"Woo~~"

The strong sea breeze blew over Odin Island, bringing a hint of coolness.

At this time, it was the end of the harvest month, and the Tide Islands in the stormy sea area had completely escaped the heat of summer. The highest temperature during the day was only 20 degrees Celsius, which was quite cool.

This is the most comfortable time of the year.

Well, everything is good here, but the wind is too big...more than the Thousand Lake Kingdom...

Iggos looked up at the sky and couldn't help muttering.

Recalling the experience of the past six months, he seemed to feel like in a dream.

Half a year ago, Igos was a mercenary who was tired of adventure and settled in the city of Copernicus.

According to an acquaintance, he received a dangerous guide task, namely: leading a group of wealthy overseas businessmen to the Nassau Wetlands on the northern border of the kingdom.

Aiming at the extremely lucrative reward, Igos considered repeatedly, and finally chose to accept the task.

He never expected that this adventure would completely change his destiny.

During this long journey, Igos experienced many things that he had never experienced before.

For the first time, he witnessed the majestic power of an extraordinary person of the wind element;

Stepped into a duke’s castle for the first time and enjoyed the hospitality;

Encountered a terrifying extraordinary monster for the first time, and ran away in the wild in the middle of the night;

The most important thing is that he met the "future" under the crown of the world-destroying god.

Since then, his life trajectory has deviated from the original trajectory.

After the adventure, Iggos was forced to leave the mainland and took the whole family to the remote Tide Islands.

In the days wandering on ocean-going merchant ships, he was full of resentment and deeply worried about the future.

The long and desperate voyage made him pessimistically believe that the Hai Tide Islands, a remote island that has never been heard of, must be very poor in resources, and if there is nothing, I am afraid that even eating will become a big problem.

However, after living on Odin Island for a week, Iggos suddenly found out, Damn, what a poor country, this is clearly the legendary paradise!

Here, starvation is unthinkable.

The "sacred book" of the Church of the Father God describes heaven in this way: "Lamb, please respect your father, because of the father's kingdom, there is never the worry of hunger, and everyone can eat."

But the sea tide collar seems to be better than heaven.

Does the scripture say that the food in heaven is so abundant that it can be fed to a dog, or thrown away if you can't finish it?

No!

Hai Chao Ling did it.

The food here is so much that it can be wasted at will. It is not an exaggeration to eat one bowl and pour one bowl.

The most incredible thing is that you can eat meat every day.

The meat that Igos has eaten in the last half of his life adds up, and he hasn't eaten much here in a month.

...

Igors drove a magic trolley skillfully, pulling a cart full of feed, and drove towards the gate of Deutsche Farm.

Now his identity is no longer a brave mercenary, but a steward of the "Long-eared Squirrel Farm".

"Hi, Mr. Igos, good morning!"

The guard greeted Igos, checked the pass again, and let go.

"Molin, good morning!"

Igos replied with a smile, restarted the magic car, and moved quickly along the flat concrete road.

After 5 minutes, he arrived at the farm.

The so-called "breeding farms" are ten "cages" made of reinforced concrete, which "hold" large groups of long-eared squirrels.

Each "cage" covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 square meters, and a thick cement barrier is laid at a depth of 3 meters underground, and then the soil with weeds is transplanted to cover the cement.

The reason why it takes so much trouble is to deal with the little things like long-eared squirrels that love to burrow, otherwise they will dig countless tunnels, bypass the concrete wall, and collectively "break out of prison."

The "prison cage" was surrounded by a circle of 3 meters high concrete walls, which firmly blocked the squirrels' yearning for freedom.

"Ernest, Mandel, Herman... the feed is back, ready to feed the long-eared squirrel..."

Igos stopped the magic car and shouted loudly.

Four workers in gray farm uniforms quickly trot out of the warehouse and removed a bucket full of feed from the cart.

While unloading the barrel, Igos dispatched the task loudly:

"Ernest, you are responsible for No. 1 and No. 2 breeding cages. Each cage puts 1 bucket of feed pellets..."

"Mandel, you are in charge of No. 3 and No. 4... Herman, you are No. 5 and No. 6..."

"Remember, when throwing the feed pellets, be sure to throw them evenly, don't throw them in one place, otherwise some greedy little guys will take more feed pellets and hide them in the hole..."

"Okay, sir!"

After the workers responded with a respectful voice, they each went to work with wooden barrels.

Although Igos is in charge, he is not idle, he has his own mission.

The Government Affairs Department has always paid attention to performance and never allowed its subordinate factories and farms to raise idlers. Once this happens, idlers will not necessarily be unlucky, and management will definitely get out.

Those who go to Nima still want to sit still and get a salary?

No doors!

Under this system, the stewards dare not let their subordinates be too leisurely, and even less dare to be idle.

Therefore, Igos has even more work than his workers.

He lifted a wooden bucket weighing 50 kilograms in each hand, and walked quickly to the No. 9 and No. 10 breeding cages.

There are more than ten steps built around each breeding cage, which are the places where feed is placed.

Igos climbed up a step in three or two steps, opened the wooden bucket, scooped up a scoop of gray-brown feed pellets with a wooden scoop, and threw it into the wall vigorously.

"Boom...boom..."

Dozens of feed pellets with a diameter of only 20 mm fell into the dense grass, and the originally quiet grass instantly boiled.

A large group of furry little gray creatures came out and rushed toward the drop point of the feed pellets. There was a large rustling sound in the grass, and the long grass blades kept swinging.

Igos smiled "hehe" as he watched, and his hands kept moving, throwing scoops of feed pellets at different positions of the breeding cage.

"Wow...wow..."

The long-eared squirrels are like exploding nests, running wildly in the cage, turning the grass upside down.

...

In order to improve the diet of the residents, in the early summer of this year, the Department of State Affairs officially put the development of aquaculture on its agenda. This task naturally fell to the Department of Agriculture.

According to the requirements of the lord, the breeding target must have the following characteristics:

First, grow fast.

It is best to grow from a cub to a mature body within 90 days, and even to a half-size in the worst case, it can be cooked.

this point is very important.

The civilians are tired of fish and have an urgent need for animal meat, and now there is a large population in the territory and the demand is huge. How can you have time to raise it slowly?

Second, the feed conversion efficiency is high.

This is related to the cost. If 10 kilograms of feed is converted into 1 kilogram of meat, the price of animal meat will definitely not be low. Can civilians afford it?

This is not in line with the great purpose of "building a harmonious ocean tide" under a certain title.

What Renault needs is a low-cost, large-scale supply of animal meat.

The Department of Agriculture has argued for a long time and has targeted rabbits and rodents.

They are small plant-based creatures with low breeding costs and slow growth. They can weigh up to 5 kg within a few months, which perfectly meets the requirements of the lord.

Unfortunately, the Department of Agriculture has caught more than ten species of rabbits and rodents, but none of them are suitable for centralized breeding.

The most typical example is the "Chinchilla".

This small thing with a height of 20-30 cm is the most abundant rodent on Odin Island. Potholes dug by them can be seen everywhere in the grass in the wild.

However, if there are too many of the same kind in the same area, this kind of very docile little thing will transform into a "tempered boy", they will kill each other, weed out the weak among them, until the other chipmunks possess Enough living space.

What is "enough" here?

Each one, 50 square meters!

In other words, a 2,000-square-meter breeding cage can only house 40 chipmunks.

This also raises a fart.

...

Just when the breeding plan was at a deadlock and the civil servants of the Department of Agriculture were so worried that they all pulled their hair off, our Mr. Iggos made a contribution.

Originally through the relationship with Grum, he has joined the recruit training department of the island guard team and has become a soldier that everyone envy.

One time while chatting with a colleague, Iggos accidentally heard about it, and he came up with an idea-long-eared squirrel.

This small creature is widely distributed in the northern part of the Thousand Lake Kingdom. The long-eared squirrel is a gregarious plant-eating creature. The main food is grass and seeds, which is very easy to feed.

When Renault first went to the Nassau Wetlands, he slaughtered many long-eared squirrels along the way to improve food (see Chapter 338).

According to Igos's understanding, they are used to living in groups of 5-10, eating together, resting together, and alerting each other.

Moreover, they are the most staunch pacifists!

Even if the habitat of a certain group is invaded by other squirrel groups and the living space is greatly compressed, they will not use violence to solve the problem like the chipmunk.

Good-tempered long-eared squirrels will use the "immortality" method to resolve territorial disputes.

In short, it is to fight who is more hungry.

It doesn't matter if you have less food, as long as you starve your competitors to death, and when the spring blossoms in the coming year, won't you have enough food?

This kind of "Gandhi in the Rat" is obviously the most suitable creature for "intensive" breeding!

As a result, a merchant fleet of the Haichao Chamber of Commerce sent hundreds of long-eared squirrels purchased at a high price when returning from the Thousand Lake Kingdom.

In addition, due to the contribution of the suggestion, the lady consul personally instructed Iggos to be transferred to the Department of Agriculture to be responsible for the large-scale breeding of long-eared squirrels.

The actual domestication process also verified Iggos's words, even if the breeding density in the breeding cage reaches 200, these little things still get along with each other in a friendly way, like a family who loves each other.

...

"Ernest, Mandel, how is the situation in the breeding cage today?"

After feeding the feed pellets, Igos began to routinely question his subordinates.

"Mr. Igos, the conditions in the breeding cages No. 1 and No. 2 are very good. I have observed that there are a lot of long-eared squirrels coming out to grab food. The number is similar to the previous few days..."

"Mr. Igos, the same goes for cages 3 and 4..."

"No. 5 and No. 6 cages are all normal..."

The subordinates reported the situation one by one.

Igos nodded with satisfaction:

"Yes, it seems that there is no problem with the composition ratio of the feed pellets."

He looked at his subordinates appreciatively and praised:

"Guys, you did a great job. As long as you keep going, I will apply to the Department of Agriculture and give you a little bonus this month."

Several workers were happy to bloom, and each of them patted their chests and promised:

"Mr. Igos, I must work hard..."

"Mr. Igos, please believe me..."

Igos smiled and waved his hand:

"Okay, let's all go to work... Remember, one hour later, put a batch of ‘blue sorrel fodder’ into the breeding cage, and put another batch at noon and night separately..."

A group of people immediately answered "Yes" loudly, and Le Diandian went to work.

...

The process of breeding long-eared squirrels is not smooth, and there have been many twists and turns in the middle.

In the beginning, the farm fed the long-eared squirrels with "blue sorrel feed" three meals a day, and all of them were the most tender and juicy grass buds, so the care was not exhaustive.

Blue sorrel fodder is the favorite food of squirrels, not one of them.

However, Igos quickly realized that something was wrong.

The long-eared squirrels in the breeding cage are becoming listless day by day.

This made Igos very scared.

Damn it, how can labor and management treat you harshly?

Provide you with delicious and delicious food every day. Are you still looking like Mao?

Igos knew that if he didn't take any action and watched all the little things die, it would definitely poke a big basket.

Once this happens, the "management" hat on his head will definitely be slapped off mercilessly by the Department of Agriculture.

Therefore, Igos hurriedly reported the problem and asked the Agriculture Department for help.

Four hours later, two civil servants who called themselves "breeding experts" visited the farm.

Igos talked with each other and learned that the two were actually cowboys and sheepboys, each with several years of experience in raising cattle and sheep.

This sounds very ridiculous.

Are cattle and goats also called "experts"? Also, are cows and sheep and voles the same thing?

But in the alien world, professional talents are so scarce, cattle and goats are indeed truly "breeding experts".

After a layman and two crappy experts discussed together for a while, they came up with a method that is not the way-to ask the long-eared squirrel to eat a "buffet".

To be precise, it is to find all kinds of food for the little things, and you can take whatever you like. You are welcome.

This method really works.

After some random feeding, the long-eared squirrel's condition improved greatly.

Later, according to distinguishing which food was missing in the "buffet", Iggos mashed up the "feed pellets"-grinding different ingredients into powder, then evenly mixed, and finally made into the shape of a ball.

In the subsequent breeding, according to the eating situation of the long-eared squirrels, the ingredients of the feed pellets were adjusted many times, several ingredients were deleted, several new ingredients were added, and the ratio of several ingredients was changed.

The final product is the feed pill that Igors and others put in today.

Its main ingredients include more than ten kinds of ingredients such as cooked and dried fish, fish bones, wheat bran, and mineral salts. Among them, protein, which is meat, accounts for more than 80%.

That's right, the so-called feed pellets, to put it bluntly, are meat.

Long-eared squirrels, which feed on plants, relied on meat to recover their health.

...

In fact, animals are not solidified as in the stereotype of humans, or, according to the book, they are divided into three categories: herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.

The real situation may surprise people.

In the Internet, there are many curious videos, such as the following:

"Shocked! The elephant uses its nose to catch live fish and eat it!"

"Once again shocked! Squirrels are no longer vegetarian, they are eating chicks instead!"

"Double shock! The cow chews the rabbit!"

"A shock! Kangaroos eat dead birds!"

"A shock! Sheep eat chicken cubs!"

Is this very shocking and violates the cognition of ordinary people?

Yes it is!

However, this is only the perception of "ordinary people", and animals don't think so.

They follow instinct and nature. What kind of behavior is beneficial to survival, they will do what they do.

Therefore, it is normal for animals to change their taste occasionally.

From an evolutionary perspective, the boundary between herbivores and carnivores is blurred.

The ancestors of many herbivores were actually carnivorous or omnivorous animals. During the long evolution, although their offspring changed their diets, the genes for "meat-eating" were retained.

When needed, herbivores eat meat decisively.

As a result, things that shocked melon-eating humans happened frequently.

From a nutritional point of view, the practice of herbivores is very logical.

In many cases, just eating grass, fruits or nuts, there is no way to get enough nutrition, especially certain nutrients that are not in large demand but are indispensable, such as amino acids, vitamins, trace elements and the like .

These substances are extremely easy to obtain in meat.

So, what's so strange that herbivores suddenly start eating meat?

Conversely, carnivores suddenly start eating grass, and there are countless cases.

Strictly speaking, the classification of plant-eating animals, carnivores, and omnivores is quite misleading, and it is a narrow cognition.

Perhaps, there are no pure herbivores and carnivores in nature. They are all omnivores.

Turning the topic back to this farm in Haichao, Iggos feeds long-eared squirrels with meat, which is the most scientific way of feeding.