Lu Ming

Chapter 313 Bamboo Rat
After Huo Xiong dealt with the pig farm accident, he came to his office in the headquarter of the animal husbandry company the next day, and then called his staff for a meeting, made plans, and wrote reports. He urgently needs a large-scale rotation training in the entire animal husbandry system to improve his performance. Professionalism of personnel.

However, luck and misfortune never come singly. Just as he finished making plans, another bad news came: the bred bamboo rats ran away.
The frustrated Comrade Huo Xiong had no choice but to ride his Harley motorcycle again and head straight for the bamboo rat breeding factory.

In the mature breeding system of later generations, crops need to undergo secondary transformation to reflect their value.

Farmers first grow the corn, then make the corn into feed, and finally the corn will be added value. They are transformed into steak and bacon, and they have completed the last link of the farming chain.

The above-mentioned breeding mode encountered resistance in Transit Zhong: all the crops were used to fill the stomachs of human beings, and it was very difficult to expand the scale of animal husbandry, so it could only develop slowly.

Under such circumstances, bamboo rats, which feed on bamboo, miscanthus, and plant stalks, have come into the sight of the Headquarters of Animal Husbandry—any comrade who does not compete with cattle and horses for feed is a good comrade and worth raising.

Because the food is a variety of low-energy crude fibers, the bamboo rat looks like a mammal, but its meat has a lot of crude protein and is more inclined to "white meat". In later generations, it was sold as a healthy food, 100 per catty, very expensive.

But there are not so many flowery intestines in the raising of bamboo rats in the time-traveling crowd-it is purely for eating meat.

Bamboo rats can directly transform bamboo into flesh, which is very precious in Tainan, where there are many bamboo forests.In addition, the fur of the bamboo rat is also good, and the wealthy people in the Yangtze River Valley are willing to buy a rat fur cloak to wear in the cold and wet winter.

Similar to other breeding sites, bamboo rat farms are small and scattered.

Huo Xiong drove eastward from the Chikan District Government on a motorcycle. After walking the asphalt road, he took the gravel road and finally the dirt road. After nearly 20 kilometers, he came to the bamboo rat breeding base located in a hilly area.

This place is not far from the central mountain range, and there are continuous bamboo forests and streams everywhere, which is very suitable for raising bamboo rats.Several large red brick houses were scattered on the nearby hills. After hearing the roar of motorcycles, the people inside greeted them.

"What's going on?" Huo Xiong got out of the car, saw two people coming towards him, and asked a young man who was sixteen or seventeen.

The young man was named "Six Sons" and he was a refugee from the south of the Yangtze River.The young man works hard, has a positive attitude, and works hard to read and count. He is a talent that Huo Xiong is more optimistic about.

"Run away a nest!" The six sons were full of panic.

"Go and have a look." Huo Xiong stepped into the enclosure.

The area of ​​the red brick house is about 100 square meters, and inside are small squares built with thin stone slabs.Since bamboo rats live underground all year round, the tops of these half-person-high small squares are covered with grass curtains for shading.

Raising a straw curtain at will and looking down, what caught Huo Xiong's eyes were five or six chubby, chubby, sub-adult bamboo rats with the most beautiful appearance in the rodent world and about the same size.

The main species of bamboo rat raised by farmers in later generations is Silver Star Bamboo Rat.After many generations of artificial breeding, this breed has the characteristics of fast growth and large size, which is very suitable for artificial breeding.

The bamboo rat industry of Chuanzhong was also developed from 50 "imported" silver star seedlings.

The difference from later generations is that there are not only silver star bamboo rats here, but also Chinese bamboo rats and red-cheeked bamboo rats collected from the Ming Dynasty in several pens, including the local bamboo rat species in Tainan. nurture.

You must know that in later generations, the Chinese bamboo rat has become a protected animal, and it is not allowed to be sold.

After casually looking around, Huo Xiong, led by his six sons, came to the escaped nest of bamboo rats.

The straw curtain on the top of the grid had been lifted. After Huo Xiong came over, he first probed in to have a look, and then reached out to touch the bottom of the stone slab.

"The cracks left below have been gnawed into holes, can you not run away?" Huo Xiong patted the ashes on his hands, then turned his head and asked, "Didn't you notice that the bamboo rat is gnawing on the stone slab?"

At this moment, Liu Zi was full of frustration: "A few rats blocked the cracks in the stone with their stomachs, so they didn't notice."

"Oh." Huo Xiong shook his head: "Take me to the feed room."

Because bamboo rats have a habit: they will automatically clean up their feces out of the nest, so there is a gap under each block.

Now that the hole at the bottom was gnawed out by the fugitive, Huo Xiong immediately thought of the problem of feed: maybe he was hungry?

After the three came to the feed room next door, Huo Xiong first checked the various feeds in the room, and then stretched out his hand: "Bring me the feeding record."

A papyrus notebook was handed over to him.

The sources of feed for bamboo rats are very rich: soft and hard bamboo, bamboo roots, bamboo shoots, corn stalks, sweet potatoes, including elephant grass and emperor bamboo grass, melon rind, and sorghum stalks brought by the later generations of the crossing crowd, all of which can become bamboo rats. feed.

Except that the mother mouse needs to be fed a little rice bran to increase nutrition during the lactation period, the bamboo rats live on the above-mentioned crude fiber feed for the rest of the time.

When Huo Xiong opened the record book, what he saw was the recent feeding record in the enclosure.

Liu Zi is a very diligent worker. He recorded the daily feed consumption and types in detail in the notebook, and he even marked some words that he couldn't write with graphics, which made Huo Xiong nod his head: "Liu Zi, I'll give you back later." You enroll in a committee training class and learn some cultural knowledge, which is what you lack now."

The six sons looked excited: "The little one is gone, who will take care of the bamboo rat?"

"No one can take care of you better than you!" Huo Xiong said later, but at that moment, his face changed instantly, and he took the record book and knocked on the head of the six sons.

"Oh, master, spare me!" The six sons were beaten and ran around the room.

After Huo Xiong was out of breath, he grabbed Liu Zi's ear and began to interrogate: "Tell me, why has the amount of hard bamboo fed decreased?"

"Feed more fine grains to make the mice fat faster!" Liu Zi plausibly said.

Huo Xiong was so angry that he rolled his eyes again: "Did you tell me during the training that the bamboo rat's big dies are growing every day?"

"I told you, I know!"

"You know what a fart, if you don't feed them hard bamboo to grind their teeth, won't they just bite the slate?"

"So it is!" The six sons suddenly realized.

"Each bamboo rat must be fed with a piece of hard bamboo every day, and the rest of the fine ingredients will be mixed randomly, and random changes to the recipe are not allowed." Huo Xiong tapped the six sons on the head again: "You are doing bad things with good intentions, one of Lao Tzu's Worou just ran away. Alas, I will train you on the first turn around!"

At this time, the six sons smiled and said: "Master, don't be angry, tomorrow I will go to the mountain to catch ten and come back to make amends."

"Fuck you!" Huo Xiong became even angrier now: wild bamboo rats not only spread various diseases, but also have violent personalities and are not easy to reproduce. They need to be scientifically selected and bred for several generations before they can be raised as breed rats.

After sternly criticizing the six children, Huo Xiong ordered the two breeders to quickly check all the gaps in the stone slabs, and replace those whose teeth were ground by bamboo rats.

After a lot of tossing, Huo Xiong finally eliminated the problem in the bud without causing any greater losses.

After rejecting the roasted bamboo rat lunch proposed by the six sons, Huo Xiong planned to leave - he had to go to the cattle breeding farm to do important things, so he didn't have the time to roast the bamboo rat.But when it comes to bamboo rats, I still have to take a few with me. A certain traveler at the cattle breeding farm loves to eat this stuff.

So before leaving, Huo Xiong found a bamboo cage and began to pick mice: "This one has been in a fight and has injuries on its body. I took it away. Well, this one is soft. It may have suffered from heat stroke. I took it away and this one is thinner." , I probably have depression, I have to take it away."

In this way, after Huo Xiong put a few bamboo rats into the cage, the beautiful Harley motorcycle once again took on the job of the delivery guy, roaring away all the way.

The bull breeding base is 10 kilometers south of Chikan, close to Kaohsiung.A few months ago, after the army launched the campaign to clean up the countryside, it has "naturalized" all the native tribes north of Kaohsiung Creek. The land they left behind is now planted with various grasses and used as farms.

After Huo Xiong's motorcycle passed the bustling area around Chikan, he ran south for another 10 kilometers. After passing through several alfalfa and elephant grass fields, he saw a farm surrounded by wooden fences from a distance.

Cattle are a kind of livestock with the highest economic value, and they are also a kind of livestock that can have a profound impact on the entire society and the entire human race.

In the future plan of the people, their descendants will definitely not use pork as their staple food anymore - the vast North American Great Plains and Pampas grasslands are used for their descendants to graze and grill Tomahawk steak.

So on this issue, most of the time-traversing people support the attitude: early layout, early harvest.

With this guiding ideology, the original big office and the current cabinet have given the green light all the way on the cattle breeding issue. Huo Xiong and his group have basically met all the requirements for importing materials, and there has not been any common occurrence of being blocked, satirized, insulted, or beaten. Condition.

When he came to the gate of the cattle farm, Huo Xiong stopped and said hello to the guard: there are important properties of the empire here, so a security team with guns is specially equipped to patrol.

After entering the cattle farm, you can see the long barn standing on the grass from a distance.

The cowshed is built with red bricks and cement. It is tall and strong, and steel bars are used on the top. There are newly manufactured large glass windows on the walls for ventilation. It can be said that no expense was spared.

Equipment including water pipes and earth-made circulating water coolers are equipped here. Except for the low appearance, it is no worse than the color steel cowsheds of later generations.

"Roasted bamboo rat." Huo Xiong came to the cowshed, stopped the motorcycle, and yelled loudly.

The next moment, a man in a white coat with curly hair and fair skin came out of the cowshed.

Wang Goode, with a quarter of Mexican blood, is the only professional veterinarian among the 250 crossings.

(End of this chapter)