Chapter 197: Do you think that if we breed these pigs, can we make the white pigs less likely to get sick?
Dusk is falling.
The visibility in the pigsty was gradually decreasing. Su Wenchen watched Fan Defu walking towards him with the oil paper containing a triangular needle in his hand.
After looking at the current visibility, he immediately turned to the old man and said.
"My friend, don't you have a kerosene lamp?"
"It's getting dark, and I can't see clearly. It would be bad if I pierce the wrong place."
"Besides, you need to repair this pigsty. Otherwise, even if you cure it, it will easily relapse."
Hearing Su Wenchen's words, the old man immediately nodded repeatedly.
"There are lights, kerosene lamps!"
After saying this, he turned around and shouted directly to the team members who were whispering on the side.
"What are you all doing here? Are you waiting for me to get some lanterns? Go back and get some lanterns. Also, go find the warehouse keeper in the team to open the warehouse and find some materials to repair the pigsty."
"What a lazy bastard. He has asked me to repair the pigsty so many times, but he keeps saying it's okay and that he has been through this before."
"You think this is raised as a wild boar!"
Hearing the old man's roar, several members of the production team who were surrounding him muttered a few words.
"Didn't you say it was okay before? The captain changes his expression so quickly!"
However, they were divided into two groups. One group quickly ran to each house to get lighting tools.
Another wave ran directly to the warehouse near the threshing ground.
Seeing this, the old man said to Su Wenchen a little embarrassedly.
"Comrade, I'm sorry to show you a joke. We thought this pig wasn't that afraid of the cold! This has never happened before."
Su Wenchen smiled.
"You should have sold the pigs long ago!"
"Even if they are not afraid of the cold, if the weather is too cold, the pigs will consume the fat stored in their bodies to maintain their temperature."
"That means you'll lose weight!"
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, the old man immediately slapped his forehead.
"Yes, yes, yes. In the past, we usually sold the pigs as soon as the weather got a little cold. This year is the first time we are keeping them for sale in a few months."
"Who would have thought that before the Chinese New Year was over, she started to lose weight day by day. We thought maybe we didn't feed her enough, so we fed her more often."
After hearing this, Su Wenchen also understood.
The people in this production team only thought that the price of pork would increase in April and May, but they didn't know why the price would increase.
In fact, there is never a shortage of smart people in this world. Since the number of pigs slaughtered is small during this period, there must be objective factors involved.
One is that pigs will lose weight during the winter, and the other is that when they reach the time to be slaughtered, the cost-effectiveness will not be high even if they are fed again.
That’s why few production teams would keep the fish to sell after the Chinese New Year, because if they did, they would have to work on keeping warm and on increasing the amount of feed.
In fact, most of them are covered by the rising prices.
Only state-owned pig farms have the conditions to build warm pig houses, and can also control the feeding time in batches in advance, so that the pigs can be slaughtered at the right time and there will be a supply of meat pigs in most months of the year.
After a moment, several team members came carrying several lanterns emitting a light yellow glow.
Vanderford immediately took one of them.
Open the lampshade above, twist a few acupuncture needles and heat them over the lamp to disinfect them, and wait until all the needles are disinfected.
Vanderford called to the crowd.
"Which of you is the breeder who normally feeds the pigs? Come and help me calm this pig while I give it an injection."
Hearing Vanderford's call, the old man immediately shouted.
"Fugen, come over here quickly. Does the master need anyone else?"
Vanderford shook his head.
"It's not like we're going to kill a pig, why are there so many people here? Don't scare it."
Su Wenchen also stood aside and comforted the old man.
"It's okay, old man. With this kind of acupuncture, as long as the needles are inserted in the right places, pigs will hardly feel any pain, so they generally won't struggle violently."
"If there were too many people passing by, it would actually startle and struggle violently."
In fact, Su Wenchen is also quite curious about acupuncture, although he can now diagnose the disease based on some symptoms.
But he really doesn't know how to cure diseases. The best he can do is prescribe medicine for the symptoms.
Something like this that requires a certain level of technical skill requires long-term practice.
Su Wenchen looked at Fan Defu. After Fugen stabilized the black pig, he inserted the first needle directly into the depression between the pig's lumbar vertebra and the spinous process of the first sacral vertebra.
For a moment, the long needle was directly inserted into the pig's muscles and was shaking continuously, but the lying pig did not show any sign of struggling, and it was obviously not in pain.
Then another needle was inserted directly into the depression between the base of the pig's tail and the anus.
After Vanderford gently twisted it for a while, the needle was pulled out.
The black pig suddenly snorted.
The black pig, which had been curled up, suddenly stood up and nudged Vanderford's rubber shoes with its nose covered with food residue.
Apparently after the pain eased, the hunger that had disappeared due to the pain in the past few days suddenly came back.
Su Wenchen turned around and said to the old man.
"Go prepare some slightly warmer pig food. Don't feed them cold food these days, especially ice-cold food."
The old man looked at the black pig that stood up again, and the wrinkles on his face immediately smoothed out.
"Okay, I'll get ready."
Having said this, he turned around quickly and went to make arrangements.
Soon, under the analgesic and antispasmodic effects of Vanderford's acupuncture, the black pigs' symptoms were effectively relieved.
After the pain gradually subsided, the hunger gradually returned.
He immediately started humming and looking for something.
However, Su Wenchen had already taken the food out of the trough.
Otherwise, if you eat something cold, your condition will gradually get worse.
After all, acupuncture only has the effect of relieving pain, and it must be combined with specific cold-dispelling drugs to completely cure the disease.
After acupuncture was completed on several pigs.
Vanderford wiped the sweat from his head, stood up and took a deep breath.
Su Wenchen came over and asked meaningfully.
"Master Fan, what do you think of these pigs?"
Vanderford was stunned at first, then asked tentatively.
"Captain, what do you want?"
Su Wenchen nodded.
"I feel like the varieties here are not the same as ours. Do you think this kind of mixed variety will have a higher success rate?"
Hearing this, Vanderford turned back and looked at the pigs sniffing around at the original trough.
"That's a possibility, but someone should have tried it a long time ago, right? After all, it has been introduced for so many years."
Su Wenchen smiled and touched his chin.
"These pigs were in this environment, eating cold feed, but it took them so long to develop problems. They are pretty hardy."
"It can be seen that their endurance must be relatively strong. Moreover, a big weakness of that kind of white pig is that it is easy to get sick, and it is easy to die if it gets sick."
"Do you think that if we breed these pigs together, can we make the white pigs less susceptible to disease? Would it be possible to inherit all the advantages of both sides?"
"In addition, the three black pigs in our car were all brought back from the breeding farm. They must have been well taken care of. In terms of durability, I don't think they can compare to these ones."
"Also, I think most of the people who go to borrow seeds are probably looking for the healthiest and best pig breeds like us. Few people would try to get a pig that has been sick before!"
At this point, Su Wenchen felt that if there were no other symptoms when he unfolded the panel later, he really planned to buy one and take it to Shanghai to get it matched.
There might be an unexpected event.
Anyway, there is not much difference between three pigs and four pigs for them, and their farm can still afford this amount of money.
Hearing Su Wenchen say this, Fan Defu felt it was a bit strange. Who would deliberately use a sick pig to borrow seeds?
Will this work?
However, seeing that Su Wenchen was in high spirits, he would not say anything to spoil the fun.
After all, he is a leader, and colic is mainly caused by catching a cold, not a serious contagious disease, so he didn't say much.
Asked directly.
"Manager, what are you going to do? Just buy one?"
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"Let's wait and see. I haven't decided yet. I'll feed it later and see how it likes to eat."
After a while, the old man came over carrying two buckets of steaming pig food.
"Look, comrades, this pig food is fine. I added two scoops of cornmeal to it. I usually don't want to feed it to pigs."
Su Wenchen took it and looked at it. Cornmeal was mixed with cabbage leaves, sweet potato peels, and bran.
For pigs of this age, this is a pretty good meal.
As he said that, he carried it and walked towards the feeding trough.
"Hey, comrade, why do you need to feed me? I can do it."
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"It's okay, I'll do it!"
As he said that, he walked over and poured the pig feed in the bucket into the trough.
Seeing the pig breeder Fugen standing there in a daze, the old man went up and kicked him.
"You bastard, you have no sense of vision. I'm treating you and feeding your pigs!"
The young man pursed his lips.
"Others have already dumped all the food out, so I can still pour the food back to feed the pigs again!"
"Then hurry back and help your mother light the fire. Don't steal the white flour buns your mother steamed. They are prepared for the guests!"
Su Wenchen didn't hear the noise behind him. He was concentrating on watching the black pig eating the pig food with a "huff! huff!"
The black pigs were all pretty much the same, except for one that had a property that Su Wenchen had never seen before.
【Black Pig LV0】
Current status: Sick (intestinal cramps due to cold)
Breeding direction 1: Breeding pigs LV1, the breeding pigs' environmental adaptability is improved by 20%, the breeding pigs' disease resistance is improved by 10%, the food intake during lactation is increased by 10%, and there is a very small chance that the heritable term "survival" will appear after successful breeding.
[Feed formula for breeding pigs: honeysuckle 2%, isatis root 1%, licorice 3%, andrographis paniculata 0.6%.]
Breeding direction two: Fattening pig LV1. After successful breeding, the meat taste will be improved by 20%, disease resistance will be improved by 20%, and food intake will increase by 20%.
【Fattening pig feed formula: yam 5%, codonopsis pilosula 2%, astragalus 0.1%, wolfberry 0.015%.】
Introduction: This pig breed is one of the black pig groups in the Yellow River Basin. In the severe cold environment, this pig has a strong will to survive. Pigs carrying the "survival" entry can quickly adapt to various extreme environments and prolong the treatment time for diseases that cause rapid death.
Looking at the introduction of the black pig, Su Wenchen's eyes lit up. This was the first time he saw the breeding entry.
After reading the introduction.
Su Wenchen was a little confused. Was this a random occurrence, or was it the result of mutation in only a few individuals?
Now we have the "Survival" entry that increases the ability to adapt to the environment, but is there a glutton-type entry that increases the growth rate?
If so, how can it be brought about more easily?
This kind of "survival" term is born out of harsh environments, how can the one that increases growth rate be born?
You can't just pinch the pig's nose and force feed into it, right?
(End of this chapter)
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