Chapter 51 Tenebrio molitor
On the National Day, many netizens came to the Liu Family Courtyard. Basically, these people are familiar with the website of the Liu Family Courtyard. They are usually busy working to support their families. Only during this legal holiday can they go out to rest.
Originally, this Liu family compound was incomparable to those tourist attractions, but there were too many people on the National Day trip, and almost every well-known attractions was crowded. If you go to those places at this time, it would be no longer a place to enjoy the mountains, waters and see the scenery, but it was all changed to seeing people.
The reason why I chose the Liu Family Courtyard was that I was tempted by the quiet and natural environment in the countryside and the life diary and pictures that Liu Xiaoyu kept updating on the website. In addition, the cost of going out was too high, so many tourists came to Liujia Village this time on the National Day.
It becomes a problem to live in as many people. Although there are not many guest rooms in the Liu family compound, there are not many houses in the village. Nanjing on the 11th is not cold, and you can live in a little cleanup.
No wonder the farmhouse is so popular. They are used to the stressful pace of life in the city. When they suddenly enter the quiet and leisurely pastoral countryside, the completely relaxed and extremely happy mood makes those people feel happy even when they see a chicken, let alone the farmhouse meals they used to eat. Not to mention that they are so popular that the people are drooling, and by the way, the villagers really make a fortune.
During the National Day holiday, there are many people coming and going, most of whom are with their families, and a few hikers come to play camping and bow hunting. At first, Liu Xiaoyu was surprised that he had already explained the situation in the mountain on the website, and there were no such things as camping and bow hunting in the back mountain. Later, I found out that these people were not camping or bow hunting, but loneliness (don't take a photo, this sentence is circulating on the Internet, just borrowing it) and mood.
Although most people came for the Liu family compound, the ability to pick up customers is really limited. With Liu Xiaoyu's recommendation, the farmers in Liu family village have gained some benefits and gained some benefits. It is really a joy.
As these people left, the number of posts and popularity on the courtyard website increased. People who have been to Liujia Village posted pictures on it, some praised, some made suggestions, and some made suggestions. In general, it was a lot of praise. Looking at the popularity, Liu Xiaoyu thought that the orchards and fruit forests in the courtyard had grown. At that time, hey... it would be hard not to be popular.
"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle."
Although this is a bit old, it is also very important for rural areas after autumn. The newspaper has published many areas where fires are caused when burning orange poles, causing heavy losses.
After the National Day, Liu Xiaoyu's courtyard has added two new members in the past few days, a pair of yellow cattle and a group of white geese, all of which he bought from the town. He bought the geese because he wanted to order whole goose eggs to eat, but he didn't buy much, far less than the number of chickens and ducks raised in the courtyard.
As for the cows I bought, it was Liu Xiaoyu on a whim. Thinking about the fact that there were pigs and sheep at home, it was just this cow. I happened to meet someone selling cows in the town and bought a male and a female. The two cows were still young. Besides, Liu Xiaoyu had no fields for them to plow, so he just raised them for food. He felt that the cows he raised should taste better.
Now, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cows and sheep are all fully fed. Fortunately, they are mostly herbivorous animals, with grass and space water all over the mountains and fields, so it will not increase much cost when raising them.
After planting winter wheat, it was time for the village to slack farming, and every household in the village was idle. The crowds of tourists on the National Day holiday made the villagers very excited, thinking that the Liu family compound might really be different from before and would become popular, so after this time, more people came to the courtyard to chat.
Seeing that the farming season was going to be idle until after the Chinese New Year, and it would take some time for the Chinese New Year. Seeing that the villagers were idle and fine, Liu Xiaoyu felt that it would be better to find something for them to do.
Speaking of the New Year, people in the city now have no New Year atmosphere. Apart from the increasingly bad Spring Festival gala and the sound of firecrackers that have become noise, they can hardly find the atmosphere that used to be during the New Year.
When Liu Xiaoyu was chatting with the villagers, he learned that there are some specialties in celebrating the New Year in this village. It is not only about eating, drinking, but also about posting couplets, window flowers and other customs. The village even holds its own Spring Festival Gala. Every household will show their own programs, which is much more lively than the city.
After getting a table of dishes, Liu Xiaoyu called the village chief and the two older men in the village to come for dinner. Needless to say, the village chief was the oldest in the village, and to some extent, the prestige of the village was greater than that of the village chief. During the meal, Liu Xiaoyu suggested that he wanted to take advantage of the slack farming time to ask the people in the village to help get something.
Liu Xiaoyu proposed two solutions. One is to let the villagers raise bamboo rats. Liu Xiaoyu will teach them one by one, and he will underwrite all the bamboo rats produced. In fact, Liu Xiaoyu knew that once the bamboo rat market was discovered by everyone, he would not need to underwrite them at all. The people in the village could have a place to sell them. However, in order to dispel the villagers' concerns, Liu Xiaoyu still told the underwriting.
Another plan is Liu Xiaoyu's new plan. He is planning to raise insects. Yes, it is to raise insects, but it is not a pet insect, and it is not a messy insect. He is planning to raise mealworms.
People may be unfamiliar with mealworms, but if you talk about their scientific name, everyone should be familiar with them: mealworms. That's right, when you go to the pet market, you see those mealworms that shop owners use to feed birds and pets.
Raising mealworms is not a whim by Liu Xiaoyu, but it has been thought about by him. According to data, dry mealworms contain 30% fat and more than 50% protein. In addition, it also contains constant elements such as phosphorus, potassium, iron, sodium, aluminum and a variety of trace elements. Because dried mealworm larvae contain about 40% protein, pupae contain 57% and adults contain 60% (according to the "Traditional Medicine Science and Technology News"). It is known as the "treasure of protein feed" and is definitely one of the best feed for raising livestock.
When raising mealworms, it does not occupy too much place, and there will be no large breeding cost. It only requires a room to avoid the sun, some wooden breeding boxes, some screens with different pore sizes, and now add rice bran and wheat bran with some green drinks. Like bamboo rats, you don’t need to feed water, so it is very convenient to breed.
However, the difference from bamboo rat is that the mealworm Liu Xiaoyu is still in the theoretical stage. Although the breeding method is not difficult, Liu Xiaoyu has not actually operated it, so this plan is only used as a backup, and he is going to get up first.
Liu Xiaoyu staggered and said the suggestion that the Eleventh Incident had not cooled down. The village chief and the two old men were very supportive. Of course, it was more because of Liu Xiaoyu's underwriting.
I agreed with the village chief and the others that one pair of people who are willing to raise bamboo rats will be raised first. Rats are not worth buying, and they will be deducted from the subsequent purchase payment. Anyway, this thing breeds quickly. If there are few people in the village who are willing to raise bamboo rats, two pairs can be raised in one family.
The mealworms were first raised by Liu Xiaoyu, and they were promoted throughout the village after the conditions were ripe. After some communication, the matter was decided by the four people.
Afterwards, there were 120 households in the village, and nearly 40 households were willing to breed, accounting for one-third of the total households in the village. As soon as the number came out, Liu Xiaoyu felt a little cold-sweat. One pair of households, forty households were forty pairs and eighty ones. Fortunately, there were still many in the mountains behind this thing, and it really didn't work. There were still room for this kind of rat, otherwise it wouldn't be able to provide it.
After hearing the notice from the village, Liu Fugui came again. He came this time not to blame Liu Xiaoyu for publishing the bamboo rats. Later he also learned that relying solely on these people in the village to raise them was really dissatisfied with the gap in the market. Not to mention that forty households and four hundred households were not enough to divide the market across the country.
This time he came to hear that Liu Xiaoyu was preparing to raise mealworms, so he came here to find out the detailed situation. Liu Xiaoyu had to admire Liu Fugui's sense of wealth and told the other party that the breeding of mealworms is still in the theoretical stage and needs to be practiced before it can be popularized.
Liu Fugui was very adventurous and proposed to practice with Liu Xiaoyu. After thinking about it for a moment, Liu Xiaoyu planned to be short of the plan and the two were the leader, which was also a good thing, so he agreed to Liu Fugui's request.
Everything seems simple and easy to use with the Internet. The insect eggs were packed and sent by the ems. As well as some breeding and astronomy were also sent, a lot of rice bran and wheat bran were also prepared. In addition to feeding mealworms, these are also good feed for feeding livestock.
Chapter completed!