Chapter 177 The Hare Forest in Winter (Part 2)
The thoughts turn back and return to reality.
What the master thought was that if so many poultry wanted to spend the winter safely, they would be neglected due to insufficient manpower and would lose at least one fifth of the loss.
However, only those who walk around the poultry circle will find that it is quite warm. Even in the poultry circle, there are more or less bushes. They can hide in it on weekdays. If it is colder, entering their poultry nest will be a good choice.
The most important point is also the inspiration I got from poultry-related experiments.
Generally speaking, strong animals are more suitable for survival in the cruel nature than weak animals. For example, tigers and lions live longer than cattle and sheep living in the same place.
If you don’t understand animals, then the elderly in Kōnet are stronger than the elderly in Sanguo Village, so in the cold weather, it is of course easier for them to survive one difficulty after another than them.
I have experimented with poultry that had been eaten by maggots for two months. Whether it was aggressive, running speed, or even energy-intensive all day long, it was much better than the average poultry I remembered in my past.
From this I think they are the strong men in the poultry world, and those who used to be the villagers of Sanguo Village at the foot of Luoxi Mountain.
Well……
Sorry, the metaphor is somewhat inappropriate, but the truth is still the same. I believe they can survive this winter at least.
Although I am so confident, I have not forgotten that careful care will make them stronger.
Every day, the Three Kingdoms Junior Army and the girls will come to clean three times and check the poultry's condition. Once the poultry's bodies look so cold, they have to be put into several specially made large houses, where a pile of wood will burn in the middle of the house to increase the temperature around them, thereby warming their bodies.
When I arrived at the poultry circle, more than a thousand boys and girls were cleaning, not only those over ten years old, but also many seven-year-old boys and girls. They also fed the poultry with dried maggots, and they also held brooms and shovels to clean up the snow and various feces of the poultry.
Cleaning poultry manure is a very dirty and hard job, but according to the older generation of farmers, the poultry manure is very, very good fertilizer. When fallow in autumn and winter, sprinkle them evenly in the fields and mix them with a hoe. Then in spring, the fertility of the black soil will be beyond imagination and better than now.
I have never been a wasteful person. So every day after they clean, they will load and push them to the black soil to increase the land.
Although the children are very young, their enthusiasm is no less than that of these young soldiers of the Three Kingdoms.
In their naive and lovely hearts, there is actually no idea of "I am honored to work for the Three Kingdoms Village" and "work hard and contribute every point". The reason why they work so hard is that they are busy for a long time and can get at least one food coupon to get home. If they do it very well today, they may not be able to add another one.
Although they are just some simple fish and meat tickets, and there are very few poultry, rice dumplings, bamboo shoots and other food tickets, they still have a lot of fun. After all, they are playing at home, so they can get more food. In the future, during the Chinese New Year and the holidays, they can also subsidize their parents with more food.
There is no reward for the Three Kingdoms Young Army doing things. If anyone feels unhappy, then the three meals that the Three Kingdoms Young Army enjoys for free every day can be like the girls, boys and girls, after the daily work is over, they will receive the corresponding food stamps and go home.
Of course, the young soldiers are not fools. This involves not only the problem of three meals, but also the problem of face and face.
For example, the three-country young army that lost their composure in Meishen Village last time can only develop towards farmers, fishermen or public security patrols.
They have all become the negative teaching materials for parents of other families to educate their children: "Children, don't be like them, you will become soft-legged shrimps when you encounter war. Sanguo Village is our own village. If you all run away, who else will protect us and your relatives and friends..."
Therefore, even if I treat these little guys as coolies, they can only grit their teeth and persevere, and do almost more than adults every day... Of course, they eat less than adults, and they make all their sisters come to complain several times, saying that they consume too much food every day, and that some big tigers don’t say anything about it, but now there are more small tigers.
I naturally answered, I don’t know other tigers, but I really want to eat you, a beautiful girl.
So Sister Quan had to run away again with shame.
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The pigpen is not far from the poultry pen, which is just two hundred meters away.
Those who are also busy in the pigpen are eight farmers and some boys and girls.
Pigs don’t like how to move, so we built more than a dozen large houses of very long lengths to let pigs live in them. If the weather is too cold, each large house will have to burn a pile of wood to keep them warm, which is warm and comfortable, and it is convenient to eat.
No wonder many children say that if they live like a pig's first half of their lives, it would be very good.
After dozens of failures, the domestic pigs and wild boars even made the domestic pigs pay the price of their lives, and finally achieved successful breeding last month.
Nowadays, the twenty-two new generations of hybrid piglets can already wander around the pigpen.
I like pigs very much because they breed much more powerfully than poultry. They will have at least three or four births, so don’t be surprised if they give birth to seven or eight.
This time, only four sows gave birth to little cubs, which brought us so many pigs.
Pigs are very capable of giving birth. They never cause trouble. They can grow to hundreds of kilograms. It is true that they provide us with abundant meat, but a big difficulty is that pigs are too edible.
The grown-up poultry can eat about one pound of maggots every day, and it has a good appetite, but a pig worth 100 pounds of food every day, while a pig worth 200 pounds of pigs worth 200 pounds of food is doubled!
If there are 1,000 pigs with 200 kilograms of food, it will cost 6,000 kilograms of food a day, and 180,000 kilograms of food a month.
Now you understand, apart from the breeding boars and sows, why do 200 kilograms of pigs need to be slaughtered?
It's really because I can't afford it!
Moreover, pigs are not carnivorous animals and rarely eat meat.
Generally, they do not eat the fish that we store the most, which makes our large reserves useless.
What pigs like to eat are wild vegetables, wheat bran, soybeans, rice, and wheat...
Damn, it’s even more expensive than us!
Fortunately, based on the years of experience of eight pig feeding farmers, they also like one, which is the powder made of various bones, mixed in wild vegetable wheat bran, and they will eat it very fragrant every time.
We don’t have other bones, but there are as many fish bones as you want.
Therefore, the remaining fish bones are almost 30,000 kilograms per day. The kitchen fry them in a hot pan and then dehydrate and boil them. Then put them in a special bone crusher for paying the bones. Stirring the handles vigorously, crushing the bones into powder, bagging them for later use.
Just like that, the hundreds of kilograms of food consumed by more than 100 domestic pigs and wild boars were mostly fish bone meal, while the smallest were wild vegetables dug from the hare forest and the mountains, and the least were wheat bran.
As for soybeans, they are for horses to eat. The weight of domestic pigs is not as good as that of horses, so they can only be wronged.
The pigs eat so much every day and the pig manure is pulled out. They are also moved to the ground by the young soldiers every day, nourishing the land fertilely again, waiting for next year to strive for a huge harvest.
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Horses also do not need to run in winter, so they also live in horse circles.
However, because of the different degrees of attention, the treatment of horse pens and pig pens is also different.
The pigpen is just a dozen stone houses built in thick and thick, but the horse pen is a stone house made of the best materials. It is so tall and spacious, and the place where each horse lives is larger than that of ordinary people.
It is precisely because of this that the horse circle occupies about fifty acres of land. Since the horse is not afraid of the cold and needs to be expanded in the future, it cannot be placed in the hare forest. It is chosen as a sandwich position in the Liuyin River, the black soil and bamboo forest.
Even if the cavalry soldiers are busy and tired every day, they will come to the horse circle to see their own treasures, comb their hair and feed them something.
Of course, accurate feeding will not be done by the cavalry, because they are not very time-consuming and often trained outside. They have to wait until they feed each meal, and the horse will probably starve to death.
Therefore, the feeding and cleaning work on weekdays is still completed by the Young Army of the Three Kingdoms.
Don't say, the job of feeding horses is the most popular.
Because most of the young soldiers of the Three Kingdoms also have a cavalry dream, dreaming that they can ride a horse, kill the enemy majestic, and appear in front of their families with a full load.
Therefore, every time they feed the horse, they are very careful and patient, and often receive additional praise and rewards from the cavalry.
The daily consumption of each horse is even larger than that of a pig. Although we cut tens of millions of kilograms of weeds from the wasteland as early as late summer; even if we left almost all 200,000 kilograms of wheat bran and 400,000 kilograms of rice bran for the horse, there is still a problem of insufficient nutrition.
Such a horse must have lost weight greatly. Whether it can survive the cold winter is one aspect. Even if it has passed the cold winter, it doesn’t know how thin it looks. It takes only a few months to recover and cannot be on the battlefield.
However, I am such a smart person. The inspiration I got from feeding pigs added fish bone meal to their feed. I didn't expect that they really like to eat it. Later, I didn't eat one or two pounds of fish bone meal every day, and I liked to scream for a while without eating one or two pounds of fish bone meal every day.
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Chapter completed!