Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 37 Interview
"I have already reserved a place to expand the production scale. It is not harmful to prepare more breeders in advance! Even if they are not needed temporarily, can they be sold to the surrounding farmers!" Li Lei has already made arrangements.

Later generations of farms will often cooperate with surrounding farmers to provide them with commercial chicks, and then purchase eggs from them, which can increase profits without increasing investment. The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is to control the purchase and acceptance. That's all.

The Liu family brothers did the same thing in Sichuan, and now Li Lei is just taking pictures of cats and tigers.

Huang Yaohong nodded after listening and didn't say anything, but Li Qiyun had a different reaction after hearing it the next day, "It's right for you to do this, share some benefits with others, so that they won't be jealous of you alone!"

This is actually the reason why Li Lei buys more breeders. Nowadays, policies and people's thinking are not completely liberalized. It is too eye-catching to make a fortune, especially in a relatively closed and conservative place like Central Plains Province. Dora In the past, some farmers shared the income, which was equivalent to adding an extra guarantee for themselves.

In this way, even if someone wants to clean up themselves in the future, these farmers who have increased their income by raising chickens and selling eggs will object.

After arranging these breeder chicks, Li Lei took Huang Yaohong for a stroll around the provincial capital, then sent him to the train, and went back to work by himself.

A few days later, Xie Liren remitted to Li Lei the fraction he earned from the futures market, and sent him a telegram by the way, telling him that the remaining funds had also been invested in the Chicago futures market according to his plan, and all of them had been purchased in soybean oil futures. .

Now Li Lei can devote all his energy to raising the Hy-Line laying hen chicks, vaccinating them and feeding them with the feed he prepared.

The biggest difference between laying hen feed and broiler feed is the calcium content. The shell of eggs contains a lot of calcium. [-]% of the calcium comes from the feed, and [-]% comes from the bones of the hen. Therefore, more calcium should be added to the hen to get more It is better to lay eggs, otherwise the calcium in the bones will drop too much, and these hens will not only affect their egg production, but also lead to a decline in their health.

There are generally three types of sources of calcium supplementation. Limestone powder is the most used. The calcium content of lime powder is about 36% to 38%. It is the cheapest mineral feed for calcium supplementation, and the absorption rate is 30%.

In addition, there is feed grade calcium formate. Calcium formate belongs to organic calcium, and the calcium content is about 30%. It does not need gastric acid to participate in the dissolution process, and its absorption rate is better than that of inorganic calcium.

Finally, calcium hydrogen phosphate and calcium dihydrogen phosphate are added to the feed of laying hens. In addition to being a calcium source, they are mainly used to supplement the deficiency of phosphorus in the feed.

These chicks were not young when they were delivered, and they started to lay eggs after being fed for a period of time. The eggs of the grandparent chickens and the eggs of the parent chickens were placed separately in the incubator for incubation.

The egg incubator is also a great invention, freeing hens from the long incubation process and turning them into ruthless egg-laying machines.

The eggs laid by the grandparent chickens are hatched to become the parent chickens, which continue to be used to lay eggs and breed commercial chickens. The chicks hatched from the parents eggs are put in the chicken coop after they are raised, so that they can be more, faster and better Lay eggs and earn profit for the chicken farm.

After the eggs came out, Li Lei picked them out and found some male eggs. From the shape and size of the eggs, he could roughly judge whether the eggs hatched from a rooster or a hen.

Of course, this method is not necessarily reliable. According to statistics, about 70 billion rooster chicks are destroyed every year in the world. It doesn't have to be so troublesome to judge male and female eggs.

However, Li Lei only picked a basket of eggs, and he didn't care about the loss. Xing Shuwang had told him to report frequently at the beginning. Now that the chicken farm was built, it was time to visit his house.

Li Lei came to the county town with eggs. Xing Shuwang has now moved from the family building of the Agriculture Bureau to the government family building. When he arrived at Xing Shuwang's new home, he knocked on the door and entered. The family was still occupied by the couple Xing Shuwang and Yu Jingshu.

Xing Shu glanced at the egg in his hand, "Xiao Li, what are you doing?"

"Here comes the report, leader. I brought in a batch of fine-bred laying hens from the United States. This is the first batch of eggs laid by American laying hens. I brought some for you to try."

"Oh? American eggs? Let me see!" Xing Shuwang picked up the eggs curiously and studied them carefully, and asked his lover to find a few local eggs from the kitchen for comparison. Look better too."

Native eggs are small in size, with an average of about 45 grams, and the size varies greatly; the size of Hailan brown eggs is relatively uniform, basically around 60 grams, which is larger than native eggs.

"I just don't know how it tastes. I'll make scrambled eggs with leeks, and spread some egg pancakes for you to try!" Xing Shuwang's lover Qiao Aizhen went to the kitchen with some eggs.

Hey, boss, you are always healthy and strong, you still need to eat leek eggs at this age?Li Lei muttered inwardly.

Yu Jingshu didn't go in to help this time, but continued to look at the eggs in the basket, and asked curiously, "Why do we need to import good breed chickens from the United States? Can't our own chickens not work?"

You, a student of the Chinese Department, are still interested in this?
Xing Shuwang saw Li Lei's doubts, and explained, "Jingshu will be a senior after the summer vacation, and now she has started an internship and is a reporter for the provincial newspaper. This time, she came back to see what news we have worth reporting. No! I think you, an American egg, can be reported!"

Nowadays, ordinary people are very interested in everything in the United States. It is really possible to write an article using American eggs as a gimmick and publish it in a provincial newspaper.

"Compared with the United States, our country is indeed lagging behind in terms of economic animal breeding. This kind of American breeder chicken can lay more than 300 eggs a year, while the native chickens in our village only lay [-] to [-] eggs a year. The situation of the laying hens in the farm is better, but there are only about two hundred eggs at most!"

Li Lei told them the story of Henry Agard Wallace and Hyland International again, and both of them listened carefully, and Yu Jingshu took out a small notebook and memorized it quickly.

"I didn't expect a small egg to have so many names!" Xing Shuwang frowned and fell into thought. It is reasonable to say that it is a good thing to introduce American fine-breed chickens so that more people can eat eggs, but breed chickens have always been controlled by the Americans. This seems a bit inappropriate.

"Li Lei, can I visit your chicken farm and do an interview with you?" Yu Jingshu became very interested in him.

(End of this chapter)