Farming people can not collapse

Zhou Yang is planning to do both planting and breeding.

Let’s not talk about planting, because it is already summer, and it is the harvest season of rapeseed, corn, and rice. Planting vegetables is not the best choice for him at this time. Even if it is a second crop, he has to consider the weather and soil conditions. fertility.

In fact, he was preparing the land first and then preparing it for planting.

If you are not busy planting, then you can worry about breeding first.

Originally, Zhou Yang stopped growing vegetables, but after actually analyzing the existing geographical environment and various conditions of Rongshu Village, he found that breeding has a greater chance of winning than planting.

After all, he always boasted in front of his family that he wanted to fly with the whole village, so naturally he couldn't just be happy for himself.

Choosing to raise pigs is not a whim, but a deliberate one.

Pigs, fish and poultry, these three are generally the first choice of farmers for farming, but fish farming was first excluded by Zhou Yang.

Here I have to mention the surrounding environment of Rongshu Village.

Although there are mountains in Rongshu Village, there are no rivers or lakes. There are only three weir ponds for the so-called large area of ​​water. One is at Uncle Wuquan's house and the other is at Zhou's house—of course this is Xiaoyantang, which may only be about [-] square meters.

This kind of weir pond can be used to grow lotus roots and fish, but they are all for personal use, which is enough for the whole family to eat, and then give some to relatives.

After all, there are no rivers in Rongshu Village, and the drinking water is to dig wells to drink groundwater. It is not advisable to develop a large-scale fishery.

After the fish are excluded, pigs and poultry are left.

Let’s talk about poultry first, the most common are chickens, ducks and geese.

However, as I said before, Rongshu Village does not have enough water resources, and both ducks and geese need a wide enough water area. Therefore, only a few families in Rongshu Village raise ducks and geese, and the number is only a few. Stocking in weir ponds.

Even though Zhou Yang has a lot of knowledge about raising ducks and geese in his head, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and he can't make a big change to the overall environment of Rongshu Village right now.

The rest are chickens and pigs.

The reason why he chose to raise pigs first instead of chickens was also decided by Zhou Yang after discussing with his family.

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Indeed, from the perspective of short-term benefits, raising chickens will require slightly less investment than raising pigs, and the output will be faster.

According to the normal situation, it takes five months for a pig to be ready for slaughter, but if it is a broiler chicken raised for meat, it can be ready for slaughter in about one and a half months, even if it is a laying hen for sustainable development, it can start to lay eggs in about four months , which are then converted into monetary gains.

However, the account can't be calculated like this.

Can not only consider the benefits, while ignoring the risks.

In terms of people's needs, pork is a must-have dish on their table here. If the family has some money and wants to start a meat festival, the first choice is to cut pork.Chicken is usually eaten by distinguished guests at home or during festivals, and the demand is much smaller.

So at least in the whole province, the price of pork has been rising all the time, but raising chickens is not such a good treatment, no matter whether it is broiler chickens or eggs, because the chickens are slaughtered quickly, the market fluctuates quickly, and the chicken farmers are tense Keep up, always be ready to make up or add columns.

The most important thing is that although raising chickens seems to be faster than raising pigs, the incidence of chickens is high. Almost every autumn and winter, chicken farmers will be careful to prevent bird flu. Coupled with the gregarious nature of chickens, Once you get sick, you will die.

Now it is July and August, and the chicks in July and August are called Xia Chicks—the name sounds nice, but it is the most unsuitable season for chicks to survive in all seasons.

One - the summer temperature in July and August is high, the breeder's physique is weak, and the quality of fertilized eggs will be greatly reduced;

Second - the hen is also afraid of heat, squatting on the egg with fluffy body to keep warm and incubating is also a kind of incubating, so the chicks hatched in this way are of poor physique;

Thirdly—July and August are the seasons when mosquitoes are rampant. People are afraid of mosquito bites. These little chickens with only a small layer of fluff and thin and tender skin are also afraid. Moreover, mosquito bites are very easy to spread diseases, which is not conducive to the growth of chicks. It is easy to develop stiff chickens;

Fourth - even if the chicks grow up despite all kinds of difficulties and dangers, people don't have much appetite to reduce in summer, so don't expect Xia Chu to produce fat and fat broilers. Basically, Xia Chu can only be raised as laying hens.But because I didn’t lay a solid foundation when I was young, and my physique and nutrition couldn’t keep up, I don’t even think about being able to lay eggs that year, at least I have to wait until the next spring to start laying.However, the short duration of the first biological laying year is largely unprofitable.

Why bother?

However, pigs are different.

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The fat-headed and big-eared second senior brother is best raised in summer.

The reason is very simple. A pig starts to be raised in summer, and it is covered with autumn fat in autumn. It happens to be the beginning of winter when it is sold, and it will be ready for slaughter in about five months. At this time, every household will start to prepare bacon and sausages or store them for the winter, and collect pigs The price is relatively high, so it can be sold at a high price.

In addition to the differences in diseases and seasons between pigs and chickens, the impact of raising pigs and chickens on human health cannot be ignored.

Chickens have bird flu, and there are various variants, some of which can infect humans.Chicken farmers are in contact with live poultry every day. Once people are infected, the fatality rate is still very high.

Although Zhou Yang has a lot of knowledge about breeding and planting in his mind, knowing it with his brain and being able to do it with his hands are actually two concepts. He is sure that he has never personally touched this aspect before, so at the very beginning, he was very excited. Choose a relatively simple mode of operation with self-knowledge.

In comparison, the safety and success rate of raising pigs will be much higher.

Although pig farmers often suffer from foot-and-mouth disease, blue-ear disease, etc., because pigs are basically kept together in a pen with a few pigs at most, the infectivity is not particularly strong, and there are relatively mature treatment plans for epidemic prevention, and for As far as humans are concerned, infectious diseases in pigs are basically not deterrent to human health.

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And Zhou Yang asked the wild boar demon to meet his request, and it turned out to be a "sample member" in the process of raising pigs.

Not to mention that Wei Ge didn't know how to express his face, even the big wild boar monster who was mentally preparing for Zhou Yang's lion to open his mouth was stunned - he could see the sluggish expression from that black pig face!

Yes, it's not "breeding", but "sample" - Wei Ge didn't quite understand the series of nouns in Zhou Yang's mouth, and only relied on his meager knowledge of junior high school students to understand that Zhou Yang would meet for raising pigs. The living conditions of the pigs, especially the feed, should be improved. Because ordinary pigs can't speak and their bodies are fragile, I want the wild boar demon to try it out and give feedback in time.

The most difficult thing for Wei Ge to understand was that after listening to Zhou Yang's explanation, Big Wild Boar agreed after a little thought, without any anger at being compared to an ordinary pig by Zhou Yang as a majestic monster.

Oh, he almost forgot, the big wild boar thinks that the pig looks as beautiful as a fairy, so eating the same thing as the pig is not a grievance to him at all.

Wei Ge thought with a cold expression.

However, Wei Ge's composure was broken—because not only the big wild boar, but even the "concubines" were very interested in Zhou Yang's "sample sampler", and they had their own reasons.

For example, the big wild boar has strong demon power, so a slightly harmful reaction to the body may be resolved by his own demon power before he realizes it.

But their strength is lower, so they can give immediate feedback on abnormalities and discomforts that the big wild boars can't detect.

Wei Ge continued to remain expressionless: When did low strength become something to show off?

Wild boar demons: You don't understand, the bowl of glutinous rice paste that I made for my sister just now made them so greedy!

Zhou Yang was very happy. After all, the wild boar monsters he recommended himself were all female...women, and there were subtle differences in the breeding conditions for different genders. He pursued perfection very much.

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Except for Zhou Yang, Wei Ge didn't have anyone to confide in his depression, so it seemed to outsiders that after listening to Zhou's father's education and reprimand, he was dragged to Zhou's house by Zhou's father.

"Because I was afraid that Aunt Qishun would be worried, I told you and Uncle Qishun to stay at our house for dinner before going back." Father Zhou said after thanking the villagers for their help, looking at the silent Wei Ge.

Wei Ge: "Thank you, village chief."

"Hey, why don't you call the village chief? You can just call him uncle! His dad, you too, Ren Weige and Yang Yang are not fighting and doing bad things, so don't say a few words." Mother Zhou served two bowls Steaming sweet potato porridge with a plate of stir-fried water spinach and a plate of cold preserved eggs.

Water spinach is one of the most common green leafy vegetables in this season. Almost every household has a small piece of it, some in the land, and some in paddy fields—thanks to the strong vitality of water spinach, no matter who is more or less, it can grow Flourish.

The way people in the village eat this is also simple, either by mixing sliced ​​garlic and chili slices and stir-frying, or if you don’t want to bear the oil, you can just grab a handful of them when serving white water noodles.

Preserved eggs are made by Zhou Jia himself.

Mix lime and plant ash, add alkaline water, mix well, then add water to make a slurry, then roll fresh chicken and duck eggs into a thick circle, and the white eggs will become gray-black mud lumps one by one.

However, this is not an ordinary lump of mud. After time has passed, it will become a preserved egg with a springy egg white and a thick and smooth yolk.

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The way the villagers eat preserved eggs is not troublesome. After peeling the shells, cut them into several pieces, mix with vinegar, peppercorns, soy sauce, minced garlic and a little sesame oil, and it is a refreshing cold dish that goes well with rice.

People in the village like to burn cypress branches into ashes and add them to plant ash, so after peeling off the shell of the preserved egg, small patterns of cypress branches will appear on the amber-brown preserved egg white, which is really beautiful. .

It's just that there are not many native eggs produced in Rongshu Village, and even fewer are used to make preserved eggs, so even if they taste good and look good, few people will take them out for sale.

After all, people in the surrounding villages can also make preserved eggs. Although the taste is not good, for the villagers who are all eating from the ground, they can barely make do.

After all, eating well is not so important when the goal of being full has not been fully achieved.

"I don't have time to cook other dishes, let's make do with it." Zhou's mother greeted Zhou Yang and Wei Ge, and then put another bowl of sweet potato porridge in front of Zhou's father: "Eat, don't you feel hungry after running for so long?" There is a threat in it, which means that if you criticize my son again, he will have nothing to eat.

Father Zhou choked, and the original long speech could only be mixed with sweet potato porridge and swallowed back into his stomach.

Well, the person who cooks can't be offended.

The author has something to say: ammunition is exhausted...

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