frightfiction Chapter 562: Poultry in place, research begins
Chapter 562: Poultry in place, research begins
After the meeting, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao went to Liu Jingxue's home and told her that the brigade cadres agreed to get a batch of poultry chicks and asked her to study the matter. They also told her the winter fishing time set by the brigade leader.
After learning that the brigade cadres had already started to look for poultry chicks, Liu Jingxue also began to use the flow of time in the alchemy room to refine medicines for treating various poultry diseases.
Liu Jingxue originally found it difficult to find the special medicine for treating swine fever and sheep plague, but after carefully reading the medicine refining inheritance, she successfully found the prescription. She even found the prescription for the medicine for treating chicken plague in the medicine refining inheritance.
Liu Jingxue plans to develop various medicines. If there is a chance, she will test them outside to see whether modern methods are more effective or the medicines inherited from the alchemy tradition are more effective.
The production team organized a winter hunt, and Liu Jingxue, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao all joined the hunting team.
Among the educated youth, only Zhou Wenbing and Chen Guoqing joined the hunting team. The other male educated youth did not want to join, but were rejected after signing up.
It was already early to mid-November, and the first snow of the year finally came the day before they were about to enter the mountains.
Fortunately, the snow was not heavy, and the village elders carefully observed and concluded that the snow would stop soon. Therefore, the hunting team did not delay the time to enter the mountain because of the snow, and still entered the mountain on the day previously scheduled.
After entering the mountain, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao followed closely beside Ji Shu and Ji Shihu as Liu Jingxue had reminded them earlier, carefully observing their every move, asking them questions from time to time, and learning their ability to identify and track prey in the mountains and forests.
Neither of them was a person who kept secrets, and they had already taught some of the more superficial things to the villagers in the same production team, so they were happy to teach them. As for the deeper things, it was impossible for the two of them to touch upon them in the short term.
With the help of Liu Jingxue's spiritual consciousness, they secretly drove the prey to the path they had to take, so they reaped a lot of rewards on this trip.
During the three days and two nights in the mountains, some people would be sent to transport the prey down the mountain for the two nights we stayed overnight.
The final result was that the harvest of this winter hunt was more than the first winter hunt last year. Liu Jingxue still ranked second in terms of prey, followed by Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao.
After all, their current martial arts strength is the highest among the two except Liu Jingxue, and their archery skills are also quite superb.
The day after the hunting team returned, the production team prepared a pig-killing dish. The villagers shared the meat and the pig-killing dish, and it was very lively.
Liu Jingxue got more than 200 kilograms of meat this time, while Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao each got more than 100 kilograms.
This time, they were pickled at different homes and not gathered together.
The bacon that was pickled earlier has been dried in the cowshed for two days, but because it has either snowed or the weather has been bad in recent days, it has not been taken out to dry.
This time, Liu Jingxue did not use her work points to exchange for pig heads and ribs. After all, she had caught so many prey in the mountains before, and the pig heads and bones were enough for them to eat.
These things are too big and too heavy, and it’s not cost-effective to send them to other people, so I can only eat them myself.
Liu Jingxue planned to make half of the more than 200 kilograms of meat into bacon, and store the other half fresh in the warehouse, and then trade it to Sister Jin slowly, or send it to Old Lady Guo.
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, Sister Jin wants a lot of goods, and her colleagues must be unable to hold back and ask Sister Jin to exchange meat for them. These can be traded to Chuangxin so that they don't have to take up space in the office.
After the winter fishing, Liu Jingxue focused on practicing. In her spare time, she developed medicines to treat poultry plague and prepared various animal feeds according to recipes.
After the feed was successfully formulated, she first tried it on poultry raised in space to see if the formulated feed was effective.
On the third day after the winter fishing ended, the team leader came to inform her that the young chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, and rabbits had all arrived and were being raised at his home and Secretary Xu's.
She can go to the parents' group at any time to observe and study.
Liu Jingxue handed over the methods for preventing and controlling various poultry diseases that she had prepared long ago to the team leader.
The captain was also given a copy of the daily care precautions for various poultry.
The team leader was literate, and she was very surprised after seeing what Liu Jingxue gave her.
"Xiaoxue, you've raised poultry before, so how come you know so much? You figured out a way to prevent the plague so quickly."
Liu Jingxue lied, "Captain, I have never raised poultry before, but I have read a lot of medical books, and there are many books about animal infectious diseases.
The more you see, the more you will remember.
Besides, when we study medicine, we naturally need to know the origins of various diseases. It is natural to know what kind of environment will lead to the occurrence of diseases.
I just figured this out based on the medical books I read in the past.
Don’t you and Secretary Xu both raise poultry? Then you should raise them according to this requirement, and Secretary Xu should follow your old method to see if you can prevent the plague in the end.”
"Okay, then my family will strictly follow your method to take care of the poultry."
"Captain, could you bring some of the food that these poultry commonly eat? I can do some research to see if there is any way to formulate a ration that is more conducive to the growth of poultry, so as to solve the problem that pigs only eat but don't grow meat." Liu Jingxue requested.
Although she had already prepared feed for various poultry species in the space according to the ingredients in the breeding manual, those raw materials were produced in the space after all, and the effect was definitely better than that outside.
Since it is intended to facilitate future promotion, it must use common ingredients from outside, and the prepared beverage must be better.
Upon hearing this, the captain readily agreed, "I'll ask my eldest and second sons to send you some later."
Not long after seeing off the team leader, Zhang Jianguo and Zhang Jianshe came over with some food for the poultry, including corn, grass, bean dregs, wheat bran, and various types of straw, to Liu Jingxue.
Based on what they sent, Liu Jingxue found the most suitable feed formula in the manuals of various poultry breeding. Unfortunately, however, several ingredients were still missing.
Those ingredients were not difficult to come by and could be obtained by the production team, but Liu Jingxue did not plan to get them herself.
She planned to visit the brigade's home every two days during this period, bringing some prepared feed each time, asking them to feed the fish with the feed and then pretending to observe them.
After a while, we would pretend that there was something missing from the complete feed and ask the team leader to find a way to get it.
After the team leader gets the things, he will give them the complete feed formula and ask them to prepare their own feed according to this formula in the future.
The whole process takes about a month to complete.
According to the breeding manual, the nutrition required by poultry at each stage is different, and the feed formula is also slightly different. When it reaches that stage, I will do further research and come up with the feed formula for the corresponding stage.
As for the treatment of plague, the medicine for chickens, ducks and geese has been developed, but not for pigs, sheep and rabbits. However, it is estimated that it will be successfully developed in a while.
As for the effectiveness of the treatment, we can only wait until the poultry becomes sick.