Chapter 1591： Quantity first

In fact, Marin has always had a headache for Scotland. Scotland has high latitudes, and although the North Atlantic warm current is not particularly cold, it is not very warm. The climate here is mainly wet and cold. Only the eastern region is blocked by the mountains to the west and is not so humid.

But the problem is that there are too many mountains in Scotland, most of them are mountains. For example, the Highland County that Edward sealed to Marin has an area of ​​up to 260,000 square kilometers, but most of them are mountainous, and it is completely impossible to engage in agriculture.

Moreover, due to climatic reasons, there are only a few river valleys where cold-resistant crops such as rye and oats can be grown. The rest of the area, not to mention high mountain areas, hilly areas, can only be used to raise animals.

Therefore, in Scotland, the cattle and sheep breeding industry is actually very developed. However, although there are so many cattle and sheep in Sugla, they are very pitted. Because the local cattle and sheep breeds are not good.

Because it has just been unified with England, Scotland has not begun to introduce large-scale cattle and sheep breeds on a large scale. Therefore, the current sheep breeds in Scotland are very general. They do not produce much milk and the wool is not thin enough, so they are common varieties that do nothing.

Marin started to cultivate the Eastfries raw sheep with excellent milk production and the North Sea sheep that produce high-quality fine wool. However, the number of these sheep is not yet large, and it has not yet been rolled out in the North Sea country, let alone provided to Scotland. Too.

However, in order to improve the local sheep breeds in Scotland, Marin has ordered Scottish herders in Highland County to start consciously selecting breeds with better milk or wool production and cultivate them separately. Marin can then mix the rams of the East Friesian sheep and the North Sea sheep, and improve the corresponding milk or wool breeds respectively. Although not as good as the original East Friesian sheep or the North Sea sheep, it is at least much better than the previous breeds.

As for the cattle industry, there are a lot of cattle in Scotland, but what makes Marin depressed is that the local cattle are short and they are not suitable for farming.

In this era when there was no tractor, cattle was an important animal power for cultivated land. Therefore, Marin is now more concerned about large cattle like Simmental, which can produce meat and milk, and can also be used as a cattle cultivator.

The cattle in Scotland, although good at walking on mountain roads, are similar to Dian horses who are also good at walking on mountain roads-they are all short in stature.

Of course, this may be the choice of nature. Because, if the figure is too tall, the mountain chassis is high, and it is easy to fall unstable and fall to the mountain. But for humans, it is still a tall and strong cow, which is more useful. The dwarf cows in the Scottish highlands are a bit tasteless for people of this age. Because, the short stature of the Scottish Highland cattle is not good for service, and can only be used as beef cattle.

Speaking of beef cattle, Marin thinks about it-Angus cattle produced in Angus and Aberdeenshire in eastern Scotland, but later known as beef cattle breeds.

This beef cattle breed is delicious, grows fast, and is easy to manage. The meat is delicious and grows fast, so it ’s easy to understand. Because it is small and has no horns, it will not endanger the cowboy's life. Even if the cow is guilty, the cowboy is easier to pull back ...

Therefore, the pastures for large-scale cattle breeding like this kind of small hornless cattle. Without him, good management! Do you try to raise a group of Spanish bullfights? Every day you lose a cowboy, who can't eat it?

However, the current Angus cattle are more tasteless. Because Marin has limited human resources, it is impossible to allocate a lot of manpower to breed this calf that is not suitable for cattle farming.

And to eat meat, the price is too high. Marin bought an Eastern European cattle larger and stronger than Angus from the Crimean Khanate, as long as it costs 8 to 10 gold coins. Buying an Angus cattle in Scotland can not be regarded as a cattle, it costs more than 20 gold coins ...

Therefore, Marin is really unwilling to buy Angus cattle. Without him, the cost is high! As for Angus beef is delicious? Marin is not particularly focused on the pursuit of enjoyment, he only looks at practicality.

However, considering the future prospects of Angus cattle, Marin allowed a few hundreds of Angus cattle to be introduced in Highland County, mainly for the cultivation and improvement of beef cattle breeds.

After all, one day, after the tractor began to replace the cattle and horses to cultivate the land, the cattle's role was left to kill the meat. At that time, the advantages of Angus beef were good and easy to manage. Therefore, Marin is planning for the future.

However, the breeding speed of cattle is too slow, which makes Marin and others panic. Just like the famous Dutch Holstein cow, Marin has been cultivating for many years, and now only has more than 10,000 cows. Mainly, the fertility rate of cattle is too low ...

The Taihu pig brought back from Daming by Marin is really too fierce ...

Two years ago, when Marin came back, he only brought back 495 Taihu pigs. However, in the past two years, the number of Taihu pigs has exceeded 10,000, and the number has increased by 20 times!

If you continue to breed, in a few years, hundreds of thousands of Taihu pigs can have ...

"What's special, if the cattle and sheep were born like Taihu pigs!"

Because the Taihu pigs are too good to be born, Marin has allowed to castrate some of the Taihu pig boars and raise them as hogs. As for sows, all are still left to breed.

Although pigs and sheep are similar, they are born one or two births a year. However, every time a sheep produces one or two lambs, and Taihu pigs are a dozen or so in their lifetime, which is totally incomparable!

At this time, Marin can understand why there are so many wild boars in the later generations. As long as a few are lost, a few years later, you may be able to breed hundreds of heads for you.

Marin can be sure that if he dares to release a batch of Taihu pigs on the North American continent, a classic case of "species invasion" will be written in a history book a few years later ...

Moreover, this is more terrible than the Australian rabbit. Australian rabbits are still afraid of people. Once the pigs are wild, they can directly threaten people's safety.

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Eventually, Marin realized the danger of Taihu pigs. Therefore, he ordered that all farmers who raise Taihu pigs must ensure that Taihu pigs are in the pigsty and must not be lost. Otherwise, because of the sparse population of this age, we will also have to taste the pain of the proliferation of wild boars of later generations. The biggest problem with the spread of wild boars in the United States and America is that wild boars eat crops and vegetables and affect farmers' income.

Now Europeans raise pigs, but they are free-range. Fortunately, native European pigs have only a few births and grow slowly. If it can be born like Taihu pig, it will grow fast ...

Therefore, in order to avoid major incidents, Marin insisted that anyone who dared to raise Taihu pigs should go to jail ...

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But ~ www.novelhall.com ~ this thing reminds Marin-when improving livestock breeds, we must not forget the two hard indicators of fertility and growth rate.

This year, people's demand for quality is actually not so strong. And quantity is the core issue. Therefore, from this moment, Marin no longer pursues the improvement of a single quality, but takes into account both the reproductive ability, so as to achieve scale as soon as possible.

As for cattle, Marin also intends to give up pure breeding. For example, black and white cows, if a single breed is cultivated in this way, the ghost knows when it will be fully expanded.

Therefore, Marin intends to collect cows with good milk production performance in Europe and breed them with bulls of Dutch black and white cows. Even if you can't breed a calf like a black and white cow, it is enough if it is better than the general breed. Moreover, this speed is much faster than the breeding of a single variety ...

That is to say, from this moment, Marin changed the practice of pursuing pure quality, and began to change the development strategy of animal husbandry that "quantity first, quality second" ...

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