Taking care of female animals is the most common job for veterinarians.

In the pasture, the most willing time to pay is the time when the ewe and cow are pregnant every year.

If pasture is the foundation of pasture, sheep are the future of the farm. On weekdays, state farms and herders are models of picking, and those who can use green fodder are reluctant to use grain fodder, and when they can use water from pastures, they do not pay for pumping stations. Occasionally, when an animal is sick, as long as it is determined that it is not an epidemic, it will not cost too much money to treat it.

I really can't do it, so I can add dinner on the weekend.

But when the mother animal is pregnant, you can't take it lightly.

If there are not enough lambs, if the calves are born, the pasture will enter the window period next year, which is really difficult.

Therefore, once the ewes are pregnant, the treatment is swishing to improve.

Moldy, spoiled feed is cut off first, and all are allocated to the young rams to eat - some people may say, how can you give moldy and spoiled feed to livestock? When you ask this question, think about the meaning of swill as a high-grade feed, and you can guess about the average level of feed.

In addition, the proportion of concentrate in the feed consumed by pregnant ewes will also increase. Generally speaking, the ewes who are two months pregnant can already get rid of the hay, and the concentrate feed composed of soybeans, corn, barley, wheat, soybean cake and bone meal has become the staple food, and they are often cooked and fed several times a day.

In addition, epidemic prevention and deworming are also the focus of veterinarians. According to different regions, ewes should be regularly injected with sheep fast disease, sheep sniping, sheep enterotoxemia, lamb dysentery, black plague and other types of vaccines, each shot is money.

For ranchers who have to pick every penny, who is willing to give money to veterinarians when this is not the case.

Everyone is reluctant to see a doctor when they are sick, and ordinary minor illnesses are nothing more than lying in bed and suffering, let alone for livestock.

It stands to reason that veterinarians have so much experience in taking care of livestock, especially female animals, that it should not be difficult to take care of pregnant sheep cloned sheep.

However, it's not that simple.

In the past, veterinarians performed very cost-effective work, and they are used to doing cost-effective work.

From their point of view and that of the rancher, when any sheep needs treatment, it comes down to one question – whether it's cost-effective or not.

It is the most common idea to cure if it is cost-effective, and give up if it is not cost-effective. Except for vaccines that have to be given and deworming that have to be done, there is no animal disease that must be cured.

The price of a sheep is 50 yuan, and the result is 100 yuan for medicine.

Opening a ranch to be a herdsman is to make a living, not to open a good church.

However, how much does a ewe with a cloned sheep cost?

There is no actuary in Yang Rui's genetic engineering laboratory to do this calculation, but it is certain that the unit of pricing must be 10,000 yuan, and the longer the gestational ewe, the more valuable it is.

The ewes with a total gestation period of 5 months can last until two or three months later, and 100,000 yuan can't be stopped.

This is still in China, and if it is put abroad, it is trivial to turn it into dollars.

The veterinarians in Yang Rui's genetic engineering laboratory are faced with the task of how to use the best medicine, the best equipment, and the most adequate manpower to protect the ewes.

However, most veterinarians are not really good at this job.

In just two months, half of them failed.

Some of them are unlucky, some are not technically good, and some are completely unsuitable for such work.

It can be said that some ewes are completely poorly cared for, resulting in unnecessary losses.

When such an assessment report came out, the researchers in Yang Rui's genetic engineering laboratory were anxious.

"The cub sells his field, don't feel distressed. Can't we find a few people with a better level?"

"The veterinarians with good domestic level have all pulled us here. ”

"Let the good level of stewardship no longer be taken care of separately from one end to the other. ”

"You are a veterinarian and a soldier? Besides, unified care, in the end, it is not to be assigned to people, just their fools, in the end, it is not the same result. ”

"Find a veterinary research institute or something, can't you pull it all over?"

"Regardless of their level, which veterinary research institute do you want to co-author your paper with?"

"Forget it, although we are engaged in animal husbandry, we can't be willing to degenerate to go hand in hand with veterinarians. ”

Yang Rui sat in the laboratory, listening to the researchers scolding the veterinarian for being stupid, and his thoughts did not fluctuate in the slightest.

Just as researchers need exercise, veterinarians naturally need exercise.

He was already mentally prepared for this.

The management of the pregnancy of cloned sheep is a world-class problem, and at the level of the 80s, it was basically a gamble.

What kind of care model is correct, Yang Rui is not clear, and the existing technical indicators are not instructive, on the contrary, the inherent thinking mode may play the opposite role.

It's like whether human women want to be confined, it's still a difficult paradox to solve, not to mention the care of sheep during pregnancy.

Therefore, Yang Rui was just immersed in his own world, listening to the repeated scolding and discussion in his ears, and taking a deep breath, as if he had arrived in the primeval forest of the scientific research community.

Reading and learning is the process of fighting fools in the sea of fools.

People who have studied in elementary school are proud of the fact that they can write their names and calculate the money for food, and they are no longer illiterate fools; they are very good at reading junior high school, at least they can read the 26 letters of English, and they have the ability to independently go to various foreign websites to brush the landlord as a good person, and they are no longer a fool in elementary school; if they have read high school, and then look at the financial channel, at least they will not point to the curve chart and laugh, like a junior high school fool.

The people who can enter the university can be said to have swam very deep in the sea of fools, and their greatest achievement is to see the world clearly, to know that the Goldbach conjecture cannot be solved with elementary mathematics, and to make a perpetual motion machine with modern physics, and completely away from the world of middle school fools.

If you want to stay in the lab for a few days, you will hear the self-evaluation of graduate students: I'm such a fool! Why am I so stupid! I'm so fucking stupid!

As for the highest-level doctoral students, they are very condescending to graduate and undergraduate students, "Why are you so stupid! Do you dare to be a little more stupid! Damn, you are so stupid and talented" is not their mantra, but also the mainstream of their inner drama. Only when they see the payslip will the doctoral students sincerely say: this stupid world!

As a regular guest of the laboratory, Yang Rui is used to noisy laboratories, and cloning sheep is no exception.

It's the veterinarians themselves, who are doing it with a weak heart.

Li Zhanjun, who was stunned, was pushed out and was responsible for explaining to Yang Rui.

Li Zhanjun is still doing a major national project for the first time, and he is not used to the big scene of Yang Rui's genetic engineering laboratory, and he is even more nervous when he meets the boss.

Standing in front of Yang Rui, looking at Yang Rui's bright white coat and sniffing his sheep-smelling clothes, Li Zhanjun was speechless for a while.

"You are Li Zhanjun. Yang Rui smiled and spoke, the expression on his face was warm.

Li Zhanjun was instantly excited: "You know me?"

"Of course, you're here by my name. Yang Rui couldn't tell the truth. There are many veterinarians in the laboratory, most of them are selected senior talents, and the scale of hundreds of people makes Yang Rui unable to run to be a full-time HR.

However, Yang Rui still knows Li Zhanjun's name.

This gentleman's reputation outside the circle is not obvious, and he has no chance to get ahead when he is young, so he silently worked as a veterinarian until he retired.

However, his work after retirement made Li Zhanjun famous, and he took care of the racehorses at the racecourse in Yangcheng at the time, and independently completed the operation of a retired thoroughbred. The latter recovered so well that he returned to the field and won several championships.

This kind of story is a legend that people talk about once it happens, but Li Zhanjun has silently completed it several times, so that insiders can't even notice him.

As we all know, due to China's policy environment and history, horse racing is mostly self-entertainment, not even the second echelon, and most of the horses received by the racecourse are old horses and injured horses who have retired from active service. Li Zhanjun is like a fish in water in this environment, and he has earned some fame and money.

However, due to his age, Li Zhanjun did not work on the front line for a long time, and soon became famous and symbolic.

Yang Rui looked at Li Zhanjun and couldn't help but ask curiously: "You usually work in the ranch, what do you mainly do?"

Li Zhanjun replied a little blankly: "That is, to take care of livestock, vaccinate or something, in addition, occasionally there are cattle and sheep that are injured by falls, I will also do some minor surgery and bandage and fix it." ”

If it were someone else, it would be difficult to hear anything special from this passage, but Yang Rui asked: "Under normal circumstances, cattle and sheep are injured, don't they have to be slaughtered?"

"It's really not good, there's no way, in fact, if it's handled well, most of the trauma can be solved. ”

Yang Rui nodded and said, "Good skills are all practiced." ”

With a headless sentence, Li Zhanjun could only reply stupidly with a "yes".

"Isn't this batch going well?" Yang Rui then asked.

It was the same headless sentence, Li Zhanjun instantly understood, nodded hurriedly, and said, "We are not particularly proficient yet, and the success rate is still relatively low......"

"No need to explain. Yang Rui interrupted with a word.

Li Zhanjun immediately put his feet together and lowered his head, ready to accept criticism.

"Do you think that with the current progress, how many batches will you need to make it?" Yang Rui did not mean to criticize Li Zhanjun, and his tone did not change much.

This is the key issue at present, Li Zhanjun suddenly became nervous, glanced back weakly, and said: "We don't have mature experience yet, and we don't have successful examples...... We discussed similar issues in our recent meeting......"

"I don't want to listen to other people, I just want to listen to your judgment, your personal judgment. Yang Rui's question was even more unexpected.

Li Zhanjun shivered unconsciously, and then he felt sweating.

"I ......" With Li Zhanjun's temperament, he has avoided similar problems before.

He didn't like politics, he didn't like meetings, and he didn't like such things as military writ. He likes to spend time with cows, sheep, mules and horses, and when he is cured, the healed animals will thank him, and if he can't be cured, no animals will come back to find trouble.

Yang Rui's question seems to be a problem that will cause trouble.

However, Li Zhanjun didn't want to avoid it at this time.

In other words, when he nodded instinctively and was subconsciously pushed out by his colleagues to face Yang Rui, Li Zhanjun had an idea in his heart.

A bold idea!

"I think that this batch, and even the next batch, will have a hard time surviving the ewes during pregnancy. Li Zhanjun didn't wait for Yang Rui to ask, and said in one breath: "We haven't done such work as pregnancy management before, and we are in the process of learning, and the high miscarriage rate and high pregnancy diseases we are currently encountering have not been paid attention to before, and it takes time to solve them one by one, and it will take time." ”

Glancing at Yang Rui, Li Zhanjun said again: "Now it is not only a matter of training and familiarization, but also the flock of sheep also needs to be trained and familiarized. None of these sheep were raised locally, and they were transported over long distances, and they were both egg retrieval and conception, and they were not fully prepared. If only embryo transfer is not a big problem, now it is the embryo transfer of cloned sheep, which has reached the extent of affecting the success rate. ”

Yang Rui's brows were furrowed, to be honest, he really hadn't thought about the related issues.

If there is any gap between Yang Rui and the original father of cloned sheep, Wilmut, it is fatal to have no experience in animal husbandry and zoology.

Historically, Wilmut's Ph.D. was about zoology, of course, compared to the ** freezing of pigs that were much taller than veterinarians - no matter how the chain of contempt was arranged in their circles, Wilmut had worked for many years, and had accumulated considerable experience in animal husbandry and zoology, before enchanting white-faced sheep.

Yang Rui's laboratory resume is beautiful enough, but he has no experience in dealing with sheep, and he has experience in embryo transfer of cattle, and he has the qualifications to participate in sheep cloning, and the host is still lacking.

However, lack of experience does not mean lack of theory.

As soon as Yang Rui heard Li Zhanjun's suggestion, he felt that it was reasonable, but Li Zhanjun's first sentence at the beginning made it difficult for him to praise it.

"According to what you mean, this batch and the next batch of ewes should be abandoned?" Yang Rui asked a little hard. His experiments have always been very fast-paced, and it is rare that he is tired and unable to produce results.

On top of that, he wasn't used to working like a sheep.

However, the annoyance of animal-related research lies in the endless work and the various habits of animals.

Li Zhanjun, who was out of the way, also completely forgot the entrustment of his colleagues, and said affirmatively: "I think the first two batches of sheep should not be given too high expectations, and resources should be placed in the next few batches." ”

"How many, I mean, how many more batches do you need?" Yang Rui tried his best to hide his anxiety.

"After two batches, maybe three or more batches. Li Zhanjun said.

The gestation period of sheep is about 5 months, counting the time before and after, which is equal to a batch of six months, and five batches...... No, it can't be counted like this - Yang Rui quickly came to his senses and said, "That's it, I'll get more sheep first, although it is also an unfamiliar sheep, how much progress can be speeded up." Blame me for not thinking it through before. ”

"You're well prepared, it's because we're not skilled. When Li Zhanjun said this, he suddenly came to his senses, his eyes flashed, and he asked, "Did you adopt my suggestion?"

"Of course, you're a professional. Yang Rui paused, and then said, "You go and inform Gu Qiang and Wang Liangcai, and let them speed up the transplantation of oocytes." ”

"I ...... Is it appropriate to go and inform?" Li Zhanjun was once again unconfident.

Yang Rui glanced at him, and suddenly roared at the top of his voice: "Gu Qiang!"

"Yes!" Gu Qiang was in the laboratory, and immediately replied when he heard the shout.

"Double the production. Yang Rui roared again.

"Ahh

"Professor Wang. Yang Rui was a little polite to Wang Liangcai, who was seconded.

Wang Liangcai also responded.

"Double. ”

"Yes. Wang Liangcai's voice was also practiced.

Li Zhanjun's ears were full of buzzing echoes in the room, and he only felt that such a backward village-level communication method was so incompatible with the atmosphere of the laboratory.

(End of chapter)