The old farmer turned into a chicken farmer, and the native chicken pecked out the way to get rich.

Wang Fuying feeds the chicks

In the eighth group of Puzi Village, Xinglong Town, Wang Fuying, a 62-year-old poor family, raised more than 600 chickens. She mastered a wealth of chicken-raising knowledge in a very short time, and became rich by her own hands. She is the envy of everyone in the village "chicken expert."

There are many advantages of changing ideas of raising chickens under the forest.

Puzi Village is not far from the town. It takes about twenty minutes to drive there. In addition to farming, most of the farmers in the mountains are engaged in raising cattle. With more and more farmers raising cattle, Wang Fuying changed her mind and tried to learn the skills to raise chickens.

Wang Fuying's original idea of raising chickens dates back to early 2015. once, when she and her son Zhan Zhaoxu mentioned the topic of raising native chickens in a conversation, the mother and son hit it off and decided to raise chickens to change the life of poverty and take off the hat of poverty.

Immediately, Wang Fuying and her family invested more than 4000 yuan to buy more than 400 chicken seedlings for breeding.

She enclosed a few acres of forest in front of her house to serve as a venue for chickens. "raising chickens under the forest, the grass and insects in the forest have become the natural feed for native chickens, greatly reducing the cost. In addition, chicken manure is also a good organic fertilizer.

"I feed all the corn to the chickens." Wang Fuying told the reporter that she had more than three mu of cornfield and used to make a living by selling corn. after raising chickens, the corn was no longer sold.

In October last year, Wang Fuying sold the first batch of more than 200 chickens with an income of nearly 20,000 yuan. In March this year, Wang Fuying bought another 350 chickens and is expected to sell more than 200 chickens by August.

Chicken raising frustrated sum up and explore the experience

"watch, listen, see-- observe the color changes of chicken droppings, listen to whether the chicken throat is different, see if the chicken crown is purple, whether the feathers are loose, whether the spirit is normal …..." When it comes to the experience of raising chickens, Wang Fuying goes on and on with a serious expression. Who would have thought that when Wang Fuying first started raising chickens, she was repeatedly frustrated.

Diligence is not enough, raising chickens depends on skill. "despite the fact that I am comfortable with it now, when I first started raising chickens, I was so annoyed that I thought it was very easy to raise chickens. All I had to do was to keep the young chickens in a well-rounded place. Later, I found that there is a lot of knowledge about raising chickens, and we have to seriously consider better ways of raising chickens according to the actual situation. " Wang Fuying told the reporter that since she did not grasp the habits of chickens at first, she thought it would be OK to build a chicken coop casually. As a result, more than 400 chickens were all crowded together because they were afraid of the cold, and more than 100 chickens were trampled to death.

The house missed all night's rain, and when the family regretted the loss of chicken seedlings, the rooster in the enclosure was infected with bird flu, and nearly 200 died in a day or two. All the losses add up to more than 10,000 yuan.

Due to the lack of skills and experience in raising chickens at first, and a large number of chickens died, Wang Fuying once lost confidence in raising chickens. However, more than 10,000 yuan has been invested in chicken farms and facilities, so how can we just withdraw? Learning from the bitter experience, she went to the town animal husbandry station to consult technicians, and at the same time inquired on the Internet and learned breeding techniques. Through constant thinking, Wang Fuying's chicken-raising skills are becoming more and more abundant.

"A chicken is just like a human being. It also catches colds and sneezes." Wang Fuying told reporters that chickens should also pay attention to the treatment of colds, and whenever climate change is relatively large, they should be vaccinated or take cold medicine to prevent illness.

Not long ago, Wang Fuying just bought 400 chicken seedlings, she took the reporter to check the growth of the chicken seedlings, she told reporters that temperature control is very important, the indoor temperature should be kept above 35 ℃. "keep warm and dehumidify, keep the chicken shed ventilated, and clean up the excrement of chicken seedlings in a timely manner." Over the course of a year, Wang Fuying's chicken never had a big problem.

Taste the benefits, expand the scale and make money.

With the continuous increase of experience, Wang Fuying's chicken farm has grown from more than 400 at the beginning to 700 now, and the survival rate of chicken seedlings is more than 95%. After a short period of a year, she changed from an old farmer to a chicken farmer, and even the villagers around her would come to her for advice on how to raise chickens, and she always taught her the experience of raising chickens without reservation.

Because it is hillside free-range native chicken, compared with the market caged broiler, native chicken meat is more delicious, nutrition is also more abundant, and pollution-free, very popular with consumers. Not only do many people in the town come to her house to buy, but also order from her when there is a demand from the farmers' market in the county.

"the current sales volume is not bad. According to the current market situation, the selling price of native chicken is about 32 yuan per kilogram. Generally, 2.5 kilograms can be listed, and a native chicken can be sold for 70 or 80 yuan." Wang Fuying said that as the sales of native chickens continue to increase, she is prepared to continue to expand the scale and strive to grow to a breeding scale of 1000 chickens.