Gong Zaifu has worked hard to raise ducks for 20 years to find a different way to get rich.

Talking about the duck breeders in Huanren County, everyone can't help thinking of one person, that is, Gong Zaifu in Liuhe Village, Huanren Town, Huanren Manchu Autonomous County. For more than 20 years, the story of his persistent duck farming has moved many people. "you must persevere in doing things. Only by persevering can you succeed." Recalling his entrepreneurial process, Gong Zaifu can't help but be filled with emotion.

In 1997, under the encouragement and guidance of the government's policy of enriching the people, Gong Zaifu, a party member of Liuhe Village, took the lead in buying 500 ducklings and resolutely embarked on his own road to start a business and become rich. It is well known that ducks belong to gregarious birds with high self-immunity, but diseases among the same species will be transmitted to large flocks of ducks in a very short time, causing extremely serious economic losses. In the early days of starting a business, due to the lack of mature breeding experience and technology, Gong Zaifu was often at a loss when he saw that the duck was sick. Sometimes he stood and observed the duck's condition for two or three hours at a time, or even couldn't sleep all night, worried and got angry. I couldn't speak for days.

Gong Zaifu clearly remembers that on the third day of the Lunar New year, in order to see a sick duck, he went to Anshan area alone to consult a duck expert who could cure duck disease, because at that time the restaurants were closed and he was hungry and anxious standing on the side of the street. it took him several miles to find a snack shop that was open, and the enthusiastic shopkeeper soaked him a bowl of instant noodles, and he had something to eat.

After more than 100 days of breeding, the first batch of ducks finally began to lay eggs. In order to promote his duck eggs, in the winter, Gong Zaifu alone pushed a wheelbarrow to the streets to sell duck eggs, in order to save some money, he was not even willing to buy a hot steamed bread. Sometimes, even if a restaurant only needs 10 duck eggs, Gong Zaifu insists on delivering them to the shopkeeper within the agreed time. "honesty is the most important thing in doing business. People think highly of me before they buy my duck eggs. I must not betray everyone's trust." Having been questioned and rejected by others many times, Gong Zaifu endured it silently and never reasoned with others. After a long time, everyone was moved by his strong will and gradually recognized his duck eggs.

Later, in order not to affect the water quality around the duck farm, Gong Zaifu tried to raise ducks in dry land, and with the duck raising experience he learned from Anshan, Liaoyang and other places over the years, he learned to mix duck feed manually and regulate the temperature in the duck farm according to seasonal changes. in this way, not only the feeding cost is saved, but also the ducks become stronger and stronger, and the laying rate is also improved a lot. Gong Zaifu has also developed the ability to pick up duck eggs in a duck pen within more than ten minutes, judge the duck's physical condition according to the duck's laying rate and eating condition, and immediately isolate the duck as soon as the disease is found.

In 2012, Gong Zaifu successfully applied for registration of Fuyan Duck Farm with the support and help of the party committee and government of Huanren Town, and rented nearly 200 mu of wasteland around Huquan Village. Today, the number of ducks has grown from more than 500 at the beginning to more than 8000, with more than 1000 jin of eggs a day and an annual income of more than 300,000 yuan, making it a famous "duck king" in the county. In addition to selling its products to major supermarkets, markets and shops in the county, it is also sold to Benxi, Tonghua, Kuandian and other surrounding cities. In 2015, in order to expand production, he built a new duck farm and four pickling ponds covering an area of 20 mu, introduced the Salted Duck Egg production line, and started the sales of gift packaging brands, trying to sell the products to more distant markets.

"next, I'm going to plant some organic healthy crops on the surrounding wasteland, so that I can get some light from the big aquaculture industry!" Gong Zaifu pointed to a large open space in front of him and told the reporter.