Chapter 123 (continued)
Yan Kexing: "Not for sale?"
Shi Wen: "Potatoes probably won't fetch a high price, so I'll send a batch to the members. I'll also include cheese, ketchup, and eggs? Bress Chicken's eggs should be able to sell well; let's see if the members want to buy some?"
Their Bress chickens have all entered their egg-laying period. There are fifty chickens in total, forty-five of which are hens, and they can lay fifty eggs every day.
Although they select a batch of fertilized eggs to incubate every now and then, they can't consume that many eggs.
Now that the quality of the eggs has stabilized, Shi Wen hopes to have the opportunity to sell them.
Yan Kexing: "We can give it a try."
Shi Wen, "Then I'll pack it up."
His family charges a relatively high membership fee, Shi Wen always pays great attention to packaging and quality when sending items to members.
Quality is always the top priority, but packaging is also crucial; good packaging gives members a sense of value for money.
This time, Shi Wen also specially ordered an exquisite membership gift box online, and put eggs, potatoes, cheese and ketchup inside the gift box, making it a proper large gift box.
He used the most expensive courier service to send out these membership gift boxes. Many members received them on the same day, and a small number received them the next day. After tasting the ingredients, they all expressed their surprise in the group chat.
Zhu Ji was the first to Shi Wen: [The ingredients you sent to our members are fantastic! Especially these eggs, they taste amazing. But there are only thirty, not nearly enough. When will you put them back in stock? I'd like to buy some.]
Shi Wen: [It will take some time. I specifically asked someone to develop a mini-program. I'll release it once it's finished.]
Zhu Ji: [!!! When will we be able to go?]
Shi Wen: [By the end of this month, mini-programs are already quite mature; it won't be long before they're available.]
Zhu Ji posted a picture of himself scratching his head against a wall, and added, "[Can I buy a batch from you privately? I've now fallen in love with using your eggs for breakfast.]"
Shi Wen: [This will do too. How many do you need? I'll send them to you.]
Zhu Ji: [I'll just come get it, and I'll also like to mooch a meal from you guys. Lin Chengqian said Old Yan makes really delicious mashed potatoes with sauce, right? I want to come to your house and mooch some mashed potatoes.]
Shi Wen: [Evil grin. JPG, Well, you'll have to see if Yan Kexing is free.]
Zhu Ji: [Don't force me to kneel down and beg you. JPG Could you please tell him for me? If I want to eat, he definitely won't have time, but if you want to eat, the situation is different.]
The two exchanged jokes and chatted for a while, Shi Wen agreed to let him come over and enjoy some mashed potatoes with sauce.
I haven't had mashed potatoes for the past couple of days, Shi Wen.
The day Zhu Ji came over, Shi Wen was feeding the cows in the house.
His calf is over six months old and its need for protein is increasing.
Shi Wen, at Sikewell's suggestion, they were experimenting with adding urea to the hay fed to the cattle.
The rumen of cattle and sheep contains a large number of bacteria and ciliates, which can use nitrogen compounds to synthesize microbial protein, thereby improving the protein utilization rate in feed. In other words, they can use urea to synthesize protein.
Shi Wen that urea is added to the hay for cattle, not because the owner is unwilling to spend money to buy other feeds with higher protein content, but because animal-derived protein feed can easily cause cattle to suffer from diseases such as mad cow disease.
Local policy requires that animal-derived protein feed be prohibited for cattle.
In this situation, they cannot eat any animal-derived feed, making it difficult to supplement their protein intake.
Adding urea to the hay and feeding them ammoniated feed is a good method.
This method will not harm the cattle's health at all; it just requires them to adapt for a period of time.
Shi Wen's the first time I've fed them, and I'm observing whether they're adapting.
When Zhu Ji arrived, he was observing and recording the condition of the cattle herd.
Zhu Ji looked at his notebook. "You guys are getting more and more professional at raising them."
Shi Wen, "That's right, look at me, I'm already able to recruit members."
"That's really good." Zhu Ji gave a thumbs up. "When we first received your information, I was worried about whether you could make good use of such a large ranch. I never expected that your development would far exceed all of our expectations."
Shi Wen humbly replied, "It's alright. A series of coincidences ultimately shaped who I am today."
Zhu Ji: "Everyone's success involves a certain amount of opportunity, but even without these resources, those destined to succeed will succeed. The most important thing is that you seize these opportunities and keep striving."
Shi Wen smiled and said, "I feel like you're being particularly sentimental today."
"These are my honest words," Zhu Ji sighed. "Who could have imagined that you could develop like this in just over a year?"
Shi Wen smiled and changed the subject, saying, "Yan Kexing hasn't come back yet. Do you want to go see the little fox? It should be sleeping with Cong Zai in the main courtyard."
Cats are animals that sleep a lot. Even when they are not growing, Cong Zai can sleep for ten or twenty hours a day.
In addition, it would get up every night to patrol and guard the warehouse and livestock shed, so it got used to lying in the sun or sleeping soundly in a warm place during the day.
Perhaps because the little fox is Variant Beasts, it needs a lot of sleep every day. Apart from getting up to eat and play in the early morning and evening, it spends most of its time sleeping.
Over time, Cong Zai and the little fox became a proper sleeping buddy, sleeping together every day. If you could find one, you could find the other.
Zhu Ji had actually planned to visit the little fox on his way here, and upon hearing Shi Wen say this, he didn't stand on ceremony. "Then I'll go take a look and check on the little fox's height and weight."
Shi Wen, without even looking up, said, "Go ahead. But if you're going to give the little fox special treatment, remember to give Cong Zai some too, don't let Cong Zai just watch."
Zhu Ji chuckled dryly, "How did you know that?"
Shi Wen, "How could I not know what was done in my house? Besides, there are so many security cameras here."
"Alright, I'll go give them some special treats then." Zhu Ji sighed and explained, "It's not that I don't want to give Cong Zai special treats, but a friend asked me to take care of the little fox, and I can't use that money."