The Age of Rebirth: Winning since the educated youth went to the countryside

"Old Wu, we need to get this done as soon as possible. I'll go find someone to buy chickens, ducks and geese later. The chicken farm must also be started as soon as possible."

The captain was smoking the cigarette handed to him by Zhou Ziwen, but he was thinking in his heart how to deal with this matter.

Wu Dagang nodded, "Let's have a meeting later! Let's reach a consensus first."

Although they were basically the ones who made the decisions on the production team's affairs, they still had to discuss them with other cadres and members of the production team.

"Uncle Zhou, we don't need to buy chicks. We just need to collect chicken eggs and duck eggs from the village. Leave the hatching to me. I know how to do it."

Zhou Ziwen reminded from the side.

"Can you also hatch chicks?" The captain has become immune to Zhou Ziwen's excellence.

Anyway, after such a long period of contact, he already knew that this kid was a genius, a genius among geniuses.

Know everything and do everything.

"Yes, Uncle Zhou, I can hatch chicks. I have also hatched goose eggs before, and the goslings were successfully hatched." Zhou Ziwen explained with a smile.

"That's good. If we hatch the eggs ourselves, we can save a lot of costs."

Hearing this, the captain and Wu Dagang were very happy.

"Well, I'll make a broadcast later to notify everyone to send the eggs that can be hatched to the pig farm." Wu Dagang said hurriedly.

This old man likes to make announcements on the radio. He is the one who announces anything happening in the village.

"Okay, I'll gather all the team members and brief everyone first." The captain nodded.

"Then let's prepare some things here and let Brother Li prepare some incubators first." Zhou Ziwen said.

The three of them discussed it for a while and then quickly took action.

Wu Dagang and the team leader went to convene a meeting of cadres, while Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei discussed the hatching of chicks and ducklings.

Since we are going to run a chicken farm, there must be a lot of chicks that need to be hatched.

Moreover, when a chicken farm is set up in the future, it will be necessary to hatch new chicks.

Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei discussed it and decided to convert the warehouse next door into an incubation room.

There are many warehouses in the pig farm.

Some are used to store grain, some are used to store biological feed, and some are used to store farm tools and some small mechanical equipment.

Of course, there are more empty warehouses. After all, the pig farm is newly built, and the current Landrace pigs and the production team's black pigs only occupy a small area.

According to Zhou Ziwen's plan, this pig farm can raise 3,000 pigs.

After agreeing to convert the warehouse into an incubation room, Zhou Ziwen discussed with Li Lei how to make the renovation.

Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei stood in front of the empty warehouse of the pig farm, carefully looking at the space that was about to be converted into an incubator.

The warehouse was large enough to accommodate their planned incubators and the equipment needed.

"Brother Li, the first thing we need to consider is the temperature and humidity control of the incubation room."

"Having chicks requires a stable temperature and humidity environment to ensure the success rate of hatching," said Zhou Ziwen.

"Then how do we do it?" Li Lei asked.

"We need to build some incubation beds. You can ask Uncle Liang Wu for the incubation beds. I will go and tell him about the requirements later. Then there are things like iron plates, water bags, kerosene lamps, etc...."

Zhou Ziwen recalled the breeding techniques in his mind.

His breeding skills have reached level four, which naturally includes the method of hatching chicks.

In view of the current actual situation, he decided to use the water bed method for incubation. This method is also very simple, that is, put a water bag on the bed, and then spread straw, quilts and other insulation materials, and then put the eggs on it.

The temperature is adjusted by the water temperature in the water bag, and a layer of iron plate is added under the bed, which is heated with a kerosene lamp to keep the temperature stable.

The temperature requirements for hatching eggs are very high.

It cannot be too low or too high, and real-time monitoring is required.

Zhou Ziwen continued: "So we also need to prepare thermometers and place them in different locations on the incubation bed so that we can check whether the temperature is uniform at any time."

Li Lei nodded in agreement, "Then how do we control the humidity?"

"In terms of humidity, we can place several basins of water in the corners of the warehouse to adjust the humidity through natural evaporation of water. At the same time, we must pay attention to ventilation to avoid excessive humidity and mold growth." Zhou Ziwen explained.

The two of them walked towards the village committee office while discussing.

Wu Dagang and the team leader have gone to gather the production team's cadres.

Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei were also cadres of the production team and they also had to attend the meeting.

By the time the two arrived at the village committee office, the incubation issue had almost been discussed.

"Ziwen, you're here, come and sit down."

"I have a seat here, sit over here."

As soon as they entered the door, the cadres of the production team greeted Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei warmly.

Zhou Ziwen and Li Lei thanked them with a smile and then found a seat to sit down.

Seeing that everyone was present, Wu Dagang tapped the pipe in his hand and began to introduce the plan for the chicken farm and related matters of hatching chicks.

"You should be clear about the purpose of calling you all here today."

"We decided to build a chicken farm. To save costs, we did not plan to buy chicks, but to collect eggs from the village and hatch them ourselves. Comrade Zhou Ziwen had experience in hatching, so we gave this task to him."

"Do we really want to build a chicken farm? Can we handle it?" asked team leader Wang Hongjun.

"Yes, although there are many people in our village, a group of people have been assigned to the mushroom cultivation base and another group to the pig farm. If we build a chicken farm, it may delay the work in the fields."

Second team leader Liu Guoyong also spoke up in agreement.

Wu Dagang also thought about this problem and came up with a solution.

He said: "I understand everyone's concerns, but building a chicken farm is also to increase collective income and improve everyone's life."

"We can arrange manpower reasonably, for example, let some women and the elderly take charge of the daily work of the chicken farm, so that the work in the fields will not be delayed."

After all, raising chickens does not require much physical strength, so letting women and the elderly with less strength raise chickens can also help them earn more work points.

The team leader also went on to say: "We can also adjust the staffing arrangements according to the season and the importance of farm work."

"For example, during the busy farming season, we focus on the fields and slow down the work on the chicken farm; during the slack farming season, we increase the construction and production of the chicken farm."

"Well, raising chickens doesn't require many people, and the biological feed can be handed over to the pig farm." Zhou Ziwen also suggested.

"Of course, the most important thing is to increase the population. The living conditions in Dabazi Village have improved. I think we can ask the unmarried young men in the village to help. Don't just focus on your own family. You can go to other villages to look for partners!"

"If you marry a wife, she will also be a labor force!"

Zhou Ziwen said with a smile.

As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room suddenly became lively.

Some people found it funny, while others' eyes lit up and thought it was a good idea.