Chapter 331: Military Horses
The horse breeding farm established by the military is a project that Chen Xin has been focusing on in recent years, with the help of golden fingers and a scientific breeding system, and naturally has achieved remarkable results. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Chen Xin's breeding took three different paths.
The first is the breeding of Mongolian horses, which are characterized by hard work, not afraid of cold, able to adapt to extensive breeding management, extremely vigorous, and able to survive under difficult and harsh conditions.
For this kind of horse, Chen Xin chose to strengthen its characteristics in this regard, and cultivated a light military horse weighing about 600 catties and a body height of about 130 cm.
This light military horse, in the case of eating only grass, can carry a weight of 180 catties, travel 80 kilometers a day, and can carry out a long march after adding appropriate concentrate.
And after training, on the battlefield, he can not be shocked or bombed, and his bravery is unmatched.
The logistics department of the army likes this kind of military horse the most, because these light military horses can send the materials transported to the front line without consuming the materials they carry, saving them a lot of transportation capacity.
There are also reconnaissance and search units that are also very fond of this kind of military horse, because they can ride this military horse and go as deep into the enemy's war zone as possible to conduct reconnaissance with limited supplies.
The second kind is naturally a medium-sized military horse with a weight-bearing capacity far exceeding that of a light military horse, which weighs about 1,000 pounds and has an average body height of about 150cm.
These horses are defined as medium-sized general-purpose horses, that is, they can ride camels on mountain roads, serve on the plains, and run long distances and charge.
Medium-sized general-purpose military horses, camel weight reached 350 kilograms, on flat roads to pull the weight of more than 1,000 kilograms, in the case of a weight of less than 200 kilograms, can run 130 kilometers in 7 hours.
This versatile military horse was favored by the Rangers who often fought behind enemy lines, as well as several cavalry companies in field units, and had been a key target of cultivation before.
The third type of military horse is a population of heavy military horses that is constantly multiplying based on the "dragon horse" produced by the original golden finger.
The pedigree of this population is very complex.
First of all, it is naturally a purebred Ryoma born between Ryoma.
As a behemoth with a weight of 3,000 pounds and a body height of about 2 meters, these purebred dragon horses have amazing pulling strength, and can even pull a 5-ton cart on a flat road.
Therefore, the pedigree of this heavy military horse is strictly protected, and no male horses or male animals of other bloodlines are allowed to appear around each female dragon horse in heat.
As for the stallions in the dragon horses, it is to enjoy the gentle country, the heat period of the dragon horse stallion, after mating with all the female dragon horses, and guaranteed to be able to conceive, these stallions will be sent to countless other blood mare herds for new mating.
These hybrid dragon horses, which are mated by male dragoons and mares of other bloodlines, can generally maintain a weight of about 2,000 catties and a body height of more than 180cm.
The pulling strength of the hybrid dragon horse varies according to the different female parents, but because of the strong male genes, these hybrid dragon horses have inherited a lot of dragon horse characteristics, and generally on flat roads, they are also maintained at the gear of pulling a 3-ton cart.
Of course, with the discipline of the breeders in the breeding farm, it is impossible for them to let go of the Ryoma bloodline so easily.
In addition to being divided into pure-blooded and mixed-blood, there is also a branch system among the mixed-breed Ryoma.
Born from purebred males and mares of other bloodlines, they are known as the first generation of hybrid dragoons.
The first generation of hybrid dragon horses is still called the first generation of hybrid dragon horses, because the strong genes of dragon horses do not become thin between them. Only the first-generation half-breed dragon horse mated with other ordinary horses will be called the second-generation half-breed dragon horse.
The second generation of hybrid dragon horses intermarried, and the second generation of hybrid dragon horses was also born, and the hybrid between them and ordinary horses was the third generation of dragon horses.
The breeders at the breeding farm are not race-minded, but they rank Ryoma according to the concentration of their bloodline, and there is a reason for that.
Ryoma's genes are very stable, but the genes of the mother are not weak, so it can be said that the genes of the creatures that have survived to the present day are not weak.
Therefore, as the bloodline of the dragon horse slowly thins out, the pull strength of these half-breed dragon horses is also declining.
The first generation of hybrid dragon horses, all of them have a pull force of more than 3 tons, and some of them are relatively strong, and they can even reach the strength of the father's parent, that is, the pull force of 5 tons, these powerful existences that almost completely inherit the ability of the father's parent are classified into the ranks of semi-pure blood.
The second-generation hybrid dragon horse basically maintains a pull force of about 2 tons.
The third-generation hybrid dragon horse has about 1 ton of pulling force left.
As for the fourth-generation hybrid dragon horse, there is not enough time, so it has not been bred yet.
These half-breed drakes, except for the occasional semi-pure-blooded drake, are mostly incomparable to pure-blooded drakes in terms of ability.
However, because the breeders are looking for harems for male dragon horses in large quantities, the number of such hybrid dragon horses has increased dramatically.
After a few years of breeding, the pure-blooded dragon horses, even with the young ones who are too young to work, are less than 100.
However, the first generation of hybrid dragon horses already has 200 adult military horses capable of full service.
Naturally, it can't be a heavy military horse for the newcomers to use.
These Ryoma and the second-generation Ryoma, although their physical strength is extremely strong, the pure-blooded Ryoma can withstand a 5-ton truck, and the first-generation hybrid Ryoma can also withstand a 3-ton truck.
However, these ryoma eat all fine ingredients, ordinary people, but there is no way to feed these delicate guys, let alone the new immigrants who have been displaced by the war.
Chen Xin has prepared for the new immigrants medium-sized general-purpose military horses that are ready to be slowly phased out of active service.
The population of hybrids, which have increased in number due to continuous interbreeding, has gradually begun to replace the medium-sized general-purpose military horses as the horses.
Although medium-sized general-purpose military horses are also resistant to rough feeding, they still need to be fed concentrate when pulling a 1,000-pound cart.
Pure-blooded dragon horses, one pull is worth 10 medium-sized military horses, and the essence consumed is only the same as 7 medium-sized military horses.
Other half-breed dragon horses, although their abilities are gradually declining as their bloodlines continue to thin out, but the concentrate consumed is also showing a downward trend.
At the beginning, the reason for not directly replacing medium-sized military horses with heavy military horses such as dragon horses was because the number was too small, but after a few years of undisciplined breeding, although the number of purebred dragon horses did not increase significantly, the number of mixed-breed dragon horses showed explosive growth.
In this case, it is also considered to make the best use of medium-sized general-purpose military horses that are resistant to rough feeding and can be used for heavy duty that are not used by the army and handed over to the new immigrants to farm and transport goods.