In 1983, a small island started from a large farmer

Chapter 281 There is a problem with the eel
When returning to the pier of Dandan Island.

It is already evening.

The sun is very short in winter, and it’s almost dark around 05:30.

Li Haoran had been waiting on the stone steps of the pier for more than three hours. As soon as the passenger ship docked, he ran over immediately.

"Uncle, aunt, you are back."

Li Duoyu touched his head, and then took two bunches of candied haws from the bag to him.

Little chubby Li Haoran's eyes widened. All the other children on the pier were envious and wanted to have such an uncle like the village director.

After Li Duoyu got off the boat, he started chatting with the fishermen at the pier.

"Village director, your public toilet has been built, when can it be used?"

Li Duoyu smiled.

"The cement hasn't even dried yet. If you use it now, your butt will be glued to it."

"Haha."

"Our village should be the first village in the town to build so many public toilets."

"That's for sure. Didn't you see that the village cadres in Chenjiacun came over every once in a while to look at us, with their envious eyes?"

"Speaking of which, our Director Li is still the best. Unlike that Wang Dapao, who has been the captain for more than ten years and never does anything serious."

"In the future, after the toilets are built, men and women can use them separately, and the corns will no longer be able to peek into them."

"Damn it, the last time my wife went to the bathroom, the door was closed, and he still went there to poop on her."

"Next time, if he dares to go to the women's restroom again, I'll just grab him and beat him severely."

Zhou Xiaoying got off the boat and rushed home directly, obviously worried about Xiao Tutu.

While Li Duoyu was chatting with the fishermen, Li Yaoguo, who learned that Li Duoyu had returned, hurriedly came over and said nervously:
"There's something wrong with the eels. There seem to be a lot of eels that don't like to eat the feed. You might want to take a look."

Li Duoyu's heart tightened and he couldn't help but sigh, what should come will eventually come.

Eels are very difficult fish to raise. Even with various antibiotics and drugs in the past life, they often failed, let alone in this era when drugs are scarce.

When arriving at the eel farm.

Chen Wenchao is mixing eel feed in a mixer.

Li Duoyu glanced at the pond. Since they had just been fed in the afternoon, the eels were not very active after eating. Most of them were still hiding at the bottom of the pond.

He was not in a hurry and took the lead in checking the second brother's daily record form.

Looking at the dense data on the form, Li Duoyu found that the second brother was quite careful and conscientious in recording data, and every item was recorded clearly.

Detailed records include the temperature difference between morning and evening, the amount of feeding, and how long it takes for the eel to be eaten.

Looking at the data recorded above, Li Duoyu frowned slightly, already having a rough idea of ​​what disease the eel was suffering from.

But we will have to wait and observe carefully at the next feeding point to find out what the specific cause is.

It was almost nine o'clock in the evening.

Li Duoyu turned on the electric light hanging above the pond. After seeing the light, the eels quickly gathered over.

Chen Wenchao tore the prepared eel feed into half the size of a football and threw it into a special feed table.

In an instant, thousands of eels rushed to the feed table and ate the feed that had just been dropped.

At first glance.

The whole pond seemed to be normal, but Li Duoyu also found that the eel's vomiting was a little serious, and the food it ate was vomited out again not long after.

Near the feed table, many eels left the group and swam alone on the edge of the pond without coming to grab food.

This is a problem.

He picked up the flashlight and shined it around the edge of the pond. What he found were hundreds of eels that did not eat the feed.

The pond is also slightly smelly. If you look closely, you can see some sporadic eel droppings floating on the surface of the pond.

After seeing this, Li Duoyu frowned, picked up the net, and caught a few eels that were not very energetic.

He first checked the position of the eel's gills and anus. Just as he thought, these parts were a little red, and there was some yellow-white liquid flowing out of the anus.

Li Yaoguo, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but ask: "Is the eel sick?"

"It must be diarrhea."

Seeing Li Duoyu turning the eel over and over, Li Yaoguo and Chen Wenchao couldn't see what was going on.

To them, these eels don't look much different from other eels.

"Xiao Chao, go and get me a sharp knife."

After Chen Wenchao brought a small fish knife, Li Duoyu held down the eel's head, pointed the tip of the knife at the eel's abdomen, and pulled it gently.

The eel's abdomen was cut open directly, and the internal organs were exposed. It was found that there were blood streaks inside, and the intestines were accompanied by symptoms of congestion.

Seeing this, Li Duoyu frowned. Just as he expected, the eel's lack of energy, refusal to eat feed, and diarrhea were caused by eel gastroenteritis.

Gastroenteritis is a common disease of eels. In the past, once gastroenteritis occurred in their eel factory, they would often directly treat it with antibiotics such as chloramphenicol and norfloxacin.

But in this era, there are not enough antibiotics for human use, so where are the antibiotics for veterinary use produced?

Therefore, in order to solve eel gastroenteritis, Li Duoyu must accurately find out the cause of eel gastroenteritis.

Judging from his many years of breeding experience, there are really many causes of eel indigestion.

It may be parasites or gram-negative bacteria. Sudden weather changes and temperature differences between morning and evening may also cause gastroenteritis.

Li Duoyu checked other fish ponds and found that they all had the same problem. The eels all had severe gastroenteritis.

If this happens, if emergency treatment is not taken, there may be a risk of the group being wiped out.

What Li Duoyu can do now is to use the elimination method first. He first asks Chen Wenchao to stop feeding eels.

Second brother Li Yaoguo asked:
"Is it serious?"

Li Duoyu nodded and thought seriously. When eels were originally bred, it was for safety reasons.

The water in these ponds is drained separately. If it is a parasitic bacterial infection, it should be difficult to spread to all the ponds.

Li Duoyu was the first to rule out these two items. Next, the more likely possibility is gastroenteritis caused by temperature differences and feed.

Since Chen Wenchao was responsible for the feeding, Li Duoyu asked, "Xiao Chao, please tell me carefully about the feeding situation in the past two days."

Chen Wenchao said seriously: "It was fine a few days ago, but since yesterday, the feed has not been eaten and the eels are not active."

Li Duoyu thought about it for a while. Logically speaking, the temperature difference would have an impact, but it would not cause such a wide range of indigestion.

In the previous life, many people in their town raised eels in outdoor earthen ponds. For several years, the temperature difference was much larger than this, and this did not happen. Li Duoyu finally pinned the cause of the disease on the feed, thinking that it was caused by feed problems. Eel gastroenteritis.

"Xiao Chao, what kind of fish have you been buying to make fish meal in recent times? Have you mixed it with marine fish such as puffer fish, mud fish, and stone fish?"

Chen Wenchao shook his head: "No, I always follow what you said. The fish used to make fish meal is fresh Balang fish, hairtail fish and saury."

There is no problem with the raw materials.

Where is the problem?
Li Duoyu frowned: "Is there any fishmeal left? Let me take a look."

Chen Wenchao, who realized the seriousness of the problem, became nervous and said quickly: "Yes, there are some left."

"Bring it over and show it to me."

Chen Wenchao brought a whole bag of ground fishmeal from a room where sundries were kept.

Li Duoyu grabbed a handful of fishmeal with his hand, put it in front of his nose, smelled it, and licked it twice with his tongue.

He found that the fish meal was quite fresh and there was no big problem. Then, he picked up the fish meal and kneaded it in his hands.

Suddenly I felt something was wrong. The fish meal was gritty and seemed to have particles.

Li Duoyu took a 100-mesh filter screen, then placed the fish meal on the screen, shaking it constantly.

Sure enough, not long after, many particles appeared on the sieve and were not screened out. In other words, this batch of fish meal did not meet the requirements.

After seeing this, Chen Wenchao's heart tightened, and he vaguely guessed that the incident might have been caused by him.

After all, he is responsible for the fishmeal, and the current fishmeal obviously does not meet the requirements that Brother Yu originally said.

After this happened, he lowered his head and did not defend himself. Even if Brother Yu fired him, he would have absolutely no complaints.

Seeing Chen Wenchao's guilty look, Li Duoyu sighed helplessly and asked: "Xiaochao, when you grind the fish meal, did you dry the minced fish?"

"Yes, I check every time. There is another batch baked in the baking room. I will take it out for you to see."

Li Duoyu checked and found that the fish meal was dry and there was no problem.

Xiaochao's entire process of making fish meal was very standardized, but something went wrong with the fish meal that came out.

Li Duoyu planned to try it himself and put the dried minced meat into a fish meal grinding machine.

But while grinding, Li Duoyu found that the belt of the machine got stuck several times, as if it had no strength.

At the same time, all the light bulbs in the eel factory also flickered on and off.

See this behind the scenes.

Li Duoyu slapped his thigh suddenly, and then cursed: "Damn it, how could you forget such an important thing?"

The second brother Li Yaoguo said nervously: "Duoyu, you forgot something."

In fact, he was also very nervous. If the eels could not be raised, no one would pay them.

Since making money, the temperament of the mother-in-law at home has also improved. She no longer talks about it all day long. Even at night, she often clamors for a second child, which annoys him a little.

Several times, he even poked holes in family planning supplies with needles. Fortunately, he found out early, otherwise he might have made a mistake.

Li Duoyu patted Chen Wenchao on the shoulder: "Cheer up, it's not your problem, it's my problem. I didn't tell you that the voltage in the village might not be enough."

This year, everyone made a lot of money, and they all bought a lot of home appliances during the New Year.

Not only is there a washing machine, but there is also a refrigerator. The voltage of Dandan Island is simply not enough if everyone uses it together.

His grinding machine is also electric and consumes more power. Occasionally, during peak power consumption periods, the belt cannot pull, which results in some fishmeal not being ground properly.

Li Duoyu thought for a while and said: "Xiaochao, don't feed the fish today with this batch of feed, and the fishmeal needs to be ground again.

And when we grind fish meal in the future, we will cut off the electricity circuit in the village and directly use the diesel generator in our factory. "

Chen Wenchao nodded, but still said: "Brother Yu, I should check the quality of fish meal every time. I am responsible this time."

Seeing Chen Wenchao's remorseful look, Li Duoyu said: "Just treat it as experience and remember it in the future, but you have to be punished. This time I will deduct 20 yuan from you each."

After hearing that Li Duoyu deducted the money, Chen Wenchao smiled and nodded: "I understand, Brother Yu, I will check the fish meal carefully next time."

Next, Li Duoyu took a dip net, picked up all the eels with poor activity, and directly chose humane destruction.

In the previous life, the owner of the eel farm would have been reluctant to do this and would have tried every means to save it.

But in this era when eel fry are almost free, apart from hardware investment, the investment cost of eel fry is almost zero.

In order to prevent gastroenteritis from infecting other eels and inducing other bacterial infections, the best way is to kill them directly.

Li Duoyu kept fishing, and in less than three hours, he caught more than 1 eels with gastroenteritis.

He buried the eels directly in a pit.

Chen Wenchao looked at the whole pit of eel fry with a look of remorse on his face. If he had been more careful, these eels wouldn't have to be disposed of.

In addition to dealing with the eels, the pond water also had to be changed.

The three men were busy until early in the morning and did not go back. At dawn, the second sister-in-law ran over and said casually:
"Are you guys secretly drinking here? Why didn't you go back all night?"

Li Yaoguo glared and said, "Can you speak? You didn't realize that we've been busy all night, so hurry up and get us some breakfast."

At this time, the second sister-in-law saw that Chen Wenchao was about to get rid of the fish feed, and asked on the spot: "Xiao Chao, don't you want all this feed?"

Chen Wenchao nodded and said: "If it doesn't meet the standard, we can't feed the eels."

The second sister-in-law grinned and said: "There are no more red worms in it this time."

"Nothing."

"That's good. Can you not throw it away? I'll take it back and steam it to see if it's delicious."

Li Duoyu suddenly remembered that his second sister-in-law secretly ate eel feed before: "Okay, I'll give you these. If it's really delicious, I'll eat one too."

Second sister-in-law Zhu Xiuhua smiled happily: "These are all made from real materials, and they will definitely be delicious when made."

As the egg yolk rose in the east, Li Duoyu came to the coast near the eel factory.

The morning air is very fresh, and there are already many fishing boats setting sticky nets on the sea not far away.

The price of seafood this year is good. If you fish well during this period, you might make more than you usually earn in a month or two.

At that moment, Li Duoyu heard a dog barking from the sea. Following the sound, he could vaguely see a dog barking at him from the fishing raft.

The wind was blowing in the direction of the fishing raft. Judging from the situation, [-] smelled his own scent.

Li Duoyu waved to it, and the big yellow dog on the fishing raft barked a few more times.

Li Duoyu said: "Xiao Chao, let's go back and take a nap first. In the afternoon, we will also go out to sea to do something big."

(End of this chapter)