231: The eldest brother was infected with chicken coccidiosis

Ling Zhaorui: "I wonder what Brother Lu is doing. He hasn't made a sound all morning."

Su Liuyuan: "Lu Yu, Lu Yu, please respond if you hear me."

Jiang Zhengkang and others also joined the calling.

For a time, the public channel was as noisy as a wet market.

Jiang Fei couldn't help but pick up the walkie-talkie and say, "Quiet."

"Don't go out yet. Wait for the Base broadcast notification."

"Zhao Rui, use the walkie-talkie to contact the Cultivation Park and ask if you can take a leave of absence."

"If you can't, then wear a disposable protective suit when you go out and keep your gas mask on all day."

They all had protective gear at home, so Jiang Fei didn't need to send any.

Dressed in a protective suit, Jiang Fei was about to go to Villa No. 10 to check on Lu Yu's situation when the walkie-talkie rang again.

"I'm fine."

Lu Yu's voice was languid, clearly just waking up.

"Last night, I received a message from my team members and went to work overtime. I didn't get back until after 3 AM to catch up on sleep. The walkie-talkie was charging in the living room, so I didn't hear your calls."

Su Liuyuan asked doubtfully, "Does the Rescue Team still have to work overtime?"

The Rescue Team in Kyoto was different from the Safety Shelter's.

Unless there was a major disaster, they didn't need to go on missions.

Normally, they stayed in the Rescue Center office and didn't have to do anything.

The Security Team was responsible for daily patrols and maintaining order.

"The Security Team was too busy last night and short-staffed, so we went to assist."

At this point, Lu Yu's tone became serious: "There was a riot at the Base last night, with multiple incidents of fighting and assault, and the death toll exceeded one hundred."

"The residents have always lived in peace and followed the Base's rules, but they suddenly became extremely abnormal. The higher-ups suspect it's related to the gray fog."

"Sun Yifan and Yan Nanjun also died in a car accident. The investigation concluded it was an accident caused by the gray fog affecting visibility, but the Sun Family and Yan Family don't believe it and are making a huge fuss, demanding to search the entire Base."

"It's very chaotic outside right now, so everyone should try not to go out if possible."

Once she confirmed Lu Yu was safe, Jiang Fei felt relieved and switched channels to contact Mo Yanan.

After all, they were partners, so she had to give him a heads-up.

Mo Yanan already knew that there was a problem with the gray fog.

"The Research Institute has re-tested the gray fog, and results should be out tonight or tomorrow."

"Before then, Sister Jiang Fei, you all stay home and don't go out unless absolutely necessary."

"Okay." Jiang Fei cut off communication with Mo Yanan.

Her teammates were still chatting on the public channel.

Ling Zhaorui successfully took leave and was chatting with everyone, along with Su Liuyuan.

It was all meaningless chatter.

It wasn't their fault for being talkative.

Without phones or computers, and unable to go out, there was nothing to do at home except chat with friends.

Jiang Fei refused to join the group of chatterboxes, turned off the walkie-talkie, took off her protective suit, and entered the Supermarket.

The feed for aquatic products like green shrimp and black fish was running low, so she needed to replenish her stock of minced meat.

The Supermarket warehouse had meat grinders and a generator, so Jiang Fei only needed to cut the meat and put it into the machines.

Five meat grinders worked simultaneously, and after two hours of effort, 300 bags of minced meat were produced.

After feeding all the aquatic products in the ponds, Jiang Fei then took millet to feed the chicks and goslings.

But she saw Second, Third, and Fourth huddled in a corner of the enclosure.

In the opposite corner, First was curled up on the ground.

Its breathing was slightly rapid, its feathers had become dull and messy, and the entire chicken was a size thinner than two days ago.

On the ground around it were foul-smelling, bloody droppings.

These were symptoms of coccidiosis.

Coccidiosis is an intestinal parasitic disease of poultry and is highly contagious.

It can be transmitted to other poultry through excrement, feed, utensils, and other means.

Once it appears, the mortality rate is extremely high.

Jiang Fei brought over a tent, disinfectant, rubber gloves, disposable plastic bowls, iron plates, disposable pee pads, garbage bags, a cat litter box, cat litter, a large iron bucket, a bucket of fountain water, and a box of antibiotics.

She had once learned about breeding at the Safety Shelter's Planting Base.

Antibiotics could treat coccidiosis.

First, she set up four fully enclosed tents in the open space.

Each tent was more than 5 meters apart.

Inside each tent, she laid iron plates, then a layer of absorbent pee pads, and placed two disposable plastic bowls and a cat litter box filled with cat litter.

One plastic bowl contained fountain water, and the other contained millet.

The individual isolation rooms were now ready.

Coccidiosis is mainly transmitted between poultry and does not infect humans.

However, it could potentially infect other animals.

Taking the chicks and goslings outside for isolation would easily affect Big Yellow and would also be difficult to clean, so it was more convenient in the Supermarket.

Jiang Fei sent Second, Third, and Fourth into separate isolation tents.

One chicken per tent.

After administering the medicine to each one, she also checked their bodies.

They were in good spirits and showed no symptoms of infection for the time being.

Wearing rubber gloves, Jiang Fei used a dry towel to wipe First's dirty claws clean before sending it into the last tent.

The tent door had a zipper, so it wouldn't escape once zipped up.

First probably knew it was sick; after taking its medicine, it obediently lay down on the pee pad.

Afterward, Jiang Fei took tools to dismantle the enclosure and threw it into the large iron bucket to burn.

This included the feeders, water troughs, hay nests, pee pads, and other items, to prevent coccidial oocysts from remaining and continuing to infect the chickens and geese.

Most of the items were wooden, and they quickly burned to ashes.

Those that could not be burned, Jiang Fei disinfected and sealed in garbage bags, planning to throw them away later.

After clearing the enclosure, Jiang Fei began a large-scale disinfection, pondering the reason for First's infection.

On the first night the gray fog appeared, she had moved the chicks and goslings into the Supermarket to raise them.

They had always eaten clean millet and bottled mineral water, and often drank fountain water.

Logically, their health should be very good.

If it were a problem with locusts and the gray fog, it wouldn't have taken so long to manifest, and only First would show obvious symptoms.

The last time she fed the chicks and goslings was three days ago.

Unless... her clothes had picked up coccidial oocysts carried by insects, which then infected First.

After all, every time she came to feed them, First would cling to her, acting spoiled.

Thinking of this possibility, Jiang Fei disinfected and exited the Supermarket, then put all the clothes from her wardrobe into an iron basin to burn.

Fortunately, the clothes she had worn were placed outside, otherwise the entire Supermarket warehouse would have been ruined.

Jiang Zhengkang and the others were no longer chatting on the walkie-talkie.

Jiang Fei picked up the walkie-talkie and called Ling Zhaorui individually.

She told him about First's illness, wanting to confirm if her judgment was correct.

Ling Zhaorui: "It is indeed coccidiosis. Sister Jiang, have you vaccinated First and the others?"

"No."

During the zero-dollar shopping spree, she hadn't found any veterinary medicine for poultry or vaccines.

Ling Zhaorui: "I remember there's a Veterinary Hospital on the map Mo Yanan gave us."

"First getting coccidiosis might be because its immunity is the lowest."

"While Second and the others haven't shown symptoms, we can go to the Veterinary Hospital to buy vaccines and inject them ourselves when we get back."

"This way, they'll recover faster, and it can prevent future infections, as there are more than a dozen types of coccidiosis."

"I'll put on a protective suit now and go with you."

Jiang Fei: "No need, I'll go by myself. If anything happens, contact me on the walkie-talkie."

Ling Zhaorui lived with Su Liuyuan, and he might accidentally expose him to the fog.

She lived alone, so it was fine, and Big Yellow was kept in the cat room and not let out.

Fully geared up, Jiang Fei left her home and got into the pickup truck.

Following the map, she drove to the Base's only Veterinary Hospital.

The Veterinary Hospital had two floors in total.

The first floor was the reception hall, pharmacy, and lounge, and the second floor housed animal departments and operating rooms.

Jiang Fei got out of the car and walked in, immediately hearing the barking of dogs, mixed with the sharp cries of cats, parrots, and other animals, creating a noisy cacophony.

More than a dozen people sat on chairs in the hall, wearing protective suits and gas masks.

At their feet were iron cages, holding the pets brought for treatment.

Because they had accidentally inhaled or come into contact with the gray fog, some people's pets had become unusually irritable, some were overly excited, and some even kept making mating gestures.

The pharmacy door was locked, and there were no staff inside. Jiang Fei found the Veterinary Hospital's front desk.

It was a young girl, her eyes curved into crescents, very endearing.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

Jiang Fei was about to ask how to buy poultry vaccines when a series of barks suddenly rang out.