Nick personally went to the horse pen outside the city to observe the terrain and consider how to design the horse pen.
The main purpose of the horse pen he designed is to raise the draft horses currently in the hands of the Jeju Military Control Commission. As for those official and private horse farms, he is temporarily unable to intervene - it's not that he doesn't want to, he really can't.
Now he has no people and no feed, and he is unable to effectively manage tens of thousands of horses. In the end, he still relies on the old old man and the old method.
Rather than making immediate changes and causing turmoil, it is better to allow these racecourses to continue to operate under the old system.
Furthermore, these horse farms should adopt a herding horse breeding system of wild grazing. This breeding system does not require horse pens and requires very little feed and labor. Although it has many shortcomings - such as low reproductive rate - ―But under the current conditions, it is still a way to maintain the horse herd.
Even if he takes over the entire island's horses in the future, he will still have to maintain this system within a few years.
However, in order to expand the horse population on a large scale and select horse breeds, it is imperative to promote captive breeding.
Although pen feeding requires a large space and a long construction period, it is conducive to feeding and management, protecting young foals and accumulating fertilizer. Although Jeju Island is relatively warm, the lowest temperature in the winter of the 21st century is also zero degrees. In the upcoming 1632, This is a year when it snows heavily even in Lingao and the temperature drops to zero degrees. According to the predictions of Lingao Meteorological Observatory, the lowest temperature in Jeju Island in winter may be as low as six or seven degrees below zero. Building horse stables is conducive to protecting the safety of horses during the winter.
With the horse stable, he can create a breeding system that can be used as a sample for training personnel and technology promotion. Therefore, the Jeju horse pen must take into account the three functions of service, breeding and training. If conditions permit, it is best to have supporting feed. Processing and horse manure treatment projects
In terms of construction materials and labor, labor is sufficient. A large number of liberated official slaves and maidservants are the on-site labor force - and many of them have been working as fence builders in the past and have rich experience in fence building and mawei building. , all skilled workers
As for building materials, Nick decided to rely on the existing conditions - it was unrealistic to rely on ships thousands of miles away to transport bricks, tiles and cement to him. Fortunately, the construction requirements of the horse circle are relatively low, so he can make do with the shabby. There are many igneous rocks here in Jeju Island. They are almost everywhere, from residential houses to government offices. They are almost exclusively made of this kind of stone. There is also a lot of wood available nearby. After the fences of the old horse pens are dismantled, except for some of the decayed ones that can only be used for fires, most of them can be reused.
Although Nick doesn't understand architecture, he does know how to repair horse pens - the horse stables built at Gaomopanling Ranch were built by the construction company under his guidance. As Merlin said, repairing horse pens is a process of mutual learning. After building the horse pen at Mopanling Ranch, both the construction company and Nick learned how to truly build a horse pen that meets the requirements.
According to the requirements, it is best to choose a horse pen with a leeward direction, a dry flat land or a gentle slope with a large water source nearby. The existing Jeju horse pen location can meet the needs, so he decided not to change it and ordered Feng Gong. The team first leveled the foundation
The floor of the horse stable is relatively simple, and there is no need to lay stones or cement to harden the floor. This is labor-intensive and material-intensive and is not good for the health of the horses. The permeability of these materials is too hard and they do not retain heat. Therefore, the ground is generally compacted with clay, which is The ground is insulated, protects hoofs, and is easy to repair
There are enclosed and semi-enclosed stables. Like Lingao, Nick chose the semi-enclosed one.
Although the fully enclosed horse barn has good insulation effect, the internal temperature is high and the humidity is high. Horses have weak resistance and are prone to colds. When ventilation is poor, the irritating gases produced by the horse's excrement and urine are also detrimental to the health of the horse.
The horse barn in the horse pen is semi-open, that is, there are walls at the back and both sides and the front is open. The semi-open horse barn has a simple structure, sufficient sunlight and fresh air. It is easy to keep the indoor clean and dry, and it is convenient for feeding work and fertilizer accumulation. The disadvantages are Not good for heat preservation, not suitable for northern areas where winter temperatures are very low
Horses are animals that like cold and are afraid of heat. Nick believes that considering the extreme minimum temperature of below zero in Jeju Island in this time and space, horses can withstand it and moderate low temperatures are conducive to improving the cold resistance and adaptability of horses.
The horse house designed by Nick is a sloping multi-row structure. This kind of horse house has the simplest structure. It saves building materials, has a large number of horses, is easy to manage, and has good thermal insulation. The roof adopts a sloping type, and the fence is directly used as the load-bearing roof. The rafters of the structural roof are directly placed on the fence, eliminating the need for beams and columns. This is especially suitable for Nick who lacks thicker diameter timber and does not have enough qualified carpenters.
The wall is made of volcanic stones that are found everywhere on Jeju Island. The adhesive is mixed with clay and sand. It is a technical skill to pile irregular stones into the wall. Fortunately, almost all local buildings use this method to build walls, so There are many official slaves in the Fenggong team who are good at this job
Most stables do not have single rooms and adopt a through-room structure. Only a few stables have single rooms, which are specially prepared for pregnant and nursing mares.
There is a special manger in the stable - all of it was transported from Lingao. Nick thought that the old manger might contain more germs and parasites, so he abandoned it and did not chop it down for firewood. In addition, a special straw was installed. The grass rack is specially used for feeding long grass. It is made of wooden poles and is placed horizontally above the manger. It is roughly equivalent to the height of the grass that a horse can eat when standing and raising its head slightly.
The reason why the hay rack is specially installed is because most local horses are fed hay in winter. If the hay is piled directly on the stable bed, it is easy for the horses to ingest feces and parasite eggs, which is very unhygienic.
Although this improvement is small, it is an important part of improving the health of horses.
In addition, Nick also built a number of separate closed stables - these were prepared for stallions. He was not sure whether any of the current draft horses were suitable for stallions. However, they were originally intended for the Jeju Island horse group. According to his speculation, the horses on Jeju Island are basically the hybrid descendants of the 150 Mongolian horses and the horses on the island. Since then, there are no records of the introduction of other foreign horse breeds, so the horses here are not imported from abroad. few genes
From a breeding perspective, Jeju Island's horse breeds are quite "pure", but such "pure" Mongolian horses are not the best choice for the Senate. The height, load-bearing capacity and pulling power of Mongolian horses are in accordance with the Senate's regulations. Neither military nor service standards are sufficient, so we can only make do with it. Improvement of horse breeds is imminent. It is necessary to introduce outstanding foreign horse breeds and carry out large-scale horse breeding work.
The size of the stable can accommodate 400 horses, including all the horses currently under the control of the Jeju Military Control Commission and a number of horses that may be added in the future. Nick issued an order through the Military Control Commission: all 40 horses from Chaocheonpo will be rushed to Jeju for waiting. Screening
Since repairing the horse pen is a top priority, and Feng Zongze and Nangong attach great importance to horse resources, Nick has a sufficient number of dignitaries and people and materials, and the number of craftsmen from all walks of life to help, plus tools and vehicles transported from Lingao With assistance, two-thirds of the work on the horse stables in the horse pen was quickly completed. Another group of people began to build supporting projects, including staff dormitories, horse medical clinics, horse isolation and quarantine facilities, and specialized biogas digesters for horse manure treatment.
Water collection projects and aqueducts are also under construction in full swing. Nick also plans to build a simple water purification tank to provide clean drinking water for horses.
The dead horses were buried in a place far away from the stables where the soil was dry and would not affect the surface and underground water sources.
Finally, the entire horse pen was surrounded by a fence - this was mainly for letting the horses run out, rather than a defensive facility. After all, this place is less than one kilometer away from Jeju City, and there are still some Japanese security company personnel stationed there.
While the horse pen project was being built, Nick began to look for enough feed for the horses. There were not many reserves of feed for the horses in the Jeju supervising camp. Apart from a slightly larger stock of hay, there was very little concentrated feed. Because Jeju suffered a famine last year, the buckwheat that was originally used as concentrated feed was Most of the coarse grains such as , barley and barley have become human rations. Now there is almost nothing in the feed warehouse except some basics.
This left Nick with no choice but to turn to Feng Zongze for help. He knew very well that Jeju Island is an area that mainly grows buckwheat and barley - it can even be said to be the staple food on the island. Among the 30,000 stone grains in the Jeju warehouse, these kinds of coarse grains There will be no shortage of stock
However, Feng Zongze was quite embarrassed about this: a large part of this food must be used to feed the army. Of course, each household has some food reserves, which can barely survive until the next year's harvest. However, Jeju Island itself is short of food, that is, it must be fed. The local people have to feed the refugees who are about to arrive in large numbers. If a part of the horse grain is transferred, and there is a slight mistake in the transportation of relief rations in Hong Kong, it will immediately affect the security of the entire food reserve.
After Nick's hard work and Feng Zongze's unwillingness for horses to die in large numbers in his hands, Nick finally granted him several hundred dan of barley and buckwheat.
Nick immediately took care of his team members. He first collected some of the feed grains, loaded them on the Zidian trolley, and shipped them all the way back to the horse pen.
The feed warehouse and silage warehouse in the horse pen are still under construction. In order to store this batch of precious feed grains, he ordered this batch of grain to be stored in the residence of the original horse pen caretaker. The original horse pen caretaker was assigned to " "Horse Circle Fenggong Team"
As for the residence of the members of the Maquan Army, he didn't worry about it - most of them had their own houses in and outside Jeju City or lived in official houses. He only asked them to build a row of simple dormitories for the use of the personnel on duty ( To be continued)
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