Zhang Weiying became the "laying hen king"

Every morning, Zhang Weiying, his wife and several workers go to the chicken farm to pick up eggs on time, put more than 500 kilograms of eggs neatly into baskets, load them and sell them to farmers 'markets and supermarkets in the county town. From the "layman" of laying hen breeding at the beginning, Zhang Weiying has now developed into a "laying hen king" with 15,000 laying hens and an annual output of 350,000 kilograms of fresh eggs. With 20 years of accumulated breeding experience and excellent breeding technology, Zhang Weiying has worked hard to smooth the bumps and write success with sweat on the road to entrepreneurship. "Only healthy chickens can lay high quality eggs." Zhang Weiying, 46, talks about raising chickens. Zhang Weiying went to the local crankshaft factory as soon as she left the school gate. Due to careless operation, her left hand was cut by the machine and disabled. Unwilling to be lonely at home, he looked around for projects suitable for development. By chance, he saw the government's policy of supporting common people's breeding. After many investigations, he decided to engage in laying hen breeding. "At first, there were more than 30 laying hens in our village, but now I'm the only one left." Zhang Weiying told reporters that he persuaded his family to take 10,000 yuan for selling pigs, build chicken coops, buy chicken seedlings, look for experts everywhere to learn breeding and veterinary technology, farm in busy hours and accumulate experience in spare time. At the end of 1997, he recovered all costs. Seeing considerable profits, Zhang Weiying expanded its scale. In 2004, Zhang Xichao, secretary of the Party branch of Nanwei Village, took a fancy to Zhang Weiying's diligent and pragmatic "aggressiveness" and specially set aside a breeding community for Zhang Weiying to facilitate its expansion. "Speaking of which, I really want to thank these village cadres. During that time, they helped handle land lease contracts and coordinated credit union loans. The scale quickly doubled."

The road to entrepreneurship is never smooth. In 2009, a large-scale chicken plague swept across the whole North China region. Due to improper management, 8000 chickens had problems, resulting in direct economic losses of more than 200,000 yuan. Zhang Weiying and his wife saw it in their eyes and felt pain in their hearts. Under the careful guidance of experts from Animal Husbandry Bureau of Yuncheng Salt Lake District, Zhang Weiying's chicken farm is slowly on the right track.

From then on, Zhang Weiying spent almost all her time in the chicken farm except delivering eggs every day. In the morning, observe the details of laying hens, and timely discover diseases and prevent them. At night, after the laying hens went to bed, he went into the hen house to listen to the symptoms of respiratory diseases in the flock. In addition to constantly learning advanced chicken raising knowledge and breeding techniques, he also actively communicated with experts and established a contact mechanism with Yuncheng breeding experts. According to the knowledge and technology learned, Zhang Weiying's breeding technology level has been continuously improved, the breeding scale has been continuously expanded, and the income naturally rises. "You see, each egg is very symmetrical and full, in order to achieve the best quality optimization, I have always insisted on buying the best quality corn, soybean oil as feed, but also often go to the supermarket to replace the expired dairy products, stirring in the feed to feed the laying hens, in order to improve the egg production. Now, at its peak, it can lay 600 kilograms of eggs every day. It's already considered a very high yield." Zhang Weiying proudly said,"Now the career progress is more and more smooth, If there is a good opportunity, Refer to the surrounding counties (cities) large-scale farms, Establish 'Farmer + Company' breeding mode, Xingyuan farm into the best local breeding demonstration base, Drive more farmers to become rich." When it comes to future development, Zhang Weiying is full of confidence.