My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 406 Pigeon and cattle

  Tian Hongli took away a carload of fish in a hurry, and Sun Yanhong was not far behind, and went to the city that day to open a restaurant to cook crayfish, and was ready to do a big job.

  Tian Hongli can sell fish under the name of the old turtle in the reservoir, so can she.

   And there is no need to go to the provincial capital to fight with him, just stay in the city.

   At that time, Crayfish can also use this name to attract customers. She is full of confidence.

  In short, the two of them have already signed a supply and marketing contract with the Chenwangzhuang Brigade.

   Sell as you like.

  No one to worry about it for them.

  Prices are rising fast this year.

  Floods in the past two years have caused prices to rise, but after a period of time, they will fall back.

  But this year is different.

  From the beginning of the year to the present, various prices have been rising steadily...

Of course.

   It is not true to say that everything is rising.

  At least food, agricultural by-products such as chicken, duck and eggs are still the same.

   Even if the price increases, it is a small increase.

  Common people cannot earn money from these things, so more and more people go out to work.

   Fortunately, the old turtle at the reservoir has attracted a large number of tourists this year, and the hard work of Sun Yanhong and the two of them has brought a lot of money to the villagers of Chenwangzhuang.

   Otherwise, after the wheat harvest this year, the young and middle-aged children will also find opportunities to go out.

  Now, some are busy in the fields, some are repairing ponds, some are going to catch fish and birds in the mountains, streams and streams, and some are herding cattle for their families.

   These middle-aged and middle-aged children who did not go to school early have followed the model of Chen Ling's family, fantasizing that one day they can make a lot of money like Chen Ling.

  …

   Chen Ling's family didn't care about the commotion outside.

   Their days are still the same as usual, unhurried and very comfortable.

   Unlike other families, once the harvest season is approaching, they will do one thing after another and get busy.

  They are still busy with leisure, mostly leisure time.

  Wheat, vegetable garden, orchard, don't worry too much.

  If there are too many birds nearby, insects will not be able to survive, and if there are too many small animals, mice will not be able to flood.

  The water quality is good, nourished by thin spiritual water, and the crops, vegetables and fruit trees are also strong in disease resistance.

  At the beginning, when wheat and vegetables were about to grow in spring, there were aphids and weeds. Later, the wheat was sprayed with pesticides several times, and the vegetable garden was sprinkled with plant ash several times.

   Now that the weeds are growing fast, they can’t compete with crops and vegetables for fat. As for aphids and other pests, they have long since disappeared.

   It can be said that Chen Ling's family just wanted to take care of it, so they didn't have to take care of it.

   She looks so good that she doesn't have to worry about all aspects, so what should I do?

  So many sharp-eyed villagers, such as Chen Dazhi and Wang Lishan, said early on that they would use Chen Ling's wheat to grow wheat this autumn.

  There is not much difference in the yield of the wheat grown now.

   It depends on the strength of disease resistance and pest resistance.

  Let's not talk about the wheat output of Chen Ling's family, and it's not sure if it has been confiscated.

   But the ability to resist pests and diseases is absolutely leveraged.

  …

  Chen Ling was naturally happy to see this happen.

  It turned out that he still wanted to set up a small seed station in a small courtyard in the county seat. When he was free, he would take his wife and children to the market to sell seeds.

  After exchanging experience with two pen pals, I asked in a different way and found that this idea was not easy to implement.

  So I gave up my original idea.

   But he would definitely not refuse something like this when someone came to find grain seeds to use.

  This is good for the sun, moon and cave.

   "Cuckoo, cluck..."

  After breakfast, Chen Ling fed the ornamental fish fry in the pond, and returned to the farm with a bucket. Two little pigeons with beautiful feathers were in the bamboo cage, flapping their wings restlessly, making the cage thump.

  The little cat heard the movement, and ran over early, stretched out one front paw, tilted its head, meowing and stretching into the bamboo cage.

   It scared the two little pigeons into panic.

   "Go away, this is not edible."

  Chen Ling put down the bucket and walked over, slapped the little cat on the head, and drove it aside.

   Then he lifted the bamboo cages containing chickens and ducks to the corridor by the lotus pond.

  Preparing to make a new home for the two little pigeons.

  These two little things are two pigeons with special feather colors that he caught back from the village yesterday afternoon after Tian Hongli and Xiao Yang took away the fish at home.

  Ordinary wild pigeons are blue or lavender, with one large and one small black horizontal stripes on their wings.

   These two are different. Although most of them are still blue, and there are black horizontal stripes on the wings, their heads, necks, stomachs, and tails are all white.

  This white is unevenly distributed white patches, like large broken flowers.

   Make these two little flower pigeons look pretty.

  The wild pigeons were domesticated and raised for two years, and finally two pigeons with different colors came out.

  Chen Ling was very happy.

  Seeing that they have just come out of the nest and haven't learned how to fly, I quickly caught them and prepared to keep them by my side and train them well.

  Pigeons have an excellent memory and are more humane.

   For those who take care of and feed it often, they will quickly accept this person and remember to be close to this person.

  Chen Ling took advantage of the time when they were still young, had just emerged from the nest, and hadn't learned to fly before the full moon.

  At this time, they are equivalent to a blank sheet of paper, and they are best cultivated by keeping them around.

   Otherwise, they will be caught when they grow up, and their wings will be cut and locked up for a while.

  Although it can be raised in this way.

   But the wings are not fully grown for a long time, and they cannot fly for at least three or four months.

   That's too much trouble.

   It is better to catch and raise them at this time.

  But pigeons are more emotional.

  Although when the young pigeons are close to the full moon and full of feathers, the big pigeons will drive the young pigeons out of the nest and let them find a new nest to live in.

   But yeah, that doesn't amount to throwing them away.

  If people want to catch them, they will still be angry.

  So there was no other way, Chen Ling could only catch two beautiful pigeons first, and the rest of the pigeons did not move.

  In order to prevent the big pigeons from being emotionally unstable during the incubation period and having a strong temper, they would all fly away in a rage.

   "A Ling, Rui Rui and I went to the village."

   "Our saw is broken. Dad took one from Yu Qiang's house yesterday and hung it on the wall over the firewood pile. Go get it when you use it."

  At this time, Wang Susu packed up a basket full of Ruirui's food, drink and play, with a bamboo basket on his back, a baby in front of him, and two **** and yellow dogs beside him, and he was ready to go out.

"okay, I get it."

  Chen Ling smiled at the couple, then waved his hands gently.

  Wang Susu also smiled, and said to her son: "Rui Rui, tell Dad quickly, we are leaving."

  The little thing poked his head back and smiled at Chen Ling: "Dad~ ah, let's go~"

  The little guy who just started to learn to speak is much more lovable than before.

  Hearing his son's baby voice, Chen Ling narrowed his happy eyes, and waved happily: "Let's go, let's go, Dad will find you in a while."

  Watched off his wife and son out of the farm.

  Chen Ling happily hummed a little tune, and carried the bamboo cage to the back of the farm.

  Wang Susu and the father-in-law thought that he was going to make a bird box for the little pigeon to live in.

   also lent him a saw.

  Chen Ling really wanted to build another bird box, but, he turned around and thought, kites are also bird boxes, and if the little pigeon foolishly admits it is wrong and entered the wrong nest, it will be over if the kite pecks it to death.

   Still no bird box.

   So I went to the woodshed and barn to search, and found a larger clay pot.

  Lay it horizontally, bundle it with straw ropes, and then hang it down the corridor.

  It is simple and beautiful, but also very practical, and it saves him the effort of nailing bird boxes.

   Moreover, the clay pot has a small mouth and a big belly, making it a perfect pigeon nest.

  Chen Ling took a closer look and was quite satisfied: "Not bad, not bad, I can catch a few wild pigeons for training after a while, and I can use this as a nest."

   Just stuff some hay inside the clay pot to make it fluffy and soft.

   Then I took the two little pigeons out of the bamboo cage and put them in...

  Because they haven't learned to fly yet, Chen Ling didn't hang the clay pots as high as they are now, and put them on the two rocks beside the corridor.

  Take out a handful of peanuts, and while peeling them, let them get acquainted with themselves and this new home, and at the same time train them in and out, so that they know how to return to the nest.

   There are such good peanuts to eat.

  It only took half a day for the two little pigeons to be trained by Chen Ling to be able to go up and down and go back to the nest, and they are not afraid of seeing him anymore.

  Suddenly, Erhei barked loudly.

  A man walked into the farm, frightened the two little pigeons, fluttering their wings, jumped onto the rock and got back into the crock.

   "Uncle Fugui, let's feed the pigeons."

   "Hey, it's Xiaochao, has your injury healed?"

   Chen Ling looked up and saw that it was Wang Wenchao, the youngest son of the Er Mao Donkey family.

  Following Li Hongqi and the others into the mountains as guides, they were injured and did not go out for more than half a month.

"I was raised well. At first, I thought I broke my leg. Later, Uncle Guoping took a look at it. It didn't hurt any bones, nothing serious, and I didn't even use a crutch. Even after more than half a month, I was still a little numb. So neat, I don’t have as much energy as before, hehe.”

  Wang Wenchao smiled. This is the case in the village. Even if you are injured or sick, you can’t just lie in bed and do nothing, unless you are seriously ill.

  A young boy in his twenties, he is very strong, and he can easily pass a little injury.

  He didn't care about it himself, he just took out the things wrapped in the blue cloth in his arms: "Uncle Fugui, I brought you the gun."

   "Well, did those outsiders give you the money for being a guide?"

  Chen Ling took the gun and casually leaned against the small stone pier next to him.

   Er Hei couldn't see anything to do, so he grabbed it and ran upstairs to the hunting gear room, and put the gun in front of the hunting gear room door.

  Wang Wenchao glanced enviously, nodded to Chen Ling with a smile, and said, "Forget it, I've given it a long time ago. A bunch of outsiders can do it without paying? Unless they don't want to leave."

   "The one surnamed Li is still injured. They live in the old courtyard of Erzhu. Baoshuan and Baoliang are in charge of their meals."

   "Oh, that's not bad, Baoshuan and Baoliang have seen a lot of money this year."

   "Yeah, Baoshuan has changed it, and he deserves the money. Baoshuan did a good job, and he even told the rest of us that those people hid a compass under the bed."

  Chen Baoshuan also told Chen Ling about this matter, and said that he had informed those people in the village, and he wanted to keep an eye on them, what were they doing with the compass.

   Although Chen Ling was a little speculative about this matter, he didn't care too much. His own dog ran around the village all day long. He was better than people in this kind of thing, so he didn't need to keep an eye on it.

   Unless they go into the mountains again...

   The two sat together and chatted for a while, seeing the sun getting hotter, it was almost noon.

  Wang Wenchao said: "Uncle Fugui, are you busy in the afternoon? I Da said you are busy, and I want to ask you to do a little favor. If you are busy, forget it."

   These words are not fake politeness. Recently, everyone in the village knows that the apricots in Chen Ling's family are ripe. If they are busy picking apricots or looking for a place to sell them, they definitely don't have time to help.

   "Tell me what you want. I don't have much to do in the afternoon, so I just pick two baskets of apricots. Just pick whatever you want, without any delay."

   "That's good. I said that I wanted to wear a nose ring to the cattle at home. The cattle are disobedient. I can't train them without wearing a nose ring."

Wang Wenchao sighed helplessly, "I called Brother Yuqiang and Brother Yingqiang to come, plus I and I may not be able to hold the bull. I know that I am here to give you a gun, so I said you want it." If you are not busy, let me tell you to help too, Uncle Fugui, you have great strength, if you go over, you will definitely be able to hold the cow down."

  Actually, a half-sized scalper can usually be held down by two or three young and strong men.

   But wearing a cow’s nose ring is different. The cow is too painful during the wearing process and will struggle violently.

   "A cow's nose ring? It's been almost a week. I thought you put the cow's nose ring on the next day after you took the cow back that night."

  Chen Ling didn't expect this to happen.

"No, Ida said that at night the cows ran out, half the village came out to chase them, and there were dogs barking, which frightened me a lot. The next day I didn't feel at ease, and I was afraid that my nose would be pierced so soon. Huan scared it again, and it will be a little troublesome in the future, and it is easy to startle the cow..."

   "I just want to let the cow slow down for a few days, so that it feels at ease, and then wear a cow's nose ring, so it's safer."

   Wang Wenchao explained.

   "That's right."

  Chen Ling nodded, expressing his understanding: "All right, I'll go there early in the afternoon, and let's put the nose ring on it."

  If you want to train a cow well, it is essential to put a nose ring on the cow.

  Actually, if the cattle are not used for farming, it doesn’t matter whether they wear a nose ring or not, but who made the little scalper of the Ermao Donkey’s family disobedient, and dared to break free from the rein and open the door and run out.

  Where can I find this guy if he gets lost at night, and now he sells a calf for six or seven hundred dollars.

  Not everyone can be blind to money.

  run away to someone else’s house, and when the door is closed, the cattle are secretly killed and sold, there is really no way out.

   Now that the weather is getting hotter, it is actually not the best season to wear cow nose rings. It is generally best to wear cow nose rings in winter, which can reduce infection.

  Of course, if the cow is one year old and it is not in winter, it must be worn as it should.

   It is best to wear this thing before the cow is one year old, otherwise the cow will grow up, have a strong temper and strength, it will not be easy to hold down, and it will easily hurt people when it is hard.

   But when it comes to Ermao Donkey’s yellow cattle, it’s useless to say anything. They are so stubborn and disobedient when they are less than one year old. It is impossible to raise them without a nose ring.

  (end of this chapter)