In the past few days, he specially arranged for people to investigate the prospects of meat rat breeding, and the overall situation is still good.
Generally speaking, mice can breed all year round, and they can give birth to pups when they are about two months old. The gestation period is about 21 days.
She can give birth to six to eight litters per year, and one litter can produce five to ten rat pups. In theory, as long as the conditions are right, a female rat can breed a population of thousands in a year, and the reproduction rate is very alarming.
Optimistic estimates suggest that with just one winter as a buffer, the number of rats can be rapidly expanded from a few hundred to millions. By the middle of next year, they can start their big fight.
Zhang Hao took a sip of wine and said softly:
"Mayor Liu, I have an unkind request, I don't know whether I should say it or not?"
"Director Zhang, if you have anything to say, you can just say it. You don't have to be polite to us." Liu Changsheng smiled and waved his hand.
Zhang Hao stopped being polite and said straightforwardly:
"As for the breeding farm, I wonder if I can share some of the profit?"
"Director Zhang, the breeding farm is your sole proprietorship. We have no objection to whoever you want to share it with."
Liu Changsheng didn't think so.
The reason why meat rat farms are built is actually not to make money, but to solve the food problem.
Zhang Hao knew that the other party had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "Mayor Liu, what I mean is, can some of the production capacity of the breeding farm be released?"
"Why let it?"
Liu Changsheng suddenly frowned. The duck that had reached his mouth was about to fly away. This was not a good sign.
"Well, I have no choice. Yesterday, Mayor He of Huicheng heard the news about the breeding farm from somewhere, and the other party made a request, asking for half of the production capacity."
Zhang Hao spread his hands helplessly.
If it weren't for Feicheng's request, he never thought about setting up a breeding farm from beginning to end. He could make a lot of money by relying on earthworm feed, so why bother working so hard?
And you have to take risks.
"Delusion!" Liu Changsheng suddenly became furious, "Why? They just want to take away half of the production capacity without doing anything. Do they really think we are vegetarians?"
Dean Chen immediately echoed: "It is indeed a bit too domineering. Huicheng and Feicheng are both the capitals of the same state. No one is higher than the other."
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"You two calm down." Zhang Hao quickly reassured, "After all, my feed processing factory is in hz city. Now that food is tight, it is impossible for them to watch so much feed flowing out."
"But half is too much?"
Liu Changsheng's face was full of anger and injustice.
Zhang Hao immediately gave a wry smile: "Originally they wanted 80%, but my skin was almost worn out, so after some hard talking, the share was reduced to 60%."
"What? Eighty percent? Too greedy..."
Liu Changsheng almost suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Eighty percent is indeed too much, sixty percent... Sixty percent is actually quite reasonable."
"Sixty percent is too much, can it be less? How about 30%?"
Liu Changsheng tried to bargain.
I was caught at a critical point and had to compromise.
Zhang Hao shook his head: "Mayor Liu, I have already tested it out. Sixty percent achievement is their final bottom line, and there is no possibility of bargaining."
"This is too much!"
Liu Changsheng gritted his teeth and cursed.
"Mayor Liu, don't be too quick to get angry. If you look at this from a different angle, it's not necessarily a bad thing." Zhang Hao quickly advised.
Liu Changsheng was slightly stunned and immediately asked:
"Director Zhang, how do you say this?"
Zhang Hao picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, and then explained: "As the saying goes, if you give up, you will get something. Since Huicheng wants to take away 60% of the production capacity, of course it is not nothing, they must give us a promise
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"What promise?"
"After my hard efforts, Mayor Chen, on behalf of Huicheng officials, promised not to interfere in the operation of the feed factory. In other words, except for the farms under my name, all feed will not be sold to the outside world."
Liu Changsheng couldn't help but get excited: "So, we can monopolize the breeding of meat rats?"
"Monopoly is definitely impossible, but a conservative estimate is that our rat farms can produce at least one billion rats. Each rat has about 2 taels of meat, which adds up to 200 million kilograms of meat." p>
"After calculation, Feicheng has 40% of the share. Two hundred million multiplied by 0.4 is 80 million catties."
Dean Chen's mind turned quickly and he immediately calculated his gains.
Liu Changsheng nodded with satisfaction.
There are about a million infants and young children in Feicheng. If divided by head, each person can get eighty kilograms of rat meat, which is already very impressive.
Zhang Hao reminded with a smile: "Haha, 80 million kilograms of meat is already a lot, equivalent to 300,000 big fat pigs. To be honest, based on the current conditions, it is almost impossible to raise so many pigs.
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"It would be great if we could keep 200 million catties."
Liu Changsheng couldn't help but sigh.
"Mayor Liu, you are always happy when you are content. Eighty million kilograms of meat is quite a lot."
Zhang Hao advised again.
Vice Mayor He, who was sitting at the same table, did not want to give in easily and couldn't help but interrupt: "Dr. Zhang, I would like to ask, can your feed factory expand its production capacity?"
"It's very difficult. To be honest, I can only produce 70 to 80 million tons of feed here at most. The main reason is insufficient supply of raw materials. Famines of varying degrees have occurred in many places overseas, let alone rotten fish and shrimps.
, there are many people who eat dirt."
Zhang Hao shook his head helplessly.
Liu Changsheng sighed and finally nodded: "Forget it, 40% means 40%, it's better than nothing. Why is Director Zhang not from Feicheng?"
"Mayor Liu, it doesn't matter if I'm from Feicheng. Feicheng is not close to the sea, and those smelly seafood can't be transported in." Zhang Hao shrugged.
If it weren't for the other party's strong request, he wouldn't want to build any breeding farm in Feicheng. The transportation cost alone would be a huge expense.
After all, current electricity prices are not cheap.
Just when everyone was disappointed, a young man suddenly said: "Director Zhang, can you feed rats with feces? After all, there are rats all over the sewers, and they all live on eating garbage, don't they all live well?" "Poop? Human feces?"
Zhang Hao calmly put down Kuaizi.
The expressions of the others did not change, and it seemed that they had passed the gas in advance.
"Yes, it's disgusting, but isn't there nothing we can do?"
"My opinion is that it is not necessary. Instead of raising rats with feces, it is better to use it to raise earthworms. Earthworms are known as ecosystem engineers and are not easy to spread viruses."
Zhang Hao thought for a while and suggested.
"But earthworms are not meat after all?"
Zhang Hao shook his head: "You can't say that. Earthworms and meat rats are actually similar. They both have the characteristics of low fat and high protein, and their nutritional value is not much different.
In fact, if calculated based on output alone, raising earthworms is more cost-effective and less expensive than raising meat rats. In the future, earthworms will definitely be on the table."
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