Chapter 562, Pig Raising for All
Although the Lost Continent is still a shielded space, it is supposed to belong to the tropical climate zone due to its geographical location south of the Hawaiian Islands and near the equator.
In tropical climates, there is never a shortage of food in areas that are covered by climates other than tropical deserts.
Ning Yuan, who had returned all his knowledge of geography to his junior and senior high school teacher, knew that there was never a shortage of food here, although he couldn't figure out how many climatic features the area where the griffon collar (sacred griffin kingdom) was located.
The availability of adequate food is an important criterion for determining whether an area is suitable for a vigorous aquaculture industry, and it is clear that the griffon collar is very suitable for the development of aquaculture.
The previous kings of the Griffon Lords built a large number of farms outside the city of Vultures, where cattle were raised, sheep, deer, pigs, chickens, rabbits, and other animals.
Ning Yuan had personally visited several relatively large farms, and although the scale of those farms was large, the efficiency was not satisfactory, which was the main reason why the previous king was never able to expand the griffin legion.
Cattle are generally born once a year, each litter is a single litter, if you don't know how to raise, then it is likely to be two litters in three years.
Sheep are three litters in two years, and five litters in three years when the living environment is good, with one to three lambs per litter.
Deer, like cows, basically have one litter a year, one to two litters per litter, and can give birth to three to four litters at most times.
Pigs have two litters a year, with an average of more than eight pigs per litter.
Although the reproductive ability of chickens and rabbits is also good, their size is really a bit small, so they were first excluded by Ning Yuan, because they are a dessert after dinner for the huge griffin.
Immediately afterwards, the cow was also excluded by Ning Yuan.
Although beef is delicious, their growth cycle is too long, and if you want to get enough meat in a short period of time, you must not count on them.
Although the deer and sheep are also good, compared with the pigs, the two of them are much inferior, so Ning Yuan set the main breeding object for the next pig.
In reality, there are many excellent pig breeds, but many breeds are obtained by people through crossbreeding, Ning Yuan can't and doesn't have time to study hybrid breeds, so he asked people to send pig breeds from all over the country to the Holy Eagle City for him to study and select.
In addition to the folk pig breeds, Ning Yuan also asked Huang Hao and Xiao Jin to send some wild boar breeds from the Griffin Mountains.
After all the pigs were delivered, he and the players of the Dragon Legion plunged directly into the barn and began to compete with various types of pigs.
In addition to their regular daily feeding, they regularly measure the length and weight of the pigs and keep track of their growth from day to day.
After half a year of continuous struggle in the pig barn, each of these Dragon Legion players in the Holy Eagle City has become an excellent swineherd.
After half a year of hard work, they can proudly say to others that if pig farming can make a fortune, then it will only take three years for them to become truly rich.
While most of the players said this out of ridicule, their efforts paid off.
Through half a year of observation, Ning Yuan and the players found two very excellent pig breeds.
The first type is the red-nosed hairless pig.
Red-nosed hairless pigs are common mammals, named for their red noses and smooth skin.
Red-nosed hairless pigs like to live in groups, are not picky eaters, can eat anything, are not easy to get sick, and are very suitable for centralized breeding.
The average litter of sows per litter is more than 12, and the piglets can grow to 200 catties in three months and 350 catties in six months, which is a high-yield pig.
The second type is the white-hoofed fragrant pig.
The Whitehoof Pig is an endemic pig breed of the Gryphon Mountains, an earth-attribute magical beast.
They are jet-black, their hooves are snow-white, and when the sow is in heat, its body exudes a rich fragrance.
Although the white-hoofed fragrant pig is a litter a year, each litter, the sow can lay nearly thirty fragrant pig eggs, so their population size can be imagined.
The white-hoofed pig is one of the griffins' favorite food.
Although they are powerless in the face of powerful griffins, with their large population and strong reproductive ability, they have become one of the most abundant beast races in the Griffon Mountains due to the frenzied predation of griffons.
Because of the limited time, Ning Yuan did not fully study the white hoof fragrant pigs, but after seeing their strong reproductive ability, Ning Yuan still decided to raise them in captivity on a large scale.
Ning Yuan's plan is to make the fast-growing red-nosed hairless pig a fast food for the griffins, and when the white-hoofed pig is formed, the white-hoofed pig will become the staple food of the griffins.
After making a decision, Ning Yuan immediately issued an order for the whole people to raise pigs.
Ning Yuan demanded that all the griffin leaders should build at least two pig houses in each household, one for red-nosed hairless pigs and one for white-hoofed pigs.
At least two large pig farms were built in each village, each for two types of pigs.
Each township has to build at least ten large pig farms, each raising two types of pigs.
In addition to raising two kinds of pigs, people can also raise other poultry and livestock, and no matter how many poultry and livestock they raise, Ningyuan will recycle them at market prices.
In order to encourage the people's enthusiasm for breeding, Ningyuan has also promulgated a series of incentives.
If a family builds an additional pig farm, Ningyuan will recycle the extra output at a price one percent higher than the market price.
Which township raises the most pigs, Ningyuan will give priority to the promotion assessment of those township officials.
After the Lost Continent and the Main Continent are connected, all the griffon Collar people who contribute to the breeding industry will be rewarded by the Condor Empire with tax exemption for five years.
In order to prevent someone from cheating or refusing to cooperate, Ning Yuan also issued a series of punishment measures.
Compared with the rewards, these punishments he issued are a bit harsh.
However, any village or town that deliberately shirks or refuses to carry out Ning Yuan's orders without a legitimate reason, Ning Yuan will directly send the Golden-crowned Griffin Legion to slaughter the village.
In troubled times, Ning Yuan doesn't have much time to develop slowly here, so if anyone is uncomfortable with him, then he will directly let the other party disappear.
When Ning Yuan's order to vigorously develop the breeding industry was officially issued to every village and town, the people of the Griffin Territory immediately took action whether they wanted it or not.
After seeing the griffon army that covered the sky with their own eyes, they couldn't afford to resist at all.
For Ning Yuan and his so-called Condor Empire, ordinary people were more in awe and fear.
Even the Divine Griffin Kingdom, which had existed for hundreds of years, was destroyed by Ning Yuan, let alone ordinary people like them.
Therefore, for Ning Yuan's order, they not only completed it with quality and quantity, but even took the initiative to increase the amount for themselves, and they did not expect a reward, but just prayed that bad luck would not befall them.
In this way, the entire griffin territory quickly turned into a huge pig breeding base, and as the breeding pigs continued to be in place, the day when the Holy Griffin Legion would come out of the mountain was getting closer and closer.