Chapter 485: Picking up a wild boar at the foot of the mountain
After playing with Xiao Yuanyuan for a while, Gao Mingcheng had to go out again to do his best.
He first went to buy quicklime and oxytetracycline. He bought a lot of quicklime because the disinfection of the chicken coop was not a one-time issue but a multiple-time issue, and when winter came, he would have to apply lime water to the trunks of the fruit trees.
Whitewashing the tree trunks can effectively prevent insect pests and animal gnawing. It can also delay flowering and leaf growth and avoid late spring cold.
After buying everything, he drove all the way to the foot of Xiaofu Mountain and piled the quicklime in the shed.
"Mingcheng, you're back again!" Chen Dasong, who was working in the chicken coop, saw Gao Mingcheng and immediately greeted him enthusiastically.
Gao Mingcheng saw Chen Dasong cleaning the chicken coop and couldn't help but smile. He said, "It's just right. After shoveling away the chicken manure in the chicken coop, we can disinfect it with lime water. Uncle Chen, there is a chicken plague in the next county, so we have to be careful here. If there are strangers, don't let them get close to the chicken coop."
"I bought quicklime and oxytetracycline, and also a bag of feed. I crushed the oxytetracycline and mixed it into the feed and fed it to the chickens."
Normally, Gao Mingcheng's chickens are not fed with feed. They are allowed to roam the mountains and fields looking for food. At most, they are fed some extra vegetable leaves mixed with bran.
But the feed is attractive, making the chickens like it more, thus ensuring that all the chickens will eat the tetracycline.
When Chen Dasong heard that there was a chicken plague in the neighboring county, his expression changed drastically.
Those who raise poultry at home are most afraid of plague, because if a large number of poultry die, the farmers will suffer heavy losses.
Chen Dasong said worriedly, "Is there going to be chicken plague here too?"
Gao Mingcheng said: "We should do our best and leave the rest to fate. We just need to do some prevention and treatment in advance. You should quickly shovel away the remaining chicken manure. I will use lime water to disinfect the chicken coop."
"Okay." Chen Dasong responded and quickened his hands to shovel up the remaining chicken manure, pouring it into a dustpan first, and then pouring it into the compost pile not far away.
Chicken manure needs to be composted and fermented before it can be used as fertilizer, otherwise it will easily burn vegetables and fruit trees.
Since raising these chickens, Gao Mingcheng has had a lot more fertilizer and can save some money on fertilizer.
He found a large bucket, first fetched half a bucket of water from the pond, and then poured quicklime into the bucket. When the quicklime came into contact with water, it reacted immediately, making a sizzling sound and emitting steam.
After the reaction was over, Gao Mingcheng carried a bucket of lime water into the chicken coop and poured it on the ground.
It is relatively easy to disinfect a chicken coop. Just pour lime water on the ground, and then use a large broom made of thin bamboo branches to sweep the lime water into every corner of the chicken coop, and sweep the excess water out of the chicken coop.
In this way, even if the disinfection is completed, the temperature is high now, and by noon, the floor of the chicken coop will be completely dry.
Gao Mingcheng said to Chen Dasong beside him: "It needs to be disinfected every two or three months. When the time comes, choose a sunny day, shovel away the chicken manure, and then disinfect with lime water."
Chen Dasong had been watching from the side for a while and immediately nodded in agreement.
This job can be given to Chen Dasong in the future, so Gao Mingcheng doesn’t have to worry about it anymore.
On the side near the chicken coop, local tangerines are planted. They are the first batch of fruit seedlings we bought. Now there are many oranges hanging on the branches. Orange trees are easy to grow and chickens will not harm them.
Also, where there are chickens, grass doesn't tend to grow on the ground. Chickens don't eat the grass, but they will step on it to death. Plus, chickens are straightforward, so there's a lot of fresh chicken manure on the ground near the chicken coop.
However, Chen Dasong is quite hardworking. He would sweep up the chicken manure and compost it together every few days.
Gao Mingcheng observed the condition of his chickens. They all looked energetic and did not look like they had chicken plague.
However, prevention and treatment is still necessary, so he decided to get some camphor leaves and mugwort.
These things can be piled up in the chicken coop to prevent and control chicken plague, and after they dry, they can be shoveled away with chicken manure for compost.
In Gaojia Village, camphor trees and mugwort can be seen everywhere.
When Gao Mingcheng was breaking camphor leaves, the elf suddenly ran over with a vole in its mouth, which it had bitten to death. The elf ran all the way to Gao Mingcheng, put the vole in front of him, and jumped happily, as if showing off its trophy.
Voles eat grains in the fields. People think that voles are edible, but people here are not very keen on eating them.
"Not bad! Keep it up!" Gao Mingcheng squatted down, touched the elf's head, and encouraged with a smile.
There are many field mice in the mountains. If they are not properly managed, the crops in the fields will easily be eaten by them.
Gao Mingcheng's land is close to a mountain, so there are more small animals. Thanks to the two dogs, Black Tiger and Elf, they would kill some voles from time to time, which had a deterrent effect.
"Elf, where are Black Tiger and Dahuang?" Gao Mingcheng asked.
Normally the three dogs are inseparable, but now only Elf can be seen, while Black Tiger and Dahuang are missing.
He had never known whose puppies Dahuang was pregnant with before, but now it seems that they should be Heihu's?
"Woof woof!" The elf was also quite smart. He immediately understood what his master said and barked a few times towards a forest.
Gao Mingcheng looked in the direction of the sound and heard a few dogs barking from afar, and the barking was quite urgent.
Could it be that...
Gao Mingcheng had a bad premonition and immediately led the elves towards the forest.
After entering the forest, the elf rushed towards somewhere. Gao Mingcheng hurriedly followed behind it. Passing through the woods and dense bushes, Gao Mingcheng finally saw the black tiger.
Black Tiger and Big Yellow were leading a confrontation with a wild boar!
No one knew what happened to the wild boar. It was not in the deep mountains, but came to the forest at the foot of the mountain alone. There seemed to be something wrong with its hind legs, as if it was injured.
The black tiger stared at the wild boar, as if he was ready to attack at any time, while Dahuang stood behind it timidly, but barked unwillingly.
The elf also barked like a dog and ran to the black tiger, preparing to attack together.
After a few seconds, Gao Mingcheng reacted, but he was unprepared and had no weapon on him.
But the lone wild boar was right in front of us, and it was injured, so of course we couldn't let it go.
Gao Mingcheng observed the terrain. This side was close to the foot of the mountain, with few towering trees, but many low bushes and a small bamboo forest. The terrain was relatively narrow and not suitable for a big chase.
"Black Tiger, Elf, go!" Following Gao Mingcheng's command, Black Tiger and the Elf bravely rushed towards the wild boar.
They had followed Gao Mingcheng to fight wild boars and even black bears, so they were much more ferocious than ordinary dogs. For example, at this moment, the two dogs dared to fight with the wild boar, while Dahuang showed his cowardice and retreated in panic.
Gao Mingcheng didn't count on it, not to mention that it was carrying a cub in its belly.
The wild boar was relatively large, a male pig, and looked to have lived for several years. Its body was covered in mud, and its pair of fangs were quite obvious in its mouth.
Facing the attack of the two dogs, it had a fierce look and was not afraid. However, its injured hind legs prevented it from exerting its full strength. While fighting with the two dogs, it was bitten on the neck by the black tiger.
The wild boar quickly shook its head, trying to shake the black tiger off.
But the black tiger's bite force was not bad either, and it was in its prime. Because Gao Mingcheng was willing to feed it meat, the black tiger weighed about 60 to 70 kilograms. At this time, it was biting the wild boar's neck tightly, grabbing the wild boar's body with its front limbs, and its hind limbs were thrown off the ground by the wild boar.
As expected of the elf who was brought up by the black tiger, upon seeing this, he immediately pounced and bit it.
The elf did not bite the wild boar's neck, but bit the injured hind leg.
There was a small wound on the wild boar's hind leg, and it was already a little festering. It must have been injured a few days ago.
Perhaps because of its injury, it separated from the group, wandered alone in the mountains, and came to the area at the foot of the mountain.
Unfortunately, this is the territory of the three dogs. When the black tiger smelled the wild boar, it immediately chased after it.
The black tiger has a keen sense of smell and can sense the situation of the wild boar in front of it through smell. It knows that it is injured, so it dares to fight even without its owner around.
It happened that Gao Mingcheng came back. With Gao Mingcheng's arrival, Hei Hu became even more heroic.
The wild boar's neck and injured hind legs were bitten. It howled in pain and was unable to move for a while.
If Gao Mingcheng had made the finishing move at this time, the fate of the wild boar would have been sealed.
However, Gao Mingcheng stood by and did not move, because he felt that the two dogs, Black Tiger and Elf, could capture the wild boar.
Gao Mingcheng trained the black tiger and the elf to be hunting dogs, so naturally he had to cultivate their ferocity.
Sure enough, under the attack of the black tiger and the elf, the injured wild boar gradually lost the battle.
Dahuang also had some desire to show off. Seeing that the crisis was over, Dahuang immediately let out a loud bark and then pounced on the wild boar on the ground to bite it.
The wild boar made a grunting sound from its mouth and its body moved, as if it was making its last struggle.
The wild boar was about to bite it, but Dahuang was actually frightened by it and ran away timidly. After it was a few meters away from the wild boar, it stood there, seemingly thinking, and finally slowly walked towards the wild boar.
Gao Mingcheng looked at this scene and was amazed.
Dahuang's personality is that he is both naive and playful!
The black tiger bit the wild boar's neck tightly and pressed its entire body on it. As for the elf, it had already torn off a piece of flesh from the wild boar's hind leg.
There was already a wound there, and the elf tore it outwards along the wound, eventually tearing it into a large piece. Blood continuously flowed out from the wound, staining the hair at the elf's mouth and neck red.
The seriously injured wild boar lay completely on the ground, and the noise it made became smaller and smaller. At this time, Dahuang finally dared to bite.
As a result, when he bit down, he didn't even break the wild boar's skin, but instead got a mouthful of mud.
Dahuang was unwilling to give up and changed his biting place, this time biting the wild boar's upper limbs. He bit it several times in a row, and he didn't know whether he broke the skin or not.
Gao Mingcheng waited until the three dogs gradually calmed down before he stepped forward and picked up the wild boar.
He said to the black tigers, "Let's go home. I'll give you guys a snack today!"
The elf immediately jumped for joy, and the running figure of the black tiger was also filled with joy. As for Dahuang, it followed stupidly behind.
Since going to live with the kid's father, Da Huang's diet has improved significantly. Before coming here, Da Huang was a little skinny, but now he has gained some meat.
The happy Dahuang followed the black tiger happily, and the three dogs walked towards the house at the foot of the mountain.
When we were going down the mountain, we saw Chen Dasong. He was climbing on a camphor tree and breaking branches.
Gao Mingcheng had been breaking branches here before, and there were some branches piled on the ground. Later, Gao Mingcheng was attracted by the elves and ignored the camphor leaves.
"Mingcheng, you caught the wild boar so quickly?" Chen Dasong was dumbfounded when he saw the wild boar on Gao Mingcheng's back.
He knew that Gao Mingcheng was powerful and could go into the mountains to hunt.
But it hasn’t been that long and they’ve already killed a wild boar!
This amount of time is not even enough for him to go into the mountains!
Gao Mingcheng laughed and said, "It wasn't me who killed the wild boar. It was killed by a few dogs. The wild boar was injured and ran to the foot of the mountain, where it was discovered by Black Tiger."
Chen Dasong looked at Heihu in surprise, and then gave Heihu a thumbs up without caring whether Heihu could understand it or not.
He jumped down from the camphor tree and said, "We have almost finished picking the leaves. I will help you deal with the wild boar first. As for the mugwort, I will ask Duoxi to get some from the reservoir later."
Mugwort is a common plant in the mountains, but there is a large area of mugwort growing on the other side of the reservoir, so you can get a lot of it at once.
"Okay!" Gao Mingcheng was happy to accept Chen Dasong's help. It was very busy and tiring to deal with a wild boar.
He carried the wild boar and strode towards the yard.
The wild boar on my shoulder was not dead yet and was still breathing.
After entering the yard, Gao Mingcheng put the wild boar on the ground, then went into the house and took out a butcher knife.
This butcher knife finally came in handy again!
(End of this chapter)
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