Jiujin Huang is a Shanghai Pudong chicken, commonly known as Jiujin Huang. Only because this kind of chicken can grow to more than nine pounds when it reaches adulthood, and the whole body is mainly yellow hair, it is called "nine pounds of yellow". Qing Yongzheng's "Nanhui County Chronicle Magazine Volume 15" recorded: "Chicken, the big one who produces Pudong, has nine pounds of yellow and black twelve names. ”
In fact, the mother raised more than a dozen nine-pound yellow chickens, but the village was often plagued by chicken plague, a nest of death, a dozen chickens quickly died, leaving only a nine-pound yellow hen. Many of the chickens in the village have also died. Some people simply stopped raising chickens and only a few ducks and geese. My mother felt that farmers' families, who do not raise chickens, are not like a peasant family. Mom has a theory: farmers can't do without raising chickens and ducks.
This nine-pound yellow chicken for the rest of his life after the plague became the baby of his mother, and in addition to the eldest grandson, it had to rank second. Mom named it Erhuang. Erhuang is familiar with the mother just as the mother is familiar with the second huang. Erhuang Yuanyun took the shadow of his mother, and as soon as he heard his mother's voice, he sprinted over, as if his relatives were reunited after a long absence. Sometimes it was outside with the sound of an old mother's footsteps, and it also ran to the door early to wait for the mother to come out. The mother and the father were angry, the tone of the speech was not right, and it also hid aside; the mother was happy, and it also surrounded the front and back, pestering the mother to eat, and humming a little song in its mouth.
The old mother is also very familiar with erhuang. As soon as you listen to the sound, you will know whether Erhuang is sick or healthy, whether to lay eggs or play a nest. Once, the mother sent Er Huang a little bit of a hair color, so she consulted with her father and said, "His dad, let's block the corner and grab Er Huang to see if it is sick, now the chicken plague is too bad." Dad didn't care, just casually said, "Okay, net nonsense." The old mother gave birth: "In addition to eating eggs, you also know something!" "Dad was helpless, helped his mother catch Erhuang, sure enough, it was not chicken plague, after the mother took good care of it, soon the hair also lit up, and the scream was also cheerful.
There is a set of two yellow eggs, often double yellow eggs, large and delicious. In order to ensure the nutrition of Erhuang, The mother seasons spices to enrich erhuang's diet. Especially in the summer, the mother would go to the field to find lala to feed the chickens. Lala maggot, scientific name of the slug, slug, commonly known as lala maggot, earth monkey, earth dog. It is rumored that chickens are fed with lara maggots, and chickens love to lay double yolk eggs. It doesn't make sense. According to research, there are three reasons for chickens to lay double yolk eggs: First, physiological reasons, hens due to strong reproductive function, follicle-stimulating hormone and ovulation induction hormone excessive secretion. The second is pathological causes, mostly due to sudden fright, wild flight, abdominal pressure spike increase, pressure breaking "follicle slits", resulting in two or more yolks moving out. The third is genetic causes. I think that my mother raised erhuang so carefully, it must be a genetic reason.
The two yellow nest hatching chicks are also very good at it. Some hens do not incubate eggs in their nests, and the mother says, "Lazy mother-in-law, net laziness hides from idleness." Do not lay eggs or incubate eggs. "Some hens are lying in the nest and hatching eggs, but they often leave the nest, the eggs are half hatched, and the chicks have not yet come out of the shell, and the hen will not dry the picks." Sometimes it takes a little longer to hatch the chicks, but before the chicks can enjoy "adult self-reliance", they leave it alone. Erhuang is not like this, either lay eggs or lay eggs in the nest, and do their duty. It's a bit like an old mother, who has been diligent all her life, worked hard and complained, and has a child, no matter how difficult it is, she has to raise an adult. As soon as I was born, I was frail and sickly, and others said I couldn't live. But my mother had to feed me up and became the most prominent person in the family. Because I grew up to be one of the few college students in the village, my mother often proudly said to people: "Good people are commonplace, and Lai Han has a good life." ”
However, Erhuang did not hide from the chicken plague in the end, one hot summer, it quietly died, and the mother buried it deep in the field as fertilizer for the crops. This also drew a satisfactory end to Erhuang's life.