1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 136 is initially completed!

Time moves fast in the construction of the chicken farm.

The empty space that was originally covered with broken walls and overgrown weeds has now completely changed.

A circle of red brick wall has now taken shape. Inside the wall, on the left side, there are temporary chicken coops similar to those in the brigade, which are now filled with chirping chicks.

Hou Guozhong was leading a group of newly recruited workers, explaining step by step how to take care of the chicks and how to solve any problems that arose.

On the right side, there is still a busy construction site.

Several people holding blueprints were explaining them to Su Wenchen at this time.

"Director Su, this is the insulated chicken coop we designed according to your requirements."

"Our outer wall is made of two layers of bricks with the middle suspended. If you can buy insulation foam later, you can sandwich it in the middle layer to achieve the best insulation effect. Alternatively, you can also use some straw."

"Since you have high requirements for temperature, we did not design each chicken house to be too spacious, as that would be detrimental to keeping warm."

"So generally, each chicken house should have more than 3,000 hens. You can add a little more in the winter, but it's best to keep it smaller in the summer."

"There are also exhaust vents. We have reserved twelve exhaust vents for you. Generally, you only need to open two or three in winter."

"Unless the temperature of your fire channel is too high, then you can open a few more appropriately."

"Finally, we have designed the installation locations for the exhaust fans according to your requirements. A total of six units can be installed."

"Su Chang, do you have any other questions? If you have any, please tell us and we will solve them now. Otherwise, it will be difficult to make changes after we start construction."

To Su Wenchen, the other party had actually taken almost all of their needs into consideration.

In this era, his chicken coop is definitely one of the most advanced in the country.

Even compared with the chicken coops of the future, it just lacks some machines that only appeared in later generations and some intelligent and automated equipment.

It is definitely extremely advanced now.

Moreover, the Academy of Engineering has already sent the chief engineer here, not really for his own face, but for the face of the two big bosses in the city.

At this time, if he took this opportunity to frequently change the drawings to make things difficult for others, wouldn't that offend people?

So Su Wenchen stepped forward to express his gratitude.

"Chief Engineer Li, I have no problem here. Even if there is a problem, I am still thinking about how to thank your Academy of Engineering!"

"We feel really bad for asking you, the chief engineer, to come here!"

"If you do this, we have nothing else to offer you."

"I'll have someone arrange something for you at noon. You must try our special blue water rooster!"

Hearing Su Wenchen's words, Chief Engineer Li's eyes lit up.

"Blue Water Rooster? Then I really have to try it. Many factories in the city are saying it's so weird."

"After eating this, all other chickens tasted like wax."

Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"It's not that weird. The meat of roosters like ours is more tender and firm."

"You'll know when you try it later. In fact, it's just like that if you eat too much. The main reason why I say that is that many people can't buy it."

When Chief Engineer Li heard this, he looked at Su Wenchen with some curiosity.

"Don't you raise that kind of roosters here at the Blue Water Chicken Farm? I heard you sell them for two yuan a pound."

"My goodness, it's more expensive than pork. No one can afford it except the people in the factory."

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"Raising that thing is not cost-effective. With the same amount of food used to feed chickens, that thing will only produce two or three kilograms of meat out of ten kilograms of food."

"If I raise hens, they can produce at least five or six kilograms of eggs. When the hens are eliminated, they can still produce two or three kilograms of meat."

"Do you think there is still a choice?"

To Su Wenchen, the Blue Water Rooster is delicious, but it is now considered a luxury item that only leaders and some factory guests can afford.

The eggs produced by his laying hens can solve the livelihood problem of city residents who cannot buy eggs.

It can help leaders solve problems!
This is the only way to make progress!
Raising roosters can only satisfy the leader's appetite. How much of this can the leader eat?

So it is enough to raise a few chickens in the brigade, there is no need to set up a state-owned chicken farm as well.

His current strategy for the development of the chicken farm is very simple, which is to first become the largest egg supply base in Lan City.

It would be best if eggs could be supplied to more than half of the city's residents.

After all, he is now mobilizing so many national resources, and he has to work for the country and solve problems for the people!

Otherwise, let alone building a chicken farm, even an electricity problem would be difficult for him.

When Chief Engineer Li heard Su Wenchen's words, he immediately understood and nodded in agreement.

"You have a point. Roosters are not as cost-effective as hens. Besides, let alone the working-class families in the city now."

"My family has accumulated a lot of egg coupons. The city has made eggs more and more expensive, but egg coupons are getting cheaper and cheaper."

Su Wenchen smiled. He knew the reason for this situation. After all, even if you took the egg coupons to the supply and marketing cooperative, you couldn't buy eggs. Especially as winter was about to begin, according to common sense, there would be even fewer eggs.

Therefore, some people who are short of money will choose to sell the egg tickets they have. When more people sell, the ticket dealers will definitely lower the price.

After all, people have taken the risk to do this, so don't expect them to be good people.

"Chief Engineer Li, if you need it, you can come to our brigade and buy two kilograms. However, if our warm chicken coop is built before winter, then our first batch of eggs will most likely come out before the New Year."

"That would be great. In the past two years, many people in the city have almost forgotten what eggs taste like. The price has almost risen to the same level as pork, and it is just as hard to buy as pork."

Afterwards, Su Wenchen treated the other party to a meal at Pingcun Brigade.

However, the other party did not drink, because he had to go to the commune in the afternoon to discuss the bridge repair. Regarding this matter, Su Wenchen played the role of matchmaker and then did not care about it anymore.

After all, building bridges is a local job.

And since the bridge leads to the city, the city took away half of it with just one move.

He Feihuai was so happy that his eyes disappeared. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly. However, he was also a little touched that Su Wenchen had such a great reputation.

After seeing off the people from the Academy of Engineering, Su Wenchen returned to the Blue Water Chicken Farm.

Now this place has been divided into two areas by Su Wenchen.

Inside is a work area surrounded by a wall, which contains the chicken coop area, office area, ingredient and feed processing area, fertilizer storage area, composting area, etc.

The entire area covers approximately thirty acres of land.

Su Wenchen built the staff dormitory area, canteen and bathhouse in the functional area on the upwind side of the river bank outside.

Su Wenchen just walked into the gate of the chicken farm.

The person in the message room immediately greeted Su Wenchen.

"Captain, you're back."

Su Wenchen nodded slightly.

"Oh, by the way, are Lao Miao and the others present?"

The person in the message room thought about it.

"Yes, they came back together after dinner. Only Section Chief Hou was missing. I don't know if he didn't go out to eat or didn't come back."

Su Wenchen nodded.

"Okay, I get it."

Along the way, employees would greet Su Wenchen from time to time.

At this time, they have already recruited the first batch of employees.

Only sixty were recruited in total.

Originally Su Wenchen thought it would be enough for the time being, but he didn't expect that the security department alone would take twenty of them.

This is not enough, after all, we have to divide the people into two groups, day and night.

Especially at night, even if no one steals the chicks now, the silo is full of corn and food! Not to mention the valuable machines such as grinders and mixers.

If there was no security department, someone would definitely sneak in at night and dismantle the parts to sell as scrap metal.

When we walked into the office area, there were obviously fewer people here.

Now that the venue is in its early stages of establishment, Su Wenchen doesn't want to make it too bloated, so he hired a young man named Xu Xiangqian from the venue office.

The other party also served as his secretary.

Originally, he was going to give this candidate to Zhuang Lin, but unfortunately, due to various reasons, he was put in jail.

But later he inquired and found out that it was not that long, only eight years.

After all, Zhuang Lin was not simply going to the morning market to sell things, but was involved in privately organizing others to buy and sell things.

Otherwise it wouldn't have taken so long.

As soon as Su Wenchen walked into the office area, he found that several leaders in the chicken farm were gathered together chatting.

After seeing Su Wenchen, they all stood up and spoke.

"Director!"

Su Wenchen smiled and nodded.

"Oh, everyone is here! You must have finished your meal! This is a good opportunity for us to have a meeting and discuss the issue of the insulated chicken coop."

Hearing Su Wenchen's words.

Feng Guoliang said with a smile, as he had become quite familiar with Su Wenchen during this period.

"We were just talking about this. The director and Chief Engineer Li went to eat the big rooster and didn't take us with them. They just left us to eat potatoes in the cafeteria."

Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"Nonsense, I paid for it myself, how could I possibly invite you? And how can Chief Engineer Li eat with you? A small rooster weighs more than two pounds. If you guys go, each of you will eat up the meat with just one chopstick. Are you inviting him to eat potatoes?"

"Okay, if you want to eat chicken, go buy it yourself. Don't take advantage of me."

At this time, Han Yang, who was sent by the county, spoke up.

"Director, inviting Chief Engineer Li to dinner is also for the sake of the farm, why are you paying for it yourself?"

"Yes! Things like this can just be reimbursed." Miao Yuan also said.

Su Wenchen waved his hand.

"It's not just about the farm, there's also the bridge repair at the commune, and it's not just a matter of a few dollars."

"Let's get down to business!"

"The design drawings for the insulated chicken coop have already been provided."

"There are only two months left until winter. The autumn harvest is coming soon and the members who are working will also leave."

"After all, no matter how hard we try to meet deadlines, we cannot delay the autumn harvest."

"So let's discuss how to build this insulated chicken house so that it can be completed before winter."

(End of this chapter)