Chai chicken and eggs raised in Taihang Mountain are sold in Beijing.

Original Title: Chicken Raising in Mountain Forest

Hou Zhenjiang picked up the eggs down the mountain, to the foot of the mountain and then put the eggs on an electric tricycle to pull home.

Chai chicken pecks insects and eats grass on the mountain. Hou Zhenjiang has to feed 300 kilograms of corn to thousands of chickens on time every morning and evening.

At night, Hou Zhenjiang lived in a red hut on the mountain, accompanied by chickens, dogs and geese. Hou Zhenjiang goes to bed early and gets up early every day, energetic.

Hou Zhenjiang breaks a firewood egg and observes the freshness of the egg in the sun.

Before the festival, Beijing Central Police Veterans Green Industry Base bought a lot of firewood eggs from Hou Zhenjiang's house. For the first time, Hou's firewood eggs went out of the mountains and were sold to Beijing.

Comprehensive report on agriculture, rural areas and farmers through train: Hou Zhenjiang raised thousands of firewood chickens in the Taihang Mountains. Before the festival, his family's firewood eggs were sold to Beijing, 200 kilometers away. Hou Zhenjiang, 67, was overjoyed: "I didn't expect our eggs to sell so far that they could go to Beijing's table."

Hou Zhenjiang's chicken raising method is traditional, green and original.

Hou Zhenjiang is a villager of Xinzhuang Village, Pushang Town, Shunping County, Hebei Province. Many years ago, he contracted two hills that no one wanted in the village and obtained the right to use barren hills. Hou Zhenjiang first planted 600 persimmon trees and more than 100 jujube trees on the hillside, and later raised more than 20 sheep, but the benefits have been poor. Later, Hou Zhenjiang set up a natural chicken farm in the fruit forest that had grown up, raising firewood chickens according to traditional methods.

He bought 4000 chickens scattered on the hillside, and bought two wolf dogs and 10 geese to prevent weasels and eagles from stealing chickens. Hou Zhenjiang himself moved to the mountain to take care of the chickens. A few months later, thousands of chickens grew up, pecking insects and grazing all over the mountains, and laying more and more eggs. Over the past few years, the firewood chickens on the mountain have changed from generation to generation. Hou Zhenjiang's experience in raising chickens has become richer and richer. He is more and more famous for raising chickens in Shunping County.

The chicken farm is four or five miles from the village. A chicken can't eat grass by pecking insects alone. Hou Zhenjiang feeds corn to thousands of chickens every morning, then carries plastic buckets around the mountain to pick up eggs, and then carefully transports them down the mountain. After breakfast at home, Hou Zhenjiang pulled 700 kilograms of water up the mountain from home for chickens, geese and dogs to drink. In the afternoon, Hou Zhenjiang also picked up eggs on the mountain once, and then took advantage of fresh transport home.

Shunping is an old revolutionary base area and belongs to a state-level poverty-stricken county. Hou Zhenjiang, who did not finish primary school because of his poor family, sold his firewood eggs directly to Beijing. He was very proud. His wish is to let more Beijingers eat his authentic firewood eggs. (Reporter Hu Tiexiang Photo Report)