Chapter 269 Wild Boar
Zhao Yeqing's eyes widened, and after a long while he blinked and spoke.
"Where did you go to kill all those wild boar cubs?"
Mu Xi was holding a finger-thick vine with a bunch of black and brown wild boar cubs tied to it. There were six in total.
The wild boar's four hooves were tied together tightly, and it could only arch its body to try to break free from the restraints.
Mu Xi put the wild boar cub on the ground. "It's not from one litter, but two. I caught three from each litter. I didn't take all of them away, so I left two for them. This way, it will be easier for breeding later."
Quite thoughtful.
After being shocked, Zhao Yeqing was also somewhat delighted. Perhaps the farmed wild boars would not be as fat-free as the wild boars. Then he would be able to feed them with good food and drink and not be allowed to move.
After raising it for a year, wouldn’t it be several hundred kilograms of fat pork?
She squatted down and looked at the wild boar cubs. It’s true, even wild boars are quite cute when they are young.
The wild boars that have just been brought back cannot be raised directly with other animals for fear that they may carry pathogens.
Mu Xi marked the wild boar piglets from two different litters in advance, and is now considering which two sows to keep for breeding.
There were more females than males, and only one boar piglet was taken from each litter, which means four females and two males.
It wasn't that Mu Xi wanted a few more sows for breeding, but boars had to be castrated. Uncastrated pigs had a stronger fishy smell, and neither of them had the castration skills, so he only took two.
By next year, when these two uncastrated boars have grown up, the meat from them can be used as food for our dog.
Zhao Yeqing estimated that the wild boar was only about one month old and had just been weaned.
The date calculation is also quite reasonable. The gestation period of wild boars is about four months, which is just before the weather gets hot, which is exactly the breeding season.
It was probably because the piglets were ready to be weaned that the sow moved far away from the den, allowing Mu Xi to take advantage.
Wild boars have a very sensitive sense of smell. Zhao Yeqing asked hurriedly, "Could this sow have come to me after smelling your scent?"
"Probably not." Mu Xi pulled at his clothes that were almost dried. "I found the wild boar cub in Yunwu Mountain. When I came back, I soaked it in the stream for a while to wash away the realgar smell on my body."
Zhao Yeqing nodded in relief, "Then where are these kept?"
Several wild boars are still young, and naturally grown wild boars grow flesh slowly, and now weigh only a little over ten kilograms.
Mu Xi took a few bricks and built a simple pig pen. "Put them in there first. We'll deal with them after the hay house is built."
During this period, we will feed them homemade pig feed. After the piglets have excreted all the bacteria that may be in their intestines, we will rebuild a large pigpen.
Now the sweet potatoes that Zhao Yeqing originally planned to plant might not be enough.
I was worried before that I wouldn’t be able to finish eating all the sweet potatoes, but now six piglets are not enough.
But pigs are probably the least worrying, as they are omnivores and eat everything.
Even the rice bran left after milling rice at home can be used for feeding, as well as sweet potato vines. Before, there were so many sweet potato vines that cattle and sheep looked down on them, but pigs are not picky.
Zhao Yeqing counted the sweet potato seedlings that had been grown before, and silently grew a new batch of seedlings.
It seems that the area of sweet potato fields needs to be expanded again.
The vegetable garden was not enough before, and the grain field in front of the house is not fully planted now, so it is just right for growing sweet potatoes.
Red beans, mung beans, and sesame occupied the original rapeseed and peanut fields, and corn was planted in the original corn fields.
The remaining wheat fields and rice fields are vacant. Zhao Yeqing plans to plant sweet potatoes in the wheat fields. These two crops will not interfere with each other and will not cause diseases.
However, it is not possible to rotate sweet potatoes and peanuts, as both crops are very susceptible to nematode diseases, which is very unfavorable for subsequent planting.
In addition to the wild boar, Mu Xi also brought back a rhododendron in his backpack, as well as the palm fruits that Zhao Yeqing had coveted on the way to Yunwu Mountain.
After Mu Xi placed the palm fruits in the kitchen, he took the azaleas with their soil balls to the back of the house and planted them. Now there is a small garden behind the newly built hay room, which can be seen from the sideways window of the bedroom in the brick house.
The small garden is surrounded by red bricks.
Because the firing techniques and materials of red bricks are relatively primitive and rough, not all fired red bricks are intact. Some will crack and break, and some will break accidentally during the construction process.
These defective red bricks are piled up in the corner of the house.
Mu Xi remembers that when he was in elementary school, some of the green belts in the school were surrounded by red bricks. The red bricks were inserted into the ground side by side, with only a sharp corner exposed. Many children loved to walk back and forth on these sharp corners of the red bricks.
Zhao Yeqing picked out some other seeds and brought them over, including marigolds and some Oxalis for gardening.
This kind of Oxalis has flowers in various colors and is very easy to grow. As long as it is not too hot, it can basically survive.
The small garden is only a few square meters. Mu Xi said, "Next year, if the weather is not so hot, I will build a frame in the garden and plant some climbing plants."
Zhao Yeqing also liked climbing plants, whether they bloomed or not. In an instant, her mind visualized walls and plant racks covered with green leaves. It would be even better if there were flowers among the leaves.
After taking care of the garden, the couple's focus for the next period of time returned to building the new house.
Build the frame of the hay house, lay the floor first, then build the walls, and wait for the sun to dry the cement before capping the roof of the house.
After the house was dried and the roof was sealed, all the things in the old hay room were moved into the new hay room.
The hay storage that had half-filled the old hay room now filled only half the new hay room.
Zhao Yeqing first put away the rice bran from threshing the millet. This thing is very easy to get damp. It was not so important before because it was a hot and dry day. Then it rained for two days and the original wooden hay room became a little damp.
I took it out to dry, luckily it didn't get moldy or smelly, otherwise it would be a problem to feed the pigs in a short time.
Before the sweet potatoes mature, the two of them don't have time to collect grass for the pigs, so they have to build the house first.
After demolishing the old hay room, Mu Xi began to dig a hole and planned to build a new septic tank.
Zhao Yeqing resurveyed the terrain and said, "Our toilet is now too close to the well. We can't dig here. We need to lay pipes and move the septic tank farther away, preferably downhill."
The geographical location of their house is that the terrain becomes lower as you go further back in time.
Zhao Yeqing didn't want it to be close to drinking water, and also wanted to dig the septic tank wider, so he had to set up the tank outside the yard.
The most difficult problem to solve now is the pipeline problem.
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