At that time, there was a rabbit processing factory in Chengyang. Rabbits were full of treasures, and their meat, skin, and fur could be processed into commodities for export.
Raising rabbits can not only support national construction, but also sell money to subsidize the family. Therefore, many families in our village raise rabbits.
Some families raise long-haired white rabbits, cut their hair and sell them to material purchase stations; some raise meat rabbits such as green orchids, spotted rabbits, and black rabbits, and sell them to rabbit processing factories when they grow up.
Almost all my classmates raised rabbits. I was anxious and begged my father to go to the market to buy a pair of rabbits and raise them.
Dad first built two rabbit nests at the east wall of the south house, and made iron doors that were gas welded in the factory. They were very magnificent.
The next day I bought back a black male rabbit and a blue female rabbit.
Qingpilan is very valuable, and the price is relatively high. It is said that it has many cells (we call it a cell), with one litter per month, 4 or 5 in a litter, and some can have 7 or 8 cells at a time, and they reproduce very quickly.
Xiaohei is bigger than Qingpilan, can eat and dance well, and is not honest.
Black fur, long ears, three-petal mouth, and not a single hair on his body.
Xiaoqing has small ears, a docile temperament, timidity, and fear of people.
My friends told me that male and female rabbits need to be raised separately since they were young, so that they will become sibling rabbits later.
Therefore, I raised them separately from the beginning.
Ever since I got these two rabbits, hunting rabbits for food has become my main job.
As soon as I get home from school, I have to go to the slope to catch rabbit food.
Rabbits like to eat wild spinach, bitter rapeseed, horsetail, shepherd's purse, snot, grass, and other wild vegetables. They cannot eat wild vegetables such as cabbage, cat's eye, etc. Eating these vegetables will either kill them or cause diarrhea.
However, at that time, every family raised rabbits. After school, the fields were full of children hunting rabbits, sheep, and pigs. Some adults often came out to dig for vegetables.
There is not enough food for people to eat, and there is no food to feed them, so hunting rabbits and pigs has become our children's sidekick. After school, we have to complete it like homework. Otherwise, those rabbits, sheep, and pigs will suffer.
hungry.
When you go out to pick up vegetables, pick up some more and save them for rainy days, or dry them and eat them in the winter.
But these animals cannot always eat wild vegetables. Sometimes when you see them having diarrhea, you have to eat some bran or something to supplement their nutrition.
In order to raise this pair of rabbits, my classmates and I learned a lot about what they should not touch water or expose to the sun, and they should be let out frequently for physical exercise, etc.
During this period, my grandfather and sisters helped a lot.
My grandfather and sister worked in the production team and hunted rabbits for food when they came home.
So my pair of rabbits are really happy and eat well.
A classmate said that female rabbits are ready for breeding in three months and can give birth to baby rabbits.
So I put the male rabbit Xiao Hei into Xiao Qing's nest. For a whole afternoon, they acted as if nothing had happened, and nothing happened.
What's going on?
I invited Jianguo and Xiaowu to my home to find out.
The two of them caught Xiao Hei, pulled apart Xiao Hei's genitals very professionally, and said, "Weird! Why is there a tuft of hair on it!", "I've never seen a male rabbit like this before, he must be a douchebag (sterile).
ability). "This makes me really disappointed. After raising it for so long, I actually raised a waste!
Jianguo has been raising male rabbits for more than a year, and his female rabbits have had several litters.
He volunteered to use his male rabbit to breed Xiaoqing with a rabbit.
After school that afternoon, I put Xiaoqing in a basket, covered her with a futon, and carried the basket to Jianguo.
Jianguo is located on a back street. I pass by it every day on my way to and from school, and I arrived in a short while.
Jianguo and I put Xiaoqing into the cage of a male rabbit raised by Jianguo. We saw the two rabbits rolling together in the cage. Jianguo said with experience that they were matched.
Just to be sure, I let them roll and stick in it several times.
Jianguo's mother said that she would definitely be able to pack 5 or 6 pieces.
I am really grateful to Jianguo. From then on, we became really good friends. We never had any quarrels and always stood together on everything.
Later, he became the labor committee member and I became the study committee member in the class. We also participated in several foreign battles together, such as opening fire.
I waited with great anticipation for my Green Pilan to give birth to a little rabbit. I went out to hunt the best wild vegetables for it to eat. I also secretly fed her the bran my mother fed chickens and pigs several times.
Jianguo told me that rabbits are pregnant in one month.
Ten, twenty, and thirty days passed arduously, but Xiaoqing's belly showed no change at all, and there was no sign of giving birth to a rabbit.
Jianguo looked at it and said, not worthy!
It doesn't matter, Xiao Wu said that he could marry her at his grandfather's house. His grandfather raised several long-haired rabbits, which were very beautiful.
So after school in the afternoon, I used a basket to take Xiaoqing to Grandpa Xiaowu’s house.
His grandpa's long-haired rabbit is really powerful. It is tall and big. It has not been shorn yet. It has two red eyes and long rabbit fur. It is powerful and powerful.
In order to let Xiaoqing give birth to a rabbit, I still put Xiaoqing into the big long-haired male rabbit's nest as if I was doing something bad.
They were rolled and stuck together again.
This time it was longer and more frequent.
Another long wait, ten days, twenty days, thirty days passed, Xiaoqing still had no rabbit embryos, not even one was born.
Autumn is coming to an end, and the two rabbits I raised in spring are still two. It is really unlucky and embarrassing.
Later, I didn’t even like going out to hunt rabbits for food. I simply let them out and found random things to eat in the yard.