"Mainly you come late, if you come in the morning, there is a yard full of donkeys, looking beautiful." It was only after some noon that it was pulled away and sold 38 heads. No, I can't move to feed, and I am always afraid of people when I eat. There are still a few left, wait for the end of the year, and then buy some with feeding, then you say, make it this, the middle bar must be fed..."
In Dawangmiao Village, Tantou Town, Luanchuan County, Henan Province, Uncle Li looked at the little donkey that was grazing and said to the author with some regret.
Uncle Li's donkey farm is a poverty alleviation project in the village in 2017, which was funded by the village committee at that time, hiring farmers in the village to feed, and in December last year, the external bidding contract was contracted, and Uncle Li's son took over.
"I've been feeding cattle for a few years before, and when I really started feeding, I realized that this donkey is different from a cow, the feeding method is different, and the food is different." Ejiao you have heard of it, now boiling ejiao donkey skins, basically imported from Africa, Afghanistan and those places, why? The temperature on our side can't reach, the donkey grows slowly, and if it grows slowly, it is not good to make money. Raising cattle, you can sell in two or three years, a thousand pounds, buy one or two thousand. If the donkey is not hit, it will take four or five years to grow 4 or 500 pounds, which is too slow. ”
The uncle told the author that the donkeys in the farm were sold to them at the market price, and the site was rented every year. There are not many local donkey breeding professional households, the price of adult donkeys is much more expensive than cattle, considering that the son has been working outside for a long time, the family is difficult to reunite, Uncle Li is very supportive of his son to come back to raise donkeys, but he did not expect to go in and out for a year, and the son had no choice but to go out to work to earn money, and tied him to this hilltop farm alone.
"Not beautiful, live in the tin shed, in the summer like a steamer cage, go in a circle is a sweat, in the winter this mountain top is windy, urinary pots can be frozen into ice lumps." Call them young people, and they can't stand this foreign sin..."
With the large number of laborers in the mountains, almost no one in Tantou Town grows wheat, but only grows one season of corn, and the fodder for feeding donkeys needs to be bought elsewhere.
"Aren't there a lot of corn stalks here, why don't you pull them back and feed them?" The author asked.
"No, then you don't know, donkeys like to eat hot things, wheat straw, grain stalks and the like, corn stalks are not GOOD, eating and diarrhea, not only not long but also lose fat." The key is that we don't even have wheat straw here, the little bit of wheat straw left in the shed, or pulled back from Anhui last year, a bundle of 80 pieces, to come is a big car, 30 tons, less people do not send. I heard that Yichuan also has wheat straw, that did not make a good bag, it is not easy to get back, can only pay a high price to buy people to bundle up. ”
Behind the shed is a dozen acres of after-dinner activity venues, and the donkeys who have eaten enough are shouting with joy, sneaking out and spreading joy in the large venue.
"This year the weather is not good, it is raining. Last year, when I came to see it, the weather was hot, and people just wanted to drill into the shade under the trees, and this group of donkeys was sprinkling joy under the red gang sun, squatting, rolling, and playing beautiful. I asked the technician, he said that this is just like people, cloudy, tidey, people still feel uncomfortable, this thing likes to dry, but also feels not beautiful. If it rains for a week in a row, they won't even want to eat. ”
The good news this year is that someone near the village has planted 100 acres of millet, and the crushed green grain stalks are exactly the food that the donkeys like, and it does not cost money to pull them back. But Uncle Li was worried again, or because of the weather, if it could last for a week of sunny weather, he could spread the grain poles in the ground and dry them back. In recent days, there has been rain, pulled back afraid of covering, left in the field for fear of rotting...
The uncle thought of a way to first pull back a part, spread under the sheds, and then use a high-power fan to blow, and then stir it again every day, so that the surface of the barn can lose moisture as quickly as possible, and strive to put it for a longer time.
"Farming in this industry, you don't have to think about earning compensation, no matter what you earn, you have to do it." Fortunately, this thing is not the same as raising pigs, the first two years of pig breeding said to get rich, a circle of pigs can earn a million, recently heard that many of the houses and cars have been sold. Raising donkeys is slightly better, the market fluctuations are not so large, you can't earn the boss money, and you can't lose anywhere, that is, you can earn a contribution. ”
Another cart of bargs pulled back, and the donkeys seemed to smell their favorite and cried out. Uncle Li picked up a large bundle of grain poles, sent it over, and said, "Eat, take advantage of the freshness, eat enough." When there is no grass, you will have to endure hunger. ”
"There are no donkeys on our side, and there are fewer families who raise them, so they can't form a scale." I heard people say that the dragon meat in the sky, the donkey meat on the ground, the donkey meat is very good to eat, the donkey can not be fattened with feed like cattle and pigs, it is really naturally grown meat, and it is relatively healthy to eat. Now people don't all pay attention to health, feel that feed pork is not at ease, the prospect of raising donkeys is good. We're the first year of feeding, groping and learning, getting this stall, we have to stick to it..."
Sold 38 heads in the morning, Uncle Li roughly calculated, worthy of his own year alone in the wind and rain on the top of the mountain, in recent days, the uncle is ready to take the child to Henan Biyang, Shandong Dezhou and other places to investigate, and then buy some small donkeys back.
"The children are young, go out, you can also earn some money, at this age, the family can't go out, it's not easy to find work when you go out, do farming at home, don't get too much, one or two people can be busy." Mu Na, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year, you can't earn more, we earn less, anyway, it's your own work, you want to do it, the key is freedom..." Uncle Li said.
For the children's decision to raise donkeys, the uncle feels quite aggressive, what do you think?