"Chicken King" Guo Haisong's entrepreneurial dream of deep mountain farming

The hillside is surrounded by trees and ditches are inlaid. The rich and vast mountain and forest resources make Taoyuan Village, Changpu Town, Susong County, the hometown of agriculture, as beautiful, quiet and tranquil as "Xanadu", and it also makes it the preferred place for young people to go out to start businesses in their hometown. Guo Haisong, who is known as the "King of Chicken", is one of them.

Before 2012, Guo Haisong, who was born and raised in Taoyuan Village, Changpu Town, like many local post-80s youths, poured into the flood of migrant workers. During his 11-year working life, he worked as a painter and sewing worker. with the spirit of hard work and daring to challenge, he quickly lifted his family out of poverty and had savings of tens of thousands of yuan.

In 2011, he saw on the Internet that a non-local farmer who had kept laying hens in the mountains for ten years in a row has now become a local expert at getting rich. The pine forest in my hometown is the most suitable for free-range laying hens, and the layers and eggs produced from them have low cost, fresh taste and high nutritional value. He, who liked breeding since he was a child, immediately came up with the idea of going back to his hometown to start a business.

In January 2012, with his entrepreneurial dream, he resolutely gave up his career outside. When the villagers learned that he was going back to his hometown to start a business, they agreed to provide 1700 mu of pine mountain in the group to raise laying hens free of charge. In February of the same year, with the blessings and expectations of the villagers, he set up a simple free-range breeding base for laying hens in this pine forest and bought 500 laying hens at once.

People who know about farming all know that epidemic prevention is the top priority in aquaculture, which requires a lot of energy, otherwise it will be difficult to succeed. Xiao Guo is well aware of this. Only with his junior high school education, he quickly mastered the breeding technology by strengthening online learning, and in continuous practice, he explored the best way to treat chicken intestinal and respiratory diseases.

Because of the technical guarantee, he achieved success in raising layers that year, and from 500 in the first year to 1500 in the second year and 4000 in the third year, to 10700 in 2015, with 600000 eggs and an annual net income of more than 200000. In 2015, he successfully applied for a registered trademark for native eggs.

Xiaoguo is particularly able to bear hardships. After buying freshly shelled chickens from other places in February, he personally keeps watch in the chicken shed to adjust the temperature and clean up the crowded flocks of chickens to prevent them from frostbite and trampling. This dry work lasts for three consecutive nights.

Epidemic prevention for chickens is even more careless. During the two months after the chickens came out of their shells, he had to take turns to prevent the chickens every seven days. At most, he had to vaccinate 3000 chickens a day. After that, the chickens were injected with bird flu vaccine in turn every two months until the chickens came out of the pen. From 2012 to the present, he has done it himself in the key links. He said that hands-on chicken epidemic prevention, first, can reduce breeding costs, second, is conducive to a comprehensive grasp of the health status of chickens, and third, can accumulate breeding experience.

The feed that Xiao Guo feeds the laying hens is corn, rice and rice bran purchased from the homes of local villagers without any pollution. As his layers and eggs are of good quality and delicious, customers who order online and door-to-door are overwhelmed, and the products are in short supply every day. In online orders, he sells his products directly to eight provinces and cities, including Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangzhou, through QQ, Wechat and other new media platforms.

After seeing his success in starting a business in his hometown, some local young people who have been working abroad for a long time also want to go back to their hometown to engage in poultry farming, but they suffer from not knowing the technology and unable to find a market. When he learned that, he offered to lend a helping hand. With his help, five young people who returned to their hometown successfully set up their own free-range breeding bases for laying hens. In December 2014, he established a professional poultry farming cooperative in conjunction with five bases; not long ago, he was awarded a "science and technology demonstration household" in the county.

He never forgets to dig wells, and after starting a successful business, he does not forget to return to society and care about his fellow villagers. Since 2014, he has insisted on giving fresh native eggs to many local homes for the elderly. Last year alone, he gave away 3000 native eggs.

In the eyes of the villagers, Guo Haisong is a "king of chickens." he is with chickens almost every day of the year. Every morning, carrying a bag full of feed, he goes into the dense pine forest with a cry. Flocks of laying hens come from all directions and surround him like stars.

"next year, a base with a breeding scale of up to 50, 000 will be set up to produce more than 3 million eggs a year." Speaking of future development, "King of Chicken" Guo Haisong is full of confidence.

(people's Daily online)