1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 103: Earth Dragon Breeding Farm, doesn't it sound much better? (Update )
After the two of them entered Su Wenlie's main room together.

At this time, the second sister-in-law Yu Xiaomei was pregnant and was packing the rabbit that Su Wenlie brought back.

Seeing Su Wenchen come in, he said with a smile.

"Youngest one is here. Your brother just caught a rabbit. I'll clean it up and stew it for you guys later!"

Su Wenchen looked at the other party's posture and quickly waved his hand.

"Second sister-in-law, you should take a rest quickly, let my second brother take care of it!"

"Your belly is so big now, why don't you rest at home for a few days? I'll arrange for someone else to take care of the ingredients at the chicken farm."

Su Wenlie also walked over and quickly took the rabbit from the other person's hand.

"You said you were pregnant, how could you see blood? This is too unlucky. Didn't I tell you to go back to your room and rest?"

Yu Xiaomei touched her belly.

"What's unlucky about that? There are so many pregnant women in our brigade. Don't they all like to watch the pig slaughter every year?"

Then he turned and looked at Su Wenchen.

"Youngest, I'm fine. We're just getting started. Besides, I just mixed the ingredients according to the proportions, and I don't have to move them myself. It's very easy!"

"Besides, I'm estimated to have to wait for two or three months. How can I spend my money like this and do nothing?"

"Our team is going to give birth the next day, and there are people who have been weeding in the fields the day before. Aren't there also people who give birth in the fields?"

Although Su Wenchen didn't quite agree with what Yu Xiaomei said.

But after all, she is not his wife, so what he says does not count.

And there are indeed people who were born in the local area, but they are very rare. However, there was indeed one person in their team who was born in the local area and he survived.

Even the other person's name was Ditou, and he was only a little older than his eldest brother.

The country hadn't been founded yet at that time.

Su Wenchen could only say that this kind of person was truly unlucky.

But Su Wenchen would definitely not allow his family to do the same thing just because such a person survived.

So after the second sister-in-law went back to the inner room.

Su Wenchen said to Su Wenlie.

"Second brother, do you plan to let my sister-in-law give birth at home?"

The reason why Su Wenchen asked this is because they usually give birth at home.

Because no one wants to go to the hospital and waste money.

Once an accident occurs, if the patient is rushed to the hospital at this time, it is often too late to rescue the patient, and often only one of the adult or child will survive.

Not even one left.

Therefore, Su Wenchen did not recommend that their family give birth at home, and their family conditions are not bad now.

Especially at the end of the year, almost every family's work points can be exchanged for a considerable amount of money. In this case, there is actually no need to let the family bear this risk.

If the family was really in difficulty, Su Wenchen would not have said this. If the family was not in difficulty, there was no need to take the risk.

Besides, isn’t the purpose of making money to avoid such accidents as much as possible?

Hearing Su Wenchen's question, Su Wenlie thought about it.

"I don't mind the money, I'm just worried your sister-in-law won't do it!"

Su Wenchen said seriously.

"Brother, you have to make the decision on this matter. What's the point of making money? Isn't it used to solve problems like this?"

Su Wenlie nodded.

"What you said makes sense. We really can't listen to her. Otherwise, if something happens and we go to the hospital, we'll be finished."

"That's someone's case, isn't it? They said that a band was wrapped around the child's neck, and they had to have an operation to remove it. I heard that the child was suffocated to death!"

"If the surgery had been performed earlier, it might still have been in time!"

"By the way, what on earth do you want from me?"

Su Wenchen heard Su Wenlie ask this.

Thinking of the plan when coming here, I started to persuade him patiently.

"Brother, don't you want to do something? Do you want to work for the rest of your life?"

After hearing what Su Wenchen said.

Su Wenlie glanced at him.

"Who said that? I've always wanted to work at your chicken farm, but your questions are too difficult. What's the point of testing me on feeding chickens? It's useless."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"It's really not necessary, but this is just a form of screening. At least being able to read and learn knowledge means that he is not stupid, and he can also better learn the various skills required by the chicken farm."

"I heard that you couldn't get in several times. I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to get in in the future."

Su Wenlie looked at Su Wenchen tentatively.

"How about you open a back door for me?"

Su Wenchen quickly shook his head.

"No, that won't work. I made the rules, how can I break them?"

Besides, if I really build you a chicken farm, who will raise earthworms?

Seeing that Su Wenchen disagreed.

Su Wenlie looked at the other person unhappily.

"Then why did you ask me to come here? To entertain me! Then I have to go out and practice alone with you!"

"Hey, second brother, have you ever thought about setting up a new breeding farm in our brigade?"

After hearing Su Wenchen's words, Su Wenlie was stunned for a moment.

I thought about it for a long time.

"A new farm? What to raise? How about rabbits?"

As he said this, he raised the half-eaten rabbit in his hand.

Hearing this, Su Wenchen touched his chin.

"Raising rabbits?"

He thought about it carefully and it seemed like it was possible. It was said that this thing could reproduce very quickly.

You can also feed them various wild vegetables, radish leaves, cabbage leaves, sweet potato leaves, and then add corn stalks, soybean stalks and other things.

It doesn’t seem impossible.

Although the scale cannot be very large, it should not be a problem for their team to raise hundreds or thousands of them.

However, rabbits are not expensive here. The general market price is around 80 cents to one dollar per rabbit.

Most of the wild rabbits caught weigh only about two kilograms, and there are not many that are too fat.

So all in all, this stuff only costs 50 cents per pound, and it is far less popular than pork and chicken in the market.

Because many wild rabbits now eat grass roots, you have to use heavy ingredients to cook rabbit meat, otherwise the earthy smell will be particularly obvious.

Even domestic rabbits, which were improved generation after generation, still have a faint earthy smell, not to mention wild rabbits at this time.

It wouldn’t taste good without the heavy ingredients, otherwise it wouldn’t be so cheap.

However, it is still a rare delicacy for many people in rural areas, and no one is as picky as Su Wenchen.

In addition, rabbit meat is free and reproduces quickly, and rabbit skin is currently a relatively valuable type of leather.

Looking at it this way, it seems like this thing has some potential.

If you don't want to set up a earthworm farm, it's not impossible to set up a rabbit farm.

But now it is obvious that earthworm farming is more important, after all, this is about the feed issue on the chicken farm side.

The money earned from rabbits is obviously not comparable to that earned from hens that can lay eggs continuously.

Whether in terms of popularity or price, rabbit meat cannot compare with eggs.

So I can only give up this idea for the time being.

Ok.

Write it down in your little notebook when you get back, take your time!

Moreover, Su Wenchen believed that as their team gradually became wealthy.

Just their brigade itself has a great demand for meat.

At worst, we can raise some and sell them to the members of the brigade, and then distribute the money from the sale of the rabbits to everyone at the end of the year.

It can be said that self-production and self-sales are the norm.

Think of this.

Su Wenchen stopped beating around the bush and looked directly at Su Wenlie.

"Brother, what do you think about raising earthworms?"

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Su Wenlie was confused.

"Ah~! Raising earthworms?"

"Who would buy this? Are you planning to raise it to feed chickens?"

"There's no need to raise them specially, can't we just have people dig them up in the fields?"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"I have to raise them. The chicken farm has a huge demand for earthworms, and I may need them later. The ones I dig up are definitely not enough."

As long as the matter of the Guoyang chicken farm was not finalized, Su Wenchen did not intend to tell anyone who was not involved.

After hearing what Su Wenchen said, Su Wenlie hesitated.

"Isn't it a bit shabby to keep this thing?"

Su Wenchen looked at Su Wenlie with disappointment.

"Brother, what are you talking about? How can this be so dirty? We all use big wooden boxes to build the farm, and the dirtiest thing we usually come into contact with is some fermented chicken manure."

"When we were farming, who hasn't spread manure? This is much cleaner than a chicken farm, because the manure over there is fresh."

"And let me tell you, this thing is also a medicinal herb. Have you heard of Earth Dragon?"

"That's what I'm talking about. When you have more of them, you can ask the supply and marketing cooperative. Maybe you can sell them directly for money!"

"Think about it, as long as you succeed in raising chickens, you will be the farm manager. Isn't this more prestigious than feeding chickens at a chicken farm?"

"Besides, earthworm breeding farm doesn't sound good. Let's call it earth dragon breeding farm. Doesn't it sound much better?"

After hearing what Su Wenchen said, Su Wenlie was obviously more interested.

"Earth Dragon Breeding Farm, can I really do this?"

Su Wenchen gently hit the other person's chest with his fist.

"Brother, why are you so timid now? This is not like you. Just tell me whether you will do it or not!"

Being stimulated by Su Wenchen.

Su Wenlie took a deep breath.

"Dry!"

"You've thought it through for me. I don't even dare to do it. So I can only farm for the rest of my life."

Obviously, Su Wenlie has a somewhat easy-going personality.

But now the eldest brother has become a tractor driver, and the third brother is even better. The eldest sister in the family is the leader of the hospital and has always been the pride of the family.

In this way, if he continues to farm in the brigade, he will become more and more distant from his brothers and sisters at home.

So he was actually unwilling to accept it.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have directly mentioned the rabbit farm when Su Wenchen asked.

Obviously, he had thought about it before, but it was just a period of thinking at most!
Lack of courage to act.

Su Wenchen nodded when he heard this.

"Okay, second brother, I'll write down some of the things I know and you can think about it yourself."

Now our team has money.

You don't have to pay for it yourself like I did before. Besides, the earthworms are for our own team to use.

You can tell the team what you need to buy or what you need to do.

Follow the normal process and just ask for anything you need.

From now on, the blood and meat meal made from earthworms will be sold to the chicken farm at the price of 50 cents per pound.

"So expensive? Aren't they all owned by our brigade? Isn't this unnecessary?"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"You can't calculate it that way. We'll be selling it to the public in the future, so it's necessary to set a good price in advance."

"Besides, for the chicken farm, this amount of money is nothing. This thing is just one of the supplementary materials. Two kilograms a day is enough for a hundred chickens."

"An extra dollar in cost is just a pound of eggs for the chicken farm, so it's not a big deal."

"After the earthworms are dried and made into blood and flesh powder, their size will shrink a lot. If the price is not high, it is not suitable for the earthworm farm."

Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Su Wenlie had some doubts.

"It's so expensive, will anyone do the same as our team?"

"This is different from a chicken farm. You don't need to spend money to buy a bunch of chickens. You can just go outside and dig them up. Even if they all die, you won't feel bad."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"It's not easy to raise earthworms. You can't just put them in the soil. You can't raise many that way, and they're not easy to keep alive. You have to use fermented feces and add all kinds of straw, dead leaves, weeds, and vegetable roots, chopped up in a certain proportion and mixed."

"It's not that easy to figure it out on your own without knowing the formula. Who has the energy to raise earthworms?"

"If you have that much time, you might as well think about raising pigs or chickens. Wouldn't you make more money there?"

So Su Wenchen really didn’t think that anyone would put their mind to raising earthworms.

At most, some people would have some free time to dig up earthworms and sell them to them.

(End of this chapter)