There were a group of ducklings in the production team, and I hurried them to the shed when I came back from school. Duckling saw me quack, go to sleep, duckling, the sun goes down, go to sleep, duckling, the sun goes down.
That year, the village bought hundreds of ducklings on credit through the bookkeeper. At that time, the so-called bookkeeping was also very popular in rural areas. This is a farm that specializes in incubating chickens or ducklings and geese, and gives the hatched chickens to the villagers for free. After these chickens survive and can add value to the villagers, the bookkeeper will collect money again. Of course, at that time, in addition to the credit guarantee of the village (formerly called the brigade or production team), the people were also honest and had nothing to blame. Generally, after the autumn, the account can be recovered from the villagers.
The villagers also like the bookkeeper to visit the village, because buying poultry cubs on credit directly from the bookkeeper can save a lot of formalities and troubles.
The hatching process of young birds is a complicated and trivial matter. First of all, there must be an old hen at home who wants to hatch eggs-that is, this hen is a good egg-laying expert and can lay an egg almost every day during the laying season (peak period). And suddenly one day, it stopped laying eggs, but it still insisted on lying in the henhouse every day and occupying the henhouse motionless. ...
It is not enough to have an old hen to hatch eggs, but also to take the eggs laid by her own chickens to all households in the village for other eggs to hatch (it is said that the young hatched with this kind of eggs are very healthy, just like those who used to eat hundreds of meals); In addition, if the villagers want to hatch the young of these poultry, they must survive the long incubation period of nearly one month. It takes about 2 1 day from egg to chick, and about 28 days from duck egg to duckling. In addition, during the incubation period of the old hen, the old hen who holds the nest should be fed with drinking water on time every day, and the eggs and duck eggs used to hatch chickens and ducklings should be turned over, so that the body temperature of the old hen who holds the nest can be evenly distributed on each egg, which is conducive to the healthy growth of poultry cubs. ...
It should be noted that: Generally speaking, ducks don't hatch their own ducklings, and the breeding of ducks depends on artificial incubation or hen incubation. In rural areas, it is common for families to put eggs and duck eggs together for hens to hatch. About 2 1 day later, the chicken pecked through the eggshell and came out. Hens continue to hold their nests, and it will take about 28 days for those duck eggs to be pecked open and arched by the ducklings' flat mouths. ...
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Eggs, ducks and eggs were hatched into chickens and ducklings, so the old hen stopped squatting in the nest and began to lead her children to scatter joy and catch insects in the grass. Those furry chicks are like fluffy balls, rolling with the old hen here and rolling with the old hen there. Those ducklings who came out later also cocked their toes, but they were also very happy.
Let's go back to the duckling in the village.
When these hundreds of ducklings first came to the village, they were covered with a layer of yellow fur and cried on their legs. They stumbled and were very pleasing. Especially us little Mao Mao, when we see beautiful ducks, we can't help chasing them. ...
I remember that it was early summer when the ducklings first came to our village. They are driven to eat weeds and insects in the fields every day, sip small fish and shrimp in small ditches and cruise carefully in a blue pond. ...
It is said that ducklings can prey on adults, larvae and some sclerotia hyphae of rice pests. Due to the activity of ducklings, diseased leaves, old leaves and weeds in rice can be removed, and it has a good control effect on rice diseases and insect pests such as rice sheath blight, Chilo suppressalis, rice leaf roller, rice planthopper, rice locust and armyworm. Due to the activities of ducklings, the permeability of paddy soil is greatly improved, the harm of toxic substances is reduced, and the growth of rice roots is promoted.
The growth cycle of ducklings is very short, especially those kept in the fields. It seems that it grows with the wind. If we don't see each other for a few days, the duckling's body will change. Two months later, they slowly shed their yellow-green fluff, put on earthy gray coats and grew taller. When they cry, they become quack instead of quack. ...
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It was summer vacation at that time, and my friends in the village and I liked to swim in the wide water swing in the south of the village. Big kids swim in deep water, while we little guys can only play in repulse bay.
When we got up from the big water after swimming, something bad happened suddenly. We are covered with red spots, which are itchy. A scratch is a blood stain-something that has never happened before. Later, adults said that it was because the ducks in the production team often wandered in the water swing, and the shallow water swing was mixed with duck feathers and duck excrement. When we swim, polluted water can cause skin allergies. Adults told us not to swim in the water again, but the hot summer and cool water still tempted our will, and we will still go swimming.
One day, everyone went swimming again, and we all touched mussels in Repulse Bay. Touching it, I caught a round thing and took out the water to have a look: hey hey, it's actually a duck egg. At that time, there were not many ducks in the village, and most families raised chickens, so this duck egg should be regarded as a rarity. This duck egg must have been left by the ducks in the village-before you know it, the ducks in the village began to lay eggs. Seeing that I touched a duck egg, my friends were envious and touched it in the waters near me, hoping to be as lucky as me. ...
I took the duck eggs home, and the next day, my mother cooked them in a pot, and my brother and I split them half by half. We think cooked duck eggs are more delicious than eggs-this reminds me of the Dragon Boat Festival.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, no matter whether the village is rich or poor, every household will boil dozens of eggs in a pot without stint on this day, so that adults and children at home can satisfy their desires. In the morning, we go to school after dinner. Adults will put some boiled eggs in our schoolbags for us to eat as snacks at school. During the break, we all took out eggs to eat. At that time, most of us ate the same eggs, and we seldom saw anyone eat duck eggs. When eating, we also compare whose eggs are bigger and whose salted eggs are delicious. One year during the Dragon Boat Festival, I once saw a classmate holding boiled duck eggs. Under our eyes, he even chewed the salted duck eggs of half a duck shell. ...
Since I came into contact with the duck eggs in Repulse Bay, I have been paying attention to them all the time: fields in rice fields, shallows in rivers, ponds in reservoirs and so on. And I have to pass wherever the ducks of the production team pass. Many things happen. After that, I really found some duck eggs where the ducks passed-but some duck eggs have turned purple and gone bad because they have been 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 nursery next to the threshing floor for raising seedlings and producing seeds, and are fenced around to prevent the ducks from walking or running away. During the day, open the door and drive the ducks out to eat grass; In the evening, the ducks were driven back by the members who released them.
Ducks began to lay eggs on a large scale.
Every morning, a member in charge of releasing ducks drives them out for grazing, and those who stay behind carry a big bamboo basket, pick up the duck eggs scattered in the purse seine and put them in the bamboo basket, and then put them in the big bamboo basket made of bamboo pieces in the warehouse of the production team, and put them away in a few days, and sell them to the designated place for unified purchase and sale as the results of the village sideline group.
Ducks usually start laying eggs at night and in the morning. I used to touch some duck eggs in Shuidang Repulse Bay, and I found them outside, all of which were left by early ducks. In order to eat duck eggs to satisfy our hunger, we will go out together when the adults in the village go to the threshing floor and work at night. In the light, we will play with adults, and in the dark, we will steal duck eggs. First, we somersaulted and ran wildly, chasing each other on the flattened wheat straw in the threshing floor. Then sneak into the duck pen when adults are not looking.
At this time, the duck pen was clearly displayed in front of us under the bright moonlight overhead and the lights hanging under the eaves of the row of houses in front of the threshing floor. The ducks in the flock are all curled up in the duck pen to sleep and rest-some ducks have already finished eating. Looking around, no one noticed. We crept to the duck pen, put our hands through the mesh of the purse seine, grabbed the duck eggs near the purse seine, and then quickly retracted, so we ran to evacuate ... so we can usually steal three or two duck eggs at most one night.
Adults will blame us for stealing duck eggs at most, but they will still cook duck eggs to satisfy our desire. We all spent that summer in happiness. ...
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A sudden disaster swept through-chicken plague began to spread in the village, and many people's chickens were infected and died. The villagers were reluctant to throw it away, so they killed the sick chicken, depilated it, treated it, stewed it with the dead chicken, and then adults and children had toothache together, and even invited their neighbors to eat it together. The result is a vicious circle. People who don't have sick chickens at home eat sick chickens and go home to infect their own chickens. In this way, more and more families have eaten chicken. During that time, the village was very lively, and the smell of chicken floated from the chimneys of every household.
In this case, the ducks of the production team are also hard to escape. At first, several ducks got sick, and they lost their old life. Soon, their limbs bounced and died. People in the village began to eat duck meat distributed by the production team again. After eating, there are less than 100 ducks left in the flock. The captain was angry and waved and said, let's give the rest of the ducks to each household.
In this way, there will be no ducks in our team. ...