The Rise of the European Emperor

While farming and animal husbandry go hand in hand, Marin also has to consider the problem of labor shortage. Therefore, in pastoral areas, sheep should be the main focus as much as possible. Because, raising sheep can use shepherd dogs to help, which can save manpower.

Both horses and cattle need young and strong grooms or cowboys. Large animals are difficult to serve, so if the labor force is insufficient, cattle can only be raised less. Horses are the main force for pulling carts on plowed land, so they have to be raised, there is no way.

As for raising sheep, because you can use the help of shepherd dogs, you can raise more. A shepherd dog can guard hundreds of sheep, and can also help guard against thieves at night. It can be described as a good helper for human beings.

Moreover, dogs breed fast, they can have two babies a year, and there are several in one litter, which is much more efficient than sheep. If this thing is willing to eat grass, Marin will definitely order dogs instead of sheep.

It's a pity that the fertility rate of sheep is much lower than that of dogs, and there are only one or two babies per litter, and several are rarely born. Among domestic animals, pigs are more productive. But if the pig is strong, it is more difficult to manage. There's still a lot of strength, and sometimes I can't move. If it's fun, it's completely okay. Therefore, I have only heard of sheep herding, but never of pigs herding. It is true that the second senior brother refuses to obey discipline. When you act wild, you can knock people over with one end. Therefore, only in captivity.

Later generations of Marin have seen herbivorous pigs on the agricultural channel, but, that pig, it has been specially crossed with Tibetan pigs, and its size is petite. In addition to the quality of the pork, the small size is for easy management. In the program, the farmer brought up the grass-fed pig and showed it to the reporter. Would you like to try Taihu pigs instead? One or two hundred catties will definitely not be able to lift it, even if someone else lifts it, it depends on whether the second senior brother struggles or not. Struggling up, with little strength, I couldn't control it at all.

And raising pigs in captivity is also quite labor-intensive. Feed every day, or cut pigweed. I still need food to eat, just like the uncle. And the construction of the pigsty is also very particular. It is best to have a single room for each pig, so as not to put them together to prevent everyone from tearing and biting, and losing fat due to excessive exercise. Moreover, when they get together, it is easy to destroy the group due to swine fever... and build a single room for each pig, oops, it takes manpower and material resources. That's the second thing, usually these pig uncles still need to be served, troublesome!

However, raising pigs in the Americas is not too troublesome. why? The conditions over there are good! We grow sweet potatoes, and the lees from sweet potatoes can provide pigs with inexhaustible food. As for the pigsty? The American colonies are full of primeval forests. If you cut down a few big trees, you can get countless timbers to build a pigsty. Unlike the European side, there are no trees, and expensive bricks and stones are needed to build pigsty. What? You said to build adobe houses and raise pigs using the plate-building method? Brother, I'm afraid you don't know that pigs can not only bend cabbages, but also pigsties. The mud wall might not be able to withstand the impact of the second senior brother.

Therefore, if you raise sheep, you can just build a fence, pull a barbed wire, and raise pigs... it is better to use strong materials...

Masonry is a bit expensive, but Marin's manor can afford it, but the human resources for raising pigs are a bit insufficient. On the other side of the Americas, the cost of a hammer is required! Just take an ax and saw, go into the virgin forest to log, and then build a pigsty. Even if the wood is rotten, just cut the wood and build it! That’s how it is!

Pulling away, bring the topic back. It is relatively easy to build a fence on the edge of the farmland to raise sheep. Cattle and horses are more demanding, after all, they are big and strong, and they can easily break through the fence. Therefore, it is still easy to raise sheep. Just insert some wooden stakes and pull up the grass rope to stop the sheep.

Then, drive the collie to supervise and manage, and you're done. If you want to change to a human to chase the sheep by yourself, you have to be a sprinter like God Boltsu to control it. After all, hundreds of sheep are too loose. Shepherd dogs have four legs, run fast, and are easier to manage.

However, there is also a problem. That is, although shepherd dogs are omnivorous animals, they exercise so much. If you really want to feed them only vegetarian food, it will be unbearable. The reason why the poor in ancient times were so thin was that they had no meat to eat. The reason why grassland herdsmen are fierce is that they eat a lot of meat and have strength.

Therefore, if you want the shepherd dogs to work, you have to feed them meat. But how can meat be so easy to engage in? There isn't enough meat for everyone!

"correct,

Dog food!"

Marin suddenly remembered that the dog food of the later generations seemed to be a hodgepodge of everything! It contained cheap corn flour, dried vegetable powder, and powder of animal liver and offal. This thing is a bit like a Thuringian sausage, the internal organs and offal meat are crushed and stuffed into it. It's not all meat, though, there's cornmeal and dried vegetables.

Of course, there are also some dog foods that use cheap imported fish meal. Fish meal has high nutritional value, high protein, and vitamin B group, as well as fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, and E. In addition, it is also rich in various minerals.

In later generations, fish meal was often used to make concentrated feed for pigs and chickens. Sometimes, it is also used to make dog food. Marin suspected that the swine fever in later generations might have been brought about by imported fishmeal. Otherwise, it won't spread all over the country so quickly.

However, there is definitely no African swine fever now. Moreover, fishery resources are extremely rich. In this era, beef, mutton and pork may be difficult to obtain, but fish...the four major fishing grounds have no fishing boats at all, only the Beihai fishing grounds have some small offshore fishing boats.

Therefore, as long as the North Sea country sends enough fishing boats, fish meal will be inexhaustible!

Moreover, the production of fish meal is also very simple - as long as the fish caught is not very tasty, it is killed on the fishing boat to remove the internal organs and fish oil, then air-dried, sun-dried or dried, and then powdered. It doesn't matter if it has bones, anyway, it is nutritious and rich in calcium.

Of course, fish meal is also divided into raw fish meal and cooked fish meal. People can't eat raw fish powder, but animals can. Cooked Fish Meal...people can eat too...

It seems that during World War II, Germany was short of supplies. In order to supplement enough nutrition for the people and soldiers, they produced high-quality edible fish meal, added edible fish meal to bread and biscuits, instead of eggs and meat, and supplemented protein and vitamin bde for the people and soldiers...

Marin didn't have enough meat or even meat offal to make dog food, but he could easily get leftover fish meal. Then, mix the raw fish meal with flour, dry vegetable powder, etc., and bake it to make dog food biscuits. After heating and sealing with an oiled paper bag, it becomes a dog food that can be stored for a long time and is convenient for transportation.

The leftover raw fish meal cost nothing to Marin at all, and the unpalatable fish were thrown away by fishermen. Otherwise, occupy the space. Marin just let them air-dry or sun-dried, and then make raw fish meal, it will take a little time at most, it is not difficult. After all, fishmeal doesn't take up much space.

Moreover, the large and medium-sized fishing vessels invested by the North Sea State now have almost no competitors in the depths of the North Sea and the Newfoundland fishing grounds, and they can have as much fish meal as they want. Even, you can make all the more delicious fish into fish meal. Because, now the fishery resources are too rich!

Just be aware that dogs cannot eat too much salt. Therefore, the fish used to make fish meal cannot be salted. But this is not a problem, as long as the internal organs and fish oil of the fish are removed, it is not easy to rancid, and it is relatively easy to hang on the mast to dry and dry in the sun. As long as it does not encounter rainy days, it is easy to dry.

Therefore, to make dog food or something, fish meal is very easy to obtain, and the cost is even much lower than flour. At least, flour needs to be planted by farmers for a year, and then harvested and processed. The fish can be cast directly with a net, then simply killed, air-dried, and then powdered, which is much easier than grain.

Then, you can easily get high-protein dog food biscuits rich in minerals and some vitamins. The cost is very low, and it is estimated that the highest cost may be the shipping fee when it is sent out...

But a shepherd dog can herd hundreds of sheep, and the income from wool, sheepskin, goat milk and mutton brought by hundreds of sheep a year is much higher than the cost of dog food. Therefore, Marin is still very profitable.

Moreover, Marin can also sell this highly nutritious fish meal dog food to other nobles to make a small profit. After all, nobles, how could they not keep a few lackeys? Well, the running dogs here are real dogs, not dogs with legs...

Aristocrats, good face! At that time, Marin will let the dog food processing factory put on luxurious packaging, and they will not discuss selling it at a high price! If it is sold at a cheap price, people may dislike it...Taishang Laoniu reminds you: Please collect it after reading it , and then look at it more conveniently.