Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 141: Cattle Farm

Speaking of cow dung, Tagawa has some emotion. When he first established the farm, he never imagined that cow dung would be a necessity that restricted the development of the farm. It wasn't until the farm started to get started that he gradually discovered that cow dung was almost the best medium for breeding earthworms, and according to Professor Lang, mule and horse manure was better than cow dung, but now mule and horse manure is too rare, and he really has no way to get it, so he can only use inferior cow dung. It is an indisputable fact that although the manure of other livestock can be used to make the medium for off-soil planting, the hydrophilicity of cow dung is more suitable as a medium material than other manure.

Now that the cattle farm is coming to increase the price, he is forced to buy cow dung from a relatively distant place, which makes him feel even more inconvenient. In fact, the cost of cow dung is really not much, but this situation of being subject to people must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the normal operation may be affected in the future. In addition, the cow dung he buys now may contain some disinfectants or residual pharmaceutical ingredients, which will affect the quality of the product, which is a taboo for green planting, and it is also a thorn in his heart.

The current approach adopted by the farm is to test the purchased cow manure, and the cow manure with excessive drug residue can only be discarded. It is also very troublesome to discard, and now it is piled up on the north side of the new greenhouse on the farm, and there is no better way to dispose of it, and the plan is to save it until the winter to make fuel and incinerate the polluting cow dung.

Considering that the large number of weeds in the field now, as well as the straw after harvesting corn and miscellaneous grains in the future, if they are burned, on the one hand, it will be wasteful, and on the other hand, it will also emit soot and carbon dioxide to pollute the atmosphere. At that time, it can also be slaughtered, and the sale of green and safe beef to members can be regarded as a good thing.

Having made up his mind, Tagawa began to think about the location of the cattle farm. The land area needed for the cattle farm was not too large, and he was not prepared to raise too many cattle, as long as he could consume the excess straw and produce enough cow dung.

In order to determine the scale of the cattle farm, as well as other related construction points, he found Professor Lang, who led the team to sort out the scientific research data of the chicken farm that afternoon. Professor Lang's green laying hen breeding project is nearing the end, it is estimated that it will not take long to end, a complete set of green breeding laying hens methods have been basically completely sorted out. He visits here almost once or twice a week for the project, and his graduate student, An Hong, who lives here most of the time, is now an expert in raising chickens.

Hearing Tagawa talk about the idea of setting up a cattle farm, Professor Lang was a little surprised. Is it impossible for this Tianchuan to develop a complete industrial chain? Raising chickens, fish, vegetables, and field grain, and now they are going to raise cattle again. Speaking of cattle raising, it is actually closer to the animal husbandry major in Agricultural University, which is not Professor Lang's main major, but as a promoter of green farming, Professor Lang does not know a lot about it.

Based on the basic information provided by Tian Chuan, he quickly helped him determine a rough breeding plan: about 100 adult beef cattle, and if it is a calf, the number can be more. As for the location of the cattle farm, there are no specific requirements, but it is better to choose a place with higher terrain and good ventilation, if it can be warm in winter and cool in summer. There must be no stocking conditions here, if the captivity, there should be enough activity field, as well as supporting cattle sheds, forage warehouses, management rooms and other buildings, each cow occupies at least ten square meters of shed area, plus supporting buildings, as well as activity fields, the total area should not be less than fifteen acres of land, otherwise the health of cattle is not guaranteed.

At Professor Lang's suggestion, Tagawa set his sights on Kitawa. Although the site is low-lying, the upcoming remediation project will provide him with a good opportunity to build his own cattle farm in one go.

At the same time, it is very close to the base, which is convenient for management, and it is also a management center for field planting, which can save a lot of construction area after being combined with cattle breeding occasions. His agricultural machinery center was also built here, and the future field grain processing center could also be built together, which is very conducive to the use of this saline-alkali land. He roughly estimated that all these buildings together would probably occupy more than 25 acres of Beiwa. The total area of Beiwa is 85 acres, and after the transformation, the area of the pond will account for about 30 acres, so that the remaining nearly half will be built into another base for him, which is the office and processing plant of the cattle farm and grain base. In the end, there will be about 30 acres of land left, and he plans to plant pasture grass as originally planned. In addition, in order to meet the needs of the cattle farm, he also used some difficult-to-cultivate canal slopes and small pieces of low-quality land in the village to grow grass to meet the needs of the cattle farm.

As a result, another problem has arisen, that is, the village's sheep raising professional household Wang is lame. This lame man raised more than 100 sheep, and because of the needs of the tourist picking group, he had to slaughter one or two every week, and he earned tens of thousands of yuan in the past year. The main source of feed for his sheep is grazing, and the place where he grazes is the embankment of the two rivers near the village, as well as some wasteland in the village, and in addition, during the harvest season twice a year, he will go to some harvested fields to graze, and he prepares very little forage, once the weather is bad, his sheep will basically starve. Now that Tian Chuan has taken up almost all of the land in the village, and has used up all the straw for his cattle farm, his sheep have nothing to eat.

Tian Chuan had no better way, and he found the cripple Wang that night and consulted with him about the fodder for the sheep. In the end, Tian Chuan proposed that he would make forage into silage, anyway, there were not many sheep in Wang Cripple, and he provided him with some silage every once in a while as a supplement to the lack of grazing. When the lame king mentioned the price of the silage, Tian Chuan said, "Your sheep can't eat much feed, so what do you need?" ”

The lame king thanked him again and again, and said: "Okay, I will kill a sheep for you every Chinese New Year, and besides, when you want to eat mutton, just tell me." ”

Tian Chuan instructed the lame king: "You don't usually feed feed, sheep are very picky about eating feed, and if they get dirty on the ground, they won't eat it." And the sheep don't know how to cherish the feed, they will always step on the feed, or pull ~ and pee on it, and they will soon spoil the feed you feed. When you feed the sheep with feed, you have to make some troughs, fix them, and add guardrails so that the sheep can only stick their heads in to eat, and they will not be wasted. Forget it, don't bother, I'll let the machine factory make some for you by the way. ”

Wang Cripple has been raising sheep for many years, and of course he knows these truths, but as Tian Chuan said, he really doesn't have a trough there, because his sheep basically don't feed feed, only rely on grazing, and don't need a trough. At this time, I heard Tian Chuan say that he would give him a trough, and he was a little embarrassed, and said: "How can this work, you will be paid for everything, and you don't want to go, this trough ~ I'll just find a carpenter to build a few by myself." ”

Tian Chuan said: "I'll make it for you, this silage has a lot of water, and the wooden trough is easy to produce germs, and if it is used for a long time, if it is not cleaned, the sheep are easy to get sick." It's also a good thing that you save more money and go back to find a wife. "It turned out that Wang Cripple had never started a family because of a lame leg, and now he is in his early fifties and only lives with an old mother. The old lady's health deteriorated year by year, and he had some difficulty taking care of the sheep and the old lady. Hearing Tian Chuan talk about marrying a wife, he couldn't help but shake his head, and said happily: "I'm so old, and I don't want to do this anymore, I just want to take advantage of the momentum of this tourism to make a few more money, wait for the old lady better, and let her enjoy two more years of happiness." My body is not as good as it has been for a year, and I don't know how many more years I can work. ”

Tian Chuan comforted him and said: "Don't be discouraged, the conditions in our village are getting better and better, and if we build a nursing home in the future, we don't have to worry about no one to take care of you when you are old in the future." There are a few people like you in our village, and there are also elderly people who are not in good health but have the energy to take care of them, and they can all come to the nursing home in the future. ”

The lame king didn't say anything more, and took his leave.

Tian Chuan solved a * annoyance, his heart was very happy, and told his parents that he wanted to run a cattle farm, Tian Dad Tian Ma was already immune to his son's ability to toss, and he didn't say anything, just told him not to be too tired, leave things to the hired people, and just command them in the general direction. Tian Chuan knew that his parents were still worried about his illness, so he immediately agreed.

Tian Chuan was an anxious person, so he would not delay what he had decided, so he returned to the capital the next day and asked experts from the school's animal husbandry major to help him design a cattle farm and determine the forage silage process. Cattle farms and silage are relatively mature processes, he referred to the requirements of green breeding, made some improvements to these, synthesized the opinions of Professor Zhong Guotao, a new animal husbandry major, and Professor Lang, who has been cooperating, and finally determined the architectural design of the cattle farm, as well as the silage production process.

Soon, Tagawa hired a professional construction team and started building his own cattle farm. In less than twenty days, a modern cattle farm was built. This was followed by equipment commissioning, disinfection, silage warehouse construction, etc., followed by 100 young or adult young cattle and 80 calves, which will soon be officially raised.