In the seed collection room of Zhuang Biotechnology Laboratory. Hu Yichen held a bottle full of Yaoshan's semen, tightly capped it and carefully put it into an enamel jar filled with ice cubes. I'll be sending it off for sperm motility testing later.
Ice cubes are precious. It was made with a freezer. Freezers and refrigerators are now super luxury items. Apart from Fengcheng Lunshang, they are only available in the Demonstration Farm and Bairen General Hospital.
However, this semen is even more precious. They got it from the stallion of a Tieling draft horse. This is the only Tieling draft horse in this time and space. The Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to breed mares from the industry sector. Breeding population. Yang Guogui scorned the idea of allowing animals to have free love and natural mating. Such breeding efficiency was too low, so the male breeding animals had to enjoy the pleasure of being "breasted." In the past few days, everyone in the Biological Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has been doing this work, sometimes with boars and sometimes with stallions. At present, only roosters, ducks and other birds have escaped this fate. A group of big men worked hard to help the animals masturbate. Not only the animals were depressed, but the little men were also depressed.
Starting in spring. Yang Guoguo began to work tirelessly on the import of new children in the demonstration farm. This is also the trend of the times. The traveling conditions are limited, and the semen of various well-bred livestock stored in liquid nitrogen tanks in the ship's incubator cannot be preserved indefinitely. Suitable female parents must be found for them as soon as possible, and they must be stored in the bellies of several local cows. Already breeding Dutch Friesian cows. The days of enjoying milk in large quantities are coming soon. Wu Nanhai is experimenting with growing jelly beans and corn on highlands that are not suitable for paddy fields to solve the feed problem.
"Mr. Hu!" Someone shouted outside the laboratory while he was busy. Hu Yicheng was shocked. No one here calls him "Mr. Little." People usually call him "Xiao Hu. Fox." The natives call him "Mr. Comrade." or something like that. I'm afraid it's the Australian guy who calls him "Mr."
When I came out, I saw that it was indeed Nick, smelling like horse manure as usual.
"Your dispatch order!" He thrust a piece of paper into his hand. Hu Yicheng was a little confused. He didn't apply for transfer. Life on the farm is quite happy. He won't do it if you want to put him somewhere else! Open it and take a look. It was a transfer order to transfer him to a pharmaceutical factory. I am not a pharmaceutical student. Hu Yicheng couldn't laugh or cry. Luckily the pharmaceutical factory is also on the farm. There was no need to move as he was used to the comfort of the farm.
"Where's Datie?" Datie was the name given by the Agriculture Committee to the stallion of the two Tieling draft horses. The mare’s name is naturally Xiaotie.
"In the shed at the back, it's done." Hu Yicheng stuffed the order into his pocket. I was relieved, but then I thought about it. This pharmaceutical factory is jointly run by the Ministry of Health. Maybe there will be many opportunities to hire nurses in the future... Although they are all indigenous girls, after a few months of training, they look pretty good when they put on blue nurse uniforms.
Nick finished delivering the notice. Hurry to see his horse. "Big Iron. After being led out and rubbed through the net, the horse didn't look tired. Seeing Nick's arrival, he snorted a few times in excitement.
He patted the neck of "Big Iron" and checked whether there was any damage to its body, and then slowly led it to the stable.
Nick was walking on the road paved by Die Zha, looking at the stables with tall herringbone roofs in the distance and the horses grazing and drinking water on the grass in front of the stables. He felt very comfortable and couldn't help but fall into memories:
It was not long after the farm was completed that Yang Baoguo gathered together all the livestock that were originally scattered everywhere. Came to the farm. This also includes the fact that his beloved retired racehorse Alanchi Landian died in the chaos of the early stage of landing. He even secretly shed tears for several nights because of this matter.
He had been thinking about the horse ever since he handed it over to the Board of Owners for feeding. After Lan Dian died, he ran to the temporary horse pen every two days. Now that he heard that the horses had arrived at Bairen's farm, he quickly went to take a look.
Under the guidance of others, Nick quickly found the farm that had begun to take shape. In the simple stables, he saw his baby and several other horses of various sizes and shapes, and looked at them there as if they were facing each other. The troubled Ye Yuming. It was obvious that he didn't seem to understand these big guys.
"It's just a matter of causing trouble to others. I'm very happy that you and Mr. Nanhai can find him this safe place. Thank you very much. As a reward, he took out two boxes of two pieces from his luggage." Ten drops of water" handed to him.
"I'm very sorry. I would be embarrassed to take out these things in normal times, but that's all I can do now. These are very effective in preventing and alleviating diseases. As someone who works under the scorching sun every day, these must be used. "Occupy something else." He suddenly remembered something, and took out a few small bags from Xiaoyi's luggage bag. These are the beans I brought. Wheat grains, grains, corn and radish seeds are all necessary feed for horses and pigeons. I am not proficient in farming, so I need to get rid of you and Nanhai to sow some seeds for them.
"This," Ye Yuming looked confused. It's not that he dislikes the trouble or anything else, but he knows nothing about raising horses. If he lets himself take care of these horses, wouldn't he be risking their lives? Yang Baoguo once said that horses are very delicate animals.
"Actually, I think you should come here specifically to raise horses. Xiao. Ye Yuming suggested, "Only Dr. Yang here knows a little bit, but he is a veterinarian. It is impossible to serve the horses every day. You may not feel at ease if other people raise them.
This is true. Among the more than five hundred people, Nick was the only one who really knew how to raise horses. "But he hesitated. "I made an agreement with the people from the Military Commission that I would be their riding instructor. Engage in cavalry”
"Riding coach?" Ye Yuming said, "What kind of cavalry are there with just a few horses?" The key for us now is to allow the mare to give birth to more foals to expand the number of horses in the herd. "
Nick thought so, so he ran to the executive committee again, and in addition to his position as "cavalry chief instructor", he added a new title "horse manager". I also spent much more time on the farm than in the New Army. Fangfang tirelessly traveled around for horses, and was called a "horse madman" behind his back by some mysterious guys. Nick was responsible for raising horses, and Wu Nanhai was surprised by this. He was originally worried about what to do with a pair of Tieling draft horses and two donkeys, let alone the horses captured in the battle.
Nick soon discovered that the farm was a good place. There is everything here and there are plenty of supplies. More importantly, it is not as noisy as the beach camp and the main part of Bairen City. He built himself a wooden house next to the horse pen. According to most people's opinions, the location was not good. You could smell the smell of horse manure at times, but you could see the stables when you opened the back window. He built a pigeon shed next to the house. Among the animals brought around in Fengcheng, he was the only one who brought dozens of pigeons. exist. In the chaos that followed he not only lost a horse. In addition, several pigeons were lost, including a homing pigeon "Feng Chi'er", which was probably killed by that. The greedy guy got it into his stomach. It seems he can rest assured that these little guys can be guarded by himself.
In addition to a pair of Tieling draft horses and his Alanchi, there were three captured Yunnan horses in the stable. He checked the condition of the horses and found that almost all of them were losing fat to varying degrees. Horses are very sensitive animals and it takes a long time to adapt to unfamiliar environments. Mingjian didn't take good care of it. It made Nick very distressed.
The condition of the three Yunnan horses was even worse, with varying degrees of skin diseases. Judging from the unique deformity of the front hooves, these horses have never been shod, which shows that they cannot withstand high-intensity labor. During the recent great migrations, travelers who had no idea how to drive their horses had their hooves severely worn on the rough roads.
For this reason, Nick had to announce a moratorium on using horses. While asking Yang Guigui to prepare local medicine to treat the horse's skin diseases, he found hoof trimming tools from his luggage. His luggage quota contained many of these items. By candlelight, It was not only the local horses that had their hooves scratched by these unlucky guys overnight, but the horses they brought had not had their hooves scratched since they landed ashore.
During the day the next day, he fought off the Planning Commission personnel who tried to move the horses to transport the goods. Nick carried a big stick and claimed that anyone who wanted to take away the horses would step over his body. The nickname "Horse Madman" spread like wildfire.
In the evening, he captured another family member who was trying to steal pigeons. He was originally going to take him to Ran Yao, but later it turned out that this person was a senior military leader in the executive committee. After he repeatedly promised to give the horse breeding industry the greatest support, he , Nick had to release him.
Nick wakes up early and stays late every day. He used a small wheelbarrow he brought for the stables to pick up horse manure and transport horse hay; he went to Dongmen Market to find grains that could be fed to the horses; he looked for suitable grazing land everywhere; he did not know how to shod horses in the past. Please ask Yang Guogui for help. In order not to trouble others, I simply learned the art from a master myself. When I installed a separate drinking water channel for the stable, I went to the construction department many times and supervised the work day and night. When the supply of miscellaneous grains was most difficult, he even reclaimed a small piece of land by himself and asked someone to guide him to plant soybeans and corn.
His professionalism touched many people. "Horse Crazy" gradually became a nickname with praise. Everyone admired him: it was not easy for a person who used to play horse racing in Australia and live a privileged life to do so in a place with such difficult material conditions. ! ~!
