The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

Chapter 52 Cow Birth
In the early morning of the next day, a servant came to report that there was a cow that might be giving birth today. After Song Qingyue had breakfast, she changed into her riding clothes and was about to ride to the cowshed to watch the cow give birth.

Li Zhao insisted on following the cows to give birth, regardless of the fact that the abdominal injury had not fully healed.

Song Qingyue looked at him and smiled: "Curious?"

Li Zhao nodded: "I haven't seen it before."

"Is the wound on the stomach all right?" Song Qingyue looked down at his abdomen, "My old man said that the cut was quite deep."

Li Zhao smiled lightly and said, "Let's go together."

Since he himself didn't care about his injury, Song Qingyue didn't want to dissuade him anymore.The place is a bit far, you have to ride a horse.She carefully helped him onto the horse, letting the horse walk slowly, lest the wound on his abdomen be jolted by the horse and open again.

When they arrived at the cowshed, the cow's water had just broken, and there was still no movement.Song Qingyue was afraid that he would get impatient, so she took him to see the cattle feeding first.

There is a warehouse next to the cowshed where cattle feed is stacked, and there are special personnel to take care of it. I came early today, and I haven’t fed this morning.

Li Zhao saw a stout peasant woman who first poured a sack of corn kernels into a large wooden bucket with wheels, followed by a sack of fodder, half a bag of wheat bran left over from flour milling, and a small half bag of soybean oil left over. The bean dregs cake, and finally sprinkled a large spoonful of salt into it.

"Cows also eat salt?" Li Zhao seemed very curious.

Song Qingyue said: "You don't have to eat it, but the cows that eat salt grow stronger than the cows that don't eat salt. Bran and bean dregs must be added. The cows grow faster and stronger after eating it. It only takes about five months for a calf to go out to slaughter. Not only that, but the cow also produces more milk after giving birth. As long as you insist on milking every day, the cow can continue to produce milk.”

"What do you need so much milk for?"

"Make it into cheese and sell it."

"Your village still sells cheese?"

"For sale, both cheese and yogurt are sold, and I also sell milk powder here. The milk powder does not have the fishy smell of milk, and it can also be used to make various pastries. It costs ten taels of silver a catty."

Li Zhao followed Song Qingyue to visit the cowshed, and found that her cows were all fat and strong, and they were the best farming cattle.

"How do you sell your cattle here?"

Song Qingyue said: "Smaller farm cattle sell for 60 taels, and some of the larger ones sell for more than 80 taels. If it's beef, it's sold in taels of catties." She pointed to a few particularly fat cattle not far away, and said: "Those are beef cattle."

"You look so fat!" Li Zhao exclaimed.

Li Zhao raised his head and looked around the endless cowshed. He estimated that there were hundreds of cows.

The peasant woman in charge of feeding the cows mixed all the ingredients in the bucket with a big wooden stick, then pushed the wooden bucket to the side of the wooden trough, opened a small valve at the bottom of the wooden bucket, and the prepared feed would flow into the bucket continuously. In the wooden trough, as long as she pushed the wooden barrel forward, she could easily finish feeding the hundreds of cows.

After feeding the cows here, a farmer ran in and shouted excitedly: "Girl, it's time to give birth!"

Song Qingyue finally had a smile on her cold and expressionless face, and turned her head to Li Zhao and said briskly, "Go, go and have a look."

It was an eye-opener for Li Zhao today. After wiping his hands with high alcohol, a stout man took out a cotton rope from the boiling water, put his hand directly into the cow's breast, and wrapped the cotton rope On the calf's hoof, after pulling out the calf's hoof, another peasant woman came, and the two joined forces to help pull the calf out of the cow's belly.

It didn't take half a cup of tea in total.

However, after the calf was pulled out, it seemed that the condition was not very good. The man put his hand into the mouth of the calf and pulled it out. After staying for too long, the amniotic fluid was sucked into the lungs."

After digging out a few times, seeing that the calf was still not in good condition, he hurriedly shouted: "Old Liu! Come and help!"

Another strong and strong man hurried over.

"This bastard drank the amniotic fluid again, so he can't breathe!" said the man in charge of delivering the baby.

The man screamed eagerly, and Li Zhao's heart also rose.

The man named Lao Liu seemed to understand immediately when he heard this, and the two of them grabbed the calf's hind hooves together, hung him upside down, and the calf spit out a lot of water intermittently, two or three bowls.The two of them saw that it was almost the same, and then they put the calf down. The calf finally began to pant and moo.

The two men brought a basin of water, washed the mucus and grass clippings off the baby cow, and put it next to the cow. The cow immediately lowered her head and licked her baby with her tongue.

Li Zhao's heart was finally relieved, and he said to Song Qingyue, "It's unbelievable that giving birth to a calf makes people so nervous."

Song Qingyue hummed, and said: "The cow is not bad. It takes only a cup of tea from the amniotic fluid break to the birth of the calf. It takes several hours to give birth to a baby. When I was in Guangzhou, my family had a My aunt gave birth and screamed all night, and her voice is broken."

She let out a sigh, with a look of regret.

(End of this chapter)