Chapter 502: Man raises tadpoles, heaven raises frogs
Chapter 502: Man raises tadpoles, heaven raises frogs
Author: Zhijianling
Chapter 502: Man raises tadpoles, heaven raises frogs
The deer house was built on a flat open space in a mountain col, surrounded by hills and low hills, with the wind behind it and the sun facing it.
The site is large enough and flat enough, and there is a place for water in the mountain depression. A pool was directly cleared and inlaid with stones.
This is the only water source location in the deer farm, flowing water.
When the deer house is built, the pond will also be fenced inside.
At that time, the deer that are kept in the mountains will have to come to the deer farm if they need water. They will also be fed with corn and driven back manually. I believe that it will not take long for those deer to get used to the deer house and be able to do the same.
Leave early and return late.
When it comes time to cut the deer antler and other things, it will be easier to manage.
When Lu Lu arrived at the deer farm, he saw Zhang Shaofeng, Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo using pickaxes to guide Big Nose. Zhou Fangjing and others were digging the foundation for building the deer house. The surface soil was cleared well, but the further down, the harder the soil became.
, the excavated soil is mixed with ice slag.
Several other women were peeling and carbonizing the wood.
Seeing Lu Lu coming on Zhui Feng, the three of them put down their tools and came over.
"Let's work on this after the crops are planted. It's a bit thankless now. After a while, the temperature will be higher and the permafrost will thaw. Then we can do several days of work a day."
Lu Lu came closer, jumped off Zhui Feng's back, and walked towards the three of them: "Let's focus on collecting materials now. When the crops are planted, all hands will be concentrated on it, and then we can do it together. That way we can get twice the result with half the effort."
"The materials for building the deer camp and the fence are almost ready, including the materials you want to raise the wild geese to build the fence. We are just waiting for piling construction! There is nothing to do for the time being..."
The three big men were all scratching their heads. They only knew to follow Lu Lu, but they didn't know what to do specifically, and they were a little at a loss.
Lu Lu thought for a moment and said: "You guys come with me to the mountains and I will teach you something today!"
"What's going on?" Zhang Shaofeng couldn't help but ask.
Lu Lu smiled, didn't say much, turned around and stepped forward to lead the way.
The three of them looked at each other and followed Lu Lu.
More than ten minutes later, a few people arrived at a large ditch in the mountain.
There are mountains on both sides of this large ditch. The forest vegetation is considered to be the best in the barren mountains contracted by Lu Lu. Most of them are tall trees, almost all of which are broad-leaved trees. Coupled with dense shrubs, the inside is very humid and has a thick layer of vegetation.
Large layer of rotten leaves...
Probably because of the thick accumulation of rotten leaves in the ditch, and because there is a small ditch in the ditch, it is full of smelly and black mud. In many places, you can sink into it when you step on it. When the weather is hot in summer, the mud in the ditch
There was also a rotten smell.
It is for this reason that this ravine is also called Lanni Valley.
Lu Lu led the three of them all the way down the slope, and reached the middle section. There was a bend in the ravine, where the soil had accumulated, forming a fairly flat beach, at least five or six hundred meters long.
Covered with withered weeds.
"This is it. Just dig a pond on this tidal flat!"
Lu Lu said, he broke off a branch from the side, walked around the tidal flat, chose a low-lying location with a small pond, and drew a circle, about two hundred square meters: "I plan to raise toads here.
!This pond dug is for incubation.”
"Incubation pond? What do you mean?" Liang Kangbo was confused.
Lu Lu smiled and explained: "You all know that wood frogs slowly grow legs from tadpoles, degenerate their tails, and then leave the water to live in the mountains. This process from eggs to tadpoles to legs is called
Metamorphosis is completed in water. This pond is prepared for them to hatch and metamorphose. Of course, this is also where they come back from the mountains after winter and spend the winter in the pond, which is also called an overwintering pond."
"These things are jumping around. Who knows where they have gone. To be honest, I feel that raising forest frogs is not very reliable!" Zhang Shaofeng said with some worry: "It takes a lot of effort to get them out, and then they never go away.
If I come back again, then by the end of the year, I’m afraid there won’t be anything left.”
As soon as Zhang Shaofeng said these words, Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo also looked over.
Lu Lu was not surprised at all that Zhang Shaofeng could ask such a question.
Instead, he was happy because Zhang Shaofeng had this question.
This shows that Zhang Shaofeng has thought about these issues.
Similarly, other people may think so.
"I believe you all have the same questions. You listen to me first. After I finish speaking, if you still feel that it is not possible, we will make another plan."
Lu Lu smiled at a few people and said: "First of all, I want to tell you something very interesting. That is where the toads hatch and metamorphose. In winter, they will also return to this place to spend the winter."
When several people heard this statement, they couldn't help being slightly stunned.
is that so?
They couldn't be sure at once.
They only know that the forest frogs will go up the mountain, and when it snows in winter, they will come down from the mountains. As for whether they are in the same place, who has the time to pay attention to this? There are so many forest frogs, and it is impossible to determine who is who. It seems that
It's not easy to prove either.
But seeing Lu Lu speaking so definitely, although the three of them felt weird, they didn't think it was a lie.
Lu Lu ignored them and continued: "So, we must make this hatching pond big enough and deep enough so that it freezes in winter, but there is still enough water underneath to prevent it from being frozen through.
, which can ensure that they hibernate in water.
The water in this pond must have an inlet and a drain. When the toads go up the mountain, the water can be drained and exposed to the sun for disinfection. As for the water source, the water in the small ditch next to it is enough.
I know you still don’t believe that the toads will come back, but it doesn’t matter. Let’s just circle this mountain so that the toads can’t jump out. In winter, they have to come back here. Because this is where they are in this area.
Son, the only place where you can spend the winter."
After hearing what Lu Lu said, several people understood it all at once.
"How big of a land are we planning to enclose?" Zhao Yongke asked.
"I took a look at this ravine. It's about a kilometer long. In addition, there are mountains on both sides. Just like my meadow, we can just enclose this ravine along the ridges on both sides. It doesn't need to be complicated. Let's
Just use gauze, sacks, etc. to circle it. This thing is much faster than a fence.
There are several places in the ravine that can be simply blocked to form good overwintering ponds and hatching ponds. I estimated that the surrounding mountainous areas are probably hundreds of hectares, which is enough to raise many wood frogs."
The contracting of forest land in the mountains did not cost much money at all. Let alone now, even in the late 1990s, in the Northeast, there was a free policy for contracting forest land for the first three years. After three years, you need to pay to the forestry industry
The department pays a certain fee, but the paid usage fee is only two yuan per hectare. In another ten or twenty years, it will only reach about three and a half yuan per hectare.
In the later stages, many people contracted two to three thousand hectares of forest land to raise forest frogs, and the investment in a year was only a few thousand yuan.
Simply managing and maintaining such a large area would be like picking up money.
It sounds exaggerated that a forest frog breeding site can cover such a large area, but it is really cheap.
Lu Lu already had plans for these places when he visited them.
Now that the manpower is limited, Lu Lu can only think of getting it started first, and then expanding the scale when it develops.
"How many forest frogs can be raised in this land?" Liang Kangbo pondered for a while and asked.
Lu Lu smiled slightly: "So many thousands of them!"
A few years ago, a Northeastern wood frog could be sold for 50 cents. Even now, this amount of money is not a small amount. There was no ban on catching wood frogs, and wood frogs were hunted crazily. By the end of the 1970s,
The number of wood frogs is already very small.
If there are less, the price will rise accordingly. Now, it can reach 80 or 90 cents each.
Thirty or forty years later, a wood frog cost more than ten yuan a piece.
This is also the reason why we only encounter forest frogs occasionally when we go up the mountain. Many people like to eat them partly, and most of them do it to change money. There are fewer and fewer left on the mountain.
By now, the supply has already exceeded the demand.
Rana farming also began to enter the exploratory stage at this time.
Gradually, a semi-artificial breeding model that combines artificial management with wild stocking was formed, which is what Lu Lu is doing now.
This is what is said when people raise tadpoles and heaven raises frogs.
With such good conditions, Lu Lu also had corresponding mature technology, and his starting point was much higher than others.
Making money, isn't it a very simple thing?
Of course, due to current external conditions and manpower limitations, he cannot start things like cultivating toads in greenhouses. The rewards are not small, but the management and investment are also large. He can only choose such a rough method now.
Besides, with the excellent environmental conditions now, there is no need to go through so much trouble. Just do it as simple as possible first.
"There are so many, what do they eat?" Zhang Shaofeng was even more worried about this problem.
"Tadpoles can eat anything in the water, including corn noodles, rotten meat, etc." Lu Lu said with a smile: "Go and catch a few fish in the net, chop them into small pieces and put them in to meet their needs.
.”
"Then when the toads come up the mountain, will there be so many bugs to eat?" Zhang Shaofeng continued to ask.
"There aren't that many bugs, so you can think of ways to attract bugs. For example, setting up more rotten grass piles on the mountain can attract bugs from other places!"
Lu Lu answered the three people's questions one by one.
It seemed that all the worries were simple when Lu Lu came here, and the previous doubts and worries were quickly eliminated.
After waiting for a while, seeing that the three of them were silent, Lu Luxiao asked, "Any more questions?"
"No more!"
"Me too!"
Zhao Yongke and Liang Kangbo both nodded.
They still don't know the number of tens of thousands that Lu Lu said, but they all know that the price of these toads is really not low. Now in this area, it is the only one, and it can't be justified without making money.
"Where can we get so many forest frogs to raise?"
Zhang Shaofeng hasn't turned the corner yet.
"Of course I'm going to catch it! When the ice and snow in the river melted, the male leopards began to come ashore and live in the pond, barking every day. After a while, the female leopards also came ashore and followed the sound to find them.
When laying eggs, there will be a lot of eggs in water bubbles or grass in small rivers and ditches. We only need to find these eggs and put them in the incubation pond, and tadpoles will hatch out."
In the Northeast, male forest frogs are called male dogs, and female forest frogs are called female leopards.
Zhang Shaofeng suddenly realized: "I understand!"
Lu Lu smiled and said: "Since there is no problem, Brother Zhao and Brother Liang, I will leave this hatching pond to you. It just so happens that the material gathering is almost busy now. If you want to find people, just go along this ravine.
Choose a suitable place and prepare some ponds with a depth of not less than 1.5 meters and a small ditch that can be used to change the water. This must be done as soon as possible. Soon, the wood frogs will lay eggs.
As for Brother Feng, follow me tomorrow. I will teach you and Huazi how to use those farm machines. Soon it will be time to plant the land. There are many things to do! When you finish the pond, we will go into the mountains and find forest frog eggs.