Buying turkeys for thousands of miles and raising turkeys opens the way to prosperity.

In recent years, farmers in rural areas have tried to find ways to increase efficiency with special features, and there are many chickens to feed. Reporters have seen a lot of them, and they are more or less used to seeing them. However, on July 15, in Group 11 of Baisheng Village, Zhongquan Town, Ziliujing District, Zigong City, the chicken fed by the owner Liao Shujun caught the reporter's eyes.

There is a big sarcoma on the red neck, the color of the neck will change from red to green with the "mood" of the chicken, and the rooster will open the screen like a peacock. What is even more peculiar is that as long as people shout, they will rise together and rise one after another. This kind of chicken is a must-eat for Thanksgiving in the United States-turkey. Today, after several ups and downs, Liao Shujun has turned the turkey into a "stepping stone" to create wealth.

It costs 20,000 yuan to buy a turkey in thousands of miles.

Liao Shujun was originally a laid-off female worker. In February 2012, she and her partners came across a get-rich TV show about a company in Jiangsu Province that raised turkeys to get rich. After some discussion and online search, she and her partners decided to try to raise turkeys with good meat, low fat, low cholesterol and high protein.

"I called the boss twice first, but I didn't answer. Later, I sent him a text message indicating that we wanted to raise turkeys on a trial basis in Sichuan and asked if the climate in Sichuan could raise turkeys and what the survival rate was. In the early morning of the third day, the boss finally replied to the text message, saying that Sichuan can be raised, and we are welcome to come and inspect it. " Liao Shujun said.

In late April 2012, Liao Shujun and his partner drove all the way to Xuyi, Jiangsu Province, where they bought a group of breeder chickens (1 male and 4 female) for 1600 yuan and brought them back to Sichuan for trial. Liao Shujun put the turkey into a woven bag with a small hole and put it in the trunk of the car. On the way back, Liao Shujun found that the chicken was bored, so Liao Shujun drenched the chicken and cooled it down and put it into a woven bag. Unexpectedly, this made a joke. "the chicken caught water and was covered by the pocket. if the water didn't dry in time, the chicken caught a cold." They all died when they returned to Zigong. "

Liao Shujun did not give up, she and her partners immediately booked another air ticket, flew directly to Nanjing and then transferred to Xuyi, and bought a group of breeder chickens by air back to Sichuan. "the turkeys all got more than 900 yuan worth of air tickets. We bought 10 turkeys before and after, and the cost of the journey was about 20,000 yuan. "

Frequent jokes finally pass the hatching.

After May 1, 2012, Liao Shujun put the turkeys at his cousin's home in Fuquan Town, Yantan District, Zigong City. Her original idea was self-breeding and snowball development.

But during the incubation process, she made a joke again. "after waiting for a month and a half, I collected more than 50 eggs before I went to Fushun to find someone to hatch." Liao Shujun said sheepishly, "as a result, only 18 eggs can be hatched, and all the other eggs have expired." The technician said that fertilized eggs must be hatched in 10 to 15 days. "

To Fushun hatch a chicken, survive only to give 1 yuan incubation fee, but the cost of driving back and forth is not small, but also troublesome people. As a result, Liao Shujun spent 200 yuan to buy two "chicken hugs" (old hens that hatch chicks) to hatch their eggs. At first, the "chicken hugging woman" could cope with it, but as the number of eggs laid by the turkey increased day by day, the "chicken hugging woman" could not help.

Liao Shujun spent more than 1400 yuan to buy back a small fully automatic incubator, but unexpectedly encountered a new problem: two batches of 13 turkey eggs were tried and hatched for 25 days, and only one chicken was hatched. She was so anxious to call the manufacturer to find out the reason. "it turned out that I didn't have a good grasp of the temperature and humidity of hatching. The temperature should be controlled at 37.8 degrees and the humidity should be controlled at 65%. The door of the incubator should be opened and cooled every day or two. I didn't know about these technologies at first. "

After finding the crux of the problem, Liao Shujun quickly increased the hatching survival rate of hot eggs to 80% to 85%, which is only one step away from the normal survival rate of 90%.

By the end of May last year, the number of turkeys had grown from five to more than 130. Liao Shujun built a base covering an area of more than 20 acres in Group 11 of Baisheng Village, Zhongquan Town, Ziliujing District, and bought a large automatic incubator.

Four and a half months out is very profitable.

Liao Shujun circled a mountain forest at the base, feeding turkeys ecologically, corn, millet, rice bran, abandoned vegetable leaves, rape straw and home-grown ryegrass. Turkeys have "lookout" time every day, and workers keep them open for an hour or two to improve their running ability and meat quality. In the evening, the turkey lives in the henhouse again and sleeps in a comfortable fermentation bed.

"it takes only four and a half months from hatching to survival." Liao Shujun said, "Last year, we held a turkey tasting in Zigong. A professional chef commented: the meat is saturated and chewy, and there is a fragrance at the root of the tongue after eating. "

Liao Shujun said that her current price for turkeys is 40 yuan per kilogram, with each chicken weighing 7.5 to 15 kilograms, with an average price of 400 yuan per chicken. The cost of egg breeding, hatching, labor, vaccine and feed is about 260 yuan, and the profit is more than 100 yuan. She said that friends have come to buy this Spring Festival one after another.

A hen can lay 1315 eggs per month during the two-year laying period. except for most of them used for hatching, since this month, she has supplied farmers' markets and small supermarkets with seven or eight eggs per catty, which have been sold for 20 yuan. although less than 100 eggs have been sold so far, there are new channels.

"I also went to several hotels in Zigong to sell turkeys, and they were also willing to buy turkeys. But turkey is a high-end food and the market is affected by the current climate. " Liao Shujun said that on the one hand, she intends to appropriately reduce prices and promote sales; on the other hand, her current number of turkeys is only 2000, the quantity is not large enough, and the supply exceeds demand, and her current main direction is to expand the scale-she plans to build a new base of 200mu, and at the same time, she plans to release chicken seedlings to farmers to drive local farmers to raise them.