death."

There is also a pure black chicken and a pure white chicken. The breeder introduced that these are two foreign chickens, one is called Australian black chicken and the other is called Bresse chicken.

These foreign breeds of chickens are expensive and delicate, and they need to be well taken care of. Ao Muyang doesn't like them. He wants native chickens.

It's not that native chickens are delicious, but this kind of chicken grows solid, is not easy to get sick, and can live well even without medicine.

However, native chickens grow slowly. It takes more than half a year from brooding to market. Even if they are marketed, there is not much meat. Roosters can only grow to three and a half pounds, and hens can only grow to two and a half pounds.

The local native chickens are called black-headed chickens, also known as Zhang Fei chickens, because their feathers on their heads are black, just like the legendary Zhang Fei, with a face like the bottom of a pot.

Black-headed chickens are native chickens, but they are not cheap. Ordinary domestic chickens such as Jiujinhuang, Sanhuang chicken, black-bone chicken, and big-bone chicken are only four yuan each, while meat chickens are even cheaper, only about two yuan, but black-headed chickens cost six and a half yuan each.

This is because the meat and egg yields of local native chickens are too low, and they grow slowly. Therefore, after the reform and opening up, local people no longer like to raise them, and have switched to fast-growing meat chickens, resulting in a sharp decline in numbers.

Scarcity makes things valuable, and this principle is universal in all markets.

Considering the losses during the breeding process, Ao Muyang asked for 120 chickens.

After selecting the chicks, the breeder said, "Brother, we won't deliver less than 1,000 chicks. You'd better hire a car to pick them up."

Ao Muyang said, "Don't worry. I don't just buy chicks, I also buy other things."

"Feed and medicine?" the breeder asked, "If it's these, we still can't deliver to your door."

Ao Muyang pointed to an iron rack and said, "I want to buy a set of these. Will you deliver to your door?"

This iron rack is a breeding cage, but it's not an ordinary breeding cage. Its name is a breeding bed.

As the name suggests, a breeding bed is like a bed. It can be used as an independent breeding farm and can be used to raise chickens in a large area.

One of the amazing things about the breeding bed is that the bottom is layered, divided into several layers, so that the chickens and ducks live and defecate on the top, and the feces will be screened layer by layer.

Ao Muyang thinks this function is very helpful for the breeding pond. After the chicken manure is screened, the impurities are left behind, and all that falls into the breeding pond are organic matter, which avoids the trouble of having to clean up the bottom of the pond every once in a while.

A breeding bed costs 5,000 yuan, covers an area of ​​500 to 600 square meters, and can breed thousands of chickens.

Ao Muyang only breeds more than 100 chickens, which is a bit wasteful.

But he thinks the price doesn't matter, the key is that the function is useful.

He paid the money, and now the farm provides door-to-door delivery service. This kind of breeding bed is quite profitable.

Yang Baokun thinks he is wasting money: "Xiaoyang, you can just buy a few cages, why buy this thing? How much is it, what a waste."

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "I will try breeding first. If raising chickens is profitable, then I will specialize in breeding in the future and don't have to go to sea."

Yang Baokun nodded, which is also good. His sister and brother-in-law had an accident at sea, and he didn't want his nephew to go to sea again.

After dinner at his uncle's house, the breeding bed and chicks were delivered the next day.

Ao Muyang set up the breeding bed on top of the breeding pond, which just covered the breeding pond. This also has the advantage of preventing frogs, water snakes, and water rats from stealing fish.

The black-headed chicken is called Zhang Fei chicken because they are fierce and have the same bad temper as Zhang Sanye. Frogs and water snakes are their food, and anyone who dares to get close will be eaten.

After he finished raising chicks, Ao Daguo's fishing boat maintenance work was also completed, so they went out to sea again in late September.

This time, Ao Muyang brought Ao Wenchang with him.

Ao Wenchang's parents came to the dock to see him off, just like sending a child to school. When they saw him on the boat, their faces were full of worry.

His mother pulled Ao Muyang and told him: "Yangzi, Wenchang has not been out to sea much, you should take good care of him. You are the leader, you have to protect him well."

Ao Muyang said: "Don't worry, auntie, he went out to sea safely, and I will definitely bring him back safely!"

"That's good, that's good." Yao Xiuli muttered a few times and then told Ao Wenchang, "Wenchang, going out to sea is not like being at home. You can't be stubborn at sea. You should learn more from your uncle and others..."

Ao Wenchang behaved well:

"Yeah."

"Okay."

"I know, mom."

"Don't worry."

"I understand."

"Dad, you go back."

When the sea fishing boat set off, Ao Wenchang turned around and showed a face full of despair: "I'm 25 years old, why do you still treat me as a child? I really can't stand it!"

Ao Muyang laughed: "Let's go, there are no children at sea, only men. Come, let me take the helm, I'll go find fish."