Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 198: Pheasants Love to Fight

Tagawa returned the caged pheasants to the base headquarters and placed them with the original flock, while the two turtledoves remained in their cages. After explaining to Zhang Dachun, a worker who stayed here, he started the car and was about to go home, but was stopped by Zhang Dachun. Not because of anything else, but because the rooster who was the leader of the two flocks of pheasants fought.

The paws and beaks of these two big roosters with bright feathers went into battle together, tumbling and tumbling, flying in all directions, and the fight was very fierce, and in a short time blood and feathers flew everywhere.

Tagawa hurriedly entered the fence and caught the two roosters. In the end, there was really no way, so I had to let Zhang Dachun go back to the chicken farm, transport two iron cages for chickens, and lock up the two restless roosters.

After dealing with the matter of the pheasant fight, Tagawa returned home when it was almost dark. His Land Cruiser had already stopped in the yard, and Li Erbao had already taken two hares home.

After dinner, Tagawa went back to the workshop and continued to make chicken traps. That night, he completed a total of five chicken traps and used up all the mats in the house.

After making the chicken trapping coop, he saw that it was still early, and began to make a light bow for shooting birds.

The material used to make this light bow is still mulberry wood, and the production process is similar, except that the bow arm is thinner and the strength is much smaller. He was in a hurry to make this light bow because the two turtle doves that Li Erbao caught in the afternoon made him moved.

There are many turtle doves near Tianjia Village, and they can be seen from time to time in the woods outside the village. The taste of the turtledove is very good, and Tagawa hopes to shoot a few after making a bow, and make a plate with today's two to taste the taste.

The next morning, he took the coop out of the village, set it up in a place where pheasants frequented, and went home to make arrows.

In order to shorten the distance of the arrows, he did not equip the arrows with clusters, but only installed an iron cap shaped like a bullet casing to protect the shaft of the arrow. The tail feathers of the arrow were increased to four, and the length and width of the arrow feathers were also increased considerably.

The light bow was not yet ready, he used the first bow to test shoot this new batch of arrows, and found that the accuracy and strength of these arrows within twenty meters were not bad, and after more than twenty meters, they would slow down sharply and not fly too far. Even if you hit an object at a long distance, the lethality has become very small, so you can use it with confidence.

The weight of these arrows was halved by him, and there were no sharp clusters of arrows, and the penetration force after hitting the target was weak. However, even if the penetration force is not strong, it is enough to use it to fight birds. Just by impacting, you can knock down turtledoves from trees.

After the test shot, he didn't go home, but went around the embankment with a bow and arrow, and actually shot down two turtledoves. He also saw two pheasants, but did not fight. Judging from the two turtledoves that were killed by him with one arrow, it is estimated that the pheasants that were shot can only be eaten, and they must not be able to raise them. There was also an unlucky rabbit who hid less than ten meters away from him, and was pierced through the heart by him and put in a bag.

In the afternoon, at home, I tamed the bow and wrapped the bowstring, and by the evening, the newly made light bow was ready for use.

Today, a total of three pheasants were caught in five chicken traps, but the traps at the shooting range found nothing, and it seems that there are very few pheasants nearby.

In the evening, Tian Chuan called Qi Ligang, who went home for the New Year, and asked him to go to find it to see if there were any pheasant chicks for sale in China, and if so, contact to buy some. After all, it is much easier to buy hatched chicks than to raise pheasants and then hatch them after laying eggs. And if he wants to raise pheasants to lay eggs, he doesn't have so many breeders to use. If it were to be caught alone, it would not be possible for this pheasant flock to grow into a size in a year or two.

After making the call, he still didn't feel at ease when he thought about it, even if there were pheasant farms in China, Qi Ligang might not be able to find them. So he sent another email to the asset management company and asked them to look for it as well.

The fight between two male pheasants this afternoon reminded him of a problem: there may be other unexpected problems in raising pheasants, and a plan is needed to solve them. It is necessary to find an expert in pheasant breeding to take care of all aspects of the breeding process.

If you can find a pheasant farm, this problem will not be difficult to solve, and it is a big deal to pay for the farm's professionals to help bring it for a while. However, if there is no ready-made farm, you need to rely on your own exploration. So he sent an email to Professor Lang, a breeding expert in the expert group, asking Professor Lang to give guidance in this regard. His idea is very simple, even if Professor Lang himself is not good at pheasant farming, he can help contact industry insiders.

After dinner, he plunged into his study, intending to figure out how to raise pheasants himself. It is very likely that the existing mature farming methods are not suitable for the green farming situation here, so he has to create a set of his own methods.

For example, the matter of rooster fights, if those farms are solved by drugs, it will not be acceptable to him. Also, if those farms are using a similar method of cage breeding, it is not something he can use, he wants healthy breeding here, and he must provide enough space for pheasants to move.

The reason why he thought of raising pheasants was because there was a large area of wasteland in the second base, which could be used as an activity field, otherwise if the land was as tight as the first base in the village, it would not be able to be used for large-scale pheasant breeding.

He didn't want to breed turtle doves, for a similar reason, turtle doves are a bird that needs to fly in large numbers, and if they are locked up like chickens, they become meat pigeons, so why is there any need to breed them?

After thinking about it for a while, he thought that if he wanted to solve the problem of roosters not being able to fit in, he could use several methods. One is to breed in groups, giving each flock of pheasants a separate space, so that they can be their own kings and do not interfere with each other. One of the drawbacks of this approach is that there will be fewer roosters than hens. There is no problem as a breeder, but if it is sold as a finished broiler, it is not possible. When buying pheasants, customers will definitely prefer roosters with beautiful feathers, and if there are fewer roosters, customers will not be satisfied. He suddenly thought of the farmed pheasants sold on the Internet in later generations, all of which were sold in pairs by a male and a female, and if there were no roosters, it would definitely not work.

The second option is to separate the rooster from the hen, and when there is no hen, the rooster may not fight anymore. However, this is just speculation, and whether it will work or not will be known after testing. The problem with this approach was that he wasn't sure that the roosters wouldn't fight without the hens. In addition, the insemination of hens is also a problem, and how to breed to ensure that the hens give birth to fertilized eggs is also very critical for the reproduction of pheasants.

The third option is to expand the field of pheasants, as long as there is enough space for the roosters to divide into their own territory, and the pheasants can adapt to a slightly smaller space than the outside world, which may also be feasible. This method may be the most reliable, but there is a problem of fewer roosters in the same way as the first method, and it is estimated that it can only be used in breeder breeding. And when it comes to breeding pheasants for meat in bulk, you have to think of other ways.

In the process of ordinary rooster breeding in the base, there have also been problems of chicken fights, I don't know how they solved it, this can be asked. He called Qi Ligang again. Hearing Tian Chuan ask this question, Qi Ligang said: "That's the case, the Isha brown chickens and firewood chickens we raise are not particularly aggressive, and the problem of fighting can be basically avoided by properly controlling the breeding density." We don't have aggressive white roosters anymore, and the fight is too powerful. We also have an auxiliary measure, which is to cut off the mouths of the roosters. Without a sharp mouth, chickens will not be affected much when they eat, and if the mouth that is used as the main weapon in a fight is not strong, it will not be interesting, just play around, just let them fight. However, the customers seem to be a little unhappy with the broken rooster. I'm also very strange, they eat chickens and not eat mouths, so what does it matter if they don't stop their mouths?"

Tagawa said, "Customer requests are what we strive for, and since customers don't like broken cocks, we have to think of other ways." In order to meet the requirements of customers, some costs can be appropriately increased. ”

Ending the call with Qi Ligang, Tian Chuan patted his head, things didn't seem to be as simple as he imagined.

He made a pot of tea, intending to change his mind. While drinking tea, try to speed up the situation in the previous life. In his memory, there must have been a lot of roosters and pheasants at that time, and whether they had a mature solution to this problem.

Thinking about the promotional videos and photos of free-range roosters in the mountains at that time, I always felt that something was in my head, but I couldn't think of it. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind: Put glasses on the roosters!

At that time, someone invented a kind of plastic glasses for roosters, saying that they were glasses, but in fact, they were two pieces of plastic that were stuck in front of the rooster's eyes, so that the roosters could not see the things in front of them, but only the objects on the side. When a rooster fights, it is necessary to rely on both eyes to see the opponent in front of it at the same time to form stereoscopic vision, so as to accurately judge the distance from the opponent and attack. The glasses destroy their stereoscopic vision, making it impossible for them to fight effectively, and what kind of fight they have.

This method can be used not only for pheasants, but also for the rooster farm at home, once and for all, it deserves to be quickly promoted in that year.

He wrote down this magical idea, and drew the renderings with sketching techniques, and he was satisfied with it first, and then sent it to Professor Lang, asking Professor Lang to find someone to test the specific size, and how to put the glasses on the rooster's nose without falling off easily. He specially instructed Professor Lang to apply for a patent in a timely manner and do a good job in patent protection. This method is too important, and if someone else preemptively registers the patent, it will be a big loss.