My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 430 Salt disease

   "Huh? The cow is sick? Then we won't go into the house, let's go and have a look first."

  As soon as Chen Ling heard that there was still something to do over there, he wanted to pick up Ruirui and leave.

   "Hey, don't, you just go there first, can't I hug Ruirui and follow behind? I haven't seen the little guy for a long time, so I can hug you more."

   "Ruirui, Auntie, please pour some sugar water into your small kettle, it's so sweet."

  Zhong Xiaoyun was so happy to see Ruirui, she hugged the little milk baby and didn't let go, and didn't care about what to say to Chen Ling.

  Chen Ling had no choice but to get on his horse and drive towards Qin Qiumei's house.

  Liang Hongyu and his wife were in Beijing this year to deal with the mess at home, and they haven't been able to come back for almost half a year. The two cattle, one big and one small, were handed over to Qin Qiumei's family to raise them.

   Originally, it would have been fine to hand it over to Chen Ling's family, but it was the Chinese New Year and there were a lot of things to be busy with. Seeing that they had enough things at home, they didn't take it to the village on purpose.

  They didn't expect Chen Ling to get a horse and three scalpers later.

  …

  Qin Qiumei's house is only a few steps away from Liang Hongyu's house, and not far from where Wang Zhenzhen goes to school.

  Chen Ling rode a little green horse pattering through the streets and alleys, and came here at a neither fast nor slow speed.

   Anyway, they are very familiar. After entering the house, seeing Qin Qiumei at home, she put down the donkey meat and asked about the cow without saying anything else.

  Qin Qiumei put the mountain donkey meat away and took him to another yard to watch the cattle.

   "Didn't Xiaoyun say it for two or three days, but yesterday morning when my father-in-law was herding the cows, the two cows seemed listless, saying that they didn't like to eat grass. After that, for most of the day, they only drank water and had diarrhea..."

   "A lot of cattle are raised near the county town this year. They say it might be because they didn't get vaccinated in the spring. I want to see you tomorrow to see if I can give them two shots."

  Actually, when livestock and livestock are sick, the most common symptoms are diarrhea, followed by vomiting, lack of energy, and unwillingness to eat.

  It is really hard to judge just knowing the symptoms and what disease is causing it.

  For example, the cattle of Jiang Xiaoqing's family ate nails after being flooded, which pierced their stomachs.

   Also has diarrhea, lack of energy, and getting thinner and thinner.

  Qin Qiumei's family has never raised cattle. After asking other cattle farmers in the county, they also thought it was because they hadn't been vaccinated. In fact, it didn't seem like a big deal.

   As a result, Chen Ling went to the front yard of her house to take a look.

   Two scalpers, one large and one small, stood up from the bottom of the wall, flicked their tails, and looked at Chen Ling and the two who walked in with trepidation.

  Seeing this, Qin Qiumei opened the door, hung the lock slightly, took a bucket of fresh water and walked over: "What are you doing, I don't know you anymore? You feed us all day, what are you doing in surprise?"

   "Come on, drink some water."

   Then he smiled at Chen Ling: "The ones who didn't eat grass or food these two days, we gave them more water. They can't be short of water in hot weather. Fortunately, they drink water very happily."

  The cattle mother and her son were indeed drinking water happily, rushing to squeeze in front of the bucket to drink a gulp.

  Seeing this, Qin Qiumei took another bucket of water and put it over.

   Chen Ling frowned slightly when he saw this, but didn't say anything. He just went to the place where the two cows were lying down to look at the dung they pulled.

   "Qiumei, these two cows are at your house, do they stay where they sleep?"

   "Ah? No, we didn't fence it. In a place as big as the yard, eating and sleeping and Lazard must not be in the same place. It also knows it's clean."

  Qin Qiumei said quickly.

   This cow is similar to a dog.

  As long as you don’t tie it up, don’t lock it up in a small place like a cattle pen to limit its free range of activities.

  The place where it defecates and pees is generally not the same as the place where it sleeps and rests.

   "Then it's true that they are sick, not because they haven't been vaccinated... You see, when they were lying here just now, they just pulled cow dung over here."

Chen Ling pointed to the cow dung at the base of the wall and said, "It's not only loose, but also bloody. Fortunately, I came here today. If you delay looking for me in two days, you'll be waiting to pay Aunt Hongyu two cows." Bar."

   Losing two cows is of course a joke.

  But Qin Qiumei panicked when she heard him say that it was so serious: "It's so serious? It won't be like the cow you mentioned before. It ate something and pierced its intestines, right?"

  Chen Ling looked at the two cattle, one big and one small, and said, "I'm not sure what's wrong, I'll take another look."

  Qin Qiumei knows him better now.

  Although outsiders often say that he is unfocused and lazy, in fact, this kid is very cautious and serious when encountering things. If he is not sure, he will have an idea in his heart and will not say it easily.

  Chen Ling did have a rough idea and judgment in his heart.

  With his hands behind his back, he walked around the two cattle twice, carefully scrutinizing the snout, belly, hooves, and tail.

  His eyes especially stayed on the muzzles of the two cows for a long time.

   After drinking two buckets of clean water, the cattle mother and her son were still holding the buckets, licking their tongues, wanting to go to the faucet to find water to drink, and the noses that had just touched the water also quickly became dry and dry.

  The guess in my heart was probably confirmed.

  So he turned around again, and asked Qin Qiumei, who became worried because of worry and anxiety: "There are signs of salt poisoning. Are your parents-in-law at home? Call them over and ask, are they eating too much salt for the cows?"

   "Did you eat too much salt?"

Qin Qiumei was obviously taken aback, and subconsciously brushed her hair on her forehead and asked, "Can eating salt also cause poisoning? Recently, my father-in-law often grazes cattle by the river and in forest farms with people from nearby villages. I saw that they prepared coarse salt for cattle. They said that the cows often eat to grow stronger, so they took some, so the salt they gave was poisonous, right?"

  Chen Ling was speechless: "It's not that the salt is poisonous, it's because you fed too much. You should call your father-in-law to ask how much salt you fed the cow, and if you fed it all at once."

   "No, don't call them. I usually feed the cows these days. Didn't Susu make me sweat more in summer, exercise more, and let my body feel cold..."

  Qin Qiumei shook her head, and gestured to Chen Ling with her hands: "Bring back a block of green salt that was about the size of a fist. They really liked it, and they licked it up in two or three days."

   Seeing Chen Ling's helpless expression, she was a little puzzled and said, "I don't think there are many of them. Two cows eat together."

  Chen Ling was even more speechless immediately: "Have you fed them salt before?"

   "It's very rare to feed, just mix some in the grass in winter and spring when it's not hot, Aunt Hongyu ordered."

  Qin Qiumei answered as a matter of course.

   "That's over."

  Chen Ling rubbed his forehead: "Usually the cow doesn't eat much salt, but it's summer and the cow sweats a lot. If it doesn't drink water in time, the cow must be poisoned by salt."

   Those who have raised cattle and sheep know that these animals cannot lack salt, and they have to be fed a little salt from time to time, or let them lick salt bricks or something.

  Otherwise, if there is a lack of salt, the animals will have weakness in their limbs just like humans, which will affect their growth and development.

   But, this salt cannot be fed blindly to livestock.

  Especially now, when the weather is hot in summer, the livestock already sweat a lot. If they eat more salt, the water loss in the body will be faster. If they can’t drink enough water, they will definitely suffer from salt poisoning.

   "What are you two arguing about, I heard it outside the door."

  It was Zhong Xiaoyun who pushed open the door, walked in with Ruirui in her arms: "Come on, let's see what's going on between your father and Aunt Qiumei?"

   "It's not noisy. I don't know how to feed cows because the rich and the rich dislike me. They say that I poisoned the cows."

  Qin Qiumei gave Chen Ling a helpless look, and opened her arms to embrace Ruirui, "Come to Ruirui, auntie kisses you."

"poisoned?"

  Zhong Xiaoyun was also stunned for a moment, and after handing Ruirui to her, she looked this way and immediately shouted: "Oh, it's true, look at Fugui, that calf is foaming."

  Chen Ling had already noticed at this time that the little scalper was not only foaming, but his body was still convulsing, as if he wanted to vomit something out.

   This is similar to the symptoms of dehydration. Once you eat and drink a lot of water, you can't help vomiting and diarrhea.

   "It must be salt poisoning right now. The calf is young and more serious. If it is delayed, it will die."

  Chen Ling pursed his lips and said.

   "Since they get sick from eating salt, can't we give them more water?" The two women haven't realized the seriousness of the disease.

   I heard that it was salt poisoning, as if salt was not poisonous, so I didn't pay much attention to it.

   "Of course not. Salt poisoning is also poisoning. If it is severe, it will be dehydrated and die. If it is acute, it will only take an hour for the cow to die."

  Chen Ling was too lazy to explain further, and just said: "It's not too serious now. I'll go outside and buy some medicine injections and raw soy milk. I'll give them two injections later, and feed them something to soothe the stomach and dilute the salt."

  Qin Qiumei quickly said: "I'll go, you just look at them here, just tell me what medicine to buy."

  Liang Hongyu entrusted her family to raise cattle, but she almost died of raising cattle. Now she has to trouble Chen Ling to treat her illness. She felt very sorry and rushed to buy it.

   "No, I'm fast on horseback. The veterinary clinics here don't know anything about medicine and needles. If the veterinary medicine is gone, you have to buy human medicine. You don't know which one to replace if you don't have one. Let me go."

  Chen Ling shook his head, and said to his son: "Ruirui, be obedient and follow the two aunts. Dad will be back in a while."

   Then I got on the horse, first went to the veterinary station, then went to the tofu shop, and bought medicine needles and raw soy milk.

  After returning, give the cow an injection first, and then feed the edible oil and raw soybean milk. The oil and soybean milk need to be fed into the cow's stomach at intervals.

   It took two hours of continuous work to get it done.

  The two wives can't help much, they just look after Ruirui, give the little guy something to play with, and go out to buy something to eat.

   Coaxed the stinky boy so happy that he couldn't think of leaving.

Yelling for auntie to kiss, auntie to hug, his voice filled the yard, noisy, making Chen Ling keep staring at him, but he just grinned heartlessly at Chen Ling. laugh.

   After nearly an hour, the symptoms of the two cattle finally eased, and they wanted to eat grass on their own initiative.

   I didn’t eat for two days, only drank water, and I was already hungry.

   Indeed, as long as they are willing to eat, it proves that their symptoms of salt poisoning are almost healed.

  After this incident, Chen Ling's reputation as a veterinarian became even louder in the county.

  Although there are not many benefits on the surface, but with this name, his cats, dogs and livestock are better raised than other families, and they sell for more money than other families, so others will not think there is anything wrong.

   will only regard it as his ability.

  …

   "Huh? My godfather and godmother want to stay here? What do they think?"

   "Well, did you say you want to live in seclusion in the countryside? If you want to live in the mountains, you didn't let them go. In the afternoon, you followed our village party secretary to pick a place."

  After treating the scalpers, it happened to be the time when elementary school was about to end.

  Chen Ling took his son to the school gate and waited for the little girl to leave school.

   Qin Qiumei packed up the house and came to wait with their father and son. When they heard Chen Ling talk about Zhao Dahai's family, they said they would go and have a look in the next two days.

   "By the way, I forgot to ask you, I heard that something happened in your village and many people were arrested?"

   "Well, it's about those ungrateful guys who went to the mountains to toss... Or else, the mountains are in a mess recently, and I don't want Uncle Zhao and the others to build houses in the mountains."

  Chen Ling briefly explained what happened in the village, which caused the two women to exclaim in surprise. They didn't expect such a dangerous thing to happen in their village.

  Qin Qiumei's mood was even more complicated: "It turned out that such a big thing happened, the explosives were all on, no wonder Chunyuan was arrested, and Dongmei didn't ask me to find someone to intercede."

  Before I knew it, there were many parents and small vendors who were picking up their babies from school, and they were listening very seriously.

   From time to time, he also exclaimed twice.

  Chen Ling realized that someone else was listening, and then looked around, blushing suddenly, thinking: It's over, I'm careless, this thing got out from me.

   I didn't expect that I would have the day of being a mother-in-law.

  (end of this chapter)