After lunch, Shen Yunfang briskly headed home; there was still a pile of chores waiting for her. Focused on enjoying her own meat, she had completely forgotten about the two fat pigs at home.
Once home, she first chopped some wild greens and mixed them with sweet potatoes, boiling a large pot of pig feed. She carried it to the backyard and poured it into the trough before starting on other tasks.
The second batch of chicks had already hatched: out of thirty eggs, twenty-seven chicks emerged. This time she was more fortunate: twenty hens and seven roosters, bringing her total number of hens to fifty-one and roosters to ten.
Now, with sixty-one chickens, ten ducks, and ten geese, the daily feeding of over eighty fowl was no small feat.
