King of Mercenaries Chapter 182

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:22:35 AM

Chapter 182: planting alfalfa
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Since he wants to breed horse breeds, Marin feels that he must also pay attention to the feed aspect. For example, forage issues.

Now in Europe, horses usually eat some common weeds or ryegrass, and sometimes add oats as a nutritious meal, and sometimes add eggs.

However, Marin is also a child from the countryside. He knows that although ryegrass is also a very good forage grass, it also depends on the situation.

For example, if ryegrass is harvested before flowering, then ryegrass is a very nutritious pasture. However, rye is currently used as the staple food in Europe, and it is generally harvested after the rye matures. At this time, most of your essence of rye went to the rye grains, and the nutrition of the straw part was much worse. Feeding horses with such ryegrass straw is a bit inadequate.

Once, Marin heard an uncle who raised cows at his hometown said that feeding cows and using alfalfa hay before flowering is much better than using wheat straw and straw. It is said that the daily milk production of a cow can be increased from 23.5 kg to 36.2 kg.

From this, Marin can draw two conclusions. First, alfalfa is really a very good forage species. Second, once a flowering plant bears its nutrients, it goes to the flowers and fruits. Nutrition will drop ...

In addition, Marin also watched farmers grow alfalfa in the past life. That thing can be harvested several times a year, which is very suitable for pasture. Moreover, nutrition also belongs to the fighter level in pasture.

Uh ...

Therefore, Marin decided to start planting alfalfa on the island as a forage with oats. After all, the yield of oats is too low, and eating them every day is too expensive.

普通 Normal weeds are not nutritious, and war horses can easily fall off if they eat them. Therefore, letting war horses eat nutrient-rich alfalfa is not only nutrient-rich, but also can feed a lot of oats to reduce costs.

In fact, the best steed food in Marin's mind is soybean + alfalfa. Soy is more nutritious than oatmeal and can squeeze oil. Alfalfa can provide the horses with rich nutrition on weekdays, and the taste is also good. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to grow alfalfa.

So, after the spring ploughing ended, Marin hurriedly sent someone to the inland areas to search for alfalfa seeds ...

But unfortunately, in this era, European animal husbandry was underdeveloped. Although alfalfa is also found in Europe, not many people grow it.

的 In Europe in this era, ordinary people raised horses, and generally used rye grass without wheat kernels, and sometimes added oats or something.

The rich and noble people raise war horses, which is very generous, and directly focuses on low yield and high price oats ...

So, there are people who really specialize in planting high-quality forage such as alfalfa to raise horses, but few ...

So, Marin sent a lot of people, but he didn't find alfalfa planting ...

I knew that 10 days later, in the Luxembourg Principality, Marin's men only found a horse farm dedicated to breeding war horses and found alfalfa ...

Then, Marin sent someone to buy a few bags of alfalfa seeds for a certain price ... The horse farm's asking price was really dark, and a bag of alfalfa seeds was actually asking for 10 gold coins, which was an extortion ...

Although the spring plowing period has passed, there is still a bit of a tail. As a result, Marin hurriedly mobilized 200 oxen and a large number of manpower to urgently free up 100 acres (600 acres) of land and planted these alfalfa seeds. Of course, before planting, enough base fertilizer was applied.

For alfalfa on this 600 acres of land, Marin does not plan to harvest a few crops a year like the pasture, but directly intends to wait for them to flower and bear fruit and harvest seeds ...

Because, Marin is not only intended for 600 acres of alfalfa, but hopes to promote alfalfa on a large scale in his territory as an important pasture for horses. Even if there is enough alfalfa, Marin plans to let cattle and sheep try the alfalfa too. In later generations, those western pastures, cattle and sheep also grew up eating alfalfa, and were fat and strong ...

The horse is just like humans. Growth and development are very important as a child. For example, if a person eats poorly during development, he may not be tall or thin.

This situation is very common. For example, Huaxia's 50s, 60s, and 70s are generally thinner because of the difficult living conditions when they were young. At that time, a man who could grow to 1.7 meters was a big man.

But in the post-80s and post-90s children, because they are good at snacks, they are taller. When the post-90s generation grows up, 1 meter 8 is not much, 1 meter 7 is already short.

By the same token, horses also need high-quality forage and refined fodder during their growth period. Otherwise, if you do n't eat well during growth and development, you may grow into a thin and weak horse.

Therefore, horses need the best pastures and concentrates during their growth and development. Of course, horse owners usually have to pull the horses out of the way, so that the horses will not eat and grow into fat horses.

If nothing else, Columbus would arrive safely in India and bring back the soybean seeds. Marin would then find places to grow soybeans, while vigorously promoting the cultivation of alfalfa.

The strongest condensed soybeans, with the strongest forage alfalfa, I believe the foal did not grow well. As long as the feeding is good, the same batch of Mali will be more likely to be able to train into a horse.

At that time, Marin can also pull out a large number of war horses, forming several formed cavalry regiments and even several cavalry divisions ~ www.novelhall.com ~ With a violent charge, and ruthless iron hoofs, crush and trample all enemies ... ...

Of course, with good forage and no good breed of horse, that's no good. Therefore, Marin began to plan and import some good horse breeds. For example, the Arabian horse ...

Of course, there are some good horse breeds locally. For example, Hannover horses, Holstein horses, and Frisian horses ...

However, these horse breeds have not been specifically bred. Because at this time European countries have not started to pay attention to the issue of horse breeds. In addition, many of these outstanding horse breeds appeared in later generations were mixed with the bloodlines of other high-quality horse breeds. Among them, the most mixed is about the blood of Arab horses.

Of course, different times have different requirements for warhorses. For example, in this era, the physical requirements of war horses were very high, and first of all, tall and strong.

Because of not being tall enough and strong horses, I can't stand a knight who wears full body plate ...

当 And when the knight class gradually lags behind in the 16th century, tall and strong are no longer required by war horses. Because, at this time, the armored cavalry and the light cavalry, wearing only breastplates and helmets, rose. Therefore, at this time, the horse's requirements, from being strong first, to the requirements for speed and endurance came first. Because, the cavalry's mode of combat has changed from a tough collision to a rapid assault ...

However, this year, the plate knight has not been eliminated. Therefore, while Marin trains medium-sized war horses suitable for breastplate cavalry and hussars, he will also consider training heavy horses suitable for cavalry. For example, Sharma is a very important breeding medium ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are available at ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Mobile users please read.

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