In addition to these two new buildings, Zhao Changxing also plans to further improve the livestock breeding workshop and breed more animals.
The utilization rate of the current livestock breeding workshop is very low, only a small part is occupied to raise 60 chickens. He plans to use the remaining area to build a fish pond and raise some common fish for the children to supplement their protein. There is no need to worry about the fish bones. At worst, the fire will be higher and the fish bones will be stewed until crispy.
For the rest, he plans to raise a few more pigs, some rabbits, ducks and other animals.
Forget about the cow, this thing is too big and he can't control it now. If he goes crazy and collapses the livestock breeding workshop, it will be all over. Even if he is raising pigs, he must choose some docile breeds that are used to eating and sleeping. The wild ones are not allowed either.
These breeding needs, in turn, once again confirm the importance of the new soilless cultivation workshop. It’s definitely not enough for the animals to just eat spinach. I have to solve their food ration problem through the newly built soilless cultivation workshop. No matter the type or quantity, it must be solved.
In my busy schedule, a few hours passed before I knew it. After taking a look at the children being gestated in the artificial womb and saying hello with a smile, Zhao Changxing fell asleep again.
In the following days, he was still busy all day long. It took him more than a month to build the shell of the new soilless cultivation workshop and automated nutrient solution preparation workshop. Before starting these construction tasks, he had already put pig and rabbit embryos into artificial wombs for cultivation.
The gestation period of a pig is 110 days. At that time, it can be put into the pig pen and started to be raised. The gestation period of rabbits is shorter, only about 30 days, and they are almost ready to be "born" now.
There was no time to carry out the further construction of the new soilless cultivation workshop and the automated nutrient solution preparation workshop, so Zhao Changxing busily turned his energy to the upgrading of the livestock breeding workshop. He must prepare the cage before the baby rabbit is born.
This took him another day. But today he was very motivated and full of expectations.
Although the chickens were only half-grown at the moment due to the relatively single type of food, he had already decided to catch one and eat it today. He couldn't stand the days of starch porridge with spinach every day.
Leaving the rabbit breeding area, he came to the chicken coop. Seeing the sudden arrival of a strange animal, the half-grown chickens screamed in fear. Zhao Changxing selected one for a while, and finally chose one that didn't look very energetic and might get sick and die. He tied it up directly and planned to take it to the Spark spacecraft to be processed by automated slaughtering equipment.
Looking at the half-empty chicken coop, Zhao Changxing felt slightly distressed.
Some time ago, a dozen chicks fell ill and died. Because they were too young and sick, Zhao Changxing did not dare to eat them. He just ground them into feed at high temperatures, intending to use them as additives for fish or pig feed in the future. Now, for the first time, he took the initiative to capture a chicken that seemed to be probably healthy.
"Anyway, even if I don't eat it, since it is so weak, it will get sick and die sooner or later. It's better to eat it earlier."
Zhao Changxing comforted himself in this way.
Before leaving, he took a look at the growth of rice, millet, and soybeans. It was estimated that they would be ready for harvest in a dozen days. Only then did Zhao Changxing return to the Spark spacecraft with the water ice collected daily.
The poor chicken is handed over to the automated slaughtering line controlled by Xiao Xi, and when it comes out, it will be a clean, white-striped chicken.
"It's too small. The feathers and internal organs have been removed. I don't know if it weighs a pound."
Zhao Changxing muttered to himself.
The removed feathers and internal organs will not be wasted. They will also be ground into powder and used as feed in the future.
There is an automated kitchen in the Fire spaceship, but Zhao Changxing did not give the chicken to Xiao Xi, but planned to cook it himself.
First, he chopped the half-sized chicken into small pieces with a knife, washed it with water, and blanched it again. Zhao Changxing put it directly into the pot, added sugar, soy sauce and other seasonings, and started to stew.
It should have been fried in oil before simmering, so that it would taste more fragrant. But now the soybeans have not been harvested, and there is no oil available at all, so we can only omit that step for the time being.
After a while, the water boiled, and the alluring fragrance came out. Zhao Changxing smelled it and began to drool uncontrollably.
Half-sized chicken is different from old chicken. The meat will be cooked after stewing for a while. Zhao Changxing added salt and simmered it for a while. When the flavor was absorbed, he couldn't wait to lift the lid of the pot.
The fragrance is more intense.
Looking at the oily, slightly yellow chicken soup, and the overcooked chicken floating in the soup, Zhao Changxing quickly scooped it out, blew it to cool down, and took a bite.
An indescribable taste exploded in his mouth, spreading pleasure throughout his body in an unstoppable manner. At this moment, he felt as if something in his body had been activated, and it seemed that the world was beginning to become beautiful.
This is the power of good food.
Perhaps because the gravity of Sedna was too low, the chicken was not as tight as the ones I had eaten on Earth before, and the chicken bones were relatively brittle. But it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s meat.
He originally planned to keep some chicken for his next meal. But by the time he reacted, there was only chicken soup left in the basin.
Reluctantly, he searched in the basin again. After he couldn't find any meat, he had to give up.
He won't waste the chicken soup. There was too little chicken and I couldn't eat enough, so I had to fill my stomach with starch porridge. But today’s starch porridge has been upgraded and turned into chicken soup starch porridge.
At this moment, he didn't think about the fact that the soup was high in oil, salt and purine, and that it was unhealthy to eat. Just kidding, is he qualified to consider those things now?
Hululu finished the bowl of starch porridge, and Zhao Changxing touched his belly with satisfaction.
I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve eaten so well.
He sighed secretly.
"After another half month, the remaining twenty broiler chickens will be ready for slaughter. Then they will all be killed and stored. The soybeans will also be harvested. The seeds will be saved and the rest will be squeezed into oil and grown into bean sprouts. Make tofu, fry the chicken with soybean oil and stew it, add tofu, rice, phew..."
After sleeping, Zhao Changxing came to Sedna again and started busy.
In the past half month, he finally built an automated nutrient solution preparation workshop. From now on, he finally no longer has to spend so much time and energy on nutrient solution. The next step is to build a communication network and install the corresponding hardware. In this way, he can leave everything here to Xiao Xi to control and completely liberate himself.
But that’s something I’ll be busy with tomorrow. There are still some things he needs to do today.
Rice, millet, and soybeans are finally ripe and ready for harvest.
Looking at the golden ears of rice and grains, and the dried pods, he began to feel happy.
These plants were harvested one after another, put into insulated boxes and transferred to the living area. The simple threshing and grinding equipment installed in the remaining space of the living area were used to further process the plants, looking at the pure white color. The rice, yellow and orange millet and beans made him feel more and more happy.
The final harvest was still a little lower than originally expected. Only about 52 kilograms of rice were harvested, about 27 kilograms of millet and only 14 kilograms of soybeans.
"It's finally a successful start."
He thought so.
The oil yield rate of the soybeans he grows is about 24%. 14 kilograms of soybeans are all squeezed into oil, but only 3.36 kilograms of oil can be produced, which is far from free soybean oil. But it’s okay to satisfy your craving now.
Zhao Changxing plans to distribute these grains in this way.
Among the 52 kilograms of rice, 40 kilograms are reserved for seeds and grain reserves, and the remaining 12 kilograms are eaten by oneself. All 27 kilograms of millet are reserved for the children in the future. Of the 14 kilograms of soybeans, 10 kilograms are stored, and of the remaining 4 kilograms, half is squeezed into oil, which can be about a kilogram of oil. The remaining two kilograms are used to make tofu and one kilogram to make bean sprouts.
After thinking about it, Zhao Changxing got angry again, entered the chicken coop, caught a chicken, and took his harvest and some spinach back to the Spark spacecraft.
The broiler chickens are almost full now, and they will be killed in a few days and stored as frozen meat. Nowadays, eating one a few days in advance is not a big deal.
There is a small oil press in the Fire spacecraft, so two kilograms of soybeans are turned into one pound of oil, and the rest is turned into soybean meal. Of course, these soybean meal will not be wasted. It will be together with the rice, millet, and soybean plants after harvesting, and will also be ground into powder and used as feed or additives in nutrient solutions.
After steaming the rice, Xiao Xi butchered the chicken and cut it into pieces and blanched it, but this time there was one more step than the last time.
He carefully added a little oil, put in the sugar, stir-fried the sugar color, then added the chicken pieces and stir-fried for a while before starting to stew. While waiting for the chicken to be stewed, he washed the spinach, carefully added a little oil, blanched it and stir-fried it over high heat.
So his dinner today changed from starchy spinach porridge to stewed chicken, steamed rice and stir-fried spinach.
It's a pity that there are no eggs. If there are, I can make another spinach and egg soup.
But now it's pretty good, and the quality of dinner has made a qualitative leap compared to before.
Mix the spinach and chicken soup into the rice, and finish a large bowl of rice with the fragrant chicken. Zhao Changxing touched his belly with satisfaction and sighed: "It is better to eat meat and vegetables together to feel comfortable."
Because of the rice, the chicken was not finished this time. He carefully put it away for tomorrow morning, soaked the beans for making tofu, covered the sprouted beans with a wet cloth, and fell asleep contentedly.
