Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1055 New Horse Circle

Nick personally went to the stables outside the city to observe the terrain and consider how to design the stables.

The main purpose of the horse pen he designed is to raise the herd of draft horses currently in the hands of the Jeju Military Control Committee.As for those official and private racecourses, he is temporarily unable to intervene--it's not that he doesn't want to, he really can't.

He has neither people nor fodder now, and he is unable to effectively manage tens of thousands of horses after receiving them.In the end, it still relies on the old people and the old methods.

Instead of immediately changing and causing turmoil, it is better to let these racecourses continue to maintain the old system.

Furthermore, these horse farms should adopt a group grazing horse breeding system that grazes in the wild. This breeding system does not require horse pens, and the demand for feed and labor is also small.Although there are many shortcomings - such as low reproductive rate - but in the current conditions can be regarded as a way to maintain the horse herd.

Even if he takes over all the horse herds on the island in the future, he will have to maintain this system within a few years.

However, it is imperative to expand the horse herd on a large scale and optimize the breed of horses, and it is imperative to implement captive breeding.

Although barn breeding requires a large space and a long construction period, it is beneficial to breeding management, protection of young foals and accumulation of manure.Although Jeju Island is relatively warm here, the lowest winter temperature in the 21st century is also zero degrees. The upcoming 1632 will be a year when even Lingao will snow heavily and the temperature will drop to zero. According to the forecast of Lingao Meteorological Observatory, Jeju Island’s winter The lowest temperature may be as low as minus six or seven degrees.Building stables is conducive to protecting horses from overwintering safely.

With the horse house, he can come up with a new breeding system and use it as a sample for training personnel and technology promotion.Therefore, the Jeju horse pen must take into account the three functions of service, breeding and training.If conditions permit, it is best to have supporting feed processing and horse manure treatment projects.

In terms of construction materials and labor, labor is sufficient, and a large number of liberated official slaves are the labor force on site—and many of them have been working as fence workers in the past.He has rich experience in setting up fences and building horse fences, and he is a skilled worker.

As for building materials, Nick decided to base himself on the existing conditions - it was unrealistic to rely on ships thousands of miles away to transport him bricks, tiles and cement.Fortunately, the construction requirements of the horse pen are relatively low, and it can be kept simple. There are many igneous rocks in Jeju Island, almost everywhere, and almost all of them are used from residential buildings to government offices.There are also more lumber that can be used nearby.After the fences of the old stables were dismantled, most of them could be reused except for some decayed ones that could only be used for burning fire.

Although Nick doesn't know architecture, he knows how to repair horse stables - the horse house built in Gaomo Panling Ranch was built by the construction company under his guidance.As Merlin said, repairing the horse stables is a process of learning from each other. After repairing the horse stables at Mopanling Ranch, both the construction company and Nick have learned how to truly build a stable that meets the requirements.

According to the requirements, it is best to choose the stables on flat ground or gentle slopes that are leeward to the sun and dry.There must be a large water source nearby.In these points, the existing locations of Jeju horse pens can meet the demand.So he decided not to change it, and ordered the Fenggong team to level the foundation first.

The ground of the stables is relatively simple, and there is no need to lay stones or cement to harden the ground-this is labor-intensive and not conducive to the health of the horses. These materials are too permeable and not insulated.Therefore, the ground is generally rammed with clay. The clay ground keeps warm, protects hooves, and is easy to repair.

There are enclosed and semi-enclosed stables.Like in Lingao, Nick chose the semi-closed style.

Although the fully enclosed stable has good insulation effect, the internal temperature is high and the humidity is high.Horses have weak resistance and are prone to colds.In the case of poor ventilation, the irritating gas produced by the horse's excrement and urine is also harmful to the health of the horse.

The stables of the new stables are semi-open, that is, there are walls at the back and sides, and the front is open.The semi-open stable has a simple structure, plenty of sunlight, and fresh air. It is easy to keep the room clean and dry, and it is convenient for feeding and manure accumulation.The disadvantage is that it is not conducive to heat preservation, and it is not suitable for northern regions where the temperature in winter is very low.

Horse is a kind of animal that likes cold and fears heat. Nick believes that the extreme minimum temperature of Jeju Island in winter in this time and space can also be tolerated by horses, and moderate low temperature is conducive to improving the cold resistance and adaptability of horses.

The horse house designed by Nick is a sloping multi-column structure.This kind of stable has the simplest structure, saves building materials, has a large number of horses, is easy to manage, and has good thermal insulation.The roof adopts a sloping style, and the wall is directly used as the load-bearing structure of the roof.The rafters of the building batch are directly placed on the fence wall.Beams and columns are omitted.Especially good for Nick who lacked thicker DBH lumber and did not have enough qualified carpenters.

The wall is made of volcanic rocks found everywhere on Jeju Island, and the adhesive is made of clay and sand.It is a technical job to build a wall with irregular stones.Fortunately, almost all local buildings use this method to build walls, so there are many officials and servants in the Fenggong team who are good at this job.

Most of the stables do not have single rooms, but only a few stables have single rooms, which are specially prepared for pregnant and nursing mares.

There are special mangers in the stable—all of them were shipped from Lingao. Nick disliked that the old mangers might contain more germs and parasites, so all of them were discarded and used as firewood.In addition, special grass racks have been installed.The grass frame is specially used to feed the long grass. It is made of wooden poles and placed horizontally above the manger, which is roughly equivalent to the height of the forage that the horse can eat while standing up.

The reason why the hay racks are specially installed is that the local horses are mostly fed with hay in winter. If the hay is directly stacked on the stable bed, it is easy for the horses to eat feces and parasite eggs, which is very unhygienic.

Although this improvement is small, it is an important part of improving the health of horses.

In addition, Nick also built several separate enclosed stables-this is for the stallions.He doesn't know if there are any horses suitable for stallion among the current working horses.However, it was originally planned to introduce new stallions to the Jeju Island horse herd.According to his speculation, the horse population on Jeju Island is basically the hybrid descendants of the 150 Mongolian horses and the horses on the island.There have been no recorded introductions of other exotic horse breeds since then, so the horses here have few foreign genes.

From a breeding point of view, the horse breeds in Jeju Island are quite "pure", but such "pure" Mongolian horses are not the best choice for the Senate.The height, weight and pulling power of Mongolian horses are not enough according to the military or service standards of the Senate, so it can only be said that they can barely make do with it.Improving horse breeds is imminent - it is necessary to introduce excellent horse breeds from abroad and carry out large-scale work to refresh the horse herd.

The scale of the stable is to accommodate four hundred horses, including all the horses under the control of the existing Jeju Military Control Committee and some horses that may be added in the future.Nick issued an order through the military control committee: all 40 horses from Chaotianpu were driven to Jeju to wait for screening.

Since repairing the horse stables is the top priority, and Feng Zongze and Nangong attach great importance to horse resources, so Nick needs people and things.The number of the Fenggong team was sufficient, with the help of craftsmen from all walks of life, and with the assistance of tools and vehicles brought from Lingao, two-thirds of the work on the stables in the new horse circle was quickly completed.Another group of people began to build supporting projects, including personnel dormitories, horse medical clinics, horse isolation and quarantine stations, and special biogas digesters for horse manure treatment.

Water collection works and aqueducts are also under construction.Nick also plans to build a simple water purification pond to provide the horses with clean drinking water.

A place to bury sick and dead horses was chosen in a place far away from the stables where the soil was dry and did not affect surface and groundwater sources.

Finally, the entire stable is surrounded by a fence-this is mainly to let the horses run out, not a defensive facility.After all, this place is less than one kilometer away from Jeju City, and there are still some Japanese security company personnel stationed there.

While the stables were being built, Nick started looking for enough fodder.There is not much stock of feed for horses in the Jeju prison camp, except that there is a little more hay and less concentrated feed.Due to the famine in Jeju last year, most of the coarse grains such as buckwheat and barley that were originally used as concentrate feed became human rations.Now there is almost nothing to be found in the feed warehouse except for a little stock.

This made Nick helpless, so he had to ask Feng Zongze for help.He knows very well that Jeju Island is an area mainly grown with buckwheat and barley—it can even be said to be the staple food of the island.Among the [-] shi of grain stored in the warehouse in Jeju, there is no shortage of these kinds of coarse grains.

However, Feng Zongze is quite embarrassed about this: a large part of these grains must be used to feed the Fenggong team.Of course, each household has some food reserves, which can barely handle the next year’s harvest, but Jeju Island itself is short of food, and it has to feed the local people and the imminent arrival of a large number of refugees.If part of the horse rations were transferred, and there was a slight error in the transportation of relief rations in Hong Kong, it would immediately affect the safety of the entire grain reserve.

Nick tried his best to fight for it, and Feng Zongze didn't want a lot of horses to die in his hands, so he finally granted him hundreds of shi of barley and buckwheat.

Nick immediately took care of the Fenggong team members under him, first received a part of the feed grain, loaded it into the Zidian trolley, and shipped it all the way back to the stables.

The feed warehouse and silage warehouse in the stable are still under construction. In order to store this batch of precious feed grain, he ordered that this batch of grain be stored in the residence of the original stable guard.The original guards of the horse circle were incorporated into the "horse circle Fenggong team".

As for the residence of the members of the horse circle Fenggong team, he doesn't need to worry about it-most people have their own houses in and outside Jeju City or live in official houses.He only took care of people and built a row of simple dormitories for the staff on duty.

(End of this chapter)