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How should we treat food with tenderness
On November 24th, your newspaper's commentary page published the article "Every Grain of Food Deserves to Be Treated with Tenderness," which provided some little-known and shocking figures. This confirms the lament of a German scholar: "China is the world's largest poor country, and also the world's largest
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Is Softened Asparagus Bad? Learn How to Pick Fresh, Tender Spears and Understand Their Nutrition
In Europe and America, asparagus is a highly iconic spring ingredient, and for many gourmands it is a top-tier delicacy that must be enjoyed in spring. For a long time, asparagus has been called the king of vegetables, and in the Shennong Bencao Jing asparagus was also listed as "above the top grade," because it contains relatively high fiber
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How to Grow Fennel Seeds? Detailed Guide to Planting Methods and Precautions
The stems and tender leaves of fennel can be used as a vegetable, while the seasoning fennel is the dried mature fruit of the fennel plant. So, how do you grow fennel seeds? 1. Sowing methods ①Direct sowing has two methods: winter sowing (baodan) and spring sowing. For winter sowing, before the previous winter, sow the seeds into frozen farmland that has been pressed with salt and has suitable moisture (in the Kashgar reclamation area, November 25 to December 5, or using a 3 cm soil temperature below 5°C as the indicator), and harvest in the second year. Spring sowing is sowing, managing, and harvesting in that spring (the degree to which the spring sowing time is advanced has a non-linear positive correlation with fennel yield).
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Can bamboo shoot strips be eaten raw in a cold salad? You'll understand after reading this
Fresh, tender, and crisp, you can never get enough. As the saying goes, "when tasting freshness, none can compare to spring bamboo shoots" - even Emperor Taizong of Tang back in the day longed for spring bamboo shoots day and night. Every year when spring bamboo shoots hit the market, he would rush to summon his ministers to a "bamboo shoot banquet." Generally, cold bamboo shoot strips refer to spring bamboo shoots, so can bamboo shoot strips be eaten raw in a cold salad?
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Is ya cai a "trigger food"? Read this and you'll understand
Ya cai is made by shredding the tender stems of mustard greens into strips and pickling them, and comes in two kinds: salty and sweet. Salty ya cai is produced in Nanxi and Luzhou in Sichuan and Yongchuan in Chongqing; sweet ya cai is produced in Yibin, Sichuan, formerly known as Xufu ya cai, and is now sold widely in Sichuan as well as in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places. In Sichuan, the salty kind is more common
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How to cultivate snake gourd for high yield? Detailed explanation of key planting techniques
Snake gourd is eaten as a vegetable mainly for its tender fruit, but the tender leaves and young stems are also edible. The tender gourd is rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals; its flesh is soft, with a slight unpleasant odor, but once cooked it turns fragrant and slightly sweet. Snake gourd is cool in nature and enters the lung, stomach and large intestine
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How to Keep River Crabs Alive: Farming Methods to Improve the Survival Rate
River crab flesh is tender and nutritious, and is deeply loved by people. Many people, during river crab season, buy many river crabs and keep them at home to eat slowly. So how do you keep river crabs alive? 1. To keep them at home, use a basin,
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A Detailed Guide to the Cultivation Techniques and Management Methods of Crown Daisy
Crown daisy is fresh, fragrant, tender and crisp, with the clear scent of mugwort and the sweet fragrance of chrysanthemum. Its carotene content exceeds that of ordinary vegetables, being 1.5 to 30 times that of cucumber and eggplant. It is cultivated in all parts of our country, so what are the cultivation techniques for crown daisy? 1. Land selection and soil preparation Cultivating crown daisy
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Key Technical Points and Scientific Feeding Management Methods for Hu Sheep Farming
Hu sheep meat is tender and delicious, with no gamey odor. The slaughter rate of adult sheep is 40~50%. The Hu sheep farming technique video is introduced below. Daily Management of Hu Sheep. 1. Maintain Good Environmental Hygiene. Sheep prefer a dry and clean environment and are most afraid of damp pastures and pens. A damp environment easily causes sheep to develop parasitic diseases, foot rot, or contract other diseases. To keep sheep healthy and lively, the pen should preferably use slatted flooring; if ordinary ground is used, feces and urine must be removed promptly every day, and dry soil or other dry, loose bedding material should be spread on it. Especially in rainy and humid weather, feces and urine must be cleared at all times, the pen swept, and ventilation maintained, so that the pen always keeps a dry environment with fresh air and suitable temperature conditions. In a damp and unsanitary environment, sheep appear restless, bleat, sometimes have reduced appetite, and are prone to respiratory diseases and foot rot. Sheep like to eat clean forage and drink clean water; they would rather endure hunger and thirst than eat dirty grass or drink dirty water. Therefore, feed troughs, hay racks, hay baskets and other equipment should be cleaned frequently, kept clean, and after use the remaining forage and feed should be promptly swept away, and the equipment turned over to prevent sheep from jumping on top and defecating or urinating on it or lying on it and soiling it. Water troughs or water basins should be cleaned every day and also regularly disinfected with a 0.1% potassium permanganate solution, so that they remain clean and sanitary at all times, and clean fresh drinking water is always available for sheep to drink at any time.</p><p></p><p>2. Regularly Disinfect the Pen. Sheep pens should be disinfected regularly. Hot plant ash or quicklime powder can be spread inside the pen, or the following chemicals can be used to disinfect the pen and equipment:</p><p>1. 0.5% peracetic acid solution: used for spraying the ground, walls, feed troughs, etc.</p><p>2. 1%~2% sodium hydroxide solution: used for disinfecting pens, ground and equipment contaminated by bacteria and viruses. However, this product is corrosive; when disinfecting the pen, sheep should be driven out, and only after half a day, after flushing the feed troughs and ground with clean water, may the sheep enter the pen.</p><p>3. Youlüjing (organic chlorine disinfectant): use a 0.5~1% aqueous solution for disinfecting livestock housing, excrement and water. A 2.5~10% solution is used to kill spores.</p><p>4. Yikang (chlorine dioxide disinfectant): dilute at 1:400~800 and spray the pen, ground, etc.</p><p>In mosquito and fly season, pesticide solutions to kill mosquitoes and flies should also be sprayed, such as cypermethrin, dichlorvos, miewenling, mieyingling, etc., to eliminate mosquitoes and flies. However, safety must be noted to prevent accidental harm to the flock.</p><p></p><p><strong>Symptoms and Diagnosis of Prenatal Anorexia in Ewes</strong></p><p>>In prenatal anorexia of ewes, the animal is depressed, prefers lying down, has dry feces, accelerated heartbeat and even irregular rhythm, branch-like congestion of the ocular conjunctiva, and no elevated body temperature; the course of disease lasts several days. Necropsy shows varying degrees of congestion of the gastrointestinal mucosa, catarrhal inflammation of the stomach and part of the intestinal tract, slight enlargement and congestion of the spleen, and a brittle, easily broken, yellowed liver.</p><p>Prevention and Treatment of Prenatal Anorexia in Ewes</p><p>Use 20~30 milliliters of berberine injection (each milliliter containing 20 milliliters of berberine) for intramuscular injection in ewes, once each morning and evening every day; mild cases recover in 1 day, while severe cases can recover after 2~3 days. In addition to timely intramuscular injection of berberine, ewes should also be given appropriate exercise and fed a suitable amount of easily digestible complete feed and stomachic agents.</p><p></p><p><strong>Handling of Ewes with No Milk</strong></p><p>Brown sugar method to promote milk: 200 grams of brown sugar, 5 eggs. Break the eggs into a bowl, add the sugar and stir well, then add a small amount of concentrate and mix to feed the sheep; milk production increases after 5 hours;</p><p>Peanut method to promote milk: 200 grams of shelled peanuts, 4 eggs. Break the eggs into a pot and stir well, add the peanuts and water to cook porridge, and feed in 2 portions.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ten Major Advantages of Hu Sheep</strong></p><p>1. Tolerant of roughage: can use silaged corn stalks and weeds year-round.</p><p>2. Fully housed: not only adapted to pen raising but can also be raised at high density; the sheep shed does not need an exercise yard.</p><p>3. Tolerant of damp heat: Hu sheep have extremely strong tolerance to damp heat and rarely get sick.</p><p>4. Early sexual maturity: generally can be bred at 6 months of age</p><p>5. Estrus in all four seasons: after many years of selective breeding, Hu sheep can come into estrus and be bred in all four seasons, making three births in two years or two births in one year possible for Hu sheep.</p><p>6. Many lambs: generally 3 lambs at most for more than 2 litters.</p><p>7. Ewes have large milk production and good mothering ability: during lactation, ewes not only let their own lambs suckle but also let other lambs suckle.</p><p>8. Timid and docile, easy to manage: both male and female Hu sheep are polled, do not like to fight, and do not like to jump out of the pen, which reduces infrastructure investment and facilitates management.</p><p>9. Fast growth and development: the average body weight of male and female Hu sheep at 6 months of age is 36.67 kilograms.</p><p>10. Strong adaptability: not afraid of cold in winter, not afraid of heat in summer; climate change does not affect growth.</p><p></p><p>Farming is hard work; profits can be made, but it is bitter, tiring, and requires large working capital, so please consider carefully~</p>
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Detailed Explanation of Small-Tailed Han Sheep Breeding Methods and Technical Key Points
The meat of the Small-Tailed Han sheep is tender, with intramuscular fat showing a marbled pattern, moderate fat and lean, delicious and juicy, rich but not greasy, fresh without a gamey taste. It is also nutritious, high in protein, low in cholesterol, and rich in various amino acids, vitamins, and mineral elements essential to the human body.
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