Xie Xiuwu: the leader of Zhi Dang to become rich

In July 2009, Xie Xiuwu graduated from high school and went out to work with his peers. After working for a period of time, he wanted to work for others, rather than start his own business and become a boss. After careful consideration, he decided to go back to his hometown to develop ecological chicken farming.

In May 2011, with the 10,000 yuan saved by working, he began to prepare for starting a business. He first went to Zhaobao Farm in Longyan, Fujian Province to learn wild pheasant breeding skills. After a three-day "one-on-one" explanation, he had a preliminary understanding of pheasant farming and bought back 100 breeder chickens.

After returning to his hometown, Xie Xiuwu built a simple chicken coop himself and began to raise chickens. However, due to lack of breeding experience, the 100 breeder chickens died one after another, such as a ladle of cold water poured on him through the heart. The first farming failed.

Xie Xiuwu was not discouraged. After summing up the lessons of failure, Xie Xiuwu bought back 1000 green shell laying hens in Tai'an, Shandong Province, and decided to raise them from the beginning. Unexpectedly, the chicks are more difficult to raise, and only more than 100 chicks survive in half a month. The second farming failed again.

Xie Xiuwu scratched his head anxiously as he looked at the hard-earned money earned by the part-time workers. He felt that he still failed in breeding skills, so he went to Xiangyang and other places to study, looked up relevant materials on the Internet, and invited animal husbandry technicians in the county to guide them on the spot, and finally mastered the chicken breeding technology. He spent all the rest of his money on buying young chickens and slowly expanded the scale of breeding by using the method of "laying eggs and hatching chickens."

Through the market research, Xie Xiuwu found that native chicken and native eggs are very popular with consumers. As a result, he decided to play the ecological breeding card, registered to establish Wulong ecological farm, and completely adopted the native method to raise chickens.

Xie Xiuwu contracted a piece of land in an hometown, planted corn and other food crops in the field, and then built a chicken coop on the edge of the field. During the day, he herded the chickens to his field and fed them with corn and other crops grown in the field. The chicken out of the pen is an out-and-out native chicken, and the eggs laid are authentic native eggs, which are very popular in the market.

At a time when ecological farming was developing smoothly, Xie Xiuwu encountered setbacks. Last spring, Xie Xiuwu's chicken farm suddenly lost its market for native eggs, and no one asked for more than 200 kilograms. Why can't good things be sold? After investigation, it turns out that after the Spring Festival, chicken farms around the country began to lay a large number of eggs, which is the peak period for eggs on the market, so the market is naturally not good, while when the production of eggs is reduced in autumn and winter, the market becomes tight. After understanding the market situation, Xie Xiuwu wondered: why not develop "out-of-season eggs" and sell broilers in spring and summer and eggs in autumn and winter?

There are two conditions for a chicken to lay eggs: one is to reach a certain temperature, and the other is the length of light. In winter, in order to maintain the temperature of the chicken house, Xie Xiuwu added a windproof wall around the chicken house, covered it with grain hull and straw, and placed a brazier in the chicken house when the temperature was too low. In order to ensure the light, he installed an incandescent lamp in the chicken house to fill the light from 18:00 to 20:00 every day, and from 4 am to dawn, so that the chicken house shines for no less than 16 hours a day. In the laying period, timely feed some concentrate to supplement nutrition, and let laying hens exercise more, help digestion, strengthen the body.

Xie Xiuwu's painstaking work has been rewarded. Last winter, his chicken farm laid nearly 300 kilograms of eggs a day, which sold well in the market. In April and May, when the local broiler market was in short supply, he pushed the stockpile of broilers to the market and was quickly snapped up.

In April this year, Xie Xiuwu shipped back a batch of pheasant seedlings from Xiangyang and began to develop pheasant farming. At present, his chicken farm covers an area of more than 2000 square meters, with three standardized native chicken houses, one pheasant house, 3500 laying hens, 1500 Roosters and 1000 pheasants, with an annual output value of more than 700,000 yuan.

"as long as you work hard, great undertakings can be created in rural areas." This is a sentence often said by Xie Xiuwu. In order to let the villagers get rich with him, he set up a professional farming cooperative in Hongsheng, which changed from self-employed to cooperative, and led the villagers to take the road of ecological chicken farming to become rich.