How Dong Lanqin, a Skilled Chicken Farmer, Cleverly Became Rich
On January 3, the reporter came to Baocun Village, Qingquan Subdistrict, Guan County, and interviewed Dong Lanqin, a skilled chicken farmer who has become a widely known leader in getting rich through raising chickens.
Dong Lanqin is 61 years old this year. Fifteen years ago, Dong Lanqin and her husband Sun Shuqin began raising chickens. She went from being an "outsider woman" in chicken farming to a well-known breeding expert in the surrounding villages, and her family's annual income grew from several thousand yuan 15 years ago to more than 100,000 yuan now. Last year, Dong Lanqin expanded her farming scale and bought another 2,000 chicks. To better master chicken-raising techniques, on the one hand she consulted breeding experts and specialized chicken farmers with breeding experience, and on the other hand she bought some practical books on laying hen raising in a targeted way, learning and practicing while solving difficult problems. To improve the survival rate of the laying hens, she and her husband took turns keeping watch beside the chicken coop, observing abnormal conditions in the coop temperature, the chickens' droppings, and the chickens' drinking and feeding, and carrying out regular disinfection and timely epidemic prevention.
After several years of hard work, Dong Lanqin's family chicken farm has achieved a one-stop operation of "self-breeding, self-raising, self-prevention, and self-selling." Her egg products have gained a firm foothold in some supermarkets and agricultural product markets in Jinan and Liaocheng, and she has become a well-known wealthy household in the village. Now that she is wealthy, Dong Lanqin has not forgotten her roots. To help her fellow villagers get rich and achieve a moderately prosperous life as soon as possible, she teaches chicken-raising techniques to the people around her free of charge. As long as farmers need it, Dong Lanqin will promptly help them solve their difficulties. Dong Lanqin said: "Now that I am rich, I also hope to help my fellow villagers get rich together."