Fairy Gourd Farm

Chapter 52 Buying Chicken
According to Zhao Lei's request, the chicken farm was built in the orchard.Cover the entire orchard with a stainless steel net, which not only prevents pheasants from escaping, but also prevents animals such as foxes and weasels on the mountain from stealing chickens.

In addition to the stainless steel mesh, the chicken farm also includes a chicken coop.Pheasants can not only avoid bad weather in the chicken coop, but also make nests and lay eggs in the chicken coop, which is also an important part of the chicken farm.

Hu Jun accompanied Zhao Lei to look around the chicken farm, and asked him with a smile, "How is it? Are you satisfied?"

Zhao Lei smiled and said to Hu Jun: "Very good, I will transfer the final payment to you right now!"

Knowing that Zhao Lei paid the money readily, Hu Jun was very happy, and said with a smile all over his face: "Come to me for any projects in the future, I will give you the lowest price, and absolutely guarantee the quality."

Zhao Lei nodded and said, "Boss Hu, don't worry, as long as there is a project, I will definitely find you."

Hu Jun left after collecting the money. Zhao Lei's old neighbor Hu Qiang also came to check on the news that the chicken farm had been completed.

After walking around the chicken farm, Hu Qiang said to Zhao Lei with satisfaction, "My cousin is quite reliable in his work, and he didn't cut corners for you."

Zhao Lei shook his head and smiled wryly, "Uncle Hu, why don't you trust your cousin so much?"

"You can't say that!" Hu Qiang said seriously: "I introduced the two of you to each other, so I must also pay attention to the quality of the project, otherwise I can't explain to you."

Speaking of this, Hu Qiang asked Zhao Lei: "How many chickens do you plan to raise here?"

Zhao Lei said seriously: "Since it is free-range pheasants, the density must not be too high. I plan to raise [-] chickens per mu of orchard, a total of [-] mu of land, and about [-] chickens will be enough."

Hu Qiang murmured: "Six hundred chickens is indeed not a lot, but we still need to do a good job in disease prevention. The breeding industry is most afraid of diseases, so you must be careful."

Zhao Lei has a purple gold gourd in his hand, so he is not afraid of the pheasant getting sick at all.But this secret can't be told to others, so he just smiled confidently: "Uncle Hu, don't worry, I will ask the classmate who is engaged in agriculture to help with the epidemic prevention work, there will be no problem."

Hu Qiang has seen the effect of "high technology" on agriculture, and nodded again and again: "I can rest assured. After the chicken farm is established, you plan to take care of it yourself?"

Zhao Lei said with a bitter face: "I'm also worrying about this matter. Now I have more and more things to do. I also need to contact customers and deliver goods. I feel a little overwhelmed."

Hu Qiang reminded Zhao Lei: "Actually, if you really believe that the chicken farm can make money, you can ask someone to help. Feng Bin from our village is a good candidate. The experience of a chicken. But if you are unlucky enough to encounter bird flu, you will lose everything and owe a whole lot of debt. If you ask Old Feng to help, he will be very happy."

Zhao Lei nodded and said, "That's a good idea, I'll talk to him right now!"

As Hu Qiang said, Feng Bin knew that Zhao Lei asked him to take care of the chicken farm, and he still had a monthly salary of 2000 yuan, so he agreed without thinking.He also kept assuring him that he would definitely manage the chicken farm wholeheartedly.

After finding a candidate to raise chickens, Zhao Lei called Zhou Jun's car the next day and took Feng Bin to the chicken farm he contacted last time to buy pheasants.

The chicken farm that Zhao Lei contacted was in a neighboring county, just over an hour away from Sanhe Village.The three came to the chicken farm according to the address, and found that the scale here was not small.

Zhao Lei had already contacted the owner of the chicken farm, who was already waiting for him at the chicken farm.The boss surnamed Li enthusiastically welcomed the three of them into the chicken farm, first introduced the situation of the chicken farm to Zhao Lei and the others, and then asked Zhao Lei with a smile: "I wonder how many chickens you plan to buy?"

Zhao Lei said the number that he had thought about a long time ago: "Six hundred chicks, and I also want to buy some breeders."

"No problem." Boss Li smiled and said, "There is a batch of chicks that just hatched last week. We have already selected male and female, which just meet your requirements. Not to mention the breeder chickens. I will take you to plant them directly. Chicken farm pick!"

Zhao Lei smiled and said, "Boss Li is straightforward enough, now let's talk about the price."

After some haggling, the two parties agreed on a price.Small chickens cost 200 yuan a piece, and the price of breeder chickens is more expensive, [-] yuan a pair.However, Boss Li promised that the breeder chickens would be able to lay eggs and hatch chicks after buying them back, so Zhao Lei could accept the price.

After the price is negotiated, the selection of breeders and chicks is naturally left to Feng Bin.This is Feng Bin's first time working for Zhao Lei, and he wants to show off well, so he chose very carefully.

Even Boss Li nodded secretly after seeing it, smiled and said to Zhao Lei: "It seems that you have found a good helper, Lao Feng is an expert at first glance!"

Two hours later, Feng Bin picked out all the chickens.Except for the couple of breeders, the hens accounted for more than half of the [-] chicks.In this way, after these chickens grow up, there will be a large number of wild eggs in the chicken farm to supply the market.

It cost Zhao Lei more than 4000 yuan to buy these chickens, but he believes that as long as the chicken farm is on the right track, the initial investment can be earned back soon.

After loading all the chickens into the car, Zhao Lei and others rushed back.On the way, did Feng Bin look at the scorching sun outside the window, his brows became more and more wrinkled, with a preoccupied look.

Zhao Lei couldn't help asking: "Old Feng, what are you worried about?"

"It's too hot." Feng Bin said worriedly: "It will take more than an hour to go back to the village. Those breeder chickens are not a big problem. I'm worried that the chickens will not be able to hold on, and I'm afraid they will die a lot."

Zhou Jun hurriedly said: "Then I'll drive faster and try to go back as soon as possible!"

Zhao Lei had just experienced a car accident, upon hearing this, he quickly reminded his friends: "It's okay to slow down, safety first!"

Zhou Jun worried: "But those chicks..."

"Don't worry about the chick." Zhao Lei said flatly, "My old classmate has already thought of this and told me the solution."

Zhao Lei's confident appearance also made Zhou Jun and Feng Bin feel at ease.An hour later, the three returned to the village smoothly, and immediately started putting the chicks into the chicken farm.

Because of the frequent watering of fairy dew, although the cherries saplings have only been planted for a month, they have grown luxuriantly, which just provides cool shade for the little pheasants.

However, because this batch of pheasants was so small, many chicks were in poor condition after being exposed to the hot sun for more than an hour.Even under the shade of the trees, they were all listless. Many chickens were already lying on the ground, making Feng Bin sweat profusely, and kept muttering to himself that Zhao Lei had suffered a great loss this time.

Zhao Lei was not too nervous, and he quickly brought several drinking fountains for chicken farms under the shade of the trees.So the chickens that could move on their own came to drink water one after another. As for the dying chickens, Zhao Lei asked Feng Bin to feed them water together.

Not long after all the little pheasants drank the water, a miracle happened.

(End of this chapter)