Text Chapter 1138: Calculation of Su Li's Alpaca

While Zhou Jiexi was chatting with the bearded man, Ma En, the person in charge of the alpaca area, also rode over. He wasn't on duty today, so Zhou Jiexi didn't see him just now.

As a self-motivated cowboy, Marne of course has to show his boss more about his achievements. Why don't you come over to take a look during the break? Fortunately, he usually does this too, even if it wasn't so early, it wouldn't be too surprising to come here now.

The bearded man went on to say to Zhou Jiexi, "Alpacas generally live for 15-25 years, male alpacas mature at 2.5-3 years old, and female alpacas can have their first mating at 16-20 months old."

"The alpaca is an ovulation-inducing animal and can mate in any season. The only thing that restricts our reproduction speed is that the alpaca is a single-born animal with a long pregnancy period of 10-11 months. If it is the first child , then the gestation period may be longer."

"And the miscarriage rate in the first month is relatively high. It usually occurs during standing during the day. Twins rarely occur. A healthy reproductive alpaca can give birth to a vicuna every year, and it can continue to reproduce for 15 to 16 years. years, and can support 10 vicunas in a lifetime."

The bearded man said this is not to introduce to the boss, he may feel that he has to say something important, his voice has become much higher: "What I said before are all old ideas before, now according to our The progress of the experiment. Multiple births are completely out of the question."

"Currently, we have induced pregnancy on the 23rd ewe alpaca. Six of them have been bred with multiple births. It is strange that three of the other single-born alpacas have been aborted. These multiple births On the contrary, the fetus is very healthy."

Zhou Jiexi's eyes lit up when he heard this. This situation is definitely worthy of recognition. Damn, there used to be only one at a time, but now there are several at a time. This is the best way to speed up the reproduction of the group.

But as an ordinary cheating biologist, he still calmed down. This is not something that other emotes can do. After carefully inhaling and exhaling, he said, "How can this happen? You must know that the chance of alpaca twins is very low. Among them, the most likely thing to cause twins to go bankrupt is the miscarriage of alpacas. Twins are definitely one of the biggest factors in miscarriage."

"According to the laboratory speculation, it is most likely that the food we give the alpaca contains certain elements, so that the nutrients in the ewe alpaca's body are sufficient to supply the nutrients for multiple births in the body, which also prevents pregnancy because of the nutrients. Not enough, causing the alpaca to become weak, and then induce a miscarriage.”

"In the case of insufficient nutrition, the biological instinct of alpacas will eliminate the factors that cause their own death, which is the root cause of miscarriage. But with sufficient nutrition, they can also bear multiple births. "The bearded man told Zhou Jiexi about the situation.

"And the current six pregnant alpacas are Suli alpacas, and the embryo transfer we are doing is Huacaya alpacas. According to the progress, it is a very happy event that they have not miscarried. It’s a matter, but compared with the situation of alpacas being able to give birth to multiple babies, we are not very happy about that, the most important thing is that they still need careful care, and they cannot achieve natural pregnancy and childbirth as usual.”

Zhou Jiexi nodded as well, "Let's go and see those little guys!"

"Good boss!" the bearded man said immediately.

The two walked past the location of the temporary laboratory, and behind it was a semi-outdoor enclosure, which had been divided into several areas. Huacaya alpacas were more beautiful than Suli alpacas, and they were different at a glance.

The stomachs of the six Suli alpacas were already obvious, Zhou Jiexi couldn't help but frown, one of them was in a bad stomach condition. Judging from the current pregnancy period, in the next period of time, it is very likely that the alpaca's foot muscles will be swollen and paralyzed due to the excessive weight in the stomach, and then it will be damaged.

The bearded man also saw Zhou Jiexi's expression: "That's the No. 3 alpaca, and we are keeping an eye on its condition. When we were simply separating the embryos, it matched itself in its body. It's been done now. Had quadruplets."

"What about your health?" Jessie Zhou is also a biology student, more inclined towards biochemistry, plant biology and cell biology. I have a little bit of animal biology, but I have a lot of book memories in my mind. It is not so simple to learn and use.

"At present, its health is not bad. We massage its muscles every day. Make sure it gradually adapts to its stomach and its own weight gain!" said the bearded man, and then waved his hand to signal the assistant to report the data.

The assistant who was sorting out not far away immediately took a document and gave it to him. The bearded man handed it to Zhou Jiexi.

After receiving the report and reading it, Zhou Jiexi was relieved that the situation of the alpaca was not as bad as he thought.

"Keep an eye on this one!" Zhou Jiexi said. "By the way, the nutritional status of these alpacas is very good. From the data, it seems to be much better than Huacaya alpacas!"

"Yes, as for why this happened, we still need some time!" The bearded man said immediately.

Zhou Jiexi nodded. He is also thinking about why now, the data will not lie, the health of the Suli alpaca is indeed better than that of Huacaya, what is the situation, is it that one is expensive and the other is cheap, and the farm makes the difference Treated?

Discrimination?

Zhou Jiexi suddenly thought of something, yes, treat them differently, I am a person who likes to treat them differently. Knowing that Suli alpacas are valuable, he put a lot of life in their pasture area, and sprinkled the pasture seeds of space, and even the water of life in space is faster than Huaca in watering. It's much better over there.

And when I was free, I went to see the alpacas to see the Suli alpacas, and the food for those little guys was almost all food in the space. It is also often fed directly with Bio-Water, not the diluted Bio-Water from the farm.

In this way, it is logical that the health of those Suli alpacas is better than that of Huakayue, and it is no longer a strange thing. The experiment has only been carried out for a short time now, and the distance between two and three months is not very far, so these alpacas are still much better than Huacayue.

After Zhou Jiexi thought of this, he said to the bearded man: "Go and check the pasture area of ​​the Suli alpaca and the pasture area of ​​the Huacaya alpaca. They are located differently. The groundwater used for irrigation is different. There is a difference in the fertility of the soil fee!"

"The pastoral areas are different?" The bearded man obviously didn't think of this: "Aren't they all about the same distance? Is there any difference in this distance?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "There is indeed a difference, buddy, you have to know that Suli alpacas are more valuable, so there is nothing suspicious about the differential treatment on them!"

"Fake, I didn't think of this!" The bearded man was really depressed. He thought there was a difference in the pastoral area that was only so far away. Can this nima still have fun?

Who doesn't have brain cramps, Zhou Jiexi can still forgive him for such a small matter.

After learning about the results of the alpaca scientific research team, he went to the laboratory over there when he had time. Jesse was a little short last week in zoology, but there is also cytology. He has a lot of experience in this regard, first learn more about alpaca embryo transfer technology over there, and he plans to speed up the breeding of a batch of alpacas in the space.

The speed of one life two, two life four is obviously not enough. After mastering multiple births, he can completely breed Suli alpacas in the space that can adapt to multiple births. Although this situation is somewhat unfair and cruel to the first and second generation Su Li alpacas, there is a saying that is good.

Dedicated to science. It's all about progress...

Anyway, scientists can find reasons, and sometimes it doesn't matter if there is no reason. He had planned this matter a long time ago, and the little fairies would help to record the experiment, so he didn't see it for nothing. He will do the early embryo transfer, and then the little fairies will do it.

It is expected that after a few generations of breeding, the Suli alpaca can gradually adapt to the situation of multiple births, and thus create a better alpaca than the bearded alpaca that needs artificially increased breeding. There are definitely some shortcomings in the artificial mode, but creatures themselves can find a way out. Zhou Jiexi believes that he can make the alpaca find a way out to conceive multiple babies.

think about it. The price of a Suri alpaca is several times more expensive than ordinary alpacas. According to the current market price, at least five times the difference. An ordinary alpaca costs about ten thousand dollars. In that case, a Suli alpaca costs more than 50,000 U.S. dollars, and an extra one can add 50,000 U.S. dollars.

Ten would be half a million dollars, and one hundred would be worth five million dollars. In this way, the price is still priceless, and the price for buying and selling Suli alpacas in the market is really expensive. Taking into account the factors that can quickly pay back the cost, the price of Suli alpacas will only be higher and more expensive.

The demand for alpaca wool in the world textile market is also increasing, and the supply of high-grade alpaca wool in the world is still in short supply. Zhou Jiexi felt that if he stepped up a bit, he would definitely be able to grab a piece of this market.

My own farm has nothing else, but it is big enough and broad enough. It's no problem to raise 10,000 to 20,000 alpacas. Even if there are only 2,000 Suli alpacas in the United States, he has no role in raising so many alpacas.

Waiting for my alpaca to live like this in the Tao Te Ching, what age does it have to be born? This year, more than 80 Suli alpacas were born, pushing the number of alpacas to 240. Although there is a plan for ewes, there are only 195. There are more than 80 of them who will not be able to conceive until next year.