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Chapter 96 Nick’s Career 1
In the seed collection room of the farm's biological laboratory, Hu Yicheng held a glass jar full of semen in his hand and tightly closed it. He was carefully putting it into an enamel jar filled with ice cubes, and was about to send it to test sperm motility.
Ice cubes are very precious and are made from a freezer. Freezers and refrigerators are now super luxury items. Apart from Fengcheng Lun, they are only available in the Demonstration Farm and Bairen General Hospital.
However, this semen is even more precious - they just 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 use it for breeding and breeding of mares in the agricultural sector. Yang Guogui scorns the idea of allowing animals to have free love and natural mating - such reproductive efficiency is too low, so the male breeding animals have to enjoy the pleasure of being "being". In the past few days, the biological department of the Ministry of Agriculture has been working on this task. One is a boar, another is a stallion, and another is a donkey. Currently, only roosters, ducks and other poultry have escaped this fate. A group of big men worked hard to help the animals masturbate. Not only were the animals depressed, but the men were also depressed.
Since spring, Yang Guoguo has been working tirelessly to import more 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 planting alfalfa and corn on highlands that are not suitable for paddy fields to solve the feed problem.
"Mr. Hu" was busy working, and someone shouted outside the laboratory. Hu Yicheng was shocked. No one here calls him "Sir", they usually call him "Xiao Hu", "Fox", and the natives call him "Chief", "Comrade" and so on. I'm afraid it's the Australian guy who calls me sir. When I came out, I saw that it was 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. He was living quite a happy life on the farm. He wouldn't move him to another place.
When he opened it, he saw that 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. Fortunately, the pharmaceutical factory is also on the farm, so there is no need to move - he is already used to the comfort of the farm.
"Datie" is 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 breathed a sigh of relief, but then I thought that this pharmaceutical factory was jointly run by the Ministry of Health, and there might be plenty of opportunities to hire nurses in the future. Although they are all indigenous girls, after several months of training and wearing blue nurse uniforms, they look quite good.
Nick finished delivering the notice and hurried to see his horse. "Big Iron" was brought out. After being beaten just now, the horse didn't look tired. Seeing Nick arriving, 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 with cinders, looking at the stables with high gabled 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. Yang Baogui gathered all the livestock that were scattered everywhere and rushed to the farm. This also includes his beloved retired racehorse Alanchi - Lan Dian died in the chaos of the early landing. He even secretly shed tears for several nights because of this matter.
He had been thinking about the horse ever since he gave it to the Board of Agriculture to be fed. 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 shelter. Thank you very much." As a reward, he took out two boxes of 20 bottles from his luggage. "Ten drops of water" was 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 heatstroke. As someone who works under the scorching sun every day, these will definitely come in handy. "In addition," he suddenly remembered something, and took out a few small bags from his luggage bag, "these are the bean seeds I brought, oatmeal, corn, corn and radish seeds, which are necessary for horses and pigeons." of feed. I’m not proficient in farming, so I can get rid of you and Nanhai to sow some seeds for them.”
"This" Ye Yuming looked embarrassed. It was not that he disliked the trouble or anything else, but that he knew nothing about raising horses. If he asked himself to take care of these horses, wouldn't he be risking their lives? Yang Guigui said that horses are A very delicate animal.
"Actually, I think you should raise horses specifically." Ye Yuming suggested, "Only Dr. Yang knows a little bit here, but he is a veterinarian and cannot take care of horses every day. You may not feel at ease if others raise horses."
This is true. Among the more than 500 people, Nick is really the only one who really knows 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, "We only have a few horses to do cavalry. The key for us now is to let the mare give birth to more ponies to expand the number of horses."
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. He tirelessly traveled around for horses, and was called a "horse madman" by some mean guys behind his back.
Nick was specifically responsible for raising horses, which Wu Nanhai wanted to do - 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 great 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 all the time, 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. In the chaos that followed D-Day he lost more than just one horse. In addition, several pigeons were lost, including a homing pigeon, "Feng Chi", which was probably ingested by that greedy guy. 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. During this period, there was no good care. 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. There were many of these items in his luggage quota. The candlelight used to beat the hooves of these unlucky guys all night long - not only the native horses, but also the horses brought here had not had their hooves scratched since they landed ashore.
During the day the next day, he fought off Planning Commission personnel who tried to use horses to transport goods. Nick carried a big stick and claimed that anyone who wanted to take away the horses would have to step over his body. The nickname "Horse Madman" spread like wildfire.
In the evening, he captured another person who was trying to steal pigeons. He was originally going to take him to Ran Yao, but later he found out that this person was a senior military leader in the executive committee, and he repeatedly promised to give the horse breeding industry the greatest support. After that, Nick had to release him.
Nick wakes up early and stays late every day. He used a small wheelbarrow for stables that he brought 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 shoe horses in the past. Please ask Yang Guogui for help. In order not to trouble others, I just 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 on the construction site day and night. When the supply of miscellaneous grains was most difficult, he even reclaimed a small piece of land and asked someone to guide him to plant soybeans and corn.
His professionalism touched many people, and "Horse Crazy" gradually became a nickname with praise. Everyone admired him: it was really not easy for a man who used to play horse racing and live a privileged life in Australia to be able to do this in a place with such difficult material conditions. ,.
