Chapter 1888 Cattle and Horse Boats

A bad-tempered cow is terrible, and the tonnage of the ox is placed there, which, combined with the sharp horns, becomes as dangerous as a Spanish bullfight once angry.

However, Marin knows a very interesting phenomenon. That is - even hornless cows are used to using their heads to push each other when fighting.

This seems to be an instinct of the cow to fight, the cow does not like to bite with the mouth, and is not good at kicking with the legs, but likes to top. Therefore, the fighting action of the cow is also called the top cow.

If there are sharp horns on the head, then the top cow is very dangerous and very lethal. But if the ox has no horns on its head......

In his last life, Marin had seen a funny video of two hornless cows fighting, pushing each other's bare cow heads against each other. However, there are no horns, and there is no lethality. As a result, the fight between the two cows turned into a comic confrontation similar to pushing each other. After fighting for a long time, neither cow was injured......

In the end, the two cows probably got bored themselves, and when they were tired, they scattered to graze......

It is foreseeable that the explosive cattle bred by Marin animal husbandry experts will definitely not have a good temper. Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be bull fights.

Since the brawl could not be avoided, Marin came up with a solution - to raise hornless Piflo cows!

No matter how bad your temper is, without the horns, the action of pushing the bull will become a vigorous push. While this kind of "hard pushing" can hurt people, it is not so fatal without sharp horns.

In this way, even if the high-speed Piflo cattle bred are not so good-tempered, they are much less dangerous.

After thinking this clearly, Marin gave the order - to crossbreed only hornless cattle and bison. At the same time, when capturing bison for crossbreeding, only hornless bison are also allowed to be captured.

In order to breed hornless Piflo cattle, Marin even made a rule - when you see hornless buffalo, you must not shoot them, you can only round them up. In this way, the probability of breeding hornless Piflo cattle is greatly increased.

The probability of normal cattle having no horns is very low, except for a few specially bred breeds such as Angus cattle, most cattle breeds are horned. Therefore, every hornless bison is a valuable specimen. Therefore, Marlin planned to equip the hunting party with binoculars and strictly ordered them to use binoculars to confirm that there were no hornless cattle in the herd before hunting. If hornless cattle are found, they must immediately change course and call in more hunters to round up the herd and capture the hornless bison alive in order to obtain breeding samples.

Marlin intends to breed hornless bison in two directions, one is to cross with European hornless cattle to obtain a relatively good temper and not too slow Piflo cattle. The second direction is the internal breeding of hornless bison, which breeds specialized hornless bison.

But in fact, the second direction also serves the first. Marlin wasn't sure what level of Piflor and hornless European cattle could bring, and the quality was not guaranteed. However, if the hornless bison is bred in-house, the characteristics of the species can still be retained.

In this way, it is the best choice to try to breed a Pivloon that meets the requirements while preserving the characteristics of the hornless bison itself. One day, the experts will be able to breed a high-speed Piflo ox that meets Marin's requirements, which can be used both to pull carts and to plough the fields at higher speeds.

Marin didn't know that because of his momentary interest, he later lost his job all over the world. Because, people were surprised to find that the hornless leather cow not only has great strength, but also pulls the cart no slower than the horse, and has more endurance......

If you plough the land, you have more stamina, and the hornless Puffolo ox that is not slow is no worse than the horse. And the usual feeding, the Piflo cow is obviously better to raise. In addition, the Piflo cow is more resilient to harsh climates, as well as resistant to disease, than a horse......

So, many years later, the high-speed hornless Piflo oxen almost squeezed the horses to the point where they had no room to live. Then, people raised horses, and only the role of riding remained. Even, the transport vehicles on the main road have begun to mainly use high-quality hornless Piflo cattle. Only some vehicles carrying people use horse-drawn carriages because of their exquisiteness. From an economic point of view, trucks have adopted high-speed hornless Piflo ox-drawn carts.

But this did not last long, because after the oil production technology matured, the North Sea began to mass-produce tractors, replacing the position of livestock. Later, only in remote areas where transportation is very difficult, livestock continued to be used to plough land and pull carts.

Therefore, the high-speed hornless Piflo cattle that Marin ordered to breed, like clippers, were born in the wrong era and were destined to be short-lived.

In the era of the appearance of clippers, the technology of steam engine ships has been relatively mature and has begun to develop rapidly. Therefore, the clipper ship was born at an inopportune time, and it was only popular for a while.

Similarly, Marlin copied the 12-horsepower single-cylinder diesel engine before ordering the breeding of high-speed hornless Piflo cattle. If it weren't for the severe shortage of diesel supply, there would have been no cattle and horses for a long time.

But in any case, this is also a good story in history. After all, it is indeed a very genius idea to breed fast-paced hornless oxen to pull carts to plow the land.

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The breeding of high-speed hornless Piflor cattle takes time and requires multiple generations of breeding and optimization to stabilize performance. So, it's going to take a long time.

Just after Marlin decided on the cross-breeding plan for high-speed hornless Piflo cattle, the Long Island Shipyard in New York came back with good news - the cattle and horse boats specially designed to transport large animals were successfully built!

Long before he came into contact with the Persians, Marin had a plan to develop specialized ships for transporting livestock. After all, Marin intended to import cattle and horses and other livestock from Persia on a large scale. And to transport livestock, ordinary ships are not competent.

Ordinary boats, generally designed to be compact to maximize the use of space. So, many times, sailors have to go in and out of the cabin with their waists in and out. Moreover, the cabins where sailors live are also very harsh.

But such a ship is very inconvenient to transport livestock. This is because large animals such as cattle and horses are very large and suitable for sailors to enter and exit the hatches and stairs, but they are not suitable for cattle and horses to enter and exit at all.

In addition, the enclosed environment such as the bilge is completely unsuitable for livestock. Because, after all, animals are animals, and they don't know how convenient to go to the toilet. So, it's often solved on the spot. If it's on the top deck it's fine, it's easy to sweep and pour into the sea. At the same time, sailors can also wash the deck. If the cattle are kept in the bilge, and the door of the cattle is open to defecate, it is estimated that the relatively closed bilge will be extremely foul.

Moreover, the animals cannot be put together in one go. Because, they are prone to fight with each other. In particular, some male cattle and horses are particularly aggressive and prone to injuring each other.

Therefore, in the past, if you want to transport large animals, you can often only tether them to the top deck and separate them from each other, so that they can avoid each other's injuries and at the same time, it is also convenient to sweep and dump cow and horse manure into the sea.

But in this way, the number of cattle and horses that a ship can transport is very limited, often a ship can only transport a dozen or twenty at a time, at most a few dozen small, and it is very troublesome to serve.

Therefore, if you want to transport large animals such as cattle and horses on a large scale, you must design special transport ships to transport them on a large scale and safely.

However, at the beginning, the shipbuilders of the North Sea Country were also a little unable to find their way and took many detours. It was not until Ma Lin introduced shipbuilders from the Ming Dynasty that the shipbuilders of the Treasure Shipyard brought the technology and ideas of the manufacture of horse boats in the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, that the pace of research and development was accelerated. Eventually, a specialized cattle boat was created that could transport 200 horses or 200 cattle at a time......