Children instead of cartoons and computer games prefer to take care of chickens on a family farm
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan pays great attention to the development of small and medium-sized businesses in the countryside. Marakin family has been breeding laying hens and broilers for the third year in the Srednie Pinyachi of the Zainsky district.
“Apparently, the alarm clock is built into us,” the Marakin family jokes. - We wake up at five a.m.. Not with the first roosters, of course, but still early. Son Arkady, the main assistant, is still sleeping this time. At six a.m he already helps with the housework. "
The morning of the spouses Albert and Svetlana does not start like everyone's else. If others, for example, city people, have breakfast after taking a shower, then the Marakins first go to their farm to visit the birds. You need to feed the birds and check for water. Ten thousand mouths, five thousand each on the first and 5 on the second floor, eat up one ton of feed per day. Before full growth they need up to 23 tons.
“We also have a board installed in our house, where numbers are constantly displayed - the temperature in the case. This makes it possible to quickly respond to any decrease or increase in degree, - says Albert. - I remember the bad weather was terrible, then they were left without electricity. On the scoreboard - everything was highlighted. There was a risk of losing chicks, but the trouble could be bypassed by connecting a generator. ”
As Svetlana says, before she started breeding broilers and laying hens, she worked as a postmaster, and her husband worked as a driver at an agricultural company, after purchasing Kamaz, she started shipping. And in 2016, the Marakines decided to change their lives.
On the advice and with the support of relatives (the Martemianovs), they took a loan of one million rubles, invested their savings, and in the place where they used to plant potatoes, built a two-story building with an area of 318 square meters. They raised the object in a few months - laid the foundation and built the walls.
“They very quickly made the roof - in ten hours. About 30 men were involved in the work - all these were relatives. At this time, women prepared a lunch and dinner. Our family is big and friendly, - said the hostess Svetlana. “Then we purchased equipment — automatic drinkers and a diesel fan heater.”
“Chicks of laying hens and broilers are brought from Udmurtia. First, we breed laying hens for a hundred days, then two or three times a year (for a month) - broilers. “We clean, disinfect, whiten, heat the room up to 32 degrees, fill the floor with sawdust before each delivery.”
While the chicks do not grow large, the Marakines several times a day (at least fifteen times exactly, the spouses admit) go to the farm and monitor the condition of the birds, the air temperature in the room, the operability of the equipment.
Wholesalers, mostly from Tatarstan, knowing a lot about quality, constantly go for broilers and laying hens to the family from the Srednie Pinyaki. Albert and Svetlana - are simple and honest, so they will not deceive. They said that the vaccines were made to the birds on time, so it is. It is also true that they were fed with high-quality food and received the necessary vitamins. And wholesalers like the son of the Marakin, Arkady, will welcome and thoroughly explain everything.
"Hello. Come in. Now broilers' weight reaches from 1.5 to 2 kilograms. Check yourself, put on the scales - 1.7 kilograms, ”says small farmer Arkady. The son, when he grows up, wants to continue and expand the family poultry farming.
In addition, three daughters Marina, Alena, Natasha, sons-in-law Edward with Artem and mother-in-law Natalya Makarovna help their father and mother on the farm. And one more assistant is growing up - a grandson.
Spouses Albert and Svetlana are engaged not only in poultry farming, but they also keep numerous cattle - cows, bull calves, pigs, chickens, geese. They manage to look after all this living creatures . They have time also to help lonely old woman living next door. They constantly bring her water, clean the snow, invite to dinner.
So another busy day came to an end. In the next room, the son is sleeping. The boy, instead of computer games and cartoons, prefers to have a good sleep, as tomorrow there is a lot of work. The spouses Albert and Svetlana are also on vacation - before they go to bed, they do not watch the series or the news on TV, but check up the board. So, everything is in order on the farm - the birds are warm and they can sleep.