After chatting for a while, Aunt Phil asked: "Where is the cow you bought?"
"Over there, I'll rent a car first. The trailer I brought is relatively small and can only hold ten of them. If you squeeze them in, you can only hold twelve at most. There are eight more that don't have a car to pull them," Zhang Chi said.
"How big is the cow?" Aunt Phil asked.
"Calf, three to four hundred pounds," Zhang Chi replied.
"Let's go, take me to take a look first. We also drove here to see if it can be loaded. If it can be loaded, don't rent a car. Anyway, we will put the car back empty." Aunt Phil said cheerfully
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When Zhang Chi heard this, he immediately nodded: "Okay, I'll take you and Phil to see it first."
So the three of them went to the pen where Guan Zhangchi photographed the calf.
Phil took one look and said: "No problem, just pull out the middle partition of our trailer and we can load these cows. Fortunately, the cows are not big."
Phil turned around and asked again at what price Zhang Chi paid for the cattle.
Upon hearing Zhang Chi's quotation, Phil said: "It's not cheap, but it's not too expensive either."
"Just raise twenty cows?" Aunt Phil knew how big Zhang Chi's new pasture was. Generally speaking, two or three acres of pasture can support one cow, which means that Zhang Chi's pasture must have at least more than one hundred cows.
Meet the standards.
Of course, you can also raise more, but according to normal calculations, you have to consider the cost of changing farms or buying winter fodder in winter.
Although Aunt Phil's family does not raise cattle, there is no shortage of pastures near the farm. It can be said that she knows the operation of general pastures better than Zhang Chi does now.
Aunt Phil has a cheerful temperament and is just like Zhang Chi's aunt. There is nothing else but a lot of friends.
"Then stop talking nonsense, Phil, go and clean up our trailer," Aunt Phil said to her husband.
Look at Aunt Phil treating her husband like a servant.
Phil didn't say much. Hearing this, he turned around and headed to where he parked his car.
Zhang Chi saw that he couldn't just stand there stupidly, so he followed him.
"It's okay, you're a newbie and you don't understand. He often does this all by himself." Aunt Phil stopped Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi laughed and said, "That won't work either. Why don't I learn how to do this work? I'll help you."
Aunt Fei looked at Zhang Chi and said, "No wonder your aunt said that if Xiao Wu could worry less than you, she would be able to laugh in her dreams. Okay, let's go together."
When the three of them arrived at the parking lot, Zhang Chi realized that Aunt Phil's trailer was really not small. Not only was the trailer not small, but the car towing the trailer was also not small. The pickup truck was an F550.
The first impression this guy gave Zhang Chi was that he was as big as a hill. Good guy, if there was no ladder to get on, Zhuo Chi felt like he was climbing onto a big truck.
"Aunt, this car is so exciting!" Zhang Chi praised.
Phil grinned to the back of his head when he heard this, and he opened his mouth to introduce Zhang Chi.
"This guy's 6.7-liter V8 diesel...".
Whether it's American men or Chinese men, most of them can't get enough of it when talking about cars. After hearing Zhang Chi's compliments, Phil started talking to Zhang Chi.
The big guy is not only powerful, but also expensive. Anyway, Zhang Chi likes it very much, but the money in his pocket makes Zhang Chi look unkind at all.
So Yichi could only think to himself: If we have money, let’s buy one too! This car is so special and awesome.
"It's so good," Aunt Phil said: "Every time I get in the car, it's difficult. If he hadn't been insisting on buying it, and I've been talking about it for almost half a year, I wouldn't want to buy this big guy. Driving it on the road is like driving a tank.
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She said this, but there was pride in Aunt Phil's eyes. She had built a family from a small farm of about thirty acres in more than ten years.
"Hurry up, it's getting late. Please help me pull out the middle panel and go home." Aunt Fei said when she saw her husband pulling Zhang Chi to show off his car.
When Phil heard this, he continued to work.
Look at this, Phil has been trained to get better and better.
Now I guess Phil also understands that he is a dozen or so steps behind his wife in terms of business. He just works by himself and doesn't have the ability to care about anything else.
After removing the middle panel of the trailer, the two-layer trailer that originally contained pigs became one layer, just enough to accommodate Zhang Chi's newly purchased calf.
When we arrived at the fence, we drove the calves into the car with the help of the staff. Finally, we found that the trailer was loaded with fifteen cows, and the trailer I brought had to load the remaining five cows.
After loading the car, Zhang Chi's pickup truck was in front, and Phil and his wife's super pickup truck was behind. The two vehicles drove towards Zhang Chi's ranch.
It wasn't dark yet when I got home.
After entering the pasture, Zhang Chi and Phil drove the cows off the trailer together. There were no cowsheds anyway, and the weather was not cold, so the cows would be fine if left outside.
That won't work if it's winter. It's ten or twenty degrees below zero outside, and the calf will have to freeze to death.
The calves were a little scared when they arrived at the new place. They all crowded together and hid in a small forest, not eating grass but just squeezing together.
"Auntie, let's go have a meal and I'll treat you."
The aunt was kind enough to help. She saved money on the trailer, but she couldn't save money on food. So now Zhang Chi didn't care whether Maverick was scared or not, and opened his mouth to treat Phil and his wife to dinner.
Aunt Phil smiled and said: "You better forget it. What's the wrong way to use the money for food? Okay, when your ranch makes money, we will definitely treat you to a good meal. Don't do these frivolous things now."
It’s over, raising your cows honestly is better than anything else, let’s go.”
"Auntie, I have to give you the gas money even if you don't have food," Zhang Chi said.
"Now that I'm saying this, I'm worried about you. It's all about money. You're a child that I've watched grow up. Besides, we have to go home. What gas money did we give you? Okay, take a good look at you.
The cow. We Chinese people who are away from home must not take care of each other a little bit?"
As she spoke, her aunt pulled Phil, who had finished closing the trailer door, back into the car.
Before leaving, he waved happily to Zhang Chi.
After sending Phil and his wife away, Zhang Chi returned to his pasture and looked at the calves hiding in the woods. Twenty calves were crowded together. Except for mooing, no one lowered their head to eat grass.
Moo!
"What the hell, you won't be able to go back in the future. You will grow meat in my pasture. Once the meat grows, it will depend on your performance whether you will kill it or make it into breeding cattle."
Zhang Chi said to the calves with a smile.
Among the first batch of calves bought today, five or six are bulls, and the rest are all heifers. Bulls raise meat, and cows naturally raise calves.
Looking at the group of calves, Zhang Chi suddenly felt that he had calculated in his mind, this year there will be fifteen heifers, and next year there will be fifteen cows with calves, even if they give birth to half a baby.
Cows, then the year after next there will be twenty cows and twenty calves...
Good guy, the more you calculate, the more beautiful it becomes!
Goo!
The growling of his stomach pulled Zhang Chi out of his dream, and he rubbed his stomach. Only then did Zhang Chi remember that he had eaten a burrito at around noon that day.
Back at the RV, Zhang Chi took out the pots and bowls and started frying steak for himself. After filling his stomach, it was already dark.
I lay down on the bed and looked around for some livestock auctions over there. I wanted to sleep, but I was worried about the calf I just bought, so I got up and picked up a flashlight. At the same time, I put a saddle on Chiyanshan and rode.
The horse ran towards the grove where the calf hid during the day.
When they arrived at the grove, Zhang Chi took a flashlight and found that the calves were still lying together in the woods. However, the good thing was that some calves kept moving their mouths, apparently digesting forage.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Chi felt relieved.
Went back to the RV and slept until dawn.
The next morning, Chi Yanshan still acted as an alarm clock. At one o'clock, he started knocking on Zhang Chi's window, waiting for Zhang Chi to get up. After washing, he ate something, and then everyone and the horse began to run.
When there are cows in the pasture, the first thing to do is to see the cows.
The calves, who were a little scared yesterday, became more lively today. They walked out of the woods one by one, but they were not far from the woods. They were just on the grass near the woods, eating the green grass happily.
Riding on the horse, Zhang Chi counted them and found that there were twenty in total, with no more than one and not too many. The calves ate grass happily, and Zhang Chi's mood improved accordingly.
Riding Chiyanshan, Zhang Chi continued to drive around, and when he reached the fence, Zhang Chi couldn't help but frowned again. His small fence was too stretched.
There is no way to stretch the cows. Now Zhang Chi has to save every penny he has, at least until the cows can be sold.
Thinking of selling cattle, Zhang Chi thought of his own gourd. There would be no problem in growing grass on the gourd. Zhang Chi had tried it many times.
I'm just waiting to bring back the spray drone when I go to Los Angeles this time, and then slowly adjust the ratio of water to water so that my pasture will grow faster and not be too noticeable.
But that’s all for another day.
This thought made Zhang Chi remember that he was going to be a silly model for someone soon. When the time came, he would pay 7,000 yuan. He would pay Brother Wu 700 yuan in economic expenses according to the industry price, and he could take the remaining money.
Come and repair this fence properly. No matter what happens, these standing poles will have to be replaced. As it stands, it will probably be difficult to stop even a wild deer, let alone any wild animals.
After returning to the RV, Zhang Chi remembered that there was one important thing he had not done, that is, the calf was already in place. He had to tap the ration stamp of his own ranch on the calf, otherwise it would run into someone else's.
It’s not easy to get our family’s pasture back either.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi drove into the car and drove towards the small town.
When Zhang Chi returned to the ranch, there was a plastic box in the car containing dry ice.
After coming back, I rode directly up Chiyan Mountain, brought a dry refrigerator and my homemade soldering iron, and came to the side of the cattle.
Just as he was about to dismount, Zhang Chi noticed that as soon as the calf saw him approaching, he immediately turned around and ran away.
How fast did Zhang Chi think a half-sized calf could run? Who knew that these guys with their four short legs were not slow at all.
The chase continued until lunch time, but Zhang Chi didn't even catch up.