It is really difficult for young people today to buy a house of their own without the help of their parents...
In their hometown, a fourth-tier city, the average house price has exceeded 7,500.
Chen Xiao and Chen Chen have high salaries, but it will take many years before they can buy a house and save for a down payment without food or drink.
Crossing the creek in all terrain, the bumpy feeling interrupted Chen Mo's thoughts. The creek used to be a dirt road, with alfalfa gardens on both sides... The alfalfa has been planted for more than two months, and it is growing very well, almost the same as in the space.
, but the demand for water is greater than that of ordinary alfalfa...
Irrigation canals have been dug in this park, and water is often pumped from the facade.
Alfalfa grows very fast, and is harvested once a week on average. The yield is several times that of ordinary alfalfa...
Part of the alfalfa is directly used to feed cattle and sheep, and part of it is crushed to make fermented (silage) feed, which is fed to fattening cattle and chickens.
Slightly larger chickens can eat grass directly. Smaller chickens need to be broken up and fed...and dried in the sun to be used as hay reserves.
This one hundred hectares of alfalfa is enough to feed 600,700 cattle according to Canlby's calculations. Canlby plans to increase the number of cattle on the farm, but the problem is that he no longer has the money to buy cattle.
During this period, many ranches have reduced their breeding stock, and the forage cannot be sold. Instead, they can be sold to several large ranches in Canada near Montana. The problem is that the export of forage requires inspection of this and that... It is very troublesome. Then there is the quantity.
, not particularly much.
Raising cattle is different from raising chickens…
Chickens can take advantage of the time difference in space to reproduce in large numbers. But this is not possible with cows...after all, they are big things.
When cattle are imported from other pastures, each cow has a number plate... As for the cattle bred on their own pasture, when a calf is born, they must report to the Animal Husbandry Bureau and receive a number plate. The number plate is equivalent to an ID card or a birth certificate.
By logging into the website with this number, you can find out the birth and transaction records of the cow, etc...
'Bang……'
There was a gunshot in the distance. It should be Atsol hunting...
The land here in the small valley is fertile, there is relatively abundant water, and there are more wild animals. Such as rabbits, voles, black-tailed prairie dogs, wild boars...
There are also moose here in the snowy mountains. The snowy mountain pastures are all fenced with barbed wire. There should be no moose in the pastures, but a lot of wild boars.
The largest number is the black-tailed prairie dog, which is mainly concentrated in the grasslands of large pastoral areas. The footprints of black-tailed prairie dogs extend from Canada to Mexico. According to Canlby, there used to be no black-tailed prairie dogs in the grasslands around the snow-capped mountains. Recently, there were no black-tailed prairie dogs.
It took a few years to breed, which is super annoying...
There are more voles and rabbits in the small valley, and occasionally wild boars appear.
Athol likes to use a gun when hunting, and his marksmanship is superb. Canlby is a novice in marksmanship, and often makes traps to catch voles and rabbits. Some of the prey he catches is thrown away, and some are made into dried meat to feed the pets at home...
"Boss." Canlby and Athol were driving the car to feed the chickens. Next to them was a shotgun with a scope. This was where the gunfire came from. There was also a gray rabbit missing on the roadside.
Chen Mo stopped the car and asked: "Are there any problems with free-range chickens?"
"They are growing very well, and not a single one is sick. It's just that the chicken coop at the end of the valley was bitten to death by unknown animals yesterday. It might have been a fox..." Athol said.
"There were no foxes in the Snow Mountain Ranch before. Could it be a wild boar?" Canlby shook his head.
"It should be a fox... Just because it didn't exist before doesn't mean it doesn't exist now."
Chen Mo scratched his head: "I think we should check the fence of our pasture again."
Canlby was a little embarrassed. He was responsible for repairing the pasture fence...
The food fed to the chickens is hay mixed with alfalfa and coarse bran, broken beans, corn mixed with fine bran, as well as corn, wheat...
They are fed twice a day, in the morning and afternoon, and at other times they go to the fields to forage for food.
Free-range chickens grow slowly, and this is no exception in snow-capped mountain pastures. However, because there is sufficient food and the nutrients contained in space alfalfa seem to be particularly high, the coat color of free-range chickens is very beautiful. Not only the chickens, but also the ones in the farms
The beef cattle also grow very healthy...
Chen Mo helped San Liang feed the chickens. When he went to the chicken coop at the innermost part of the creek valley, he found that three big chickens had been bitten to death by animals, another one was missing, and several smaller chickens had also been bitten to death.
"Damn." Chen Mo felt very distressed when he saw the chicken that was bitten to death.
A chicken costs dozens of dollars, and if converted into RMB, it costs a few hundred dollars, so don’t worry.
"I think it must be a fox." Athol checked several killed chickens and the bite marks on their bodies.
The tooth marks are all similar, so it was probably done by a fox.
"We must find that fox today. Otherwise, we will have to come out again at night..." Canlby knows the price of these chickens. It is the only one in Montana. The price of three adult reed chickens is almost as much as that of a Dorper sheep.
.In other words, at least three Dorper sheep disappeared in two days...
"Can your shepherd dog track down prey?" Chen Mo looked at Athol.
"Laiken and Silber are shepherd dogs. They are mainly used for herding and cannot pursue prey." Assol shook his head, carefully checked the surroundings, and found a small cluster of red fox fur: "It's really a fox."
Canlby went back to the car and took a plastic bag and carefully packed the fox fur: "You can ask Roosevelt to come over. He has two Plott dogs and they are very good at tracking prey."
Assol slapped his head suddenly: "I'll call him..."
The Plott Hound, a hound breed native to the United States, is suitable for housekeeping and nursing homes, but most of it is still used as a hound for hunting.
Atsol borrowed Chen Mo's car and drove out. There was no signal a little deeper into the valley, so he had to go out and make a phone call...
Canlby still had things to do, so he turned around in his Ford F650 and was about to leave: "Boss, has the restaurant you and Mr. Bai opened in Billings opened?"
"It's on."
"The hundreds of adult farm chickens you bought should have been sold a long time ago. In the past few days, residents in the town have called me to inquire about the price of reed chickens. They are all residents who want to buy them back to taste them..."
"Reed chicken, 35 US dollars per kilogram. Black-bone chicken, 30 US dollars per kilogram, live chicken price. The price is the same for retail and wholesale. Only adult chickens are sold, and they have to be slaughtered on the farm." Speaking of 'Tangxiapin', Chen Mo has been somewhat agitated recently.
Headache.
The restaurant was opened a few days ago, with a loan of US$50,000, and Chen Mo injected more than US$10,000 in proportion to their respective shares.
Opening a restaurant mainly takes time to decorate, find chefs, and train employees...
The expense was huge, but the free tastings were held every three days during this period. Chen Mo bought more than 300 adult chickens, and sold 85 of them at the wholesale price of the ranch, and 70 chickens were free tastings...
Everyone said it was a good idea to try the free tasting, it tasted great, Warigood...
Today is the fourth day since the restaurant opened, and the remaining fifteen chickens seem to have not been sold out. If they are sold out, Bai Xiaoou or Zhang Kun will definitely come here to get the goods...
It's really a pit.
"There are more than 20 Dorper sheep that have reached the weight for slaughter. How many of them should be sent to the slaughterhouse for valuation?"
When I bought the Dorper sheep, half of them were nearly mature.
"Kill the rams and keep the ewes for breeding. You can take care of these things and get a good price... Only if I can make money can I give you a higher salary."
Canlby showed a troubled smile. Even if it was a diamond-quality Dorper sheep, it would be difficult to sell it at a high price during this period, unless the quality of the mutton was particularly good.