This time the chief wanted to open a supermarket, and when he consulted Hong'er and Ruyi about the candidates, they all unanimously recommended the boiled wine, which was originally in charge of the island's farms, and there were dozens of people under his hands, and it could also be said that the unit with the second most people on Dongluo Island, in addition to the troops, the civilian part belonged to it in the first number.

In addition to 72 pigs, there are 23 mules, 15 horses, 34 donkeys, 45 cattle, 56 sheep, and 300 chickens and ducks.

According to the system set by Huangshi, the dozens of them were divided into five breeding groups, corresponding to pigs, horses, mules, donkeys, cows, sheep, chickens and ducks, and each group had three or two breeders.

They also have a lot of work to do every day to ensure that the livestock have an adequate supply of drinking water, and they also have to brush the drinking trough frequently to keep the drinking water clean. Then, in accordance with the feeding specifications of those livestock given by Huangshi, ensure that the feed amount arranged on the specifications is sufficient, saying that it should be coarse first and then refined, and coarse with fine. It is necessary to fill less frequently, so that the feed is not piled up, not empty, and not wasted.

Then, in addition to the normal shift, the breeder has to feed the animals roughage every once in a while, and pay attention to picking out foreign objects in the feed when feeding, and not feed them moldy, spoiled and frozen feed.

Once, Li Yong, a pig breeder, was so busy that he forgot to thaw the feed taken out of the freezer and feed it directly to the dozens of pigs.

On that day, Li Yong was criticized by the cooking girl half to death, and it also affected Ding Sanshi in the same group as him. Ding Sanshi was the best swineherd in their Jiang family, he used the same swill and hogweed as everyone else, but what he raised was fat and strong.

Every time someone asked him what he knew, his answer was the word "heart", and later after the chief sent them those few books, Ding Sanshi, who didn't like to go to night school and didn't like to read and write, suddenly became the kind of "three good students" that the chief said, and chased Mr. Zhang every day to ask.

In addition to feeding them plantain according to the old experience, he also went to find the girl who cooked wine, and asked her to see if she could find some cures from those books, sure enough, it was written in the books, but there was no on the island, and the last one had to buy hawthorn and herbs from the upper realm through the chief, and soak them in warm water and feed them to the pigs.

Because of this incident, Huang Shi remembered that under the hand of boiling wine, there was a Ding Sanshi who knew how to raise pigs, and Li Yong, who was directly responsible, was recorded once by cooking wine, and the result was that his salary was assessed two months later, and his grade was lowered by one level, a full 2 yuan less.

In this way, Li Yong later saw the pigs that pit him, just like seeing the enemy, but unfortunately he didn't dare to abuse them, on the contrary, he had to "stutter" them even more, because he heard that these black pigs would be sent back to the upper realm by the chief, and then buy some "Ukrainian big white pigs" from the upper realm to raise them.

However, because the chief is very busy, the "Ukrainian big white pig" has never been seen, and Li Yong has to help them clean up their feces and sundries in time every day. Then every day they wore black waterproof suits and held a water hose, and they had to bathe the pigs every day, and sometimes they had to wash their bodies with a big brush.

So Li Yong would complain to Ding Sanshi every day, "Is this raising pigs or raising old men!" ”

After bathing these pigs, Li Yong and Ding Sanshi also had to clean up the water stains in the pig house, because it was necessary to be clean and hygienic, and there was no water in summer and no freezing in winter.

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In fact, Li Yong and they are not the most among these breeders, the most should be the old cowherd Niu Gengsheng and his mother-in-law, in addition to being like Ding Sanshi, they have to bathe and feed the cattle every day, but also pay attention to observe the feeding, manure, **** and other conditions of the cattle every day, and report to the cooking girl in time once they find abnormalities.

It turned out that although the head of the "Ukrainian big white pig" had never brought back, he had already brought back seven or eight black and white "cows". These cows are all dairy breeds of cattle, which are excellent breeds that have been highly bred and bred, also known as "black and white cows".

In 1980, the cattle and sheep breeding base of Shandong Provincial Animal Husbandry Bureau introduced the breed from the "Dutch Stan", this breed of dairy cows has strong adaptability, wide distribution, high milk yield, and is resistant to rough feeding, so this "black and white cow" is also called "Chinese Holstein cow".

Therefore, when the cow old man saw this "black and white cow" for the first time, he was startled, thinking that it was a kind of monster, their body was covered with black hair, and a pair of horns were so small that they could hardly be seen.

Because it is a cow, they have three more jobs than other breeders, one is artificial insemination, the second is milking, and the third is to play music for the cow, but artificial insemination is only in the learning stage, and they have not yet had the opportunity to practice.

"Artificial insemination" is a process in which the dairy operator must make the cows pregnant every year in order to ensure that the cows produce milk every year. Therefore, the calf is born to be taken away, which is of course a very painful thing for the cow, and it is the difference between life and death for the calf.

After the baby cow is taken away, the cow will often mourn for days. The heifers are fed with a substitute for their mother's milk, and after about two years, when they reach the milking age, they can replace the less productive cows. The rest of the cubs are kept as beef cattle.

The eight cows that Huangshi bought back were all just born, so as soon as they were bought, their milk production cycle began. It is milked 2 times a day, sometimes 3 times more, and is said to last up to 10 months.

Then the old cow's mother-in-law wore a black waterproof suit every day, and came to the cowpen regularly to milk the cows, but the cows had already been trained, so they did what the chief taught.

When milking, use the thumb and index finger to pinch the root of the cow's teat, and then press and squeeze in the order of the middle finger, ring finger and little finger, and the finger action should have a certain rhythm and even force, saying that it is 60 to 100 times per minute, which is basically one or two times a second. Every time you express a cow, you have to drain the milk from the milk pool, and the milking process cannot be stopped, so you must drain the milk as soon as possible.

This "milking" work, they spend more than an hour every day, and the time has to be done very early, because the milk is prepared for the students in the school, and the rest can be distributed to other people to drink, but not everyone can get used to the taste of milk, so the extra is taken by the Qu'er girl, saying that she wants to develop some "Western-style cakes".

In order to cultivate feelings with cows and strengthen affinity, in addition to treating cows well and milking them with a gentle attitude, they also absolutely prohibit whipping and intimidation, so the chief also specially equipped them with a magic instrument, a "CD player" that can play music.

On that day, Chief Neng installed this "CD player" and several small magic instruments, including "a few speakers", in the cowshed, and after trying out the music, he handed Niu Lao a few chapters of precautions and asked him to do it according to the above requirements.

The sound of fairy music in the cowshed surprised all the people on the island, and they did not dare to run when the chief was there, but when the chief was gone, they rushed in and asked the old cow to play the music on the "CD player".

Who knew that the old man glared at him, "The time that the chief said has not yet come." ”

Originally, Huangshi set a requirement for them to let the cows hear music before and after eating every day, so that from 5 to 7 in the morning, from 10 to 12 noon and 6 to 8 in the evening, this is the time when the cows eat, and the cowherd should play music for one hour before and after each meal, so that the whole day will play about 6 hours a day.

Everyone had to go away, and when the time came, some people still ran over to see what the old saying "playing the piano to the cow" was going on. As a result, as soon as those tunes were played, they were different from these nether operas, in addition to being soothing and gentle, they were also exceptionally good, really like fairy music.

It is from this time onwards, the scenery of Dongluo Island has one more place, the original end of the world, the cape, the top of the mountain and so on, and now there is more "watching the sea and listening to the waves", because the farm is just in the southwest corner of the island, the terrain is relatively high, through the HESCO wall, you can not only face the sea and hear the sound of the waves, but also listen to the fairy music of the upper realm by the way.

On the third day of use, the cow ran to the boiling wine and reported the results to her, it turned out that those cows mainly ate some distiller's grains, green corn stalks and other roughage, before listening to the music, these cows could only eat two loads of feed per meal, but now they can eat three loads, and the same is true for more than a dozen other cows.

Of course, the most surprising thing was that they had to milk two or three times a day, and the milk production was recorded, because each cow was hung with a numbered plaque, and each cow could produce 2 kilograms more milk after listening to the music than before the music.

"Could it be that as the chief said, this man is afraid of boredom, and the cow is also afraid of boredom, and it will be annoyed if it stays in one environment all day. So like people, you have to listen to music often. The old cow couldn't help scratching his head.