King of German Mercenaries

Since he wanted to cultivate horse breeds, Marin felt that he must also pay attention to the feed. For example, the pasture problem.

In Europe at the moment, horses usually eat some common weeds or ryegrass, etc., and occasionally add oatmeal as a nutritious meal, and sometimes eggs.

However, Marin is also a child from the countryside. He knows that although rye grass is also a very good fodder grass, it also depends on the situation.

For example, if ryegrass is harvested before flowering, then ryegrass is a very nutritious pasture. However, in Europe, rye is currently regarded as a staple food, and is generally not harvested until the rye is mature. At this time, most of the essence of your rye went into the rye grain, and the straw part, the nutrition is much poorer. Feeding horses with such ryegrass straws is somewhat nutritious.

Once, Marin heard an uncle who raised dairy cows in his hometown say that feeding dairy cows with alfalfa hay before flowering is much better than using wheat straw and straw. It is said that the daily milk production of a cow can be increased from 23.5 kg to 36.2 kg.

From this, Marin can draw two conclusions - first, alfalfa is really a very good forage variety; second, herbs, once they bloom and bear fruit, nutrients go to the flowers and fruits, and the straw part Nutrition will drop...

Moreover, in his previous life, Marin also saw that farmers had planted alfalfa. That thing could be harvested several times a year, so it was very suitable for pasture. Moreover, nutrition also belongs to the fighter level in the pasture.

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So Marin decided to start growing alfalfa on the island as a forage to go with oats. After all, the yield of oats is too low, and the cost of eating them every day is too high.

And ordinary weeds are not nutritious, and war horses are easy to lose fat after eating them. Therefore, let the war horses usually eat the nutrient-rich alfalfa grass, which is not only rich in nutrients, but also feeds a lot of oats and reduces the cost.

In fact, Marin's best horse food is soybean + alfalfa. Soybeans are more nutritious than oatmeal and can extract oil. Alfalfa can provide rich nutrition to war horses on weekdays, and the taste is also good. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to grow alfalfa.

So, after the spring ploughing, Marin hurriedly sent people to the inland areas to search for alfalfa seeds...

But unfortunately, in this era, European animal husbandry is not developed. Although there are also alfalfa in Europe, but not many people plant them.

In Europe in this era, ordinary people used to raise draught horses directly using aged ryegrass that had been de-grained, and sometimes oats were added.

The wealthy and wealthy families are very lavish in raising war horses, and they mainly focus on oats with low output and high prices...

Therefore, there are people who really specialize in planting high-quality pastures such as alfalfa to raise horses, but there are very few...

Therefore, Marin sent out a lot of people, but they didn't find any alfalfa plant...

After 10 days of knowing, in the Principality of Luxembourg, Marin's men found a horse farm specializing in cultivating war horses, and found alfalfa...

Then, Marin sent someone to buy a few bags of alfalfa seeds at a certain price... That horse farm's asking price is really black, and a bag of alfalfa seeds is actually asking for 10 gold coins, which is simply extortion...

Although the spring ploughing period has passed, there is still a little tail. So, Marin hurriedly mobilized 200 cattle and a large number of manpower, and urgently freed up 100 acres (600 mu) of land to plant these alfalfa seeds. Of course, before planting, enough base fertilizer is applied.

For the 600 acres of alfalfa, Marin did not intend to harvest it several times a year like picking pastures, but directly planned to wait for them to bloom and fruit, and harvest the seeds...

Because, Marin didn't just want 600 acres of alfalfa, but wanted to promote alfalfa on a large scale in his own territory.

Important pasture for horses. Even if there is enough alfalfa grass, Marin intends to let cows and sheep also taste alfalfa grass. In later generations, in those western pastures, cattle and sheep also grew up eating alfalfa grass and became fat and strong...

Horses, like humans, have a very important period of growth and development when they are young. For example, if a person eats poorly during the developmental period, he may not grow taller and be very thin.

This situation is very common. For example, the post-50s, post-60s, and post-70s in China are generally thinner and smaller because of the difficult living conditions when they were young. At that time, a person who could grow to 1.7 meters was considered a big man.

But in the post-80s and post-90s children, because they grew up well, they are a lot taller. When the post-90s grew up, 1.8 meters was nothing, and 1.7 meters was already short.

In the same way, horses also need high-quality pasture and concentrate during the growth period. Otherwise, if you don't eat well during the growth and development period, you may grow into a thin and poor horse.

Therefore, during the growth and development period of horses, horses need the best pasture and concentrate. Of course, the usual horse breeders have to take their horses out for a walk, lest they just eat and grow into fat horses.

If nothing else, Columbus will arrive in India safely and bring back soybean seeds. Then, Marin will find a place to grow soybeans, and at the same time vigorously promote the cultivation of alfalfa grass.

The strongest concentrate soybean, with the strongest grass alfalfa, do not believe that the foal will not grow well after eating. As long as they are well fed, the same batch of Mali will have a much higher probability of being able to become war horses.

At that time, Marin can also pull out a large number of war horses, form several organized cavalry regiments or even several cavalry divisions, and use violent charges and ruthless iron hooves to crush and trample all enemies...

Of course, if you have good forage and no good breeds of horses, it's useless. So, Marin started planning to import some good horse breeds. For example, Arabian horses...

Of course, there are also some good horse breeds in the local area. Such as Hanoverian horses, Holstein horses and Friesian horses...

However, the breeds of these horses have not yet been specifically bred. Because European countries have not yet begun to pay attention to the issue of horse breeds at this time. Moreover, many of these excellent horse breeds that appeared in later generations were mixed with the blood of other high-quality horse breeds. Among them, the most mixed is probably the blood of Arabian horses.

Of course, different times have different requirements for war horses. For example, in this era, the physical requirements for war horses are very high, first of all, they are required to be tall and strong.

Because, a horse that is not tall and strong enough cannot carry a knight in full plate armor...

When the knight class gradually declined in the 16th century, tall and strong were no longer the requirements of war horses. Because, at this time, the cuirassiers and light cavalry, who only wore cuirass and helmets, rose. Therefore, at this time, the requirements of the war horse have changed from being strong and strong to the requirements of speed and endurance. Because the way the cavalry fights has changed from a tough collision to a quick assault...

However, this year, the Plate Knights have not been eliminated. Therefore, while training medium-sized warhorses suitable for cuirassiers and hussars, Marin also took into account the training of heavy warhorses suitable for knights. For example, Sharma is a very important breeding medium...

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