Chapter 97 Fat Rabbit Raising Rabbits
The elders in the village, mainly the old village chief, gathered in front of Fan Jin's rabbit nest.
The old village chief looked at the obviously fat rabbits and asked hesitantly: "This rabbit is really well-fed."
Not only well-fed, but too good!
Fan Jin smiled gently on the side.
This is the adult meat rabbit that Shuiqing bought at the shopping mall. The weight of the meat rabbit is as much as 7 or 8 kilograms. It's not that they are well-fed, but these rabbits are good-looking.
Father Xu was amazed: "This one is as fat as a piglet. I have caught dozens of rabbits, but I have never seen one so fat."
"Jin, are you raising this for yourself or to sell it in the city? If the ones behind are this fat, it will be a big sum next year."
Fan Jin heard the elder's question and replied softly: "We can eat and sell it. There are many people in the family, and it costs money to buy pork all the time. Raising chickens, ducks and rabbits can also help the children grow up from time to time;
And rabbits eat grass, so it doesn't cost money. I can just cut some vegetables when I feed the cows every day."
The people present were all elderly people. When they heard Fan Jin's remarks about how to live, they all looked at him in surprise.
Are scholars' brains so active?
Can they even raise rabbits better than others?
They all discussed: "What does it eat? After removing the fur and internal organs, it is estimated that there are still five or six pounds of meat!"
"Five or six pounds of rabbit meat, you can sell it in the city for a lot of money, right?"
"Jin, you are a scholar, is there any book about how to feed rabbits?
I have caught rabbits before, but I didn't keep them alive, and those rabbits only weighed three or five pounds, not to mention that after removing the internal organs and fur, there was not much meat."
Living in the same village, although there is a distance between them, it is not far after all, so it is definitely impossible to hide it.
Especially when the new house was built before, the young men in the village also saw it, and they should have had doubts in their hearts, but they just didn't dare to ask.
He and Shuiqing invited the old man in the village to come today, ostensibly to celebrate the move to the new house, but in fact to let everyone know about it.
Instead of letting them talk and speculate, it is better to put it out in the open. These old people are the most reasonable and convincing elders in the village. The words spread by their mouths will be believed by other people in the village.
The villagers trust them more than what he said in person.
Fan Jin sorted out his words and answered them one by one: "Not only are they well raised, uncles and aunts, look at those little rabbits, they have been home for almost a month, but they are still thin and short. I guess they will not be as fat as these eight when they are ready for sale;
When I bought these eight fat rabbits, the rabbit vendor said that they were meat rabbits from other places, different from the wild rabbits here, so they are particularly fat and strong, and said that the rabbits here can't be raised like this no matter how much we feed them.
I saw that there were only eight left, so I bought them all back, and I thought that rabbits have strong reproductive ability, that is, they give birth quickly, so I thought about raising them."
Shuiqing said that these are indeed meat rabbits, and they can basically weigh seven or eight pounds each when they are ready for sale, and the good ones can reach nine pounds!
The rabbits here are all wild rabbits, which can only grow to a maximum weight of five kilograms. In addition, wild rabbits have to search for food all over the mountains and fields, and they have to avoid natural enemies and human capture. They are always in motion, so of course they can't get fat or fat.
When they heard that they were different breeds of rabbits, the eyes of the old men present showed understanding.
No wonder Jin's rabbit is so much fatter than the rabbits they caught before!
After understanding, they were full of envy.
Rabbit meat can be sold in the city for more than 20 coins per pound. Such a fat rabbit can be sold for at least 100 coins, which is more than an old hen!
Rabbit skin can be sold for more than 30 coins per piece.
And rabbits eat grass, which is much easier to raise than chickens.
If Jin can sell a few rabbit cubs to... No, no, Jin is lucky to buy fat rabbits, and he has already planned to raise rabbits to sell for money, so why would he separate the money-making business...
The old village chief looked at the fat rabbits and was particularly moved.
His family has many people, and there are more weeds in Shanshui Village. He always complains that they rob the fertility of crops. If he raises rabbits at home, one rabbit costs more than 100 coins, and ten rabbits can earn more than one or two taels of silver. It's just a little bit of labor to cut grass.
But when he looked at Fan Jin who invited them to the banquet, he couldn't open his mouth!
No, he couldn't steal other people's livelihood.
"Uncles, Shuiqing said that she used to raise rabbits when she was a girl at home. Rabbits are not difficult to raise, as long as they are kept clean and hygienic, especially the water source and grass are clean;
In summer, they are fed with directly cut green grass, and in winter, they must be replaced with dry grass. She said it is not difficult to raise them. If anyone in the village wants to raise them, they can exchange them with old hens. It's exchanged by kilograms." Fan Jin said naturally.
The old village chief Xu Laodi and others were stunned.
Almost thought that he was old and blind and heard it wrong.
Jin's wife said that she could exchange rabbits to raise them at home?
Just exchange them with old hens?
They looked at each other, and finally the old village chief asked, "Really? Did your wife say that?"
Fan Jin nodded seriously, "Shuiqing said that we are all from the same village. If we raise them well and make money, everyone will live a better life and the whole Shanshui Village will be better."
Shuiqing's original words were: Planting medicinal herbs, crops and raising livestock can all be shared in the future. The market is big. The original intention of the family is to eat them themselves and not to make money from them. It doesn't affect them whether they are raised or planted in the village.
The crafts of brewing wine and making brushes later must be firmly in the hands of their own family.
Because the demand is so great, if everyone rushes in at once, it is very likely that everyone will lower the price and cannot sell at a high price, which will affect them.
The villagers have their own livelihoods, they are well fed and clothed, and they will not be jealous of them.
"Rabbit meat is more expensive than chicken meat. If you use chickens to exchange, won't you lose money?" Fan Qiye is Fan Jin's relative, and he spoke in defense.
The other elders also understood.
Rabbits are a few cents more expensive per pound than chickens. Wouldn't you lose more if you buy a whole rabbit?
If there are black-hearted people in the village who are greedy for small profits and exchange them all, then Jin's family will have to pay a hundred coins!
No way!
Fan Jin said with a smile on his lips: "It doesn't matter. Chickens are slow to raise, and every household doesn't have many to exchange, so the loss won't be much."
Shuiqing said that the more they exchange, the more they earn.
She said that the old hens in the village are all genuine farm chickens, and they lay eggs that taste much better than the foreign chickens and eggs she bought in the mall, and they are the kind that you can't buy even if you have money.
As for meat rabbits, they only cost more than ten yuan per pound in the mall, and the price difference with farm chickens is even greater.
Shuiqing said that as long as the people in the village are willing to exchange, they can exchange as many as they want!
He didn't know what the meaning of stupid eggs of native chickens was, but since Shuiqing said that he made money, he would exchange them.