Chapter 344: Hunting Rabbits
Zhao Yeqing's homemade incubator for artificially incubating wild duck eggs has the top side made of leftover PC board scraps from his previous planting basement, and the other sides are all wood.
The PC board is translucent, and you can vaguely check the situation inside from above, without opening the box to check and avoid lowering the temperature inside.
The lamp used is the lowest wattage among all the grow lights, after all, the space is small.
Zhao Yeqing originally thought about putting the incubator in the house, but the dogs in the house were sometimes too curious and accidents were prone to happen.
In the end, I decided to place it in the original owner's house and slowly incubate it under the light.
Starting from the first day of hatching, Zhao Yeqing would check the situation every day to make sure that the duck eggs in the box had not been hatched and that the duck eggs in the chicken coop were still alive.
Recently, Zhao Yeqing mixed some bone meal into the feed for the chickens and placed some gravel next to the chicken coop.
Chickens eat gravel to help them digest their food, and bone meal mixed in their feed helps them supplement calcium.
Otherwise, if these chickens are calcium deficient or have indigestion, they will eat their own eggs. It would be fine if they eat their own eggs, but she would be heartbroken if they ate the duck eggs.
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Recently, dairy cows have entered the peak period of lactation. Zhao Yeqing took advantage of his free time to start making butter, resulting in the entire house, including the yard, being filled with the rich and intoxicating aroma of butter and milk throughout the day.
This caused the dogs to be unwilling to go out to graze, and they kept wanting to go into the kitchen.
Mu Xi dragged the dogs out of the kitchen and fed them several pieces of dried meat before he successfully got them to go out to graze.
He followed her out and had to collect the rabbit trap.
The way they hunted and set traps was clearly not enough to control the number of rabbits, but there were no carnivorous animals on the meadow to help.
Having said that, if any large group of carnivores really returned to this meadow, the two of them would not dare to graze the sheep anymore.
But as they watched the meadow being gradually eaten away, they both felt deeply the importance of every link in the food chain.
If you want to graze sheep, you cannot let those animals come here to hunt. In fact, it is not the case that humans have taken away the homes of animals. Humans themselves are also a kind of creature in the world, no different from ordinary animals. Animals all have territories, and humans also have the right to occupy part of nature.
But now that those animals are gone, the abilities of the two of them are not enough to control so many rabbits, which has caused some imbalance in the ecology.
Mu Xi collected the rabbits, kept the living ones in cages, and expertly dissected and skinned the dead ones and froze the meat in the refrigerator.
I originally wanted to empty the refrigerator to kill the sheep, but I didn't expect it to be filled with rabbits.
The three leopards haven’t come back recently, otherwise they could help share some of the burden.
Zhao Yeqing watched as Mu Xi filled up the refrigerator space that he had emptied with great difficulty as soon as he came back, and sighed, "If it doesn't work, we can just keep the rabbit fur and throw away the meat."
Mu Xi also had a headache. "I have an idea. I won't feed the dogs at home. Let them find food on the meadow when they are hungry."
This is not impossible. The dogs at home have big appetites. There are four of them in total, so we can serve as a small group of carnivores.
Poor dogs, they don’t even get paid for herding now, they work for nothing and have to go out hunting on their own.
After boiling three large jars of butter, Zhao Yeqing didn't want to stay in the kitchen and smell the butter anymore. If she continued boiling, she would be marinated by it.
She often went out with the dogs. Most of the time she looked after the cattle and sheep, allowing the dogs to concentrate on hunting on the meadow.
Unexpectedly, the effect was quite good. Several dogs understood Zhao Yeqing's instructions. After the sheep arrived at the place and started to eat grass, the dogs rushed to the meadow to chase rabbits.
In the past, they would just eat the rabbits they caught on the spot, but this time it was Zhao Yeqing who asked them to go, and they did not eat the rabbits they caught. Instead, they would bring each one they caught to Zhao Yeqing and put it in front of him, then raise their heads and look at him with bright eyes, sticking out their tongues and wagging their tails for praise.
Zhao Yeqing's heart was melted by the cuteness. He praised the dogs generously and provided a full set of dog petting and massage services. The dogs woofed and ran back to the meadow to continue hunting.
In addition to receiving instructions from Zhao Yeqing, they will only eat. Each dog can only eat in the morning and evening. It is best not to change the feeding time of the dog at will after it is trained.
The two dogs share a rabbit they catch in the morning, and do the same when they return home in the evening.
A rabbit weighs about five or six pounds. If you remove the bones and only eat the meat, the amount can meet the eating standards of the dogs in the house based on their weight and amount of exercise.
The harvest at the end of the day was much better than what the two of them got when they went hunting. There were so many rabbit carcasses on the ground that they couldn't even move them back.
Zhao Yeqing took out the walkie-talkie and called Mu Xi to bring the cart over to pull the rabbit.
Every time this time comes, she misses the electric tricycle at home very much.
There were tricycles and motorcycles in the tourist area, but they needed gas, so she was reluctant to use them. There were small rechargeable electric donkeys, but there was a cement road in the tourist area so riding an electric donkey was no problem. The grassland here was bumpy, and riding a two-wheeled electric donkey was very bumpy, so she never got one back.
Mu Xi was also very surprised when he dragged the cart over and saw the rabbits all over the ground. This result was far beyond their expectations.
Mu Xi peeled the rabbit skin, and Zhao Yeqing took the skinned rabbit to the chopping board, removed the bones and left the rabbit meat.
She thinks the best way to use up meat is to chop it into puree and make it into meatballs or meat patties.
Whether it is used to make soup or eaten with staple foods such as steamed buns and cakes, it is convenient and quick.
After Mu Xi finished skinning the rabbit, Zhao Yeqing had not yet finished picking the rabbit meat. Mu Xi chopped the meat into puree, mixed it with salt, black pepper, white pepper, and wine, and added a little starch and water, and kept stirring it with his hands.
Wait until the water is absorbed into the meat filling, then add a little oil and stir evenly to seal the moisture. Then take it out and fry it to get juicy meat patties.
Put all the meat fillings directly into the freezer after shaping them, and keep a few meatballs and meat patties in the refrigerator for tomorrow's consumption.
This makes breakfast simple. Just take out the white steamed buns from the refrigerator and steam them. While steaming, fry a big meat patty.
Cut the soft steamed bun open and fill it with sizzling meat patties, then top it with a piece of lettuce that is still covered with morning dew.
With a steamed bun and meat patty in his left hand and freshly squeezed hot milk in his right hand, Zhao Yeqing ate with great satisfaction. He looked outside and saw that the weather was pretty good, with the highest temperature recently reaching 20 degrees. He patted the steamed bun crumbs on his hands and picked up a pen to tick on the perpetual calendar.
April 17, 3039
The crops and food at home were growing well. The only thing that worried Mu Xi was the citrus orchard at the foot of the mountain.
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