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Chapter 203 There are sheep

The lambs within 10 days have not been weaned.

This kind of lamb is cheap, but you need to take good care of it when you buy it.

It’s the end of April now, almost May.There were not many lambs for sale. After walking around the market, there were only about a dozen similar lambs.

After seeing it, Sun Xuebing bought all the lambs.

They are all newly born lambs. The cheapest ones are 200 yuan, and the most expensive ones are just over 260 yuan.

There are two pure white curly lambs here, the white color is particularly clean.The two little guys were obviously very hungry. Lin Ling reached out to touch them, and the little guy wanted to suck Lin Ling's fingers...

Lin Ling smiled and patted the lambs' heads gently and rubbed their backs.This is a sheep. The fur of a small sheep is particularly soft and comfortable to touch.

"Chen Mo, let's take these two sheep back." Lin Ling said, "I want to raise them."

Chen Mo said 'hmm' and looked at Sun Xuebing: "Does the lamb need milk powder?"

"Just feed me milk. Fresh milk is cheap." Sun Xuebing said.

"Do you have a lot of milk from Huaxi Farm?"

"There are many." Sun Xuebing said.

"Leave some for me in the future." Chen Mo said.

"Row."

There are 11 cows in the pasture, which were sold by a dairy farm in Xueyuan Township.

There are three dairy farms in Xueyuan Township, the largest dairy farm raising more than 400 cows.The other two dairy farms, I heard, both have three to four hundred cows.

Larger dairy farms will eliminate some milk every year.Some are diseases, some are old age.At the same time, some dairy cows that are not caused by diseases will also be eliminated.
Some dairy cows are also culled due to low milk production, and these cows are sold as beef cattle to slaughterhouses.

The 11 cows purchased by Huaxi Ranch are not bad, but they are relatively mediocre among well-run ranches.

These 11 cows are still producing milk, with the largest amount of milk, each weighing more than [-] kilograms per day.The milk production is large, thirty to forty pounds.

A good cow will not produce milk at all during the period of discontinuation. During the peak period of milk production, the milk production of a cow in a day is generally more than 50 kilograms.A good cow can produce about 80 pounds a day.

Sun Xuebing coordinated the purchase of these cows, 11 of them, with no physical problems but low milk production.

11 cows cost a total of 22 yuan.The cows are producing milk, but the milk is not for sale and is mainly used to feed the sheep.The extra milk is sent to Huaxi Farm.There are many workers on the farm...

Due to cost reasons, if Huaxi Ranch wants to purchase more livestock, it can only start with small animals.

The milk produced by the cows can not only be fed to the sheep, but also some unweaned calves will be bought back in the future.The price is cheap.

Once the lambs and calves are weaned, the cows are used for breeding...

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Chen Mo and the others had never raised sheep, so Sun Xuebing recommended raising some larger sheep, which cost five to six hundred yuan each.

This kind of sheep can be left outdoors directly. They are large and are less likely to get sick after being vaccinated.Easy to raise...

However, the price of livestock at this time is high, whether it is sheep or cattle, it is much more expensive than when winter begins.The cheapest time of the year for cattle and sheep is probably when winter comes.

After shopping around, Sun Xuebing helped Chen Mo and the others select 35 Han sheep, which cost 870 yuan each.The weight is over 40 kilograms each.

Last year, Chen Mo and the others learned about the price of Hanyang. For a similar size, the price would be around seven hundred.The cheapest time is more than 600.

Don't worry about these anymore.

Chen Mo found a car to load the sheep, and then bought some fodder and pellet feed.

The price of forage is really expensive this year. It is said that the price of high-quality forage has reached 1780 yuan per ton.The best grass is the grass grown in the pasture...

There are also some plants that grow pasture, and the prices are even more exaggerated. For example, alfalfa costs up to [-] per ton.

In winter, many herdsmen dispose of a large number of cattle and sheep at a low price because they cannot afford to raise cattle and sheep.It is also for this reason that the number of cattle and sheep on hand now is smaller than in previous years, and the prices are much higher than in previous years.Pasture is so expensive this year that a sheep can eat itself all in one winter, which is not even enough.This means that the pasture that a sheep eats through the winter is more expensive than that of a sheep.

Now at the end of April, some pastures are starting to turn green.The current price of forage on the market is cheaper, a little more expensive than at the same time in previous years.But, the quality of these pastures is not high.

Return to Heizigou.

Sun Xuebing took the truck to Huaxi Ranch first, and Chen Mo and the others went directly back to Valley Ranch.When they arrived at the house, Chen Mo got into his father's car and went into the valley.

It's going to be spring and the flowers are blooming.

In the valley, small streams gurgled.Next to the creek, green leaves have appeared on the grass.

Come to the old cowshed.

Next to the cowshed, there is a warehouse specially used for stacking grass and feed. There are also small tractors, external lawn trimmers, strapping machines, and a forklift.

I don’t know how many times I have used this small forklift. The paint has peeled off in many places on the body, exposing rust.This forklift is specially used to fork fodder...

There are square fodder and cylinder fodder.A large bale of fodder weighs hundreds of kilograms and cannot be moved manually, so machines are needed.This kind of very old forklift is probably more expensive than scrap metal.

All the machines in the warehouse have been repaired.Like this forklift, many parts have been replaced.

The pickup truck came back with only a bale of hay.

This piece of pasture weighs 509 pounds.

Chen Mo started the forklift and forked down the forage.

"Are these grasses broken up for feeding?" Dad Chen said when he saw the lawn mower in the warehouse.

"You can break it into pieces. You don't have to break it into pieces." Chen Mo said, "Don't break it into pieces yet. Let's see if the sheep eat it."

Lin Feng took the hoe, and Chen's father took the shovel, and then they pushed the cart to the cowshed.

The cowshed has been abandoned for two or three years. I have been busy with the house before and have not had time to renovate the warehouse.The new warehouse was just finalized a few days ago, and the contractor is out purchasing materials. In a few days, he will come over to renovate the cowshed.

In the cowshed, the piled cow dung is higher than the cow bed.

Dad Chen and Lin Feng began to clean up the cow dung, while Chen Mo took his mobile phone to look for a signal.

I don’t know what the rancher thought before, but the cowshed was built in the valley.At this location, the mobile phone only has one bar of signal...

One bar of signal means almost no signal, and you can't even make calls.

"Dad." Chen Mo shouted.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going out for a while and making a phone call outside the valley." Chen Mo said and ran over: "Give me the car keys."

Lin Feng threw the car keys to Chen Mo: "When will the cow dung here be taken away?"

"I just called Cheng Tang and asked him to send a car over quickly." Chen Mo said.

This cowshed is [-] square meters. If it is crowded, it can raise dozens of cows.

For example, a fattening cow weighing 1000 kilograms needs to eat about 28-30 kilograms of grass every day. This includes grass (roughage) and feed (concentrated feed), of which roughage accounts for about 60% and concentrated feed accounts for about 40%. That is to say, the grass (roughage) is about 16.8kg-18kg, and the feed (concentrated feed) is about 11.2kg-12kg.

A breeding cow is a cow used to produce calves. The daily feed intake of a breeding cow... For a cow weighing 1000 pounds, she needs to eat 26-28 pounds of fodder every day.The proportion of grass and feed in the forage fed to cows is not fixed. It is necessary to increase or decrease the concentrate feed appropriately according to the body condition of the cow...

A cow weighing one thousand kilograms eats more than 20 kilograms a day. These are dry ingredients.The more you eat, the more you excrete.

If 50 animals are raised, the amount of fodder they eat per day will be upwards of 1300 kilograms.Ten days, 1.3 kilograms...

Over time, the amount of organic fertilizer accumulated is still considerable.

(End of this chapter)