My 1995 Small Farm.

"Since you've put it that way, shouldn't I bring some better food to lure those wild geese over?"

Upon hearing Lynx's words, Chen Ling revealed a malicious smile.

"What do you mean? You want to use your geese as bait, like pheasant bait or bird bait, to lure that flock of wild geese over?"

Lynx raised an eyebrow; he felt this was unlikely to be feasible.

Because geese flocks are highly disciplined.

Unless you do what Chen Ling did, capture a group of them, clip their wings, and keep them in captivity for a period of time, you can't simply lure them over to settle down here.

"Pretty much. Anyway, I'm not greedy. It's almost the end of the year, so I'm not thinking about hunting anymore. I'll keep as many geese as I can."

Chen Ling appeared completely unconcerned.

The lynx paused upon hearing this: "So what do you plan to use to lure me?"

Chen Ling: "Just regular feed, plus some distiller's grains, soybean meal, tofu residue and the like. It's almost Chinese New Year, and these are the things we have in abundance. This stuff smells really good, isn't it better than eating wheat seedlings every day?"

"Is this okay?"

“It will definitely work. You don’t understand the power of feed on wild animals.”

Even if Chen Ling doesn't use his own spiritual energy-containing products or have no interest in attractants, animal feed is still extremely attractive to wild animals.

Even when there is plenty of food in the wild, it can't compare to the taste of animal feed.

People might think that feeding animals poor-quality feed will lead to a decline in the quality of animal meat.

But for wild animals, getting fed is like going to a restaurant after eating plain food every day.

It's like a child craving instant noodles or spicy snacks.

why?
It's because it tastes good and has flavor.

That's how feed is made.

It tastes better and has a better flavor than anything found in the wild.

Make people want to stop.

That's right, you can't just use feed randomly.

It is only because someone like Chen Ling, who often keeps all sorts of things and has loved birds, insects, and fish since childhood and is familiar with their habits, that he dares to come up with all sorts of wicked ideas and bad schemes.

If someone who doesn't understand only listens to one thing, then they're doomed.

You'll definitely fail as soon as you try to learn it.

For example, using chicken and duck feed, even though they are all poultry, can kill certain wild birds if fed with it.

Even a hardy parrot can't withstand two meals of chicken feed.

However, feeding geese with chicken or duck feed works fine.

The reason is simple.

Chickens, ducks, and geese are all omnivores.

The nutritional components are different.

Wild birds, primarily herbivorous, mainly feed on fruits and grains.

Chickens can't tolerate being fed chicken feed.

Let alone birds, even Er Mao Donkey's cows, which ate too much feed, got food poisoning, didn't they?
You can't just eat any food.

"I still don't understand. Are you free this afternoon? Take me to see it and let me learn a thing or two! I've discovered you've been hiding a lot of good stuff."

The lynx was still full of questions.

"Let's do it after the New Year. We need to make tofu at home this afternoon, and we'll make some for both of you then. It's already the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, so we need to hurry."

I need to make rice cakes again on the 28th (the day after tomorrow). I'm so busy at the end of the year, I don't have time for these things.

Chen Ling sighed: "But it's possible to let the geese graze for a couple of rounds this afternoon. I haven't even had a chance to let them graze for a couple of rounds since I got back."

"Yes, what you said is true. The end of the year is always busy."

The lynx chuckled: "When we came here, the village was discussing that even if the work was stopped, we couldn't let you sit idle. Everyone said that the village can't do without you now. They're going to ask you to replace the statue in the local temple."

"I'm just a storefront; if all else fails, I'll just donate a hundred yuan as incense money."

Chen Ling was helpless. He knew it wasn't about money. Although he was young, he already had a certain level of prestige.

The villagers were willing to have him present for many things.

It's not that I'm after his money; I trust him more. That's why I feel so helpless.

"Let's go, let's go. We've eaten and drunk our fill. Let's feed the geese and release them when the sun goes down. They just flew back, so let them rest."

After finishing the remaining soup and rice, Chen Ling got up and took the lynx to the backyard. He used a winnowing basket to collect some soybean meal residue from oil pressing, which he mixed with ground cornmeal and wheat bran.

A large winnowing basket full of vegetables was carried to the ditch, poured into a stone trough, rinsed with water, and mixed with leftover vegetable leaves.

Seeing the fragrant food, the geese had been eagerly anticipating it, and like the geese themselves, they frantically ate by the food trough, quacking away.

The feeling of wolfing it down was simply amazing.

"I feed them like this, and give them some leftovers every day. These geese won't even eat wheat seedlings when they go outside."

Chen Ling said, "We have a saying here: when wild geese come, they eat wheat seedlings; when swallows come, they eat noodles. Everyone welcomes swallows but not wild geese."

It's because geese are damaging the wheat seedlings.

But when there's something delicious to eat, nobody wants to eat wheatgrass anymore.

This oily feed is just as good as high-protein feed. The geese eat so much of this that they won't even look at wheat seedlings.

"Hehe, that's true. I've realized now that your reasoning, although it sometimes sounds old-fashioned, is indeed correct and very effective."

The lynx chuckled: "I used to think your methods were unorthodox, but now that I think about it, they're all based on the nature of this wild thing."

"Yes, you're right."

Chen Ling nodded with his hands behind his back: "You know how many pheasants my family attracts in the spring. Based on their habits, just set a trap for them, and you'll catch them every time!"

Of course, he didn't intentionally bring these pheasants into his home.

It's because there have been too many male pheasants in the mountains in the past two years.

Finding a wife is difficult, and when they are in heat, they see the hens down the mountain and are very tempted, so they come over and compete to mate.

Afterwards, since food and lodging were provided here, it was very comfortable, and I didn't want to leave.

As for whether they laid eggs after hybridization.

Chen Ling wasn't sure either. Anyway, when he thought about it recently, he had already caught some pheasants and thrown them into the cave to mate with the local chickens.

Raising chickens is a minor matter, nothing to pay much attention to.

At best, it can produce quick-cooked botnets, but it's not very useful otherwise.

"It seems your geese really have the potential to be used as bait. I was just overthinking it. I was really afraid that if I let Er Tu Zi take his two henchmen to herd the geese twice, you would mess things up and lose these geese, which would then run away with the flock."

"That won't happen."

After chatting about the geese, the two started talking about the puppies. Thanks to Chen Ling's feeding, the puppies have grown strong and healthy.

Puppies of this age are normally plump and chubby, which is when they are most adorable.

These puppies, however, were skin and bones.

This shows how pitiful they were; in the wild, they were lucky to get a drink once every five or six days.

When there are too many puppies, the mother dog is no longer willing to nurse them.

The mother dog was hungry too.

Fortunately, these puppies are behaving well and are now very affectionate.

Both Chen Ling and Shanmao considered him a promising talent.

The genes of native dogs, also known as Chinese rural dogs, are very unstable.

Once raised, dogs that are well-behaved and those that are rebellious are almost polar opposites. It goes without saying how difficult it is to raise a hunting dog with high obedience.

The two men didn't expect to raise these dogs to become hunting dogs.

As long as they are sensible and can guard the house, that's good enough.

Then, after crossbreeding with purebred dogs a few times, Chen Ling had long heard that many of the predecessors of World War II military dogs were crossbred to have four different bloodlines, which resulted in good dogs.

Anyway, give it a try.

As the two were talking and about to leave, Wang Laishun arrived on his bicycle.

"Fugui, are you busy this afternoon? There's something going on in the village that you need to go over there."

"Is the local earth god temple getting a new statue?"

"Yes, it's good that you heard. Let's go take a look." (End of Chapter)