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What to do about pigeon dysentery? It can be treated with the Chinese herb licorice
When a pigeon suffers from dysentery, its droppings are as thin as water, green with a yellow tinge. The sick pigeon huddles in the coop, drinking large amounts of water but not eating, and its condition worsens by the day. Buy licorice, mash it up and administer it to the sick pigeon by mouth, and also soak licorice in water for the sick pigeon to drink. The next day the droppings had already changed from thin to dry. Continue treating with licorice, and in less than a week the sick pigeon can recover. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica" by Li Shizhen, "Licorice, sweet and neutral in nature and flavor, mainly treats cold and heat pathogenic qi of the five zang and six fu organs, and resolves a hundred toxins," and "treats red and white dysentery, and taken it works immediately."
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Detailed Guide to Mushroom Cultivation with Straw: Quality Mushrooms Can Also Be Grown from Waste Straw
The button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) is currently the most widely artificially cultivated edible fungus. Section 1: Raw Materials and Their Formulas. I. Raw Materials. The main raw materials for cultivating mushrooms are crop straws (such as rice straw, wheat straw, corn stalks, rapeseed stalks, etc.), by-products of agricultural product processing, wild grasses, and poultry and livestock manure, etc. In addition, a certain amount of mineral elements is added. II. Formula. (Based on 0.25 mu of planting area and 1,000 sq ft of net sowing as the unit of measurement.) In the case where no urea is used, it can be replaced by 60 jin of compound fertilizer with N, P, K at 15-15-15, or 120 jin of compound fertilizer with N, P, K at 13-5-7.
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New Technique for Whole-Seed Potato Cultivation with Plastic Mulch and Double Rows on High Ridges
1. Reasonable crop rotation and stubble reversal To economically and effectively utilize soil fertility and prevent soil-borne diseases, pests, and weeds, avoid continuous potato cropping or planting potatoes on the stubble of other root and tuber crops. Also, do not rotate with other Solanaceous crops such as eggplant and tomato, otherwise yields will be reduced by 15%-20%. Potatoes can be rotated with cereal crops and legume crops for more than 3 years. 2. Land preparation and ridge formation Potatoes are suitable for planting in deep, loose soil, with deep plowing and fine land preparation. After harvesting the previous crop, promptly clear the stubble, plow deeply about 25 cm
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Intercropping insect-resistant cotton with potatoes: both crops can achieve high yields
In recent years, the model of intercropping potatoes with insect-resistant cotton has been welcomed by the people. According to surveys, this model not only enables cotton to achieve high yields (lint yield of 90-100 kg per mu), but also "freely" yields an extra 1500-2000 kg of potatoes per mu. The key cultivation techniques are as follows. I. Potatoes ① Seed selection and sprouting. It is advisable to choose early-maturing, short-stalked, high-yielding virus-free varieties, such as Holland No. 7, Jinyin No. 8, etc., using 80-90 kg of seed potatoes per mu. In mid-February, cut the seed potatoes into pieces (each kg cut into 40-50 pieces) and use a sunny cold frame or greenhouse
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No More Struggles When Giving Your Puppy Medicine: Practical Methods to Handle It with Ease
If your beloved dog is a very obedient puppy, then when giving it pills or other solid medications, you should first command it to sit properly. Open the puppy's mouth, then as quickly as possible place the pill deep in its mouth, then gently close its lower jaw, lift its head upward, and stroke its neck to help the puppy swallow the pill. This process may take a few seconds. However, one of the best methods is to hide the pill (or crush the pill into powder) in food the puppy loves to eat
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How to make pan-fried fish with sauce taste delicious? Detailed steps
1) Clean one trout and make a few cuts on both sides so it absorbs the flavor more easily. 3 scallions, cut diagonally into sections. 2) Stuff most of the scallion sections into the trout's belly, coat both sides well with light soy sauce, and marinate for about 20 or 30 minutes. 3) Prepare the dipping sauce: half a spoonful of Liubiju dried paste + diluted with boiling water + a small half spoonful of brown sugar + a small half of a chopped hot pepper + minced ginger + a few drops of fish sauce. This sauce was something I mixed at random, and it turned out quite tasty, with a very strong savory bean paste aroma. Originally it was supposed to use some kind of "tamarind sauce," but I did not
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Recipe for Sliced Prawns in Superior Broth: tender, smooth, and delicious with a fresh, savory broth
Ingredients: 3 prawns, 1 piece of fried dough stick, 4 lettuce leaves, 1 scallion. Seasonings: a little flour, 1 tablespoon cooking wine, 5 cups superior broth, 1 teaspoon salt, a little pepper. Method: 1. Shell the prawns, pull out the digestive tract, rub with flour to remove the slime, rinse with clean water, pat dry, then slice thinly; 2. Chop the fried dough stick, return it to the pan and fry until crisp, remove and drain off the oil, spread it in a bowl, then add shredded lettuce and chopped scallion, and lay the sliced
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Potato tubers infected with Phytophthora cause cellar rot
Symptoms: Slightly sunken dark or purple lesions appear in patches on the surface of the tubers, extending less than 1cm into the tuber. White mold is generally not easy to see, but when humidity in the cellar is high, white mold grows on the diseased area, which is the pathogen's sporangiophores and sporangia. This causes cellar rot. For the pathogen, transmission routes and disease conditions, see Potato Diseases - Potato Late Blight. For control methods, see Potato Dry Rot.
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Home-style recipe for spicy pork intestine boiled fish, delicious and great with rice
Ingredients for pork intestine boiled fish: pork intestine, grass carp, Pixian douban (fermented broad bean paste), ginger, scallion, garlic, dried chili, sesame oil, celtuce, garlic sprouts, Chinese celery. Method: wash the pork intestine using a special method, then cut into small sections; slice the grass carp into fillets, marinate with salt, yellow rice wine and shredded ginger, and marinate the head and tail separately on another plate; stir-fry celtuce and other ingredients as the base; add the seasonings to the wok and stir-fry, and once the aroma comes out, add the head and tail, fish fillets and pork intestine, and cook them together in a secret-recipe sauce pot. Features: pork intestine and boiled fish are mostly seen "fighting alone", but now the two are combined in one pot,
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Sprouted grain is a high-quality feed for raising fish, with good feeding results
Feeding fish with sprouted grain has the advantages of a wide range of raw materials, simple preparation, rich nutrition, strong palatability, convenient feeding, and low cost. In addition, it can ease the shortage of concentrated feed and green feed, making it a fish feed worth promoting. Sprouted grain is rich in vitamins and carotene. Raising fish with sprouted grain can promote the transformation of nutrients and metabolism in the fish body, and enhance the skin's antibacterial ability. It is especially important for the pre-spawning conditioning of feeding fish such as grass carp, carp, and bream, and can increase the spawning rate, fertilization rate, and survival rate. The preparation and feeding methods of sprouted grain are introduced below:
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