Lin Feng (pseudonym) is the biggest official in our village, a cadre who has been transferred from the military to a cadre, who works vigorously and has retired 8 years ago.
Lin Feng grew up with many brothers and sisters, and he was also very poor, and the problem of food and clothing was difficult to solve. When Lin Feng reached the age of 18, his father sent him to the army, mainly so that he could eat enough.
In 2013, Lin Feng gloriously retired from his post and stayed at home for a year, feeling that life was very boring. Or not at all adapted to life after retirement, always want to find something to do.
After Lin Feng retired, he returned to live in our village and found that the mountain famine in our village had been idle there. Not only is there no one to contract the mountain wasteland, but the village also has to hire people to watch.
We are here in the mountains, mountains and mountains, but there are very few trees on the mountain, and there are many stones and weeds.
After much consideration, Lin Feng decided to wrap up hundreds of acres of mountain waste and engage in breeding on the mountain.
Lin Feng believes that hundreds of acres of weeds on the mountain can raise sheep, which not only makes full use of the weeds in the mountain wilderness, but also has less investment and very good benefits.
In fact, from the consciousness of ordinary people, sheep eat grass. That is to say, after the sheep are bought, they are put on the mountain to graze, saving trouble and effort. In fact, it is not the case, raising sheep also requires a certain amount of technology, not as simple as imagined.
In order to contract the mountain famine for a long time and prevent the dispute between the contracted mountain wastes after the start of the aquaculture project, Lin Feng gave the village a contract fee of 10,000 yuan per year and signed a contract with a period of 20 years.
In this way, the village is very happy, after all, there is no need to spend money to hire people to see the mountain famine, and the village still has a part of the income. Of course, this is a two-pronged thing, so why not? Therefore, the village collective signed a contract with Lin Feng for mountain wilderness.
Lin Feng took over the hundreds of acres of mountain wilderness in the village, and then hired people to block the surrounding of the mountain wasteland with barbed wire, so that it could be grazed inside, and the sheep would not be specially guarded, or the sheep would not be lost. This fee alone cost more than 20,000 yuan.
Lin Feng also purchased 100 sheep from foreign farms, all of which are large and excellent Boer goat breeds. At that time, the price of this Boer goat was very high, the price of ewes was as high as 3,000 yuan / piece, and the lamb also reached 600 yuan / piece.
Among the 100 white goats purchased, 10 can be bred female goats, two adult rams, and the rest are small lambs, which cost a total of more than 100,000 yuan. Buying more lambs is to reduce investment costs.
Lin Feng found someone to repair the mountain house on the mountain, and then he and his wife moved into the house. In this way, Lin Feng officially became a sheep herder and opened the dream of making a fortune in breeding.
However, the weather is unpredictable. The lambs lin feng bought would die every 3 to 5, sometimes up to three a day. In the end, nearly half of the sheep in the family died, which frightened Lin Feng.
In such a situation, his wife and children began to support Lin Feng's raising of sheep, always advising him to give up quickly, "it is not too late to make up for the dead sheep", do not not hit the south wall and do not turn back.
However, Lin Feng just did not admit defeat, but his wife returned to the city to live with his children, and only the remaining 50 sheep were left in the mountain to take care of.
Lin Feng looked at some of the sheep diseases and diseases he had purchased, and his heart was also very anxious, and he was worried about it every day. In the end, Lin Feng had no choice but to find the veterinarian at the town's veterinary station and analyze what the reason was.
The veterinarian concluded that the lambs were transported from the farm and fed with feed, and the lambs began to eat the grass on the mountain, and for a while the stomach was not adapted. In particular, there is more dew on the grass in the morning and evening, which is more uncomfortable for the stomach of the lamb, and there are many diarrhea.
The veterinarian advised Lin Feng: feed these lambs a part of the feed first, and slowly let the lambs adapt to eating grass.
Lin Feng knew that raising sheep is not so simple, it requires certain sheep raising technology, as well as some sheep prevention knowledge.
In this way, Lin Feng's economic investment is large, and he needs to buy a part of the feed. The 200,000 yuan he had accumulated had all been invested, which saddened him.
On the one hand, his family did not support his support, and on the other hand, he had no money in his hands. After all, Lin Feng had only just started farming, and if he gave up now, his face would be lost. Not to mention that more than 200,000 yuan has been invested, and if you don't stick to it, you will be adrift.
Lin Feng got up early and took care of the sheep in the dark, and the remaining sheep did not dare to scatter in the mountains. Keep all the sheep in captivity and feed them by cutting their own grass, so that the sheep can slowly adapt to the wild ecological life.
Under the guidance of veterinary personnel and under the careful care of Lin Feng, more than 50 sheep slowly adapted to the free-range grazing mode, and the sheep slowly grew fat, which made Lin Feng very happy.
Since there are fewer trees on the barren mountain, in the summer the sheep have no place to rest on the mountain. Especially in times of drought, the grass on the mountain grows very little, and water has become a big problem. Because of the bare mountain, the moisture is not sufficient.
Lin Feng, a retired cadre in a higher position in the county, used his connections to find the Forestry Bureau, which provided free masson pine and black pine saplings that sheep do not eat. In order to prevent sheep from trampling the saplings to death, the seedlings bought are higher than 1.5 meters.
The Forestry Bureau also signed a contract with Lin Feng to ensure that the survival rate of the saplings reaches more than 95%, and it is built as a public welfare forest, and a subsidy of 1600 yuan per mu is given. These funds can be described as a charcoal in the snow, alleviating the difficulty of Lin Feng's lack of funds. Lin Feng found someone to plant the saplings, and each sapling was fixed to prevent being killed by the sheep.
Lin Feng also applied to build a pond dam at the bottom of the mountain, which raised some fish, and the dam was built to keep the saplings watered and ensure that the sheep could drink clean water.
Perhaps a retired cadre, who has been working for decades, raises sheep and suffers so much at once, it is indeed a bit unbearable. But he had the strength not to accept defeat, and he silently held on to the mountain.
Lin Feng was alone in the mountains raising sheep, eating and sleeping in the wind, and he was also very lonely. Eating is more difficult, sometimes just pancakes rolled with pickles and green onions. Fortunately, he still has a pension every month, which subsidizes his farming losses.
Later, the sheep have adapted to the environment on the mountain, and raising sheep is more convenient. Lin Feng scattered the sheep on the mountain, only every evening, ringing the family gong, let the sheep on the mountain come down to feed a little feed. This is mainly to ensure that the sheep have sufficient nutrition.
Three years later, Lin Feng's sheep scale is as many as 600, it can be said that he has successfully raised sheep, but the investment is also very large. Moreover, Lin Feng's sheep raising technology is becoming more and more mature, and some small problems of sheep can almost be seen, and it can treat it by itself.
Boer goat is a large excellent breed of sheep, the reproductive ability is also relatively strong, each litter of sheep can breed 2 to 3 cubs. If it is well managed, a sheep can breed two litters a year, and the management is not particularly good, and it can also breed a litter of sheep a year.
Lin Feng's sheep breeding scale is getting bigger and bigger, but the price of sheep is constantly falling. Although the price of Boer goats is higher than that of ordinary sheep, it is not particularly high, after all, the scale of breeding in China is constantly increasing.
2017 is the lowest time for sheep prices, the average price of sheep per kilogram is 6 to 7 yuan, and the price of Boer goats is only 7.5 yuan a catty. This can be said to be the lowest sheep price in those years, and many sheep farmers have already lost money.
The price of sheep was very cheap, and Lin Feng didn't care about his sheep. Sometimes the sheep are placed on the mountain for a week or two, no longer asked, no longer fed, by the sheep to fend for themselves, after all, the number of sheep harvesters is relatively small.
In October 2018, the African swine fever virus outbreak broke out across the country, the price of live pigs fell sharply, and the scale of pig breeding also shrank rapidly.
At that time, although the price of pork fell to four or five yuan a catty, the people did not dare to eat pork and turned to the consumption of beef and mutton. In this way, the price of sheep ushered in a good market.
Entering 2019, the price of sheep has soared, the market is getting better and better every day, and the price is rising day by day. The price of fat sheep has reached 18 yuan a catty, and the price of lambs is as high as 35 yuan a catty.
This stimulated Lin Feng's enthusiasm for raising sheep, and he also had the mature technology of raising sheep. The price of sheep is very expensive, and Lin Feng also raises sheep as children, drinking sheep with clean water every day, and buying some corn to feed.
Boer goat is a large-sized sheep, and the profit per sheep is as high as 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. In 2019 and 2020, Lin Feng can earn nearly one million yuan a year, and the scale of breeding has been expanded to 2,000 stocks.
Even this year, the price of sheep is still good, although the price of each catty has dropped by seven or eight yuan, but the price of Boer goats is higher than that of other sheep, because the meat yield is relatively high.
Lin Feng's sheep are free-range on the mountain, feeding very little feed, the meat quality is relatively better, and the price is a little higher. At present, the price of sheep is 11 to 12 yuan / catty, or a very profitable price.
Now the mountain contracted by Lin Feng is lined with trees, surrounded by green water, and the wind blows grass low to show cattle and sheep. Lin Feng has become the largest sheep farmer in our local area, how did he do it?
1. Persistence is the main way to successful breeding. Even when the price of sheep is the lowest, Lin Feng always insists on raising sheep. Even if Lin Feng did not know anything about sheep raising, he always insisted on learning the techniques of sheep raising and epidemic prevention knowledge.
2, hard-working, hard work, no complaints, but also the secret of his success. Lin Feng stayed alone in the mountains for several years, and he fed the sheep by his own labor, and worked hard and tirelessly, never complaining about anyone or giving up. This may have something to do with his experience as a soldier.
3. Lin Feng has completed the greening of the mountain and become a national public welfare forest, and truly achieved the goal of raising sheep under the forest. Now Linfeng Mountain is lined with trees, and the trees can contain abundant water and reduce soil erosion. In this way, the grass under the tree can grow strongly, and the trees on the mountain can also shelter the sheep from the wind and rain.
4. Lin Feng has opened a new project, that is, the adoption of sheep breeding project. That is, some people in the city can buy a lamb from him and then put it in Lin Feng's place for him to manage and feed. When the sheep are fed, it is the owner of the claim, but the cost is 100 yuan per month. After the sheep are raised, the owner can take the sheep home, and in normal times, the owner can also go to watch, and each adopted sheep has made a specific logo.
5. For two days every weekend, Lin Feng hires slaughterers to kill sheep, and then sells the lamb to people in the city who come to cut the lamb. This increases the added value of the sheep and promotes its own breeding projects. Many people in the city drive to Lin Feng's farm to buy mutton, and generally sell 10 to 20 pieces of lamb every weekend.
6. Lin Feng expanded the scale of breeding, contracted a large area of mountain famine in the outer village, and hired the elderly in the village to take care of the farm. This not only reduced their labor intensity, but also increased the income of some elderly people in the village.
7. Lin Feng planted 100 acres of pasture under the mountain corner, mainly to ensure that the sheep can have sufficient food. This not only reduces the amount of feed used, but also increases the nutritional content of the sheep. After all, the nutrient content of pasture grass is higher than that of weeds on the mountain, which can also save breeding costs.
Conclusion: Everyone must have tenacity in doing anything, must persist, must bear hardships and stand hard work, and cannot "fish for three days and dry nets for two days", otherwise nothing will be achieved. Especially in the aquaculture industry, first of all, we must understand the breeding technology, and secondly, we must be willing to endure hardships and bear the risk of breeding investment. #三农高质量创作大赛 #