Chapter 131 Crayfish farming

Author: Mahjong Jun

Chapter 131 Crayfish farming

Shanqian Village, Zhao Wenmu’s fish pond.

After coming out of Jingyun Factory, Zhao Wenmu first went to his fish pond.

There is no other reason than that the first batch of newly hatched crayfish (crayfish) are about to be released into the pond.

During this period of time, Zhao Wenjun took care of these crayfish as if they were his own children and wished he could build a shed and live by the pond.

The crayfish is not a real crayfish. It has a longer reproductive cycle and fewer eggs at one time. It does have quite a few disadvantages compared to Procambarus clarkii.

(hereinafter collectively referred to as crayfish)

According to experts, crayfish mate around October of the previous year and lay eggs in the following spring.

By May, the weather continued to get warmer and had risen to around 20 degrees.

This is the optimal temperature for crayfish to lay eggs and hatch.

The small purple particles adhering to the hair on the swimming limbs of the crayfish's abdomen gradually mature.

Zhao Wenjun has calculated that a crayfish can lay about 100-300 eggs. As far as Zhao Wenmu knows, the number of eggs laid by Procambarus clarkii in a single time is about twice this number.

The female crayfish will then dig holes in the water-filled soil and then press its abdomen to the ground.

This will keep the shrimp eggs moist for a long time.

It will last for about twenty days before the crayfish will break out of the eggs and then live attached to the mother's body for more than ten days.

Then as long as the outside temperature is suitable, they will crawl out of the cave and live on their own.

The 120 acres of water contracted by Zhao Wenmu are particularly suitable for raising crayfish and crabs.

Because it is not a real water surface, most places are actually swamps and tidal flats, which are the most suitable environments for crayfish, crabs, and shellfish to survive.

There are only a few areas with low terrain and abundant water, which he further deepened and strengthened to raise grass carp.

Other places are divided into small areas according to the living habits of crayfish and crabs for their cultivation.

The Zhao family has no experience in aquaculture, especially the breeding of crayfish and crabs.

Fortunately, with the guidance of aquaculture experts and some life experience of Wang Dazeng, I just explored it bit by bit.

Anyway, Zhao Wenmu doesn't rely on farmed crayfish and crabs for a while.

Except in winter, at other times, wild crayfish and crabs are enough to meet the needs of Lao Zhao's crayfish restaurant.

After all, it's just a restaurant.

If the total water areas of Pingyang County cannot meet its needs, it would be a disaster!

"Brother, look! These little shrimps are so cute!"

Zhao Wenjun carefully took out a female shrimp. Under its belly were densely packed light pink and purple-brown juvenile shrimps.

"Eh~~!"

Rong Xinyi screamed and ran away.

This scene is indeed not friendly to trypophobia.

To be honest, Zhao Wenmu didn't like this scene very much either.

But the second sister held up the crayfish like a treasure, so he had no choice but to take it gently.

Looking at the squirming little creatures, Zhao Wenmu felt a little numb.

Hundreds of crayfish are crowded together, and only a blurry mass can be seen, as if there are various filaments, and they are constantly squirming.

That picture is really beautiful.

"Professor Kong said they will lay another egg around September."

Zhao Wenjun saw that these young shrimps had grown big enough, so he grabbed the female shrimps, shook them gently, and collected all the young shrimps into the bucket.

Then carefully put the female shrimp back.

He also touched its back gently.

Young shrimps that can survive independently need to be collected in time and placed in another pond.

To avoid too many young shrimps in the breeding pond.

The successful breeding of juvenile shrimps means that the cultivation of crayfish is more than half successful!

After all, they had only caught adult crayfish before and raised them just for winter needs.

To put it bluntly, this kind of breeding in the past could only be regarded as fattening.

Breeding young shrimps truly realizes the artificial breeding of crayfish!

This step is crucial.

"Second sister, your salary will be increased to 40 yuan a day from now on!"

"Don't refuse, you deserve it!"

Merits deserve rewards, and family members are no exception.

Zhao Wenjun nodded.

"Brother Zheng, my second sister is weak. Don't let her go into the water when it's cold in the future."

Zhao Wenmu suddenly said to Zheng Guangming beside him.

"Brother Zheng, if you can't do this, don't do it anymore!"

Good people should fight to the end!

From now on, this will be Zheng Guangming’s Shangfang sword that prevents Zhao Wenjun from entering the water.

"no problem!"

Zheng Guangming tried many times to persuade Zhao Wenjun not to go into the water morning and night, but she just refused to listen.

He decided that if she didn't obey next time, he would take her out.

Zhao Wenmu is also quite strange. It has been more than half a year, but these two people have not made any progress.

Now Liu Sufang is not satisfied with him!

What can I do? If the emperor is not anxious, why should the eunuch be anxious? Why should he be anxious?

"Brother, this is my summary of breeding experience. Take a look."

Zhao Wenjun wiped the water off his body and took out a thick stack of notes from the backpack hanging next to him.

Zhao Wenmu looked carefully.

Zhao Wenjun's notes are clear and organized, sorting out the farming experience of crayfish, crabs and grass carp according to the timeline.

There are a large number of problem records and corresponding solutions.

There are many more ambiguous experiences awaiting further verification.

"Second sister, this is great stuff! Once you have sorted it out, you will definitely be able to publish it in the future!"

This is the most original crayfish farming experience, and not only can it be published, it must be like a Bible or the Analects of Confucius for future crayfish farming!

The true founder of the sect!

"That's nonsense. Who would be free to publish the things I recorded?"

Zhao Wenjun didn't take his words seriously at all.

I am a village girl with a junior high school education. Her talk about publishing a book makes people laugh out loud.

"Second sister, I am not joking!"

"In the future, there will be countless people raising crayfish in the county, the province and even the country. By then, your farming experience will be their guiding light! Do you think it is important or not?!"

Zhao Wenmu looked at the crab drawn by Zhao Wenjun in the notebook and wanted to laugh a little.

This one with big eyes and short legs looks like an eight-legged Corgi.

His words caused an uproar in the hearts of Zhao Wenjun and Zheng Guangming.

He said that many people across the country will raise crayfish in the future! If someone else said this, Zhao Wenjun might question, why should they be cultivated artificially when these things are everywhere?

But she habitually believed what Zhao Wenmu said.

If this is the case, the experience she summarized is indeed important.

Because Professor Kong also said that there is no precedent for artificial breeding of crayfish in the country.

It is precisely because she is the first person to eat crabs that it is so difficult.

There are many small problems. If you don't know, you just don't know. If you don't know, it will lead to the death of crayfish and crabs in pieces.

For example, when she initially placed the female crayfish at too high a density, many of them fought with each other and died.
To be continued...