Nick personally went to the horse pen outside the city to observe the terrain and consider how to design the horse pen.
The main purpose of the horse pen he designed is to raise the draft horses currently in the hands of the Jeju Military Control Commission. As for those official and private horse farms, he is temporarily unable to intervene - it's not that he doesn't want to, but he really can't.
He now has no people and no feed, and he is unable to effectively manage tens of thousands of horses after receiving them. In the end, he still relies on the original old man and the old methods.
Rather than making immediate changes and causing turmoil, it is better to allow these racecourses to continue to operate under the old system.
Furthermore, these horse farms should adopt a herding horse breeding system of wild grazing. This breeding system does not require horse pens and requires very little feed and labor. Although there are many shortcomings - such as low reproductive rate
――But it is still a way to maintain the horse herd under the current conditions.
Even if he takes over the entire island's horses in the future, he will still have to maintain this system within a few years.
However, in order to expand the horse population on a large scale and select horse breeds, it is imperative to promote captive breeding.
Although pen feeding requires a large space and a long construction period, it is conducive to feeding and management, protecting young foals and accumulating fertilizer. Although it is relatively warm here in Jeju Island, the lowest temperature in the winter of the 21st century is also zero degrees. In the upcoming 1632
, is a year where heavy snowfall occurs even in Lingao, and the temperature drops to zero degrees. According to the prediction of Lingao Meteorological Observatory, the lowest temperature in Jeju Island in winter may be as low as minus six or seven degrees. Building stables will help protect horses to survive the winter safely.
With the stable, he can create a new breeding system and use it as a sample for training personnel and promoting technology. Therefore, the Jeju horse stable must take into account the three functions of working, breeding and training. If conditions permit, it is best to
There are supporting feed processing and horse manure treatment projects.
In terms of building materials and labor, labor is sufficient. A large number of liberated official slaves and servants are the labor force on site - and many of them have been working as fence builders in the past. There are abundant fences and horse fences.
Experience, all are skilled workers.
As for building materials, Nick decided to rely on the existing conditions - it was unrealistic to rely on ships thousands of miles away to transport bricks, tiles and cement to him. Fortunately, the construction requirements of the horse circle are relatively low, so he can make do with the shabby, igneous rocks here on Jeju Island.
There are a lot of them. They can be found almost everywhere, from residential buildings to government offices. Almost all of them use this kind of stone. But there are also a lot of wood that can be used nearby. After the fences of the old horse pens were demolished, except for some rotten ones that could only be used for fires, most of them
Can also be reused.
Although Nick doesn't understand architecture, he knows how to repair horse pens - the horse stables built at Gaomopanling Ranch were built by the construction company under his guidance. As Merlin said, building horse pens is a process of learning from each other.
In the process, the horse pen at Mopanling Ranch was built. Both the construction company and Nick learned how to truly build a horse pen that meets the requirements.
According to the requirements, it is best for the horse pen to be located on flat land or a gentle slope with leeward direction and sunny side, dry terrain. There should be a large water source nearby. For these points, the existing Jeju horse pen location can meet the needs. So he decided not to change it.
, ordered the public team to level the foundation first.
The floor of the horse stable is relatively simple. There is no need to lay stones or cement to harden the floor - this is labor-intensive and not good for the health of the horses. The permeability of these materials is too hard and does not retain heat. Therefore, the ground is generally compacted with clay.
Clay floors retain heat, protect hooves, and are easy to repair.
There are enclosed and semi-enclosed stables. Like Lingao, Nick chose the semi-enclosed one.
Although the fully enclosed horse barn has good insulation effect, the internal temperature is high and the humidity is high. Horses have weak resistance and are prone to colds. When ventilation is poor, the irritating gases produced by the horse's excrement and urine are also detrimental to the horse's health.
The stables in Xinmaquan are semi-open, that is, there are walls at the back and sides, and the front is open. The semi-open stables have a simple structure, sufficient sunlight, and fresh air. They are easy to keep indoors clean and dry, and are convenient for feeding and feeding.
Accumulating fertilizer. The disadvantage is that it is not conducive to heat preservation and is not suitable for northern areas where the temperature is very low in winter.
Horses are animals that like cold and fear heat. Nick believes that horses can withstand the extreme minimum temperature of below zero in Jeju Island in this time and space. Moreover, moderate low temperatures are conducive to improving the cold resistance and adaptability of horses.
The horse house designed by Nick is a sloping multi-row structure. This type of horse house has the simplest structure, saves building materials, has a large number of horses, is easy to manage, and has good thermal insulation. The roof adopts a sloping type, and the fence is directly used as the roof.
It is a load-bearing structure. The rafters of the roof are directly placed on the fence, eliminating the need for beams and columns. It is especially suitable for Nick who lacks thicker diameter timber and does not have enough qualified carpenters.
The wall is made of volcanic stones found everywhere on Jeju Island, and the adhesive is made of clay and sand. Building a wall with irregular stones is a technical task. Fortunately, almost all local buildings use this method to build walls.
, so there are many official slaves in the Fenggong team who are good at this job.
Most horse houses do not have single rooms inside, but adopt a through-room structure. Only a few horse houses have single rooms, which are specially prepared for pregnant and nursing mares.
There is a special manger in the stable - all of it was transported from Lingao. Nick thought that the old manger might contain more germs and parasites, so he abandoned it and did not chop it down for firewood. In addition, a special manger was installed.
Grass rack. The grass rack is specially used for feeding long grass. It is made of wooden poles and placed horizontally above the manger. It is roughly equivalent to the height of the grass that a horse can eat when standing and raising its head slightly.
The reason why the grass rack is specially installed is because most local horses are fed hay in winter. If the hay is piled directly on the stable bed, it is easy for the horses to ingest feces and parasite eggs, which is very unhygienic.
Although this improvement is small, it is an important part of improving the health of horses.
In addition, Nick also built a number of separate closed stables - these were prepared for stallions. He was not sure whether any of the current draft horses were suitable for stallions. However, they were originally planned to be used as stallions for Jeju Island.
The horse herd introduced new stallions. According to his speculation, the horse herd in Jeju Island is basically the hybrid descendant of the 150 Mongolian horses and the horses on the island. Since then, there has been no record of the introduction of other exotic horse breeds, so
The horses here have very few foreign genes.
From a breeding perspective, Jeju Island's horse breeds are quite "pure", but such "pure" Mongolian horses are not the best choice for the Senate. The height, load-bearing capacity and pulling power of the Mongolian horses are determined by the Senate.
The military or service standards are not enough, and it can only be said to be barely adequate. Improvement of horse breeds is imminent - it is necessary to introduce excellent foreign horse breeds and carry out large-scale work to refresh the horse population.
The size of the stable can accommodate 400 horses, including all the horses currently under the control of the Jeju Military Control Commission and a number of horses that may be added in the future. Nick issued an order through the Military Control Commission: all 40 horses in Chaocheonpo will be driven to Jeju
Wait for screening.
Since repairing the horse pen is a top priority, and Feng Zongze and Nangong attach great importance to horse resources, Nick needs people and materials. The number of the official team is sufficient, and craftsmen from all walks of life are helping out, plus tools and vehicles transported from Lingao
With the help of others, two-thirds of the work on the stables in the new horse circle was quickly completed. Another group of people began to build supporting projects, including staff dormitories, horse medical clinics, horse isolation and quarantine facilities and specialized horse manure treatment facilities.
Biogas digester.
Water collection projects and aqueducts are also under construction in full swing. Nick also plans to build a simple water purification tank to provide clean drinking water for horses.
The dead horses were buried at a location far away from the stables where the soil was dry and would not affect surface and underground water sources.
Finally, the entire horse pen was surrounded by a fence - this was mainly for letting the horses run out, rather than a defensive facility. After all, this place is less than one kilometer away from Jeju City, and there are still some Japanese security company personnel stationed there.
While the horse pen project was being built, Nick began to look for enough feed. There were not many reserves of horse feed in the Jeju prison camp. Apart from a slightly larger stock of hay, there was very little concentrated feed. Because Jeju suffered a famine last year, it was originally used for concentrated feed.
Most of the buckwheat, barley and other coarse grains have become human rations. Now there is almost nothing to be found in the feed warehouse except for some basics.
This left Nick with no choice but to turn to Feng Zongze for help. He knew very well that Jeju Island is an area that mainly grows buckwheat and barley - it can even be said to be the staple food on the island. Among the 30,000 koku of grain stored in Jeju's warehouse, these types
There will be no shortage of coarse grains.
However, Feng Zongze was quite embarrassed about this: a large part of this grain must be used to feed the army. Of course, each household has some grain reserves, which can barely cope with the next year's harvest, but Jeju Island itself is short of grain, that is, it must
To feed the local people, we also have to feed the refugees who are about to arrive in large numbers. If a part of the horse grain is transferred, and there is a slight mistake in Hong Kong's transportation of relief rations, it will immediately affect the security of the entire food reserve.
After Nick fought hard, and Feng Zongze did not want the horses to die in large numbers in his hands, he finally granted him several hundred dan of barley and buckwheat.
Nick immediately took care of his team members, first received some of the feed grains, loaded them on the Zidian trolley, and shipped them all the way back to the horse pen.
The feed warehouse and silage warehouse in the horse pen are still under construction. In order to store this batch of precious feed grains, he ordered that this batch of grain be stored in the residence of the original horse pen caretaker. The original horse pen caretaker was assigned to
"Horse Circle Fenggong Team".
As for the residence of the members of the Maquan Army, he didn't worry about it - most of them had their own houses in or outside Jeju City or lived in government buildings. He only asked them to build a row of simple dormitories for the personnel on duty.
.(To be continued)
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