Chapter 12: Egg Laying (Ch 807808609)

July 1st.
Jiang Miao recruited two sales people, one purchasing person, one legal person, two managers, a food engineer, a truck driver, and a computer administrator.
Legal affairs is to improve the company’s rules, regulations and contracts, and it also serves as human resources.
There are two managers, one is responsible for managing the eel canning factory, and the other is responsible for managing the company’s own online store.
All departments are operating in an orderly manner.
After more than a week of testing, the farm’s indoor breeding equipment has preliminarily completed the acceptance work and can finally be put into use.
Jiang Miao personally led people to transport 150 eels from his home to the breeding farm.
In the indoor breeding area of ​​the farm.
Watching the eels being put into the pond.
Jiang Miao began to adjust the temperature and salinity of the pool water with his brother-in-law, adjusting the temperature to be similar to that near the Mariana Trench, and the salinity was the same.
Fifty eels were placed in each pond.
It will take about half a month to complete the degeneration, so the nutritional supply must be strengthened during this half month, and special feed needs to be prepared and some nutrients added to accelerate the degeneration of the eel.
Jiang Miao personally directed all the work of preparing feed and adding nutrients.
He stayed at the farm for the next half month.
And the other side.
Wang Feng and Ke Yong also escorted all the small canning production lines and supporting equipment back to Ma Gong.
My cousin has prepared the site for the eel cannery and is now installing the second-hand canning production lines.
July 18th.
Jiang Miao came up and took another look at the eel pond.
[…morphologically female, has reached the reproductive period, needs male fish stimulation to promote the production of female hormones. ]
After looking at 150 eels, they found that one third of them had turned into females.
Three more days passed, and all 150 eels turned into females.
Jiang Miao adjusted the feed and nutrients, and at the same time put 60 male fish into the pond to raise them together with the female fish.
Less than ten days later, the first female fish began to ovulate.
Then the remaining female fish also laid eggs one after another.
After laying eggs, the female fish are on the verge of death, so they have to be salvaged and slaughtered.
These days, eels are eaten every day in the company cafeteria, and hundreds of eels are frozen in the refrigerator.
Jiang Miao also took the opportunity to ask his mother and Aunt Li to try cooking eels more, intending to use it as a reference for the flavor of the next canned eels.
However, Jiang Miao and others stayed in the indoor breeding area of ​​the farm at this time. No one dared to leave casually because the three pools were full of eel eggs, and they were all fertilized eggs.
Before I knew it, another week had passed.
My brother-in-law yelled, “Ah Miao, look! Is it a glass eel?”
Jiang Miao quickly approached the pool, and sure enough, there were some densely packed translucent little fish swimming in the pool.
“Quick, arrange for someone to come and salvage the hatched fry and transfer them to the first-level pond.”
“Okay!” My brother-in-law was also very excited.
Soon the eel fry in the three pools were scooped into the first-level pool.
However, since the remaining fish eggs were still hatching, Zhang Xincheng arranged two employees to watch the hatching pond and scoop them out every hour to transfer the hatched glass eels to the first-level pond.
Jiang Miao prepared the imitation “sea snow” feed, which is also the key to the survival rate of glass eels.
In less than five days, more than 95% of the approximately 240,000 eel eggs at the bottom of the hatchery pond had hatched.
If these 210,000 glass eels were sold at this time, their value would be around 600,000 yuan.
However, as the first batch of fish fry, Jiang Miao is not in a hurry.
My brother-in-law and my father couldn’t help but smile when they saw the densely packed glass eels in the first-level pool.
Zhang Xincheng was so excited that he was at a loss: “A Miao, you are amazing! The artificial breeding technology of eels is really successful. What should we do next?”
“No rush. Next, we need to cultivate the 70,000 eels in the open-air fish pond in batches to ensure a steady supply of eel fry.”
Zhang Xincheng nodded: “I have already arranged fish ponds 1 to 5 and fed them according to the recipe you gave. It’s been almost two months now. They should be able to reproduce, right?”
Jiang Miao nodded: “Well, start moving them into the indoor breeding pool.”
Suddenly Zhang Xincheng remembered something: “A Miao, I’m worried that we won’t have enough manpower next time. Should we find a few more people?”
“Recruit five more.”
“Okay.” Zhang Xincheng nodded.
In the blink of an eye, it’s already September.
The second batch of 5,000 female fish also successfully laid eggs and hatched, producing approximately 7.6 million glass eels.
At the same time, all the female eels after spawning were sent to the eel canning factory to be canned eels.
The third batch of female eels also followed the schedule.
The newly purchased 5,000 mature white eels were also released into open-air fish ponds No. 1 to 5.
Farms and canning factories have gradually entered a state of circular production.
My brother-in-law, Li Zhou and others also began to sell eel fry to surrounding eel farms.
Li Zhou, in particular, used his connections from purchasing mature eels to sell eel fry to eel farms.
Zhelang Town in Hailufeng.
Li Zhou and the new salesman Huang Jiahao drove the pickup truck that the company had just purchased to the gate of a breeding farm.
Li Zhou got out of the car and slammed the big iron gate hard.
“Old Zhao, are you there?”
“who?”
“I’m Xiao Li, I came here to buy eels.”
The iron door clicked, and a middle-aged black fat man poked his head out: “Eh? Isn’t this Xiao Li? Buying eels again? You’re late, my latest batch of white eels has been ordered by someone else.”
Li Zhou waved his hand and asked in a low voice: “Old Zhao, do you want some eel fry?”
“Eel fry? Do you have any connections?” Old Zhao immediately became interested.
“Of course, one kilogram of glass eel costs 28,000 yuan. Do you want it?”
“So cheap?” Lao Zhao was skeptical. After all, the current import price of glass eels on the market is around 31,000 yuan per kilogram.
Li Zhou opened the back of the pickup truck, which had a modified temporary water tank on it: “Old Zhao, check the goods.”
Lao Zhao quickly picked up a small net bag and carefully scooped up a net. It was indeed a glass eel, and it was not small in size, about 0.1 grams each, and it was quite active.
Suddenly, Lao Zhao frowned and said, “Xiao Li, it’s not that I don’t want them, but glass eels are difficult to raise. I always buy leaf eels from specialized companies.”
Li Zhou had expected this and took out a printed copy of the glass eel farming technology with a smile: “Old Zhao, this is the glass eel farming technology for you for free. You can purchase the special feed directly from our company.”
“Is this true or false?”
“Lao Zhao, my company is right next to Ma Gong. If you have any questions, you can come to us.”
Hearing this, Lao Zhao couldn’t help but be a little excited, and asked quickly: “Really 28,000 per kilogram? And also give you the breeding technology of glass eels?”
“Why would I lie to you? If you need anything in the future, just call my company directly.”
Lao Zhao took the business card and looked at it: “Hailufeng Agricultural Technology Company? From Magong?” He put the business card away and spread out five fingers:
“Give me five kilograms of fry, plus two hundred kilograms of glass eel feed.”
Both parties prepared buckets and electronic scales. After peeling the eels, Li Zhou and his companion scooped out 5.2 kilograms of glass eels from the water tank and gave them to the other party.
“Thanks. I transferred the 140,000 yuan.”
Li Zhou looked at the company’s financial group. Ye Meijing sent a screenshot confirming receipt of the payment. He smiled and said, “Then I’ll go to other farms first. I’ll treat you to dinner when I’m free.”
“no problem.”
Based on the connections made from the previous purchase of eels, plus some friends provided by his brother-in-law, Li Zhou and his friend sold more than two million glass eels in less than a week, as well as nine tons of special feed for glass eels.