Pastoralists also.
"My coop is going to be the best in the world, and my hen lays 10 eggs a day!" —Schiller said emphatically.
One
In the easternmost part of the town of Gulla there is a village where people have lived on labor for generations, but they are rich. Villagers can live on the ground under their feet, so they have little contact with the outside world, feeling strange and afraid of the world outside the village. However, the other surrounding villages have not forgotten this place, and they are very envious of its wealth.
However, as natural conditions have continued to deteriorate in recent years, the originally wealthy village has gradually become dilapidated. The occasional drought has made the harvest in the village unable to meet the survival needs of the villagers, which has forced the originally closed village to take the initiative to ask for help, and the merchants who have long been eager to move have taken the opportunity to enter the village and sell daily necessities in a big way, earning the villagers' already few properties.
Fortunately, this life didn't last long. Some of the more active young people in the village have introduced many advanced production methods, enriched the industrial structure of the village, and made the originally monotonous village life gradually wonderful.
Two
"Cluck, cluck!" With a loud chicken cry, Jace quickly dressed in the darkness, picked up the bamboo basket placed in the doorway, and walked toward the chicken coop.
This small chicken coop was built by Jace with the help of Uncle Sam, a large chicken farmer in a neighboring village, and although it is not large, it is still decent, and Jace has become the first and only chicken farmer in the village.
Logically, Jace's chicken coop should gradually grow and mature, after all, he has no competitors in the village, and there is also professional guidance and help. But the truth is not what Jace imagined.
After a period of busy work, Jace finished today's egg harvesting work. In the huge bamboo basket in his hand, there were only a few poor eggs, and even the bottom of the basket was not filled.
Looking at the results of his work, Jace couldn't help but feel sad. He originally wanted to get rid of the hard life of farming through the chicken business, but it had been almost half a year, and the output of eggs was still tepid, even worse than the original.
Jace reflected carefully on every aspect of his chicken breeding and did not detect any omissions. Puzzled, he went to the neighboring village to invite Uncle Sam, hoping that the savior would bring him good luck. However, Uncle Sam did not find any cause after an examination, whether it was temperature or feed. Finally Sam tells Jace that it may be that the hen has not yet adapted to the current life, and that it should get better if she waits.
After sending Uncle Sam away, Jace loses his last hope. Leaving time for problem solving is often the most helpless choice, and it is also a fundamental denial of personal efforts.
Three
Half a year flies, and Jace's hens not only don't produce more eggs, but they also get sick and even die. Time gave Jace the final answer, he didn't know how to raise hens, at least he didn't know his own hens.
Maugham, who lives opposite the door, has witnessed Jace's journey from full of confidence to discouragement, and he understands what Jace's chicken problem is, but he doesn't tell Jace. Because Maugham wanted to take over Jace's chicken coop and was more confident. Just wait for the day when Jace gives up.
It didn't take long for Jace to abandon the chicken coop and head south to make a living. And the person who took over the chicken coop was, of course, the long-awaited Maugham.
Unlike Jace, Maugham did not choose to go it alone, he also called Duncan, a recent college student in the same village, which strengthened the ability to resist risks on the basis of increasing investment, and in Maugham's eyes, the prospects are very good.
Maugham had long known that the reason jace had failed was the feed he fed. Although there is no quality problem with the feed, it is not suitable for breeds with these hens. The stubborn Sam only knows how to copy his own successes to Jace, and he certainly can't find the difference between the two hens.
Due to the poor results of the previous chicken breeding, Jace did not use the only funds to improve the chicken coop and correct the problem after selling the few eggs. After meeting the minimum survival needs of the hens, the rest of the income is consumed by themselves. Moreover, Jace always pours all the feed in the middle of the chicken coop, allowing the hens to freely fight for food, which makes the relatively weak hens often unable to compete for feed, so that they are emaciated, and eventually get sick or even die.
For these problems Maugham has long thought of a solution to the solution.
On the first day of taking over the coop, Maugham replaced the old feed with a more suitable feed and built an independent grid for each hen, which effectively solved the problem of competing for food, so that each hen could eat enough to maintain a stable mood. In addition, there is also the daily maintenance and improvement of the chicken coop. Maugham and Duncan, after removing their own necessary expenses every day, used the remaining income from the sale of eggs to the development of the chicken coop. At the same time, they also began to study the production of materials needed for chicken coops such as feed to save money and reduce dependence on the outside world.
Gradually, the size of the chicken coop expanded a lot, and the operation of the chicken coop became self-sufficient.
However, due to the weak material base of the village and the limited ability of its own, the development of the chicken coop soon encountered a bottleneck. At the same time, due to the closed attitude and the development model that differed from other chicken coops, Maugham's chicken coops were boycotted within the industry. Chicken feed suppliers refuse to feed Maugham because he also produces feed, and other chicken farmers are afraid that their hens will ask them to increase the proportion of investment in the chicken coop like Maugham, thus reducing the chicken farmer's own wealth, so when Maugham's chicken coop encounters a sudden problem, the outside world will not provide any help, and they are waiting for Maugham's coop to kill itself.
Just when Maugham and Duncan were at a loss, they did not expect that there was a disagreement between the partners who had been close.
Four
Duncan, who had watched the chicken coop that had been developed through hardships, was at risk of bankruptcy, and was tired of Maugham's still stubborn and closed thoughts. Finally, one day, Duncan plucked up the courage to propose to Maugham the model of abandoning self-sufficiency and re-establishing cooperative relations with the outside world to enhance the vitality of the chicken coop in the midst of competition. On top of the existing high investment ratio, increasing the production of eggs will inevitably make the chicken coop the most successful chicken farm in town. Now the solution to the chicken coop problem is imminent, if you still stubbornly adhere to the original idea, without considering the specific situation, there will only be a doom.
After listening to Duncan's opinion, Maugham decided that it was up to the hen to decide whose opinion to choose. Duncan had to agree, after all, this is a question about the chicken coop, of course, it should be decided by the hens, but what can the hens who only know how to eat and lay eggs understand?
In the days that followed, Maugham and Duncan managed the chicken coop their own way. Since Duncan's method required a portion of the income to be earned by the merchants outside, the proportion of income invested in the chicken coop was much reduced, which made the hens "grunt" and "cluck" when Duncan entered the coop. Therefore, Duncan had to leave the chicken coop and no longer participate in the operation of the chicken coop.
However, Maugham's victory did not last long, and the recognition of the hens was only a cover for the fragility of the chicken coop problem. Soon after, the chicken coop was in dilapidated due to the inability to produce the required materials, and the supply of feed began to be limited or even interrupted.
Desperate, the hens began a frenzied move, flying out of the coop and recklessly plundering everything they could make their own living in the yard. And those things that have no practical value for the hens are wantonly destroyed, allowing the hens to vent their anger. As for Maugham, he had no way to control the current situation, and watching these hens who had devoted all his love and love had become like this, in endless disappointment and guilt, Maugham left the chicken coop he had painstakingly run and never returned.
Five
After hearing about what had happened to the chicken coop, Duncan decided to return to the coop and use his own ideas to re-operate the coop, and it would surely develop better than before.
After Duncan returned to the coop, the crazy hens were exhausted. At this time, Duncan's return, the hens seem to see the savior, and the previous resolute opposition to Duncan has long been left behind, and the nine clouds are out of the clouds. As a result, Duncan's next drastic reforms were met with no opposition, and after the initial transition period, the hens also saw the progress of the chicken coop and were full of hope.
Because the chicken coop itself already has a relatively comprehensive production base, the chicken coop has not encountered much resistance when it is integrated into the chicken market in the town. As for the merchants who were originally isolated from the chicken coop, they also put aside their grievances and re-established a cooperative relationship with the chicken coop in the face of interests.
After Duncan's meticulous management, the chicken coop gradually changed its appearance, and the production of eggs and the number of hens gradually increased a lot. The increase in the income of the chicken coop has not only led to a sharp rise in the quality of life of the hens, but also to restore other businesses such as feed production, which has been abandoned for a long time. Not only can the hens choose their favorite category from a variety of feeds, but the feed and other products produced by the chicken coop are also distributed by the merchants to all parts of the town. At this point, the chicken coop has entered a long-term benign development.
Six
With the continuous expansion of the chicken coop and the increase in the production of products such as eggs, Duncan decided to hand over the chicken coop to young people to operate, and he gradually could not keep up with the development needs of the chicken coop. Therefore, among the many competitors, Duncan chose a junior member of the Maugham family to take charge of the future development of the chicken coop instead. Because Duncan always recognized Maugham's efforts, but did not want to watch the development of the chicken coop for several years fall short of Maugham's stubbornness.
The next day, after bidding off Duncan. Schiller officially began his own chicken coop era.
Previously, the ever-expanding size of the chicken coop had reached the limit of a person's management ability. Therefore, the next development must change the way of thinking, under the premise of the existing scale unchanged to increase the operating income as much as possible.
Saving money is necessarily an alternative, as Maugham's lessons have amply demonstrated. Then, we can only start from the two aspects of improving production efficiency and improving profit margins.
Schiller first replaced the entire traditional chicken coop with a more advanced high-tech coop. The new coop is designed according to the needs of the hen to lay eggs, both in terms of temperature control and humidity control, as well as living comfort and appearance. At the same time, Schiller also hired the most famous veterinarian from the town to set up a hen clinic in the chicken farm to solve the physiological problems of the hens in the least amount of time.
More importantly, Schiller also equipped the hens with professional laying teachers to ensure that every hen could learn the most advanced egg laying techniques, and also regularly promoted information about the value of eggs to the hens, and advertised the most outstanding hens among the hens, setting an example for the rest of the hens to catch up with.
The above are some of the methods that Schiller has taken to improve production efficiency, and it has indeed achieved remarkable results. But in the process of selling eggs and other products, there are always many distributors who divide some profits layer by layer. So Schiller began to use the emerging Internet technology to get in direct contact with customers throughout the town, and the products were delivered directly to the customers by himself or by people engaged in transportation work.
Because there are no middlemen, the price of eggs and other products is much lower than before, and schiller's profits have increased several times compared with before. It was a happy outcome, and the only negative effect was the cursing from the middleman.
Seven
At this point, Schiller's chicken coop has developed from the original income to one of the most influential chicken farms in the whole town of Ouya. And Schiller didn't seem to feel satisfied in the slightest, he had to continue to do more for the chicken coop, never stopping his steps, and keep going. The next step for now, he was going to buy the place south of the chicken coop, and he had other ideas about the land.
"My coop is going to be the best in the world, and my hen lays 10 eggs a day!" —Schiller said confidently.
Disclaimer: A laugh.