Yang Daozhong in Jiuyuxi: support the mountain, raise sheep to get rich

Yang Daozhong, a 44-year-old villager from Huaishuiping, started from scratch and talked about entrepreneurship endlessly, full of hardships and joy. Before 2011, he worked in Dangyang, Guizhou and other places and earned more than 20,000 yuan. In the second half of 2012, due to the need to take care of elderly parents and children who are about to go to school, they returned to their hometown to start a business. They bought 30 local goats with more than 20,000 yuan earned from part-time work. The couple started a prosperous sheep raising business. The days of poverty are gone forever.

Fate played tricks on people. In the spring of 2013, everything recovered. There was a female sheep that had just been bought back. She screamed a few times, jumped wildly, and her feet were out of breath. Yang Daozhong and his wife were wondering, the second and third happened one after another, 18 died in two days, leaving only 12 ewes. Looking at the dead 18 breeding sheep, the couple wanted to cry but no tears. Yang Daozhong, who insisted or gave up, comforted his wife: "Entrepreneurship will not be smooth sailing, so many sheep have died, it must be our lack of experience, not infectious diseases or poisoning, dissect and see, and then consult the veterinarian." Borrowing money to buy ewes and reinvigorate our sheep business." The autopsy diagnosis is because there is no good epidemic prevention, goats got infectious diseases.

Yang Daozhong and his wife borrowed 12,000 yuan from relatives and friends and bought 19 local female goats. The thriving sheep farming business began again.

Can sheep catch infectious diseases nowadays? Yang Daozhong said: "I have become an expert now. Don't say epidemic prevention at ordinary times, I can even perform surgery. The day before yesterday, a female sheep gave birth to a child. I immediately decided to open a caesarean section. I made a four-inch cut on the mother's belly. I took out the dead lamb in the abdomen and immediately injected the female sheep with anti-inflammatory injection. The female sheep has started eating grass today." We went to the sheep farm to see that a female sheep that had been cut open was indeed grazing. According to Yang Daozhong, in recent years, due to timely epidemic prevention, goats have not been infected with infectious diseases, and the development speed is rapid. In more than three years, more than 250 goats have been developed, and more than 70 goats have been sold in 2015, with an income of more than 60,000 yuan. In 2016, there will be more than 200 goats. It is no problem to buy 80 goats."

"Such a difficult environment. Moving down the mountain and living on this mountain is not connected to the highway, there is no prospect of development at all." The author has not finished, Yang Daozhong categorically denied,"I used to be a village, now only 18 people live all the year round, tens of thousands of acres of land are all deserted, just raising sheep, here are yellow muntjac, green muntjac, Zhangzi, wild breeding, hare, pig badger, wild boar, bees and other wild animals, last year I bought more than 8000 yuan honey alone." There are also Tianma, Huangjiang, Fangfeng, Qianhu, Baiji, Polygonum multiflorum, Qiyezhihua, Dendrobium, Polygonum cuspidatum and other precious herbs. Last year, I bought more than 6000 yuan for Polygonum cuspidatum alone."

"There is one thing that is too strange. One day, I saw a green muntjac weighing about 80 jin mating with a female sheep. That female sheep really gave birth to a small female sheep with black fur. This female sheep is different. First, its fur is black. Second, it is particularly agile and good at running. Third, it is particularly difficult to conceive. It has been two years. I really want to study and see if it is the offspring of that green muntjac. I've already set up a family farm for raising goats. In the later stage, I'm going to study the mating of wild sheep, muntjac and goats. If it can be realized, the meat quality will be better and the market will be better."

What do you want to do with all this sheep shit?" Yang Daozhong said: "There is a way, I immediately planted two acres of Tianding, planted some vegetables, and also three acres of peanuts, peanut stalks for winter feeding." All of them use sheep dung as fertilizer. Sheep dung is natural organic fertilizer. Why go down the mountain to buy chemical fertilizer?"

How can you eat all these vegetables? Yang Daozhong said: "It doesn't matter if you can't finish eating, maybe you don't believe it, I don't lay eggs, there are people who come to travel, last year came three groups, the most... There are 35 people in a group. I cook for free, but tourists want 30 yuan per person. Hahaha, I earned more than 2000 yuan just by traveling. I plan to do a good job of indoor and outdoor hygiene. I'll build a few all-wood stilts next to the mountain. It'll be more comfortable for tourists to play, but if there aren't any tourists, it'll be for myself or visitors to enjoy."

Speaking of his biggest wish in 2016, he said, it takes only about 40 minutes to go up the mountain and go down the mountain faster. I want to build a 1.5-meter-wide safe sidewalk and even a highway.