451 Chapter Farming and Pasture after the New Year
had breakfast at Su Xue's house, and after the two went to work, Chengxin also got up and set off, drove to the parking lot, and went to the farm and ranch.
After a bumpy ride, two hours later, Chengxin finally reached the edge of the grassland.
At a glance, the land that could be vaguely seen last year has completely disappeared.
The whole grassland is full of greenery, and even the 10 centimeters of grass left during sowing has been covered by the grass that grows more than 10 centimeters tall due to the equipment.
The whole meadow, except for all kinds of green pastures, can no longer see the ground.
Without stopping, Chengxin followed the dirt road in the grassland and arrived at the dormitory area after a while.
Basically, just like every time they came over, Dai Yu and Wu Qian were picking vegetables and chopping vegetables in the dormitory area, preparing lunch.
This time it was a little different, there were two more people, one was Chengxin's uncle, and the other was Li Tao, and the two were busy working on the edge of an excavator.
After Chengxin got out of the car, he went directly to the uncle.
"Heh, you kid finally came in?"
As soon as Cheng Xin approached, the uncle who was busy immediately spoke.
"What's wrong with this big guy, uncle?"
Knowing that the uncle was joking, Chengxin didn't answer the question, and asked if there was a problem with the equipment.
Hundreds of thousands of things, if they break in less than three months, then you can't find a dealer to return them?
"How can this thing break so easily, hasn't it been more than two months, it's time to change the oil, I've been changing the oil for a few big guys here in the past two days."
"Oh, I thought it was broken, do you need my help?"
Chengxin knew that it was not the equipment that was broken, and he was immediately ready to help.
"Help? Forget it, look at what you're wearing, don't wait for it to get you covered in engine oil, you should go and see the cowsheds. ”
The small matter of changing the engine oil is enough for two people, so the uncle didn't care whether Chengxin really helped or not, and he refused.
Cheng Xin didn't have to help, since he didn't need it, then he was going to go to the cowshed under construction a hundred and ten meters in front of the dormitory.
The whole cowshed was built in the middle of almost the entire pasture.
Because the climate here is better than that in the village, the main role of the cowshed is the continuous drizzle in the rainy season and the cold wind and drizzle in winter.
Moreover, the cowshed here is much more humble than the farm in the village.
The overall structure of the cowshed is a steel structure, and the top and both sides are closed by color steel sheds.
The structure inside is similar to that of the village's farm, with a passage of about three meters in the middle, railings and a sink on both sides of the aisle, and finally the lights hanging on the roof of the shed and several exhaust fans on the roof of the shed.
Winter and the rainy season are well thought out, but what about summer?
In the summer, this is simple, and several rows of awnings have now been built in the meadow, so that in the summer and autumn, when the sun is high, the cattle can climb under the awnings to rest.
And it's hot in autumn, so you don't have to drive them back into the circle at night, and it's okay to let them spend the night in the pasture.
The awnings have been fully completed and are similar in style to the platforms of train stations.
A concrete floor, with several steel columns in the middle supporting the color steel shed above.
In the middle, there are not only steel columns, but also rectangular troughs that provide water to the cattle.
In fact, it is best not to use cement under this awning, and it is best to make it into sand, so that the cattle can rest comfortably on it.
However, there are gains and losses, although the sand cattle are comfortable to lie down, but they dare not collect manure, right?
So in the end, I chose a concrete floor, which is also easy to collect and clean up the manure.
Four or five hundred meters long, five or six meters wide awnings, the entire meadow has been built in total.
The locations are all on the three edges of the pasture, so that it does not hinder the plowing and watering of the pasture in the future.
Hey, this is also a pasture, there are no trees or big trees.
Otherwise, there is no need to build any awning, just place some troughs for the cattle to drink, and when the sun is hot, they will find themselves to lie under the trees to avoid the sun.
Some people may feel that Chengxin doesn't understand anything, and is completely spending money to mess around, but in fact, it is not.
Chengxin also thought about engaging in a bolted farm, where only pasture grass was planted.
With the annual forage produced by 20,000 acres of grassland, there is no problem in raising tens of thousands of cattle, and there is no need to be so troublesome.
However, Chengxin didn't think about the first few batches of cattle, and they sold meat after they were raised.
This first ranch, Chengxin is ready to build into a breeding base.
In a few days, after the cowshed is completed, Chengxin will make a trip to Inner Mongolia to buy thousands of calves back.
When the calf grows up, Chengxin will not sell a single cow, and all of it will be used to breed calves.
In order to let these breeding cattle have a better living environment, Chengxin chose to breed.
If he really sells meat in order to raise him, he will directly engage in tethering.
If you don't engage in a breeding farm, you can't do it, judging from the beef cattle raised in the village last year, a group of cattle have been raised from small to large, and they can be slaughtered in a year and a half.
With more than 20,000 acres of pasture now, even if the yield of pasture grass is lower because of the saline-alkali land here, more than two acres can support one cow, which means that more than 10,000 cattle can be raised here.
More than 10,000 heads, do you have to go to Inner Mongolia every year to buy more than 10,000 calves back?
And in the future, the next farm will be developed, and if you don't breed yourself, will you have to go outside to buy 20,000 or more calves back?
Therefore, this pasture grass can be a breeding base in the future.
In addition to the cowsheds for shelter from the rain or winter, and the awnings for summer and autumn to block the sun, there are also other factories.
For example, there are delivery rooms for future childbirth, isolation wards after illness, forage warehouses, concentrate feed warehouses and so on.
The appeals are almost complete.
Chengxin walked around and saw that many workers were putting the finishing touches on it, and it was only a matter of a few days.
For Chengxin, a stranger wandering around the edge of the construction site, the workers who built the cowshed also took a look at him and continued to do their work.
Of course, if Boss Wang sees him, he will definitely come over to talk to him about something.
After a round of walking, Chengxin came to the lake again.
After more than two months, three months of irrigation, the water level of the lake has already crept over the canyon, and it may be a week or two before the lake will be completely filled.
To tell the truth, the whole lake is surrounded by water, and now it is a pool of stagnant water, and there is no life at all except for the water.
There were no fish in the water, no aquatic plants, and the water near the shore was a bit muddy.
Seeing this, Chengxin had an idea.
After a while, I have to get some aquatic plants or something and plant them in the shallow water.
On both sides of the lake, you have to plant some fruit trees for him, any kind of fruit tree can be, and wild fruits are not disliked.
Finally, in the water, I raised some kinds of fish and shrimp in the water.
Even if you grow up and sell it for money, you can usually catch some fish for the workers on the farm and ranch to eat for themselves, right?
Moreover, planting fish and shrimp in water may make the water quality of this stagnant lake better, right?
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I don't know if the water of this lake will deteriorate after a long time.
After spoilage, it may not affect pastures or farms.
But the water provided to the cattle for drinking may also be extracted from it in the future.
What if the water quality is not good after being stored for a long time, so that the cattle drink badly and get sick in their stomachs?
Looking at the time, it's half past eleven, and it's time to go back for lunch.
So Chengxin didn't go to the farm to have a look, and got up and went back to the dormitory.
As soon as he arrived at the dormitory, the people who were working outside came back for lunch.