A laying hen farmer's chicken-raising experience--are you just like him?
Taozi talks about his chicken-raising experience, and it reminds me that when I raised chickens it was also full of twists and turns. At that time, I started making arrangements in summer, when the corn was already waist-high. Without delay, I cut down more than one mu of corn. In rural areas, family members care a lot about the crops, so they were angry and resentful toward me but could do nothing about it. Whatever, let him do as he likes. At that time I did not have much money in hand, so I borrowed money everywhere and found people to help start building the chicken coop.
This was only the beginning of the bitterness. After autumn ended, I started bringing in the chicks. At that time I was still using a small coal stove. The day before the chicks arrived, the fire just would not burn well. What to do? I found someone to help take a look. As soon as he looked, he said too much coal had been added, and he also asked whether I had prepared the opening medicine. I had not, so I hurried to buy it. He also left me a book to read. Many thanks for the help.
The chicks arrived one afternoon. Fortunately, the temperature and humidity were both fine, and the boiled water, glucose and multivitamins were all ready. For the first ten days or so, my wife and I took turns watching the chickens. You could say we took turns watching them, but as for me, I slept at most 4 hours a day. After 20 days, problems came. I had followed the animal husbandry bureau's vaccination schedule completely. I remember that at 35 days we did the fowl pox vaccine, and I could not get the dosage right, so a lot of the vaccine was left unused.
What to do? Mix it with water, pour a little into each trough, and let the chickens drink it. Within 7 days, fowl pox broke out. There were especially many cases of the eye form of fowl pox, so I started seeking diagnosis and treatment. At that time, two people examined them, and one was a quack. Just from fowl pox, I estimate 70 to 80 chickens died. From then on, I began looking for books on farming, and I visited more or less all the dozen or so people around who treated chicken diseases.
Maybe heaven was also rather good to me. Even though I was a young outsider who knew nothing, it showed me special favor, and after 100 days the chickens stabilized. During those months I also came to understand chickens somewhat. My dedication was no worse than the skills of some people who had raised chickens for one or two years. When the chickens started laying was my happiest moment. Thinking back, I kept the first egg on the table for half a month. It is quite funny to think about it now.
The laying rate rose very quickly, starting at 9.6 cheng. At first the eggs were small and there was not much profit. Later the egg weight came up, and then the country reported a melamine incident. What to do? Eggs retailed at more than 10 yuan for 6 jin.
I started paying attention to the market. I stopped selling eggs and stored them. In less than half a month, there was a turnaround. (Actually, that time was also a kind of torment, with the chickens eating feed every day.)
This batch of chickens turned out quite well in the end, and I raised them for about 600 days. Then I expanded the scale by one chicken shed. Every batch was raised well.
Recently many people have asked me why I do not raise chickens now and why I changed careers to become a veterinarian. Because in the process of raising chickens I deeply felt how hard raising chickens is. For some, their entire fortune and even their life is staked on it. I want to do something for chicken farmers, so that those who start raising chickens without skills do not take the old path I took, and also for friends who feel chickens are getting harder and harder to raise. Take fewer detours and spend the money that should be spent on the road of farming.
Here Taozi reminds friends who raise chickens: raising chickens is 7 parts management, 2 parts treatment and 1 part luck (this luck is meeting someone who can solve your problems).
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