Chapter 53

The sun is shining brightly today, making it a good time to check on the eggs.

Shi Wen pulled Yan Kexing outside, and sure enough, they could see something like cotton wool inside the goose egg, which was not very translucent.

Ge Yue craned his neck to the side, but couldn't see anything.

After looking at them for a long time, she muttered, "Don't they all look the same?"

Shi Wen, "Completely different!"

Shi Wen excitedly pulled Yan Kexing to the livestock shed. "There must be other eggs inside, let's go take a look."

Yan Kexing patiently let him pull him inside.

Ge Yue followed him inside.

The family's dogs and two Hu Zai also followed behind, joining in the fun.

So, a large group of guys marched into the livestock shed.

The goose shed in the livestock barn was built by Yan Kexing himself, and because of the cold weather, they lined it with dry straw.

The entire goose shed is now filled with soft, dry hay.

Shi Wen looked around the goose shed and began to understand why he hadn't noticed the goose eggs before.

The geese hid their eggs under the hay, and he hadn't looked closely. With so many geese around, it's perfectly normal that he couldn't find them.

They Shi Wen around and found a total of sixteen goose eggs.

All sixteen goose eggs were fertilized.

Five of them must have fallen this morning; they were still slightly warm.

Shi Wen asked Yan Kexing, "With so many fertilized goose eggs, can we hatch them?"

Yan Kexing: "We can try hatching them, or we can save up a few more over a couple more days and hatch them all together next week, then we can take care of them together."

Shi Wen, "That works too. Our smart incubator looks pretty big; it should be able to incubate thirty or forty eggs."

As he said this, Shi Wen couldn't help but glance at the geese at his feet. "Just how many of these geese are male and how many are female?"

When he bought the goslings, they were too small, and he couldn't tell the difference between male and female geese.

Even now, he still can't quite tell the difference between geese.

Geese are truly difficult creatures to identify.

Yan Kexing: "You want to know? Let me see."

Shi Wen in surprise, "You can watch geese?"

Lin Chengqian couldn't help but interject, "Teacher knows a lot of birds."

Yan Kexing: "It's not difficult. You'll get the hang of it after observing a few more."

Shi Wen at the geese in the goose pen, I couldn't tell them apart at all.

They are all similar in size, color, and even appearance, with no distinctive features.

Yan Kexing picked up the nearest goose, examined it, and said, "A male goose."

Shi Wen believed him wholeheartedly, but still couldn't tell the difference between this goose and the others.

Seeing that he was about to put the goose down, Shi Wen quickly stopped him. "Wait a minute, I'll make a mark!"

Shi Wen quickly ran a few steps, grabbed a can of paint from the fence of the neighboring cowshed, and said, "I'll spray its rear end."

Shi Wen female geese are not.

Yan Kexing distributed the geese one by one, and in no time, all the geese had been distributed.

Shi Wen thirty geese here, including eleven male geese and nineteen female geese.

Shi Wen looked at the goose in front of him.

These geese have grown quite large; when he picked them up just now, he felt that each goose weighed at least twelve or thirteen pounds.

He has been raising these geese for more than half a year, and as poultry, they have reached the stage where they are edible.

Shi Wen looked at the geese on the ground, then at Yan Kexing, and asked with bright eyes, "Eleven male geese, it seems pointless to keep so many. Should we eat a few and keep two or three males for breeding?"

His words were met with strong agreement from Ge Yue and the other two:

"With this cold weather, it's time for a stewed goose in an iron pot!"

"Brother Shi, let us help! Don't let my lack of cooking skills fool you, I'm a master at butchering geese!"

"Me too! I'm really good at plucking feathers! I've been wanting to taste the geese raised on the grasslands for ages."

So everyone looked up at Yan Kexing.

Yan Kexing was stared intently at by four pairs of human eyes, then glanced at the two tiger-like eyes and five dog-like eyes on the ground. "Okay."

Ge Yue immediately cheered, "We're having goose for lunch!"

Chapter 53

Shi Wen been at the ranch for more than half a year, and this is the first time he has been able to eat the pets raised at home. He can't help but be excited.

He specifically chose a large male goose from the goose shed, deciding to eat it for lunch.

Before slaughter, Shi Wen that people and geese were placed on the scale together.

The final weighing result showed that the goose weighed 14.6 jin (approximately 7.8 catties).

Compared to pigs, cattle, and sheep, geese have a significantly lower feed conversion rate.

However, Shi Wen had no complaints. His geese were so easy to raise, not troublesome at all.

When the weather is hot, the geese spend most of their time in the ditches and don't need to be herded back to the shed at night. All he has to do is feed them every few days.

When the weather is cold, they are kept in the livestock shed and fed with feed while feeding other livestock. The pasture is all homegrown, so the cost is extremely low.

Looking back now, with wolves and foxes outside the ranch and eagles and falcons in the sky, it's nothing short of a miracle that not a single goose of theirs was lost.

Perhaps it's because he's Qilin a mythical creature), and therefore has good luck.

After Shi Wen, Shi Wen handed them to Gong Jiang and the other two. "You're slaughtering geese? I need to get the livestock out for some exercise while the weather's nice today; I don't have much free time."

Gong Jiang agreed, "Leave it to us."

"Alright, I'll leave it to you. Once you're done, hand it over to Yan Kexing, and he can take charge of the cooking." Shi Wen turned to Yan Kexing, "Is that alright?"

Yan Kexing asked, "How would you like to eat it?"

Shi Wen was momentarily stumped by the question, "What kinds of ways are there to eat it?"

Yan Kexing: "Fry, deep-fry, cook, stir-fry, stew, braise... whichever you prefer?"

Lin Chengqian timidly raised his hand. "Teacher, is any way of eating it okay?"