The production team has a group of ducklings, and I drive them to the pond every morning. The little duck quacked at me, "Goodbye little duck, I'm going to school. Goodbye little duck, I'm going to school."
The production team raised a group of ducklings. I came back from school and drove them to the shed. The little duck saw me and quacked, "Go to sleep, little duck, the sun is going down. Go to sleep, little duck, the sun is going down."
That year, the village purchased hundreds of ducklings on credit through the account lender. The so-called tent-based businesses were also popular in rural areas at that time. They were farms that specialized in hatching chicks, ducklings, and geese. The hatched chickens, ducks, and geese were given to the villagers for free to raise, etc. After the poultry chicks survive and can add value to the villagers, the creditor will come to collect the money. Of course, at that time, in addition to the credibility guarantee of the village (previously it should be called the brigade or production team), the people also had honest folk customs and had nothing to rely on. account. Usually after autumn, those who posted the accounts can take them back from the villagers.
The villagers also like it very much when the account keeper comes to the village, because buying poultry chicks directly from the account keeper on credit can save a lot of processes and troubles.
The process of hatching poultry chicks is a complicated and trivial matter. First of all, there must be an old hen at home that wants to lay a nest and hatch eggs - that is, this hen is a master of laying eggs and can basically produce one egg every day during the peak egg-laying season (peak period). And suddenly one day, it stopped laying eggs, but it still insisted on lying in the henhouse every day, occupying the henhouse and not moving...
Having an old hen to lay a nest and hatch eggs is not enough. , you also have to take the eggs laid by your own chickens to various households in the village to exchange eggs from other households for hatching (it is said that the babies hatched from such eggs are healthy, just like those who ate hundreds of meals in the past); in addition, If the villagers want to hatch the young of these poultry, they must survive the nearly one-month incubation period of "twenty-one for chickens and twenty-eight for ducks." This sentence means that it takes about twenty-one days from an egg to a chick hatching, and about twenty-eight days from a duck egg to a duckling. In addition, during the incubation period of the old hen, the old hen in the nest must be fed and watered on time every day, and the eggs and duck eggs used to hatch the chicks and ducks must be turned over, so that the body temperature of the old hen in the nest can be evenly distributed in every room. On an egg, it is conducive to the healthy growth of poultry chicks...
What needs to be explained is: Generally speaking, ducks will not hatch ducklings themselves, and the inheritance of ducks depends on artificial hatching or hens. Hatching eggs. In rural areas, families usually put eggs and duck eggs together for the hens to hatch. After about 21 days, the chicks will peck through the eggshells and crawl out; the hens will continue to nest in the nest until about 28 days. When the time comes, those duck eggs will be pecked open by the duckling's flat beak...
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The eggs and duck eggs have been hatched into chicks. With the little ducklings, the old hen no longer squatted in the nest and started to lead her children to play in the grass and catch bugs. Those fluffy little chickens are like little pom-poms, rolling here and there with the old hen for a while. The few ducklings who came out later also followed each other crookedly on tiptoes, and they were enjoying themselves.
The topic returns to the group of ducks in the village.
When these hundreds of little ducks first came to the village, they were covered with a layer of yellow fur, squawking, stumbling on two legs, and walking crookedly on the village street. Very endearing. Especially us little ones, when we saw the tempting ducks, we couldn’t help but chase them...
I remember it was early summer when the little ducks first arrived in our village, and they were chased away every day. They eat weeds and bugs in the fields, sip small fish and shrimps in small ditches, and carefully cruise in the vast pond...
It is said that little ducks can prey on pests in the rice fields. Adults, larvae and some sclerotia hyphae. Due to the activities of the little ducks, diseased leaves, old leaves of rice and rice field weeds can be removed, and rice diseases such as rice sheath blight, rice borer, rice leaf roller, rice planthopper, rice locust, and armyworm can be eliminated. It has good control effect on insects and rice field weeds. Also due to the activities of the little ducks, the air permeability of the rice field soil has been greatly improved, the harm of toxic substances has been reduced, and the growth of the rice root system has been promoted.
The growth cycle of ducklings is very short, especially those that are raised in fields. As if it grows when it sees the wind, the body of the little duck will change after a few days. Two months later, they slowly shed their goose-yellow-green fur and put on a drab gray coat. They also became taller and their calls no longer changed from squawking to quacking. Quack...
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It was summer vacation at that time, and my friends in the village and I all liked to go to the wide water pool in the south of the village. Go swimming. The older children swam in the deep water, while we little ones could only paddle in the shallow bay.
When we got up from the big water after swimming, something bad suddenly happened. Our bodies were covered with red spots, and they were very itchy. When we scratched, we would get blood marks - this has never happened before. Something that has never happened before.
Later, the adults said that it was because the ducks in the production team often roamed in the water, and duck feathers and duck excrement were mixed in the shallow bay of the water. When we swam, we were contaminated with polluted water. Can cause skin allergies. The adults told us not to swim in the water again, but the summer heat and the cool clear water still tempted our will, and we still went into the water to swim.
One day, everyone went swimming again, and we all touched clam shells in the shallow bay. After touching it, I caught a round thing. I took out the water and took a look: Hey, it turned out to be a duck egg. At that time, not many ducks were raised in the village, and most households raised chickens, so these duck eggs should be considered a rarity. This duck egg must have been left by the ducks in the village - it turned out that the ducks in the village began to lay eggs without knowing it. Seeing that I touched a duck egg, my friends were very envious and started touching it vigorously in the water near me, hoping to be as lucky as me...
I took the duck egg I touched. After returning home, the next day, my mother cooked it in a pot. My brother and I shared half of it. We felt that the cooked duck eggs tasted better than eggs - this reminded me of the Dragon Boat Festival.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household in the village, whether rich or poor, will cook dozens of eggs in one pot without hesitation to satisfy the greed of adults and children at home. When we go to school after dinner in the morning, adults will stuff a few hard-boiled eggs into our schoolbags for us to eat as snacks at school. During recess, we all took out the eggs we brought and ate them. At that time, most of what we ate were eggs, and it was rare to see anyone eating duck eggs. When we were eating, we were competing with each other to see whose eggs were bigger and whose pickled salted eggs were delicious. During the Dragon Boat Festival one year, I once saw a classmate who brought boiled duck eggs. In full view of us, he actually chewed the salted duck eggs with half of the egg shell...
Since that time I After touching the duck eggs in the swampy Repulse Bay, I always paid attention to: the fields of rice fields, the shallow water beaches of small rivers, reservoirs, weirs, etc., I had to go through any place where the ducks of the production team passed by. Dharma eyes. The hard work paid off. After that, I actually found a few duck eggs in the places where the ducks passed by - but some duck eggs turned purple and deteriorated due to being soaked in water for a long time. ...
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The ducks of the production team are kept in the open space in front of the seedling room next to the threshing floor, which is used for raising seedlings and seed production. , surrounded by a fence to prevent the ducks from wandering or escaping. During the day, the pen door is opened and the ducks are driven out to graze; in the evening, the ducks are driven back into the pen by the duck herding members.
The ducks have begun to lay eggs on a large scale.
One of the members responsible for herding ducks drives the ducks out to graze every morning. Those who stay behind carry a large bamboo basket, pick up the duck eggs scattered in the duck pen and put them into the bamboo basket. , and then put them into a large bamboo basket made of bamboo slices in the warehouse of the production team. They will be collected in a few days and sold to the designated unified purchasing and marketing place as the results of the village sideline team.
Ducks usually start laying eggs in the evening and morning. The few duck eggs I touched in Shuidang Repulse Bay and picked up outside were all left by the ducks who got up early. . In order to satisfy our craving for duck eggs, we would go out together in the evening when the adults in the village went to the threshing floor to work the night shift. We were going to play with the adults in the open, but secretly we were going to steal the duck eggs. We first went to the threshing floor to do somersaults, run wildly, and chase each other on the flattened wheat straw. Then when the adults were not paying attention, he sneaked to the duck pen.
The duck pen at this time was clearly displayed in front of us under the bright moonlight overhead and the lights of several lamps hanging under the eaves of the row of houses in front of the threshing floor. The ducks in the duck flock are all curled up and sleeping in the duck pen - some ducks have already finished laying eggs. Seeing that no one was paying attention around us, we tiptoed to the side of the duck pen, put our hands through the mesh of the fence, grabbed the duck eggs close to the fence, then quickly retracted, and ran away... and so on Yes, we can usually steal up to three or two duck eggs in one night.
If we steal duck eggs home, the adults will at most blame us, but they will still boil the duck eggs to satisfy our craving. That summer, we all spent it happily...
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A sudden disaster swept across - chicken plague began to spread in the village , many people's chickens were infected and died. The villagers were reluctant to throw them away, so they killed the sick chickens, stripped, processed, and stewed them together with the dead chickens. Then adults and children would beat teeth together as a sacrifice, and even invite the neighbors to eat together. The result is a vicious cycle. People who did not have sick chickens at home eat sick chickens and then go home and infect their own chickens. In this way, more and more families eat chickens. The village was very lively at that time, and the smell of chicken came out of every house's chimney.
In this case, the ducks in the production team will not be spared. At first, a few ducks were very sick and lacked their usual vitality. After a while, their limbs bounced and they died. The people in the village began to eat the duck meat distributed by the production team again.
After eating, there were only less than a hundred ducks left in the duck flock out of hundreds. The captain became angry and waved his hand: The remaining ducks should be divided among each household.
In this way, the group of ducks in our team will be gone...