Since the renovation of the experimental field was completed, Yang He hurriedly brought his students and earthworm seedlings to Jintan Village and officially started a series of experiments on earthworm breeding.
Zhao Shucheng followed Yang He to learn how to breed earthworms. Most of the others in the village watched the fun. Only Ma Defu's younger brother Ma Debao knew the prospects of earthworm farming from his brother, so he took his companions Shuwang and Gawa to study together.
Although Li Dayou disliked Shui Wang and refused to go to work, he thought that if he could make money by raising earthworms, he would definitely have to learn it, so he would not stop his son from studying.
The other people in the village did not have such awareness and felt that they could wait until they saw the results, and they just slowly gradually became the crowd.
The earthworms brought by Yang He are different from those in the usual ground. This selected breeding earthworm is more valuable than the earthworms in the ground, and has a higher economic value.
"This kind of earthworm grows very fast and can be grown in two months. At that time, as long as the temperature and humidity meet the requirements and the nutrition is up, it can reproduce once a month. In principle, one earthworm can proliferate by a thousand times."
"Earthworms are very convenient to breed. They are omnivorous organisms. In addition to maintaining enough organic manure in breeding species, all rotten animals and plants and fungi can be used as food, and they are not picky about food at all."
"If you raise it carefully, you can often sprinkle some processed wheat straw on the soil, and let the vines of fruits and vegetables for them to eat. As long as you sprinkle water frequently, keep the soil moist and clean the residue in time, there will be no problem."
"If there are no conditions, some rotten fruits, vegetables and kitchen feedings will actually be better. However, after seeing the conditions here, I can only replace them with straw or plant vines first."
Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "Yes, there will be no rotten fruits and vegetables in our trash here. Everyone is poor and there will be no such thing as wasting food."
After this period of study, Zhao Shucheng finally realized that the cost of raising earthworms is really low. Except for the initial breeding materials that required the preparation of cattle and horse manure, the rest of the food was not enough to cost a lot.
Besides, there are ways to have money, and there are ways to have no money. Those with money can build brick and tiles at their own homes, and those with no money can only use their own air-dried feces and the like. After the earthworms enter the breeding period in the later stage, they can expand.
Zhao Shucheng suddenly thought of Ling Yinong teaching villagers how to raise Agaricus bisporus in the future. The culture medium he mentioned was also chicken manure and cow manure. Perhaps after the fungus produced thick waste gas and bacteria rods can also become the breeding material for earthworms. This can be used multiple times, so that no waste will appear, avoiding the problem of improper handling of the bacteria rods.
Of course, it is still too early to do this. We can only wait until the Agaricus bisporus planted successfully and use the bacteria stick to conduct experiments.
Yang He had a smile on his face during this period. He had discovered that Yuquanying or Jintan Village is really suitable for the breeding of earthworms. Although it looks like a desert here, the soil underground is very suitable for the growth of earthworms. Not to mention that there are not so many natural enemies, there are even fewer parasites.
Although Yang He's breeding has only started a few days, it can be seen from the comparison of previous data that the environment here is very suitable.
"Shucheng, I have to thank you. If you didn't ask me to come to this place for experiments, I wouldn't have found such good soil quality. Although I'm not sure why it's more suitable for raising earthworms, and further analysis is needed, the soil quality is definitely an important reason. This time I came to Yuquanying, and the earthworm breeding project should be carried out in such a place."
Zhao Shucheng was not surprised by this. In fact, earthworm breeding is not high or low for environmental needs. As long as the temperature and humidity problems are met, the rest are all small problems.
"Really? When will we see specific results?"
Yang He happily dug out a few earthworms from the ground and said, "Look, these earthworms, whose vitality and spirit can be eaten and grown, will definitely mature and start to reproduce in two months. When a new batch of earthworms begin to grow, we can try the operation of raising earthworms and chickens."
"Now I feel like I'm not waiting for a while. I just feel that I have too few people and the number of earthworms before was not enough. If the number of earthworms is enough, I really want to try how many chickens can be raised by earthworms on acre of land, especially what you said is to feed chickens with only earthworms. This way, I can compare the difference between feeding large chickens with earthworms and chickens with earthworms and feed, and even the difference between chickens with earthworms and chickens with only feed without earthworms and the other two."
"After three months, the vermicompost has accumulated almost the same amount. At that time, you can conduct experiments on the vermicompost manure field at the same time. Now, no matter how you look at it, you feel that the number of earthworms is insufficient. The truth is that they will mature now, so that they can enter the breeding period from today and the number will increase sharply."
Yang He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. Although he had many experimental fields, the number of earthworms on his hands was not enough, which has to be said to be a happy worry. However, he was not too anxious. He has seen the hope of large-scale promotion. As long as this experiment is successful, it will be widely used.
"Researcher Yang, don't worry, everything will be fine. In just three months, we will usher in a bumper harvest. Anyway, the number of earthworms is large, and in a few months, the number can meet the needs of the experiment."
Zhao Shucheng comforted Yang He and said, "We don't need to call up the comparison group you mentioned. Let's first see what is the obvious difference between the chickens fed by mixed earthworms and non-adulterated earthworms. When the number is too high in the future, let's experiment to only feed the earthworms and feed the difference. This is not a comparison. At that time, chickens fed pure feed will be considered a big hit."
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Zhao Shucheng is full of confidence in the current earthworm breeding, but his eyes have shifted away from earthworm breeding. He saw that the whole village and even Yuquan nutritious chickens were involved in a few months.
Of course, the village has a small population now, and most of the other places don’t even have machine wells, so the chicken raising matter will not be large-scale. However, after seeing the money from raising chickens, the county government may have to promote it on a large scale, and at that time, we will definitely want to solve the sales problem.
Zhao Shucheng turned to the thought of Yang and their meals. Because Yang and his students were both boys, they were mostly potatoes and corn. Fortunately, Ma Defu saw them eating before and thought it was not suitable, so he asked his mother to help Yang and their meals. This moved Yang and theirs so much that he could stay in Jintan Village.
That is, this is the first year of Jintan Village. Everything will be fine after the harvest comes.
When Zhao Shucheng returned home, he saw Li Shuihua cooking, and it seemed that he was still potatoes and steamed buns.
Although he went to the county town to buy a lot of food, he was still frugal and was reluctant to eat some food. He just put a little bit of it when cooking, and it would taste good.
Zhao Shucheng was having a meal and thinking about raising chickens, and couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
Shuihua saw it and asked curiously: "Yongfu, what are you thinking?"
"Well, I wonder what to do if we raise chickens in the future, then the sales will be done? I always feel that it is not cost-effective to simply sell chickens. Our chickens must be different from other chickens. Our chickens are grown up by meat, while others raise chickens by vegetarians."
"If you really don't want to sell it, we can just make it into a large-scale chicken and open a store to sell it. That's all."
Zhao Shucheng pretended to be unable to cook at all, and couldn't help asking: "You said big plate chicken, how can you make it?"
Li Shuihua smiled unnaturally and said, "You can't do it either, but Brother Defu's mother can do it. Every household in the village of Yumen Village ate the poverty alleviation chickens, and the Defu's family made the most delicious."
Zhao Shucheng thought for a while and said, "No rush now. I'll go to the county town in a few days. If possible, we will find a place to open a store and sell large-scale chickens. Then let Defu's mother help us make it. After we learn it, we will make it ourselves. If they want to open a store, let them open it. This county town will definitely accommodate two large-scale chickens."
"Okay, I'll tell my aunt in a few days and let her teach me then. But you can't be jealous."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said to Shuihua: "You won't be jealous, but you don't dare to follow you, otherwise you will wait and see."
Three months passed, and the second phase of the experiment began. Zhao Shucheng had bought a lot of chickens to raise in order to prepare for experiments.
Yang He began to divide the chickens into two groups and cut them, including big chickens, small chickens, local chickens and quick-forming chickens. Fortunately, the grain in the ground has been harvested, so there is enough feed to feed the chickens.
The effect of feeding chickens in earthworms is very significant. At first, nothing can be seen, but a week later, the chickens are significantly different. The chickens feeding earthworms are larger than those without earthworms. Even adult chickens are very obvious. The hen breeds feeding earthworms more than those without earthworms, and they are in good spirits.
At the beginning, the village name that made up their minds to watch the fun also discovered the difference. They thought it was a joke before, but when they saw the two groups of chickens compared, they all understood that this earthworm might really succeed in raising chickens.
A month later, Zhao Shucheng was serving the earthworm breeding pond at his home, and Xiao Wang came to ask him to go to the experimental field.
"Xiao Wang, what's the matter?"
"Nothing is true. The chickens raised by the Russians are too big. I'm going to kill a chicken to taste the taste. Does it taste better than ordinary native chickens? Because you bought these chickens, so let you try them too."
Zhao Shucheng didn't expect that Yang He had the idea of ​​eating chicken. Of course, he also wanted to see if it would be more delicious, so he followed him.
This time, Defu Ma’s chef was the chef. The big plate chicken made directly was very delicious. However, after making two pots, although they were all big plate chicken, the taste was obviously different, and one was more fragrant.
"This is for feeding earthworms, right?"
Yang He and Defu's mother gave a thumbs up and said, "No, how did you taste it?"
"We have tasted our native chicken before, but it is obviously more fragrant, so I guess it's a chicken fed by earthworms, and it seems that it's really right."
Chapter completed!