Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 39 The breeding path of female pheasants (plus update [-])

"Brother, why have you been gone for so long?"

When Li Muyang returned home, Li Xiangqin was sitting at the door playing with some little pheasants.

It just so happened that the three little pheasants Li Muyang rescued turned out to be hens, not a single male.

When the chickens raised at home are very young, they cannot tell the difference between male and female.

Ordinary people distinguish males from females by looking for combs.

However, many roosters develop very slowly and are no longer young. The combs are still not obvious, so it is difficult to distinguish them.

When ordinary people buy chickens, they basically buy them based on hens. They rarely ask for roosters. Most of the roosters are hatched by their own hens.

In this day and age, there are only a few people who can afford to kill all the roosters they raise to eat meat. Most people raise chickens just to lay eggs, and then sell the eggs to make money, and exchange them for oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and so on.

For many housewives, selling eggs is almost their only income.

If there are a few roosters in the chickens you buy, and you finally catch them and raise them, and you see them growing combs, you will lose money on the business.

Grain...even chaff and bran are money. Raising roosters can only make them bigger and sell them, and often you can't even earn back the grain.

Young pheasants are completely different from young domestic chickens.

When pheasants are very young, the male and female are very obvious.

The color of the male pheasant is very gorgeous, mostly very bright red, green and yellow, and there are already signs of feathers on the back.

As for hens, they are mainly brown and hemp-colored, and they look about the same color as adult domestic hens.

Of course, there are no feathers on the back of the butt either.

So people can tell the male and female pheasants at a glance.

When Li Muyang first picked up the little pheasants, he thought that if he raised these guys and let them lay eggs every day, wouldn't he have pheasant eggs to eat...

Then I thought about it, what a stupid idea this was.

Can pheasants be the same as domestic chickens?

Although the pheasant is called a chicken, in fact it can only be said to be a wild bird in more aspects.

Domestic chickens have been domesticated by humans for thousands of years. After artificial selection and breeding, they have become a high-egg-producing poultry.

Pheasants, on the other hand, grow naturally without artificial intervention, and their reproductive capacity and egg production are relatively low.

Moreover, the living environment and feed of domestic chickens have been carefully designed and managed by humans to provide sufficient nutrition and protection, making the chickens healthier and more capable of laying eggs.

Pheasants, on the other hand, need to find their own food and habitat. Their living environment is relatively harsh and they are easily affected by factors such as weather and disease, which affects their ability to lay eggs.

In addition, domestic chickens have a faster reproductive cycle and growth rate than pheasants, and can enter the laying period faster.

Pheasants, on the other hand, take longer to mature and enter the egg-laying period.

Pheasants generally lay two clutches of eggs per year, and no more than three clutches at most. If you want to rely on them to eat eggs, it is really too much.

Since you can't eat eggs, you can only eat them themselves.

Li Muyang also thought, since chickens can be raised at home, pheasants can also be raised at home. One pheasant can lay thirty eggs a year, which means thirty pheasants. Three pheasants can lay ninety eggs... …

If he takes good care of it, won't he have more than 90 pheasants by the end of the year?

Li Muyang felt better and better the more he thought about it.

Until he came back just now and saw three female pheasants in the cage, he suddenly thought of a problem. These three pheasants were all females and there were no roosters. So the eggs they laid couldn't hatch chicks, or there were no roosters. , can they still lay eggs?
This was Li Muyang's knowledge blind spot. He couldn't figure it out for a while, so he could only think about studying it later.

Oh, if only the children were here.

Each of his three children in his previous life studied better than the other, and they were all very good.

Especially my daughter, who is a female doctor.Basic knowledge like this should not be difficult.

Knowledge is still important.

Without knowledge, Li Muyang felt like a mouse in a bellows. He wanted to find the exit, but he didn't know where it was. He could only touch it little by little. If he was lucky enough to find the exit, he would escape.

If it is never found, it may be suffocated in the bellows.

Ok……

When the children are born, they must learn more knowledge and not be blind all their lives like me.

I have read a total of third-grade books, and I cannot recognize many words.

Walking in a train station in a big city, he couldn't even understand the road signs, which made him extremely embarrassed.

"Something delayed me for a while."

Li Muyang carried the flour to the kitchen and poured the clean flour directly into the jar. The dirty bag was reserved for feeding the pheasants and his remaining hen.

These white noodles look like they just have some residue in them, but I don’t know what they are. Maybe they were swept up from the ground and have been stepped on by many people, making them inedible.

But white flour is white flour after all, and the effect of feeding chicks is better than bran and bran. You can mix it in a little and feed it, and you can probably keep feeding these guys until they grow up.

"Qinqin, go to the Kang and bring me the basin."

"Very good."

Li Xiangqin ran to the room where he slept.

The noodles in the basin are leavened. Because the temperature difference between day and night in the mountains is large, it takes a long time for the flour to ferment. Li Muyang always puts the leavening basin in the corner of the pit and uses the temperature of the kang to ferment the noodles earlier.

Pa Tata~
Li Xiangqin quickly brought the basin. Seeing Li Muyang washing alfalfa sprouts, she smiled and said, "Brother, what do we want to eat?"

"A bun filled with alfalfa sprouts."

"Yeah, you really want to make buns to eat."

"Didn't you buy some meat at noon? I just bought some white flour. Let's mix it with some steamed buns later. Let's see how lucky you are, just in time to eat something delicious."

"Hee hee~"

Li Xiangqin is also very happy.

In this era, being able to eat meat buns is a kind of happiness.

Li Xiangqin's husband Liu Xiaogang spends all his money all day long, and the life at home is not very good. It is also very difficult to eat meat buns.

"Brother, what do you want me to do for you?"

Li Muyang originally wanted his sister to rest and he could just do it himself, but he thought it was unnecessary. It's not like his sister couldn't cook, and looking at her high spirits, she wasn't someone who could take time off.

"Peel a few green onions and a few heads of garlic for us. By the way, you can cook the spicy oil first."

Cooked oil chili is to use boiling oil to cook very thin chili noodles.

This is a condiment that people in Longdong particularly like to eat and is even a must-have daily.

When eating noodles, you can mix them with cooked oil and spicy seeds.

When eating steamed buns, if you really don’t have any vegetables to eat, you can open the steamed buns and put some oil-infused chili inside. The taste is amazing.

These days, chili peppers are very fragrant, and the oil is squeezed directly from the fields. It does not contain any blending ingredients, so it tastes particularly fragrant.

In his previous life, Li Muyang also ate cooked spicy oil made by others at a ramen restaurant in other places. It was dry and tasteless at all, and he was very disappointed.

　5 chapters added today, this is Chapter 1.

　　
　
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