Chapter 327 Wintering
The surveillance camera doesn’t consume much electricity. After connecting two wires, you can install the surveillance camera at the door. I just don’t know if it can be successfully connected to a mobile phone or computer.
Mu Xi had never thought of this: "If the official tourist area has installed surveillance cameras in various places, then their surveillance room has equipment that can be directly connected, or they can just use other people's homes. I remember that there are smart surveillance cameras at the door of several households, but I don't know if they can be used without the Internet."
Real-time monitoring may not be possible, but storing the video on a memory card should be fine. It may not work when the bear is first seen, but if you put it next to a field, you can still see if there are any voles within the monitoring range.
By following the movements of voles, you may be able to find their nests.
This can be a backup option. Write it down in a small notebook and wait until the snow melts before going to the tourist area to see if it works.
The planting plan for the first half of next spring has been written in the notebook. Zhao Yeqing has gained experience this year and plans to plant much earlier than last year.
Anyway, the temperature is rising quickly now, so planting earlier can help avoid the rapid rise in temperature after the spring.
To avoid a situation like last year, where the temperature reached over 40 degrees before the crops were mature, causing all crops to become sick or have reduced yields to varying degrees.
Most of the problems that occurred last year could have been avoided if planting plans had been advanced by more than a month.
Zhao Yeqing is very satisfied with this year's plan and is confident that this year's grain and vegetable output will definitely be higher than last year.
We don't plan to stop planting glutinous rice this year, so that we can grow rice on a large piece of land, and there's no need to leave room for soybeans in the corn field, as all of it can be planted with corn. As for wheat, we'll still use the same land as before, but we'll plant it earlier this year, which is not a big deal for the cold-resistant wheat, and it can also avoid the subsequent high temperatures.
Rapeseed flowers will continue to be planted on the original land. Zhao Yeqing plans to use the original peanut field to grow sweet potato and will no longer grow grain crops in the backyard for the time being.
This year the purpose is not to make sugar, but to eat it as fruit. The small piece of land used to grow peanuts is enough.
The pasture is the same as before, with alfalfa and ryegrass. A lot of seeds of these two types of pasture were specially reserved last year, and they are the richest among the pasture seeds.
Other forage grasses have not been planted for a long time. Zhao Yeqing plans to sow some of them appropriately this year and save new seeds to prevent the old seeds from having a low germination rate after being stored for a long time.
The greenhouse in the yard that was built at the end of last year has not been used much. This year she plans to plant all the vegetables in the yard. A small part of the large vegetable plot outside the yard will be used to plant potatoes, and the rest will be planted with sweet potatoes.
In this way, the sweet potato production is enough for the pigs at home.
Calculating the time, in two months, when the weather warms up, it will be the mating season for the sheep and pigs at home. The original number of adult sheep will have to be controlled. The lambs born last year are also growing up slowly, and two of the old sheep will have to be killed for meat, otherwise the grass in the two fields will not be enough for them to eat.
The notebook also needs to calculate whether the output of crops such as grass, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. that will be used as feed next year will be sufficient to support the family's livestock and subsequent livestock.
After killing two or three more sheep, it should be almost done. Now there are four pigs left. When the adult pigs give birth, we will select two males and two females from the born for breeding, and slaughter the rest for meat.
Later, because the weather was too cold and in order to save feed, the two reduced the amount of pig feed, and the pigs did not grow as fast as before. Now the weight of an adult pig is about 180 to 190 kilograms.
I will definitely be able to break the 200-jin mark before spring.
Pigs really love to eat. Zhao Yeqing thought of the cellar full of sweet potatoes, which was now obviously three-quarters empty. If they continued to eat like this, the family would be depleted of all their savings.
Or after the spring, as soon as the sow becomes pregnant, they will slaughter the boar immediately.
The more I think about it, the more I think it's feasible. Otherwise, with so many livestock, feeding the cows, sheep and pigs, two people would be exhausted to death next year.
Every time they say they want to control the number of sheep, it is never successfully implemented. This is mainly because there are two kinds of sheep, sheep and goats. While trying to avoid inbreeding, it is best to keep four of each type of sheep, two males and two females.
Sheep and goats cannot reproduce. She had considered this before. If sheep and goats could reproduce, there would be no need to keep so many sheep.
But after looking through the original owner's book, it explained that sheep and goats can reproduce, but because of the difference in the number of chromosomes, the probability of reproduction becomes extremely low.
In the end, the two had no choice but to continue keeping so many sheep, 4 of each, a total of 8, and slaughter any extra.
There are more than ten lambs in the sheepfold now, including three adult sheep suitable for slaughter, two sheep and one goat.
The weather was bad recently so there was no need for a refrigerator. Killing the sheep and putting it in the outdoor freezer could save electricity. The two decided to take advantage of the two days since they couldn't go out anyway and just kill the sheep at home.
The butcher's knife has been used several times and is a bit blunt, so it needs to be sharpened first.
Mu Xi squatted by the well and sharpened his knife. "Should we kill all three sheep, or one or two first?"
"I'll see if I can fit it."
Zhao Yeqing turned and ran to the yard, opened the freezer to see how much space was left.
Most of the pig that was killed last time has been eaten. The more carnivorous animals there are in the house, the faster they are consumed. The little that is left is the result of her deliberate control.
The remaining space in the freezer is roughly enough for two sheep.
He continued to run back to the kitchen window, and said to Mu Xi who was lying outside, "If we squeeze three of them together, it should be fine. If we squeeze two of them, it will definitely be fine."
"Then kill two first. The meat won't taste so good if it's frozen for too long."
The temperature is not bad now, around minus 20 degrees Celsius, so frozen meat will not get frostbite. Before, when the temperature was minus 60 or 70 degrees Celsius, the freshly slaughtered pigs would turn white within two days of being thrown into the freezer.
Zhao Yeqing smiled and said to Mu Xi: "Why don't we go into the refrigerator? The refrigerator's refrigeration temperature is 4 or 5 degrees, and the freezer temperature is minus 18 degrees. It's warmer than outside anyway."
The temperature is around minus 20 degrees Celsius now, which is similar to the minus 18 degrees Celsius in the freezer of a refrigerator.
After sharpening their knives, the two men went to the basement. If conditions permitted, it would be better to slaughter the sheep on the ground so that it would be easier to clean up. However, the temperature outside was too low, and the two men were also afraid that the sheep would cry too miserably and attract some carnivores.
After the sheep was slaughtered, a lot of blood inevitably fell on the ground. After all, the basement was not well ventilated, and Zhao Yeqing was afraid of attracting insects, so he shoveled up the bloody soil, brought it to the ground, and replaced it with clean soil to fill the gap.
The sheep has just been slaughtered, and the usual boiled mutton and roasted mutton are indispensable.
The two cats ate and drank at home, and took four dogs to eat a sheep...
The winter that lasted for a year is finally over.
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