Liu Gensheng, one of the five old people hired by Liu Xiaoyu, is 58 years old, his body is still strong, his wife died early, and he has no children under his knees, and he is one of the few lonely and widowed elderly people in Liujia Village.

Yao Jun stayed in the Liu family compound for a total of seven days, when he left the compound, Liu Xiaoyu was very embarrassed, in order to accompany his Uncle Yao in the past seven days, Liu Xiaoyu was basically busy, and the breeding and planting of the compound during this period were handed over to Liu Gensheng and several other old people.

As soon as Yao Jun left, Liu Xiaoyu hurriedly joined in, he didn't have to bother with the breeding garden, he only needed to be responsible for making the orchard and fruit forest well, fortunately, it was already late autumn, and it was also very convenient to manage, and it was OK to secretly pour some space water from time to time.

In the past two days, Liu Xiaoyu is particularly concerned about the four sheep and sheep in his pen, every day after the sheep and sheep have eaten the pasture, Liu Xiaoyu has to prepare some concentrate feed, and then a lot of space water, of course, this is not to say how much he cares about his sheep and sheep, but as time goes by, the time to eat mutton tonic is coming.

Thinking of the delicious mutton, Liu Xiaoyu was a little impatient. Privately asked Uncle Gensheng (Liu Xiaoyu originally wanted to call Liu Lao, but the problem was that almost all the surnames in the village were Liu, which was easy to confuse, and finally had such a title at Liu Gensheng's request) about sheep slaughtering and wool sheepskin.

The answer was that there were slaughterhouses in the village, specializing in slaughtering pigs, cattle and sheep, and as for the sheepskin and wool, they went to the garment shop in the town, and the garment shop had its own processing workshop, and they could process the fur. Liu Xiaoyu, who thought that this sheep was easy to slaughter, and the fur might have nowhere to go, was now at ease.

While feeding the sheep and sheep concentrate feed, Liu Xiaoyu's thoughts turned rapidly. At present, the main output of the Liu family compound comes from the orchard on the mountain and the orchard behind the courtyard, plus the expanded pond and strawberry greenhouse, and these projects produce all fruits, and it is a pity that the lush forage resources in the land cannot be fully utilized.

Liu Xiaoyu's cattle and sheep raised on a whim made him use his brain, the price of pork and chicken fluctuated sharply in recent years, and it was easily affected by inflation, while beef and mutton were relatively much better, and compared with pigs and chickens, this beef and sheep also had an extra fur output.

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and the market demand for cowhide, sheepskin and wool is still good. If we can start a large-scale aquaculture industry in the wasteland, thin land or even mountainous land of Liujia Village, it is estimated that the effect will not be bad.

It's just that the only thing that makes Liu Xiaoyu have a headache is that if the cattle and sheep are free-range in the future, it may have some impact on the scenery and environment of the compound, after all, this beast can't go to the toilet, and it's not open to defecate.

It is feasible to raise cattle and sheep in captivity, but the area of the farm should be expanded according to the actual number of breeding.

After feeding the sheep, Liu Xiaoyu began to take care of the two little cattle again, don't think about it, these two cows Liu Xiaoyu is not ready to be raised to slaughter and eat, although he didn't understand what breed he bought when he bought it, but Liu Xiaoyu intended to buy a male and a female, at that time, he wanted to give birth to a calf in the future, and the calf became a big cow, thinking of this Liu Xiaoyu was a little depressed, why didn't he think of this problem when he bought the sheep? The four sheep and sheep he bought back were all of the same gender, which made him speechless.

However, these cattle and sheep are just their own unintentional moves, and there was no idea of large-scale breeding at the beginning, Liu Xiaoyu looked at the breeding site built between the pond and the hillside, and wondered how much this land could be expanded, and how many cattle and sheep could be raised in the expanded area.

But after thinking about it, seeing that autumn goes to winter, it is not appropriate to increase the number of breeding at this time, only when winter goes to spring, and then appropriately increase the number of cattle and sheep to breed, in fact, the main thing is that Liu Xiaoyu is still a little confused about the prospect of breeding cattle and sheep, and he is ready to do his homework in this area when he is fine, since he is not ready to find venture capital to accelerate development, then he only starts from a small point and slowly grows bigger.

So far, these chickens, ducks and geese raised in the compound are indeed somewhat inconvenient because of artificial stocking, so in general, there are full-time dogs to take care of, and several local dogs in the courtyard have been able to do the work of herding chickens (ducks, geese) dogs, although the village people are a little curious, but they have not taken it to heart after the novelty, after all, the pets in this year are the most humane among the dogs, not to mention the watchdogs, sheepdogs and other ready-made examples there.

The compound now employs a total of four old people, in addition to Liu Gensheng, there are Liu Dachang, Liu Changxing, and Liu Guoqiang, all of whom are in their fifties.

Chickens, ducks and geese are basically free-range, and there are dogs watching, they just need to clean the enclosure and pick up eggs or something. Now the chickens, ducks and geese in the compound have not yet reached the time to lay eggs, so there is not much to do in this regard.

The cattle and sheep are fine, and they don't need to do much except prepare some concentrate feed and cleaning.

Relatively speaking, the most difficult thing is to feed the pigs, because the pigs are impossible to be stocked, and the requirements for feed are relatively large, so every day several old people need to prepare a large amount of grass, orange stalks are broken, with grain bran, wheat bran and other feeds mixed together to feed, and Liu Xiaoyu has certain requirements for the health of this pigsty, so it almost does not take a long time to clean the pigsty once.

The cleaned livestock manure needs to be reused for earthworms, pond farming, and orchard fertilization.

It looks like there is a lot of work, but Liu Xiaoyu alone undertakes the related work of the fruit tree orchard, so relatively speaking, the workload of the four old people is not large.

However, Liu Gensheng and they did not slack off because of this, and they were diligent and busy trying to find ways to find things every day, which made Liu Xiaoyu, who was lazy from time to time, very embarrassed, the professionalism of the older generation is indeed admirable.

In order to prevent these four old people from having any physical problems because of work, Liu Xiaoyu will privately get some fruits and vegetables grown in the space from time to time for them to take home and eat by themselves.

This time, Liu Xiaoyu didn't take care of things for seven consecutive days, Uncle Gensheng and they still did everything diligently, and they didn't bother Liu Xiaoyu at all, so he was very embarrassed, and he was going to give the four old people a little more when they slaughtered pigs and sheep after a while, and the right was the festival that was sent by the unit when they were working in the city before.

The four of them were busy with Uncle Gensheng for a day, and it was a lot easier to join him in the work, and when the day was over, Liu Xiaoyu finished dinner, and he lay in the courtyard drinking tea and discussing the problems of breeding with the mastermind.

According to the search results, the snowflake beef is the most expensive among the beef, and the exaggerated price of thousands of yuan per kilogram makes Liu Xiaoyu's eyes hot, while the meat of the Boer goat is the most tender among the mutton, and the price is relatively high.

As for chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, Liu Xiaoyu is ready to control a certain number, but fortunately, the area of breeding these will not be too large, and it will not hinder the plan of breeding cattle and sheep in the future, so Liu Xiaoyu didn't care too much.

At present, the most concerned is that with the large number of cattle and sheep breeding in the future, the demand for feeding will be more and more large, and the relative cost of feeding will also increase, and the number of cattle and sheep will no longer be able to be stocked as now, what is needed is to build a large area of cattle shed and sheepfold.

Fortunately, the shed is basically a one-time input, and the feed accounts for a considerable proportion of the feeding cost, so how to reduce the cost of feed has become one of the most important problems that Liu Xiaoyu needs to solve at present.

In addition to grain bran, wheat bran, orange stalks, etc., there is no shortage of feed in the countryside, and Boer goats have the habit of feeding and irrigating, which makes Liu Xiaoyu think of the messy wild shrubs and other vegetation in the back mountain, plus Liu Xiaoyu let the space cultivate better pasture grass species as soon as possible, basically the problem of feed does not need him to worry about it for the time being.

Liu Xiaoyu has obtained the relevant breeding information of snowflake beef from the master brain through the Internet, and the breeding of Boer goats is not too technical, but the purchase of Boer goat breeding sheep has also become one of the problems that need to be solved at present.

Liu Xiaoyu, who has thought about this, already has a rough plan in his heart, the cowshed breeding pen can just take advantage of the slack to find someone to build it, and when the spring of the next year arrives, he can start the early breeding plan.

Liu Xiaoyu, who was ready, held the teacup and looked at the quiet sky, and his mind didn't know where to fly.