Abstract: Called sheep but not sheep, is one of the animal husbandry pests, bones can replace tiger bone into medicine, 1 pound 300 yuan
Wen/Farmer is also crazy
As the old saying goes, "After the eighth year is the year", now there are about 10 days left before the New Year, and the markets in the countryside are becoming more and more lively, such as beef and mutton, which are very sought-after. Many farmers who raise cattle and sheep will deliberately kill cattle and sheep at the end of the year to sell for money, after all, the price at this time of year is the best. Speaking of sheep, there used to be a small animal like a mouse in the countryside, which was once one of the pests of agriculture and animal husbandry, and its name also had the word sheep, but it was not a sheep. In the past, no one wanted it, and now its bones can replace tiger bones into medicine, one can only sell for 20 yuan, and the bones are as high as 300 yuan and 1 pound.
For this kind of pest farmer friend is more familiar, many places call it the ground sheep, although the name has the word sheep, but it is not a sheep. It is a chordate phylum, a suborder of euthanthology, and in some places it is also called the weasel, Theron, and the scientific name is the Chinese weasel. This animal does not actually resemble a sheep but a lot like a mouse, and I think it is called a ground sheep, mainly because it is a herbivorous animal. The head of the ground sheep is large and flat, the ear shell is not developed, the eyes are very small, and the vision is very poor, so it is also known as a blind mouse. The distribution range in China is also very wide, like the central, northern and other places.
In the past, this animal was very common, and farmers saw it and gritted their teeth, and it was quick to get rid of it. Because the ground sheep is a herbivorous animal, it mainly feeds on the roots, stems and seeds of plants, so it often plagues crops, and also has the habit of burrowing to store food. Since it is called a ground sheep, it can be seen that its ability to punch holes is not weak, this small animal does not hibernate, and the speed of digging caves is very amazing.
As long as the crops that have been harmed by it will soon die, coupled with its amazing reproductive ability, it is generally late ripening to come out of the activity, so farmers hate it very much. Moreover, there are a large number of ground sheep distributed in the grassland, and they wantonly burrow holes in the ground to cause damage, which seriously affects the development of animal husbandry in the north. Because the caves they dig can easily cause fractures in animals such as cattle and sheep.
At that time, in order to get rid of it and reduce the loss of crops, farmers also thought of many ways, such as medication and traps. But now this pest has become a rare animal, the small one can only sell for 20 yuan, and its bones are sold for 300 yuan and 1 catty, because the bones of the earth sheep can replace the bones of the tiger.
Although the earth sheep is a pest, it is not useless, and its bones have high medicinal value. In the folk consensus is that the medicinal value of tiger bone is very high, but now tiger bone is explicitly prohibited from being medicated, the reason is understood by everyone. And the bones of the earth sheep can replace the tiger bones into medicine. It can be said that the whole body of the earth sheep is a treasure, its liver and gallbladder also have high medicinal value, and the fur of the ground sheep is also very useful, and is often used to make high-end leather products. It is precisely because the price of a ground sheep is not low, many people have also gone to arrest, resulting in the number of ground sheep is getting smaller and smaller, so there are farmers who have begun to professionally breed ground sheep.
This animal is still very well bred, the adaptability is very strong, the breeding is also relatively extensive, and mainly to the roots and leaves of the plant as the main ingredient, coupled with a strong reproductive ability, can be bred all year round, so the profit of the farmed sheep is still quite high. Especially in these years, the awareness of health care has increased, and it is needed in some medicinal liquors. Friends, are there still sheep in your hometown? Now the sheep in many places have been almost captured. (Image source network, infringement can be deleted)