bookandnovel Chapter 462 Locusts are a good thing!
Chapter 462 Locusts are a good thing!
Every year in the past, when the people saw these locust hoppers, they all panicked.
Because the more locust hoppers appear, the more likely there will be a locust plague that year.
It also means that they may not have harvested grains in the past, or even starve to death.
Now it's the exact opposite.
Looking at the many locust hoppers in the grass, the smile on the old farmer's face became brighter and brighter.
While laughing, he said: "Hahaha, this batch of chickens and ducks, but I saved the feeding!"
"Huhuhu, hurry up, hurry up, you are full, and the plague of locusts will be gone.
The old farmer danced and drove the chickens and ducks away.
Huang Chengcheng's large and half-large chickens and ducks are like half of the legion covering the small half of the hillside.
This old farmer is a big farmer in the nearby village.
The size of the chickens and ducks in the family is added together, and there are a total of 1,800 chickens.
He also got a lot of money because of the policy of "the more you raise, the more you make up".
But he didn't get much benefit from 813 before that.
After all, with such a large number of poultry, the consumption of feeding alone is not a small number.
And in this season, the larvae of locusts emerge from the ground.
This is the best ration for poultry!
Moreover, locusts exist for a long time and will not disappear in a short time.
Enough support to ripen his batch of chickens and ducks.
"..."
"Quack quack..."
The chickens and ducks roamed the hillside, their eyes and heads constantly turning.
Special vision allows them to clearly distinguish the location of "food" in the grass.
Then he stretched his neck suddenly, put it in his mouth, swallowed it whole, and then continued to look for the next target.
Because the newly hatched locust hoppers are smaller in size.
A half-sized chicken and duck can eat hundreds of such locust pupae a day.
Adult chickens and ducks can eat thousands of chickens a day!
The old farmer's army of chickens and ducks keeps advancing (bhfa), and wherever the yellow-orange chicken-duck army passes, the locust worms disappear.
In almost a morning's effort, the entire hillside was thoroughly cleaned up.
Sitting in Shantou Township, the old farmer looked at the chickens and ducks combing their feathers and basking in the sun to digest their food, with a gratified smile on his face.
This hillside was the first he discovered.
Looking at the size, I can feed these chickens and ducks for a day or two at least.
But after that, he had to look elsewhere.
There are more chickens and ducks now.
These locusts, which they avoided in previous years, have now become treasures.
All poultry farmers are vying for territory.
Some even fought for it.
The eggs laid by chickens and ducks that eat locusts have all been seen.
The egg yolks were so yellow and red they were very fragrant!
The selling price is also high.
And the sightings hatched chicks fed on locusts were stronger and healthier than those fed on grains.
The quality of the next generation of breeders is better, and naturally they, the farmers who raise chickens and ducks, will benefit more.
The most important thing is that this batch of breeders will eat locusts, which will save them a lot of feeding expenses.
I just don't know how much it can do.
In today's Daqin, there are not a few farmers who have the same idea as the old farmers.
In all counties and counties where locusts were flooded, a large number of chickens and ducks could be seen in the fields outside the villages preying on the locusts.
"Qi, the eldest son, now all over the Qin Dynasty, the drought has been alleviated. 55
"The locust plague has also been suppressed!
Fusu nodded slightly, with a relieved smile on his face.
He was under a lot of pressure during this time.
His father and teacher were not in Xianyang. While he was alone in managing government affairs, he had to face the two major problems of drought and locust plague.
Although Su Yu has already prepared the ground.
But the effect has never been known.
To say there is no pressure is a lie.
Now that he finally sees the situation and gets his will, Fusu is also more confident.
He looked at the paper memorial in hand.
According to the county newspapers, the amount of chickens and ducks raised in farmers' homes.
More than 30 counties and counties participated in the statistics, and a total of more than 80 million chickens and ducks were raised.
And put all of them into the hillside and wild fields, and control the plague of locusts by letting chickens and ducks eat according to the method instructed by the immortals.
Fusu closed the memorial, his eyes lit up.
More than 80 million chickens and ducks are all thrown into the hillside field.
It is calculated on the basis that each chicken and duck eats an average of 600 locust flies per day.
It is conceivable how many locusts will be eliminated by these chickens and ducks in these few months of maturity.
Of course, all the locusts in Daqin will definitely not be wiped out like this.
But Fusu is not worried about this.
Because in addition to using chickens and ducks to hunt, Su Yu also left other methods...
"To collect locust worms and locusts, six jins per die, four jins per live! 35
In the villages all over Daqin, there was an inexplicable cry of hawking at an unknown time.
"Hey? Now there are all kinds of things, and there are people who buy locusts?"
"Who says it's not, and they don't know what they do with these grasshoppers that eat the bankers.
"I came back from the city two days ago and saw a lot of people selling fried and roasted locusts on the street.
"I know this! It seems to say that this worm can also cure some diseases such as wind.
"Eat bugs? Is this thing edible?"
"It is said that the method passed down by the immortals, or let's go back and try it."
"Why bother with so much? Let the children in the family hurry up and catch them, and who doesn't earn this free money and sleep foolishly. 99
"Yes, yes, hurry up, or else the chickens and ducks in the village will be eaten up."