1968: Started from breeding

Chapter 315 Director, you could even see that?
After Su Wenchen walked out of the headquarters compound.

After walking west along the rammed earth road for about five minutes, a breeding farm converted from an old commune warehouse slowly came into view.

As Su Wenchen approached, he could see various slogans painted on the mottled earthen walls of the breeding farm, such as "Raising meat rabbits ensures food supply, building a home through self-reliance."

However, when you look at the base of the wall, there are obvious traces of lime that have been sprinkled several times.

My heart sank.

It's clear that Lao Hou has disinfected the area countless times with lime, but the effect probably isn't very noticeable.

At this stage, apart from their main farm, most places haven't yet trained veterinarians specifically to treat rabbits.

If it's about treating pigs or chickens, you can at least try to find a solution at the city's veterinary station.

These two are, after all, the main poultry and livestock, and most veterinarians in various regions are mainly skilled in treating pigs, cattle, sheep, and chickens.

Su Wenchen also understood that this was related to value; for many members of the commune in rural areas, most rabbits were actually not very valuable.

Unless it's a specialized fur rabbit like theirs, or a specially sheared rabbit.

Otherwise, even if you raise a local wild rabbit, it won't fetch much money. Considering the effort involved and the cost of veterinary care and medication if it gets sick, you won't even make back the cost if you spend a little more.

There's no market for this, so naturally no veterinarians are interested in studying how to treat rabbits.

As for state-owned farms, they are basically the same as Su Wenchen's main farm, training their own specialized veterinary technicians.

Currently, we are still in the stage of observing, exploring, and summarizing various diseases in rabbits!
It will take at least another three to five years to develop a complete systemic treatment for rabbits.

This is because of the sudden emergence of the Moon Rabbit, many local state-owned breeding farms have suddenly begun to pay attention to the results of rabbit breeding.

Otherwise, Su Wenchen estimates that the development of rabbit farming will only be further promoted after the reform and opening up, when private farms enter the market.

Push open the gate of the breeding farm.

There is a large courtyard in front of you.

At that moment, several older female employees were chopping alfalfa into small pieces under a thatched shed in the courtyard.

Seeing Su Wenchen walk in.

Immediately, an elderly woman put down what she was holding and came over.

"What are you doing? Don't you know this is a farm?"

"Don't come in and look around if you have nothing to do. You'll be responsible if you bring in any more drugs!"

He then tried to kick Su Wenchen out.

Seeing that Su Wenchen had no intention of leaving, he immediately prepared to step forward and shove him.

"Hurry up and leave, or I'll have the security guards kick you out!"

Just as Su Wenchen was about to explain.

Hou Guozhong came out of the house with a furrowed brow, and the moment he saw Su Wenchen...

He immediately showed a look of surprise and ran over to shout.

"Director, that's great, you've finally arrived!"

"If you don't come soon, I'm not going to be able to hold on any longer."

After saying that, he also spoke to the old lady who had just come out.

"Chuntao's mother, this is our Director Su! Didn't you come when we were setting up the farm?"

Upon hearing this, the other party was at a loss and quickly explained to Su Wenchen.

"Director, I didn't know. My legs aren't very good, so I didn't come over that day. I really didn't know it was you. Our Section Chief Hou said that we can't let just anyone in."

"I figured you were just like everyone else, someone who came out of curiosity to see what was going on!"

Su Wenchen shook his head.

"It's alright! I went to the main site after the meeting. It's normal that you don't recognize me. You guys just go about your business."

Then he spoke to Hou Guozhong.

"Let's go! Let's go inside and check on the rabbits!"

Su Wenchen naturally wouldn't take such a small matter to heart. Besides, he doesn't show up much in the branch venue, so it's normal that few people recognize him.

Upon hearing Su Wenchen's words, Hou Guozhong immediately nodded and led the way.

"Come on, Director, let me tell you, these rabbits have been giving me a real headache lately. Now that you're here, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief and hand over a portion of them to you without worry."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked towards the rabbit hutch inside the house with Su Wenchen.

After seeing Su Wenchen and Hou Guozhong enter the house, the old woman hurriedly spoke to her companion.

"How to do how to do!"

"None of you reminded me, how was I supposed to stop the director?"

"He can't just fire me, can he?"

Then, with a complaining tone, he spoke to his companion.

"So you were all keeping quiet just now because you were deliberately watching me fall for your trick!"

It's clear from their words that they cherish their current job very much.

The others immediately offered words of comfort.

"It's alright, the director is such a high-ranking leader, he definitely won't hold it against you!" "That's right, he can sit with Director Shi from the county, how could he hold a grudge over something like this?"

"Hmph, you make it sound so easy for you. Why didn't you go up there earlier!"

In the room.

Su Wenchen was carefully observing a row of rabbit cages made of wire mesh.

Inside each wire cage was a bed of dry grass, some of which had been chewed up and left in a mess.

The rabbits in the cage were all listless, especially when they saw someone approaching, they all hid in the corner and trembled.

Hou Guozhong also walked to the front of the rabbit cage and began to introduce it to Su Wenchen.

First, he pointed to a large rabbit in the cage with erect ears.

"These are large-eared white rabbits imported from the Shanghai Livestock Station. I heard that they are a new breed that was just introduced from Japan last year after our Yuehua rabbits came out."

"Like the Moonflower Rabbits in our farm, it is a breed that is used for both fur and meat. It is said that it can grow to a maximum weight of ten kilograms when it matures, which is why I chose this breed."

Su Wenchen looked at the rabbit in the cage, which was clearly not in good spirits.

Hou Guozhong had previously tried feeding the rabbits the same breeding feed originally intended for the Moonflower Rabbits.

Therefore, Su Wenchen can directly see the other party's attributes.

Big-eared White Rabbit LV0
Current status: Eating

Breeding directions: Reduce environmental stress response, improve embryo survival rate, accelerate ear blood vessel development, and enhance antibiotic resistance.

Fur-oriented breeding: Purify the transparent white fur from the ears, expand the area of ​​the ear skin membrane, increase the skin area, and enhance parasite resistance.

Introduction: Experimental rabbits require careful care and are highly susceptible to stress. They have prominent blood vessels in their large ears, making them suitable for vaccine production and various medical experiments. Their meat has relatively coarse fibers.

Upon seeing the attributes, Su Wenchen shook his head.

"These rabbits are not suitable for meat. They should be imported for medical experiments. They are too prone to stress if used as meat rabbits, and the staff do not have the time or energy to take good care of them."

Hou Guozhong looked at Su Wenchen in astonishment upon hearing this.

"Director, how could you tell that?"

He personally raised them for a month, and of the fifty pairs of rabbits, only twelve pairs survived.

He then confirmed that, just as the livestock station had said, these rabbits basically couldn't survive outside the laboratory.

He hadn't mentioned any information about this type of rabbit beforehand, yet the director recognized it at a glance.

He then looked at Su Wenchen with an expression of admiration and said...

"Director, this rabbit is just as you said, ridiculously timid. Sometimes, if something falls on the ground, it will be so scared that it won't eat for days."

"In the end, he starved to death. To be honest, Director, I've seen timid rabbits before, but I've never seen one this timid before."

Just then, Hou Guozhong raised his voice slightly.

The rabbit, which had been eating cautiously, immediately stopped eating and looked around in fear.

After seeing that the status had changed to "stress response," Su Wenchen shook his head helplessly.

"Let's go! You scared another one to death."

Hearing this, Hou Guozhong looked at the rabbit in the cage, which was clearly in a state of stress again, and said helplessly.

"Director, there's really no other way. If we expand the scale of rabbit farming, the employees won't dare to speak up."

The two then went to the next room.

Su Wenchen found this to be much more normal than the previous one.

However, in the separate cages, there were still some that were listless, but some that saw the two approaching and were not afraid at all, and were still eating peacefully.

Su Wenchen glanced at it.

New Zealand White Rabbit LV0
Current status: Fattening

Fattening is an option: it can improve conception rate, shorten the fattening period (120 days → 90 days), enhance digestive enzyme activity (improving feed utilization), and increase resistance to coccidiosis.
Breeding can be oriented towards fur: maintaining the stability of pure white fur color, optimizing the fur-to-flesh ratio, enhancing tolerance to high-density breeding, and improving resistance to diseases such as foot dermatitis.

Introduction: High-quality meat rabbits of North American lineage are pure white all over and have extremely tender meat. They need to be fed a mixture of high-quality alfalfa hay and soybean meal.

"Director, these are New Zealand white rabbits imported from Harbin!"

Upon seeing the attributes, Su Wenchen nodded in satisfaction this time.

"This breed is a good import; it grows fast and has excellent meat quality, but the downside is that it needs to be fed concentrated feed!"

"However, this variety does have the potential for further development."

Upon hearing this, Hou Guozhong stared intently at the New Zealand white rabbit eating in its cage several times.

He was truly and utterly convinced, because he genuinely didn't know how they had figured it out!

"Director, you're absolutely right. These rabbits love to eat our alfalfa. Since we just planted our own, I specially asked Dongfeng Commune to send us a truckload."

"However, although these rabbits love to eat this stuff, eating too much can easily cause diarrhea."

"He pointed to the sickly New Zealand white rabbits that had been isolated."

"Director, look at those rabbits. They're sick and have diarrhea all the time. They won't eat other straw or leaves. If we keep feeding them alfalfa, they'll just keep getting diarrhea. I'm really at my wit's end."

(End of this chapter)