Chen started out awkwardly as a complete novice, spending 16 hours a day cooped up in the henhouse. But of his first batch of 1000 chicks, half died from disease. The same outcome resulted from his next two tries. He consulted books and fellow chicken farmers, and finally overcame numerous technical problems with feeding and immunization.
陳全鴻從全然陌生開始摸索，一天投入 16 小時「蹲」在雞舍，結果第一批一千隻小雞碰上雞瘟死了一半，後來接連二次如此，他請教同業、自己看書，終於克服了種種飼養、防疫的技術問題。