312 Wilderness
For an original livestock breeding system, it is absolutely undesirable to intensive breeding plants similar to those of later generations. Without antibiotics and vaccines, let’s gather the second brothers together, so let’s wait to get rid of their hair together.
Therefore, the breeding system of the time travelers was scattered from the beginning.
On the vast Tainan Plain, Huoxiong has set up many breeding sites. These small strongholds are very simple, with very few employees and livestock. Generally speaking, a middle-aged and elderly couple is a standard match. A farm with four employees like Qiqiao is already considered a big family.
Simplicity is necessary: every once in a while, the breeding site needs to be relocated, and the original enclosures are usually demolished or burned.
In order to avoid cross-infection as much as possible, the breeding sites are also single: pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks must not be mixed. On this basis, Huo Xiong also stipulated the scope of livestock activities, drinking water rivers and feed sources for each base.
This is a simple overall defense plan: Once a problem occurs at a certain point, the manager can quickly determine the source of the disease through cross-comparison.
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Today is no exception. After Huo Xiong came to Qiqiao, he had already figured out the sudden swine fever in his mind through inspection records and dissection of the corpse.
Swine fever is not influenza, and this virus cannot be transmitted in the air. In other words, swine fever must be transmitted through direct contact or intermediate hosts.
Considering that the other pigs fed the same batch of feed are still alive, the one who was eliminated by Huo Xiong first was the infection of sludge.
For domestic animals, slurry is the main channel for spreading bacteria. The swine fever virus can lurk for about 20 days at room temperature, and one of the main channels of infection of this virus is kitchen garbage.
Most of the various livestock bacteria that were popular all over the world in later generations were involved in slurry. Europeans made the remaining meat and oil in the kitchen into feed to vegetarian cattle, and then they developed mad cow disease.
After ordinary slurry is transported between pig farms, swine fever began to spread. By the 21st century, the EU had issued a law prohibiting feeding of domestic animals. However, because the country of rabbits is too thin, it is impossible to ban slurry overnight. Therefore, African swine fever, similar to classic swine fever, was popular and bloomed everywhere.
The 17th century time travel country does not have the ability to ban water sucking.
The farmland that has been crazily reclaimed in Tainan, including rice, potatoes and sweet potatoes, is the key task to ensure national food security... The travelers need to feed the people with a geometric increase in numbers under their command, which is an overwhelming political task.
On this basis, corn and oats produced in a small amount of feed fields will be fed to "high-end livestock": cattle and horses.
Therefore, "low-end livestock" like the second senior brother can only be used to deal with "swallow pig grass".
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After checking the slurry and feed, Huo Xiong dissected the skin of several dead pigs, and found that their hygiene conditions were well taken care of, and there was no intermediate host of swine fever on the skin, ticks.
Those people in later generations tirelessly pursued the so-called "natural free stocking", and "pure ecology" is actually funny.
Every day I go to drink the so-called "natural mountain spring water" and finally the brain-dead person whose internal organs are covered with parasites under X-ray will not talk about him.
In terms of domestic animals alone, "natural free-range" is also the dirtiest: domestic animals search for food in the grass and eat the feces, eggs, and hair tissue of various wild animals into their mouths. In addition, tick parasites that spread various plagues, encephalitis, bacteria, blood diseases, and mosquitoes and flies that are the source of viruses are also waiting in the "natural environment" at any time.
The so-called free-range livestock, when they return from the wild at night, they don’t know how many bacteria and parasites are infected inside and outside the body.
The only pork that can meet the standard of "cleanness" in human history is precisely the so-called "injection feed pig" that people despise in regular farms - at least after this pork is cut, there will be no white pork tapeworm eggs between the fat.
The last item Huoxiong inspected was infectious agents such as straw mats.
The result was the same as he predicted: these pigs have not been transported across regions in the past two months, so they have not been exposed to intermediate contagious agents such as straw mats nearby.
Well, after all the reasons were ruled out, the source of swine fever is coming out now - Huo Xiong once again summoned four pig farm employees and began to interrogate in detail.
Not long after, the truth came out: the youngest employee said hesitantly that his pig seemed to be "rigged" by a mountain pig while grazing a few days ago.
Huo Xiong rolled his eyes while showing an expression of "I knew it would have been like this if I had known it would have been."
...Wild boars are an important source of the spread of the plague. In fact, the earliest source of African swine fever that was rampant in later generations can be traced back to the wild porcupines in Kenya in 1921.
"How do you carry the regulations? Why don't you report them if you are ridden by a wild boar??" Huo Xiong, who was so angry that he was so angry that he beat several idiots in the pig farm to the point of running away with his head...
After the fight, Huo Xiong panted and glared at the only wife of Shangen who had not been beaten: "Hurry and send it to the cafeteria, what are you waiting for?"
So several disappeared goods rushed out again, and rushed to the canteen in Qiqiao's family area.
The warm Tainan Plain, even in December, even during the Little Ice River, the temperature is not lower than 15 degrees. Therefore, dead pigs must be sent to the cafeteria as soon as possible, just in time for supper.
Watching the figures of several pigherds leaving in a hurry, Huo Xiong couldn't help but sigh deeply: The overall cultural level of animal husbandry practitioners is too low, which is the most fundamental reason for the frequent accidents of all kinds.
Many illiterate breeders recite regulations and stutter. The casual living habits of agricultural society make them lack the due respect for various regulations.
"It seems that I can't tolerate it anymore." Huo Xiong thought fiercely: "Organize intensive vocational training classes, everyone passes the test, forcefully eliminate them, and those who fail the qualifications will go to open up the land!"
After deciding on the next reform plan, Huo Xiong came to his beloved Harley, took out his cell phone to check it out, and there were two boxes of signals, so he called out the Chikan District Government's phone number and called.
The district government attached great importance to Huo Xiong's call after receiving a call from Huo Xiong - they attached great importance to all calls about food.
After the two sides said a few words on the phone, the district government hung up the phone. Huo Xiong got on the motorcycle and rushed to the Qiqiao Canteen.
There are three canteens in the family area on Qiqiao. Huo Xiong was running lightning all the way, and before the dead pigs were transported, he parked the motorcycle in front of the smallest canteen.
After entering the door, he went straight to the private room - each canteen has a private room for travelers. After sitting down, smoking half a cigarette, drinking a beer, a chubby man in a casual suit, 30 years old, walked in.
This person is named Shao Qiang, from Shaanxi. Before traveling through time, he was a young clerk in charge of writing articles. He is now the deputy district mayor of Chikan.
Seeing Shao Qiang enter the door, Huo Xiong quickly poured him a glass of beer: "London Mayor Shao is not slow, he is a role model for civil servants!"
Shao Qiang nodded with a smile, then pulled out a Furong King whom Huo Xiong placed on the table and lit: "Now the food problem is the high-voltage line. I'm almost in a panic here. You'll get it as soon as you call me."
Speaking of this, Shao Qiang vomited a mouthful of blue smoke: "Why, I heard that there is swine fever again?"
"Yes." Huo Xiong sighed: "I was infected by a wild boar and died of four in one breath. You can eat braised pork later."
"I don't eat plague pork." When Shao Qiang heard this, a disgusting expression suddenly appeared on his fat face.
"Tsk..." Huo Xiong looked contemptuous: "Then have you eaten the braised meat from the vegetable market before traveling through time?"
"I eat this often, what's wrong?" Shao Qiang was puzzled.
"So where do you think those bright red braised meat chickens come from?"
Seeing Shao Qiang's face gradually reacting, Huo Xiong stabbed him in the heart again: "Don't you think that the dead pigs and chickens are buried, do you?"
"Aren't it all buried on TV? Tens of thousands of heads buried in one breath!?" Shao Qiang was shocked and angry.
"Hahaha." Huo Xiong laughed: "More than 40,000 towns across the country, do you know how many chickens, ducks and pigs you want every day?"
"As you said, how can those dealers who travel around the village and alleys and ride on their bicycles full of dead chickens? How can those small meat plants that collect plague pigs and make ham sausages survive?"
"I'll go, I've eaten a lot of chickens?"
"There is only sixteen braised chicken outside the train station. If you don't collect the plague chicken, will the boss die?" In fact... Huo Xiong said this and smirked: "It's better in winter, but in summer, many dead chickens will turn green when they are put into the pot."
"Shut up, you're timid!" Shao Qiang was anxious and his hometown was full of words.
"Haha, okay, don't worry too much." Huo Xiong turned his mind and began to comfort Shao Qianglai: "The swine fever virus can only survive for 5 minutes under 6 ooc. In fact, from a biological point of view alone, no virus can survive for 5 minutes under 1 ooc."
"So braised pork is safe. Brother, I'll eat it with you later."
"I don't want to eat pork now, let's just forget about venison."
"Okay, venison is just venison, but you have to hurry up what I said."
"I know, I will attend the meeting tonight and arrange it tomorrow."
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Huo Xiong's venison meal was not for nothing.
Two days later, 50 hunting teams mobilized by Chikan District Government began a net search on the Tainan Plain.
The code name of this operation is "Jungle 1849". The purpose of the operation is to clear wild boars, weasels and voles on the Tainan plains, and takeout and burn the wasteland.
As a result, the wild second brothers were in great danger. In a few days, the range of wild boars was pushed back to the central mountain range, and a large number of weasels and field mice on the plains were also confiscated... It is still terrible for humans to be cruel.
Chapter completed!