Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

Lin Xia nodded to show that she understood. Originally, Lin Xia wanted to raise chickens in the most cost-effective way, that is, after buying the chickens, she would put them outside as long as it was not raining and let them find food by themselves, so that she would not have to spend money on buying a lot of chicken feed. However, although this method saves chicken feed, it will result in the chickens not being able to produce the highest-grade P-shaped eggs in the later stage. So whether to save chicken feed in the early stage to ensure that all varieties of eggs are obtained in the later stage, or to feed them with feed step by step, this is worth considering carefully.

"Oh, right." Rick continued, "The chicken you bought directly from us can only have a maximum favorability rating of 8 stars. But if you hatch a chick from an egg and raise it from a young age, its favorability rating can reach 10 stars! The probability of laying a P-shaped egg will also increase greatly in the future!"

OK! Lin Xia thought happily: I will raise the chickens I bought outside to save feed, and I will keep the chickens I hatched indoors in the early stage. I will never let them out unless I win the cockfighting championship! Lin Xia felt like a genius! Haha~

"Lin Xia, come and take a look." Rick continued to call Lin Xia forward, and then walked to another chicken coop, pointing at the chickens inside and said to Lin Xia, "This is another breed of chicken, called black-bone chicken!"

"What?" Lin Xia ran forward in surprise, and sure enough, she saw a group of chickens with snow-white feathers, black eyes, black combs, and much smaller bodies than the reed chickens just now.

Isn’t this the black chicken from the world before?

Black-bone chicken, also known as black chicken and medicinal chicken, is a local specialty of a certain country. It is small in size, with a small head and short neck, black eyes, small crown and short wings, weak flying ability, white feathers all over the body, short black legs, dense hair, black skin and periosteum, dark brown meat, short and thin feathers on the lower jaw and cheeks, tassel-shaped feathers behind the crown, and a green ear on each side of the head. It is distinguished from other chickens by its "ten complete" features: tassel head, green ears, purple crown, beard, silky hair, five toes, hairy legs, black skin, black bones and black meat.

At the same time, black chicken also has very high medicinal value, and is a good product for replenishing fatigue and nourishing the body. Eating black chicken can nourish yin and kidney, delay aging, and has obvious effects on women's iron deficiency anemia.

Therefore, there are many medicinal foods made with black chicken, including black chicken soup made with various ingredients and medicinal materials, such as: Guiqi black chicken soup, red bean black chicken soup, sea cucumber black chicken soup, fungus and golden needle black chicken soup, wolfberry and red date black chicken soup, ginseng black chicken soup, black chicken and white oyster mushroom soup, etc.

Lin Xia's eyes sparkled and she kept swallowing her saliva.

Rick continued to introduce: "This black-bone chicken was brought here by Hawke's nephew from overseas. He said that this chicken is very valuable. But," Rick said, he was a little discouraged, "Compared with the Luhua chicken, this chicken lays very few eggs. Luhua chickens can lay an egg every day, but this black-bone chicken takes an average of 2 days to lay an egg, and the eggs are small. Even if the favorability is high, its eggs are far from comparable to those of Luhua chickens. The most important thing is," Rick emphasized, "in the extremely cold winter and the extremely hot summer, it is particularly reluctant to lay eggs. It may take 3 to 4 days to lay an egg."

"I really don't understand," Rick said puzzledly, "Why Hawke's nephew repeatedly emphasized that this kind of chicken is of particularly high value."

Of course you don’t understand. Lin Xia thought to herself that the value of black chickens is not in their eggs, but in their meat.

"So, Lin Xia, which type of chicken do you want to buy?" Rick looked at me and asked, "Since you have just started raising chickens, I still recommend that you raise white chickens! Although their selling prices are the same, the number of eggs laid by black-bone chickens is far less than that of white chickens, and the quality of their eggs is not as high as that of white chickens." It turns out that you all determine the quality based on the size of the eggs!

Lin Xia thought to herself, I want to eat chicken now, but I don’t have the tools to make it myself, so she asked, “Rick, please tell me, if I want to eat chicken, how should I make it?”

"What?!" Suddenly, a surprised voice came from the side. Lin Xia and Rick turned their heads and found that it was Bobli. The girl looked incredulous and stared at Lin Xia with a pair of Carslan 2.0 eyes, as if Lin Xia had done something against the law. "Chickens are so cute, how can you eat them?"

Lin Xia...

"Publi!" Rick looked at Publi seriously.

"Hmph! You are all bad people. I will never bother with you again!" After saying this, he ran away in grief!

Lin Xia stood aside awkwardly, and couldn't help wondering, is it that people are not allowed to eat chicken in this place?

"Lin Xia, I'm sorry, Bobli is just too sentimental!" Rick explained embarrassedly, "Everyone has different eating habits. She is usually very considerate, but she can't let go when it comes to chickens. The main reason is that she has been living with chickens since she was a child and regards chickens as her best friends, so she can't accept it. You don't have to worry about it."

"I can understand!" Lin Xia said quickly, thinking about how she treated Coco Chicken when they first met!

"It's like this, Lin Xia, if you want to eat chicken, go find Sebala." Rick continued to answer my questions. "After your chicken coop is expanded, you can ask Sebala to help you make a mayonnaise processing machine. The first processing machine you make can only process eggs into mayonnaise, and the level of mayonnaise is also determined by the level of eggs. Then you can ask Sebala to upgrade the processing machine again, and you can process live chickens into chicken."

"So that's how it is!" Lin Xia said gratefully, "Thank you, Rick!"

"You're welcome!" Rick said with a smile, "This is what I should do. If it weren't for Bobli, I would have wanted to upgrade the processing machine. What a pity!"

Looking at Rick who was in distress, Lin Xia said with a smile: "When my chickens are grown, I will treat you to chicken!"

"Then thank you first!" Rick said happily.

However, after careful consideration, Lin Xia decided to buy Luhua chicken for the time being. Because of her current situation, she cannot afford to raise black chickens, which are more expensive, lay fewer eggs, and cannot process meat. She should wait until conditions are better before raising them! By then, all kinds of nutritious black chicken soups will be delicious just thinking about it!

Lin Xia happily bought a reed chicken from Lilia, named it Clucking No. 1, and bought 90 bags of feed and a bottle of animal medicine in case the chicken got sick and the Clucking House was closed, delaying the treatment of the chicken. In this small town, if an animal died of illness due to poor care, it would be condemned by the residents of the town. But it was strange that there was no problem with eating healthy chickens.

And only 90 bags of chicken feed are almost enough. Now it is the 11th. Cluck 1 will be left outside to fend for itself. Oh no, it is self-reliant. Then the eggs it lays tomorrow will be put into the incubator for incubation. A chick will hatch in 3 days. In this way, a chick will hatch on the 15th, 18th, and 21st respectively. By the end of the month, 39 bags of feed will be needed. In the summer, Lin Xia can grow corn by herself. There is a waterwheel mill next to the chicken house to make chicken feed. One serving of corn can make 30 bags of chicken feed. The planting cycle of corn is 15 days. It is planted on the 1st and harvested on the 15th. By the 15th, a total of 3+39*15=3 bags of feed are needed for the 84 chicks. The remaining 6 bags of feed are for rainy weather, when Cluck 1 cannot go out to forage.

Hey, never mind, if it’s not enough, just buy more, chicken feed isn’t expensive anyway! Lin Xia thought generously!

The expenses are as follows:

1 piece of Luhua chicken: 1500g

Chicken feed 90 packs: 900G

Animal medicine 1 bottle: 1000G

The total cost was 3400G, and my wallet was empty again.

But tomorrow will be the day when there will be eggs. Lin Xia clenched her fists and looked up at the sky, daydreaming!

Rick will help you deliver the purchased chickens and chicken feed directly to the chicken coop on the ranch, and the animal potions will be placed directly in the item column of the backpack.

"By the way, Lin Xia." Lilia looked at Lin Xia gently and said, "If you have too many chickens, you can sell them to Cluck House! We also recycle adult chickens."

"How much is the recycling price?" Lin Xia asked. Selling chickens is also a way to make money! Lin Xia thought happily.

"500G each!"

Lin Xia...

What a dishonest businessman! Really, there is no businessman without dishonesty, blame me for being too naive! Lin Xia waved goodbye, selling chickens is not a way to make money!