After Huo Xiong dealt with the pig farm accident, he came to his office in the animal husbandry company the next day, and then called a meeting of his subordinates to make plans and write reports...... He now urgently needs a major rotation throughout the livestock system in order to improve the professionalism of the workers.

However, Fu Wushuang is not alone, just after he finished laying out the plan on the front foot, there was bad news on the back foot: the bamboo rat that was farmed had run away......

Angry, Comrade Huo Xiong had no choice but to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle again and go straight to the bamboo rat breeding factory.

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In the mature farming system of later generations, crops need to undergo secondary transformation before they can reflect their value.

Farmers first grow corn and then make it into fodder, which eventually adds value...... They are transformed into steaks and bacon and complete the last link in the farming chain.

This type of farming has met with resistance in the crossing: all the crops have been taken to fill the human stomach, and it is difficult to expand the scale of animal husbandry, so it can only be developed slowly.

In this case, bamboo rats, which feed on bamboo, miscanthus grass, and plant stalks, have entered the sight of the Animal Husbandry Corporation - all comrades who do not compete with cattle and horses for feed are good comrades and worth raising.

Because the food is a variety of low-energy crude fiber, so the bamboo rat seems to be a mammal, but its meat has more crude protein, more inclined to "white meat", in later generations is sold as a healthy food, 100 a catty, very expensive.

And the bamboo rats raised by the crossing crowd do not have so many flowery intestines - just for the sake of eating meat.

Bamboo rats can directly transform bamboo into flesh, which is precious in Tainan, which is full of bamboo forests. In addition, the fur of bamboo rats is also good, and the rich people in the Yangtze River valley are very willing to buy a rat skin to wear in the wet and cold winter.

Similar to other farms, bamboo rat farms are small-scale and decentralized.

Huo Xiong rode his motorcycle from the Chihkan District Government to the east, walked the asphalt road, the gravel road, and finally the dirt road, and after nearly 20 kilometers, he came to the bamboo rat breeding base located in a hilly area.

Not far from the central mountain range, it is full of bamboo forests and streams, which are ideal for raising bamboo rats. A few large red brick houses were scattered on the nearby hills, and when they heard the roar of motorcycles, they greeted the people inside.

"What's going on?" Huo Xiong got out of the car, and after seeing the two people coming towards him, he asked a young man of sixteen or seventeen.

The young man's name was "Liuzi", and he was a homeless man from the south of the Yangtze River. The young man works hard, has a positive attitude, and works hard to read and count, so he is a talent that Huo Xiong is more optimistic about.

"Ran a nest!" Liuzi's face was full of anxiety.

"Check it out." Huo Xiong stepped into the enclosure.

The red brick house is almost 100 square meters, and the inside is made of small squares made of thin stone slabs. Since bamboo rats live underground all year round, these half-human-tall squares are topped with straw curtains to shade the light.

Casually lifted a straw curtain and looked down, and what caught Huo Xiong's eyes were five or six round, chubby, the first in the rodent world, and the same size of the sub-adult bamboo rat.

The main species of bamboo rats raised by farmers in later generations is the Silver Star Bamboo Rat. After many generations of artificial breeding, this breed has the characteristics of fast growth rate and large size, which is very suitable for artificial breeding.

The great cause of bamboo rats that crossed the crowd was also developed by 50 "imported" silver star seedlings.

Different from later generations, there are not only silver star bamboo rats here, but also Chinese bamboo rats and red-cheeked bamboo rats collected from the Ming Dynasty in several other enclosures, including Tainan's local bamboo rat breeds.

You must know that in later generations, such as Chinese bamboo rats have become protected animals, and they are not allowed to be sold at leisure.

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After taking a casual look, Huo Xiong was led by the sixth son to the nest of bamboo rats that escaped.

The straw curtain on the top of the lattice had been lifted, and after Huo Xiong came over, he first went in to take a look, and then reached out and touched the bottom of the stone slab.

"The seams left below have been gnawed into holes, can you not run?" Huo Xiong patted the ash on his hand, then turned his head and asked, "Didn't you notice that the bamboo rat was gnawing on the stone slab?" ”

Liuzi's face was full of frustration at this time: "A few rats blocked the stone crack with their stomachs and didn't notice. ”

"Alas......" Huo Xiong shook his head: "Take me to the feed room to have a look." ”

Because bamboo rats have a habit: they automatically clean their droppings out of their nests, so there are gaps under each block.

Now that the gap at the bottom has been gnawed out by the fugitives, Huo Xiong immediately thought of the feed problem: maybe he is hungry?

After the three of them came to the feed room next door, Huo Xiong first checked the various feeds in the house, and then stretched out his hand: "Show me the feeding records." ”

A papyrus notebook was handed to him.

Bamboo rats have a rich source of feed: soft and hard bamboo, bamboo roots, bamboo shoots, corn stalks, sweet potatoes, including elephant grass and imperial bamboo grass brought from later generations, melon skins, sorghum stalks, which can be used as feed for bamboo rats.

Except for the female rat who needs to be fed a little rice bran to increase nutrition during the lactation stage, the bamboo rat eats the above-mentioned crude fiber feed for the rest of the time.

When Huo Xiong opened the notebook, he saw the feeding records in the enclosure for the most recent period.

Liuzi is a very diligent worker, he recorded the daily feed amount and type in detail in the notebook, some words that can't be written, he also marked it with graphics, so that Huo Xiong nodded straight at it: "Liuzi, go back and report to you for a committee training class, go and learn some cultural knowledge, you are lacking this now." ”

Liuzi's face was excited: "The little one is gone, who will raise the bamboo rats?" ”

"Whoever raises it is better than you!" Huo Xiong said that it was too late, it was fast, his face changed in an instant, and he knocked on the head of the six sons with the record book.

"Oh, my lord spares his life!" The six sons were beaten and ran all over the house.

After Huo Xiong finished his breath, he grabbed Liuzi's ears and began to interrogate: "Say, why has the feeding amount of hard bamboo decreased?" ”

"Feed more concentrate rats and get fat fast!" The six sons have words.

Huo Xiong rolled his eyes angrily again: "Did you say that when you were training, the pair of big teeth of the bamboo rat are growing every day?" ”

"Did you say it...... The little ones know! ”

"You know a fart, if you don't feed them hard bamboo to grind their teeth, won't they bite the slate?"

"I see!" The sixth son suddenly realized.

"Each bamboo rat must be fed a piece of hard bamboo every day, and the rest of the concentrate is randomly matched, and the recipe is not allowed to be changed randomly." Huo Xiong knocked on the head of the sixth son again: "You are doing bad things with good intentions, and Lao Tzu's nest of meat just ran away." Alas, I'll train you at the first time! ”

The sixth son smiled at this time and said, "Don't be angry, master, tomorrow I will go to the mountains to catch ten and come back to make amends." ”

"Scratch a fart!" Huo Xiong was even more angry: wild bamboo rats not only spread various diseases, but also have a tyrannical personality and are not easy to reproduce, so they need to be scientifically bred for several generations before they can be raised as breeding rats.

After severely criticizing the six sons, Huo Xiong ordered the two breeders to quickly check all the cracks in the stone slabs, and replace all those whose teeth had been ground by bamboo rats.

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After tossing and turning, Huo Xiong finally nippled the problem in the bud and did not cause greater losses.

After rejecting the roasted bamboo rat lunch proposed by the sixth son, Huo Xiong was going to leave - he still had to go to the cattle farm to do big things, and he didn't have time to roast the bamboo rat. But when it comes to bamboo rats, you still have to take a few with you, and a certain crossing over the cattle farm loves to eat this thing.

So Huo Xiong found a bamboo cage before leaving, and began to pick mice: "This one has been fighting, and there are injuries on his body, so I took it away...... Well, this flimpy one, probably suffering from heat stroke, I'll take it away...... This one is thinner, probably depressed, I have to take ......"

In this way, after Huo Xiong put a few bamboo rats into the cage, the beautiful Harley-Davidson motorcycle once again took on the work of the takeaway brother and roared all the way away.

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The breeding base is 10 kilometers south of Chikan, close to the location of Kaohsiung. After the army launched a clean-up campaign a few months ago, it had "naturalized" the various indigenous tribes north of Kaohsiung Creek, and the land they left behind is now planted with all kinds of forage and used as farms.

After passing through the bustling area around Chikan, Huo Xiong's motorcycle traveled another 10 kilometers south, and after passing through several fields of alfalfa and elephant grass, he saw a farm fenced off by a wooden fence in the distance.

Cattle are a kind of domestic animal with the highest economic value, and it is also a kind of domestic animal that can have a profound impact on the whole society and the whole human race.

In the future plans of the traversals, their descendants will no longer eat pork as a staple food - the vast North American Great Plains and Pampas grasslands are used for their children and grandchildren to graze and barbecue tomahawk steaks.

Therefore, on this issue, the attitude of the vast majority of the crossing people is supportive: early layout, early harvest.

With this guiding ideology, the original big office ...... The current cabinet has also given a green light on the issue of breeding cattle, and Huo Xiong's requests for imported materials have basically been met, and there have been no common situations of being blocked, ridiculed, insulted, and beaten.

After arriving at the gate of the cattle farm, Huo Xiong stopped and greeted the doorman: this is an important property of the empire, so there is a special security team with guns to patrol.

When I entered the cow farm, I saw a long barn standing on the grass from a distance.

The barn is made of red brick and cement, tall and sturdy, with steel on top and a large glass window on the wall that has been made of the latest factory for ventilation.

Equipment including water pipes and earthen circulating water coolers are equipped here, except for the low point of appearance, which is no worse than the color steel cowshed of later generations.

"Roast bamboo rats...... Huo Xiong came to the cowshed, stopped the motorcycle, and shouted at the top of his voice.

The next moment, a man in a white coat, curly hair, and fair skin walked out of the barn.

Wang Goode, who is a quarter of his Mexican ancestry, is the only professional veterinarian among the 250 veterinarians.