"Second sister, what are you doing?"

He Jiahuan's arrival woke He Jiawen up suddenly, and he quickly let go of Qin Hao and was far away.

"Ah, the chicken hatched?"

Seeing that the fourth sister did not notice her strangeness, He Jiawen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Hao was very unhappy with He Jiahuan's troubles about his good things, and patted He Jiahuan's hand that wanted to touch the chicken.

"The chicken is very fragile just after it comes out of the shell. You have a lot of bacteria on your hands, don't touch it."

He Jiahuan quickly retracted his hand. In her eyes, this was no longer a chick, but an old hen that lays eggs for her every day, so there must be no mistakes.

“1.2.3…”

One afternoon, six chicks emerged one after another.

"Brother Hao, they look very cold. Should I get more cotton to keep them warm?" He Jiahuan asked worriedly.

Qin Hao took out a new carton from the side, which was covered with hay, old cotton, and a hand warmer made in winter. It wrapped several circles outside with yarn to prevent scalding the chicks.

After transferring the six chicks to a new nest, the chicks stopped shaking and became energetic.

After a while, three more chickens emerged one after another, and He Jiahuan was worried that the chickens would starve to death if they had no food.

"You go and get some millet and soak it in warm water and bring it over."

"Okay."

Seeing He Jiahuan's abnormal diligence, He Jiayi complained: "The fourth girl, the greedy girl, can only eat her to make her diligent."

He Jiawen was happy: "You are so embarrassed to say that you can't be diligent even if you have delicious food. Be careful that the fourth brother will compete with you for eggs."

He Jiayi curled his lips and said, "The fourth brother is still too naive. How many eggs can these five chickens be? At that time, it will definitely be tight to our mother first. Most of the remaining ones will be saved to exchange for sugar. Industrial coupons, it would be nice to eat one in a month."

Qin Hao laughed secretly. This third brother is indeed a ghost spirit, no wonder he can do business.

After a while, He Jiahuan came over with a bowl of millet, while Qin Hao took out a can cover, crushed a grain of potassium permanganate into warm water and melted it into a carton.

Seeing the chick stumble to the can cover to drink water, the three sisters He Jiawen all smiled with relief.

It was almost dark outside while talking, and the adults from all families came back from get off work.

He Changsheng and Liu Meixin heard that Qin Hao actually hatched the chicken and couldn't help but feel excited. They just went out to check it out, but they met Liu's mother opposite.

"Ma Liu, your family is also preparing to raise chickens?" Liu Meixin couldn't help but worry. She had an additional competitor and would there be five chickens to share with her family.

Liu Ma rubbed her hands: "It's good to raise chickens, how difficult it is to get the eggs now, right?"

With competitors, the two families rushed into Qin Hao's house, and after entering the house, they all looked at each other with a vigilant look.

"Old Qin, Guilan, your Haozi is really capable. He has good academic performance. He can also fish, catch sparrows, and even hatch chickens. He will definitely have a future in the future. You just wait and enjoy your happiness." Liu Ma said with a smile.

Liu Meixin became anxious when she heard this and quickly praised Qin Hao: "That's not, I have always been optimistic about Haozi since I was a child, and I am smart and filial..."

Qin Hongqi and Zhou Guilan were humble and very happy in their hearts.

While they were talking, two more chicks emerged from their shells.

Qin Hao sent them to a new cardboard box. In order to avoid them running around and being taken away by mice or weasels, he specially made a simple security door for the cardboard box, made two small holes at the opening of the cardboard box, and stuck a piece of paper of the same size to the surface of two small branches, then inserted it into the small hole, and poked dozens of holes on the cardboard box to prevent insufficient air inside.

"Ah, are there so many chicks that just hatched today?"

He Jiali also got off work. When her grandmother said that the chicks had hatched, she hurried over to watch the fun.

"There are 8, now we have eggs to eat." He Jiahuan was still thinking about his eggs.

Liu Mei was afraid that there were too many dreams at night, so she wanted to bring the chicks back. When Liu's mother saw it, she was anxious and wanted to take five chicks back.

"Aunt Liu, don't worry. This chick has just emerged from the shell and is still very fragile. If you don't take good care of it, you will die. Moreover, this chick is not able to distinguish between male and female. You can take it back. What if it's all male?"

After Qin Hao said this, Liu Meixin and Liu Ma could only look at each other and smiled in disappointment.

"Brother Hao, you said that the chickens cannot be divided into male and female, so when can you tell it?" He Jiahuan was so anxious that the family could only raise five chickens. Even if one more is capitalism, raising one more rooster would be a waste.

"It will take at least one week, and it may not be accurate, and it depends on some luck."

"Ah, it depends on luck?" He Jiahuan looked disappointed.

Qin Hao was amused: "I am not a god, how can I guarantee that I will not read it 100% wrong?"

Two days later, more than a dozen chicks emerged from the shell. As for the others, they were either dead eggs or eggs that had not been fertilized at all, and they were finally handed over to Zhou Guilan to collect them.

There are 23 chicks in total. The chicks that emerged from the shell the day before have started chirping non-stop. In order to give them better growth space, Qin Hao made a new carton to raise them separately to prevent the chicks that emerged from the shell the day after that cannot grab food.

By the third day, the chicks had already grown feathers one after another. In fact, from this time, it can be roughly seen that they are male and female. The lengths of the hen's main wing feathers and the overlying feathers are obvious, and the feathers are uneven, while the feathers of the rooster grow more evenly and look more neat.

However, this kind of homework error rate is relatively high, so Qin Hao didn't say it before, so he avoided the fact that someone would get too many roosters to blame him.

After all, in this era of shortage of supplies, raising chickens is also a great burden. Everyone expects hens to lay eggs. The rooster can only eat meat except crowing, and it is useless.

In the past few days, the most happy person to Qin Hao's house was the fourth son He Jiahuan. If she hadn't even been separated from her male and female, she would have started to make reservations in advance.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the seventh day, early in the morning, He Jiahuan hurried to Qin Hao's house.

"Brother Hao, can you tell the male and female today?"

Qin Hao smiled and knocked on her forehead: "Look at your greed, be careful not to scare the chick."

"hey-hey."

He Jiahuan acted coquettishly and begged Qin Hao to quickly distinguish between male and female.

Qin Hao grabbed a chick, pressed it gently under her anus, and then began to place it in two small cartons on both sides. Soon, there were more than a dozen chicks in the carton on the left, while there were only three or four cartons on the right.

"Brother Hao, who is the mother's side?" He Jiahuan asked nervously.

It was not until Qin Hao pointed at the many cartons that He Jiahuan breathed a sigh of relief.

He Jiawen also happily exposed two rows of white teeth.

"Brother Hao, how do you see which is just a male and which is just a female? Why can't I see that?" He Jiayi asked curiously.

Qin Hao explained while identifying it: "You see, this is their genitals. The fine grainy protrusions are hens, and the roosters have bulges the size of rice grains. Don't try it when you go home. If you don't do this, it will kill the chicken."

"Oh." He Jiayi shrank her neck. She was thinking about trying it when she went back. Is it really the same as Qin Hao said?

It was soon finished, with a total of 17 hens and six roosters.

There are still surplus in three families, one person, five.

Liu Meixin and Liu Ma both only wanted hens. The family picked five hens and took them home happily. Zhou Guilan originally planned to raise hens, but was persuaded by Qin Hao.

"Hold a rooster to crow, so it's better to breed it in the future. Otherwise, if you die, you will have to make trouble again when you get eggs."

Zhou Guilan was still a little reluctant: "A hen can lay a lot of eggs."

In the end, Qin Hongqi made the decision: "Just listen to your son, when did your son make you suffer any losses?"

The remaining three hens and five roosters were used as favors by Qin Hongqi. Anyway, the family cannot raise too much, so it is better to raise them for others' homes, and you can also give them personal favors and kill two birds with one stone.

It’s so lively now. The Qin family, He family, and Zhang family have all raised chickens. Every day, a nest of chickens chirping, and they are inevitably reported with jealousy.

However, when the market inspection team came over, they found that each company only had five, which was not considered a violation.

"Who is this? Why do you owe it so much? You can't stand it, right?"

"That's right, having the ability to raise yourself is what kind of ability is someone else's family."

Even Liu's mother and Zhou Guilan had such a good temper, and Liu Meixin kept complaining.

"Why is the social atmosphere like this now? I will be jealous when I see others live a better life. I will fight this today and that tomorrow. I don't focus on how to improve production quality."

He Changsheng sighed: "Who said no? Now the leaders above dare not do anything. They are worried all day long, afraid of making mistakes. How can this continue?"

He Jiahuan didn't care about these messy things. She only knew that she would fight with anyone who dared to touch her chick.

In order to make the chick grow faster, she not only ran to the fields to catch grasshoppers and dragonflies, but also went to the farmers' market to pick up rotten vegetables and leaves to feed the chicks.

As a result, a month later, she found that the chick she was taking good care of was not as fast as the chicks that were next door to Qin Hao's family.

Zhang Qiufang, who was opposite the door, was also very confused. She worked in a supply and marketing cooperative and often got some bran and came back to feed the chickens. As a result, a month later, her own chickens were obviously smaller than Qin Hao's family.

"Do you have any secrets to raise chickens?" He Jiawen was also very curious.

Qin Hao smiled and said, "There must be a secret, but since it is a secret, it must not be said casually. The Dharma cannot be passed on lightly. Do you understand?"

"Can't even say me?" He Jiawen looked at Qin Hao delicately.

"This is our family's secret recipe. It is passed on from inside to outside. You have to know unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you marry into our family."

He Jiawen was shy and was about to lower his head to avoid Qin Hao's gaze, but when he saw a smirk on the corner of Qin Hao's mouth, he immediately woke up.

"You hate death and lie to me again."

Qin Hao grabbed He Jiawen's soft little hand: "The ancestors are a fool, but the secret is indeed true. How about it? Should I consider it?"

"Hmph, you liar, don't believe your nonsense." He Jiawen glared at Qin Hao fiercely.

"Don't want to know?"
To be continued...