Truck drivers are really pretty good. At least Zhang Chi thinks they are pretty good. They can drive such a big guy to his ranch. If Zhang Chi were to do it, he might have to get stuck in the truck in front of his house.
On the road.
The truck driver didn't talk nonsense to Zhang Chi either.
When we got there, we didn't go deep into the pasture. We parked the truck almost right where we could turn around in the pasture.
As soon as the baffle of the rear compartment was lowered, it was a jumping bridge, and the calves who were originally crowded in the carriage stepped out of the carriage one by one.
"Are you the rancher who receives the goods?"
The truck driver found Zhang Chi with a list.
Zhang Chi smiled and nodded repeatedly: "I am, thank you."
"You're welcome, sign here, and then click on the calf on my car. The total is...the list is here."
The driver didn't have time to talk to Zhang Chi. After this trip, he had to rush to another place to load the goods before dark. For a truck driver, every minute tastes like money.
Zhang Chi signed his name and began to count the calves.
There was a lot at one end and not much at the other. After clearing the car, the driver closed the rear door and walked away in a hurry.
Next, continue counting.
The last driver had an Asian face, which made Zhang Chi think he was one of our own. Who would have expected that he was actually a stick man? Zhang Chi had no interest in the stick man, so he just signed and left without making any further conversation.
After all the trucks left, Zhang Chi began to feel distressed again, not for the calf, but for his family's pasture.
The large trucks are very heavy, so when they enter the pasture, they naturally leave two tracks. For five large trucks, that is ten tracks, and they are almost 20 centimeters deep into the soil.
Zhang Chi looked at it and felt that it was like a twenty-centimeter hole in his heart.
"This is a big deal!"
Zhang Chi didn't know what to say for a while.
Old Xu was also a lively person. When he saw so many calves being transported at once, he came to Zhang Chi with a smile.
"Bought all the calves at once?"
Lao Xu works in construction, and he can't tell whether a cow is good or bad because it's not his job scope.
"No, only about a third of it has arrived, and there are still two thirds on the way. It will all be here tomorrow," Zhang Chi said.
Lao Xu felt a little dumbfounded and asked: "How big is your ranch?"
"Don't you know, it's more than five hundred acres?" Zhang Chi was a little surprised by his question.
Lao Xu thought he had remembered it wrong, so he opened his mouth and asked again: "Do you have other pastures?"
"No, it's just this one. It's hard to buy this one, how can I think of anything else," Zhang Chi replied.
Lao Xu blinked a few times and muttered: "Did I remember it wrong?"
"What did I remember wrong?"
"I seem to have heard that if it is pasture, one cow usually takes three or four acres. Your 500-acre pasture will support thousands of cows? Are you going to buy fodder for feeding?" Lao Xu said.
Zhang Chi nodded and replied, "What else?"
He bought a few fodder, but Lao Xu asked, if he said he didn't need to buy fodder, wouldn't it be scary? How could he explain this to him? Besides, he had no obligation to talk to Lao Xu about this.
"Forage is not cheap now," Lao Xu said.
"I didn't expect you to know much about these things." Zhang Chi smiled.
Lao Xu said: "You have forgotten that I am planning to buy land and have also seen the pasture."
After a pause, Lao Xu gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up: "You still dare to think."
There was no way. Even Lao Xu, who had never raised cattle, was overwhelmed by Zhang Chi's generosity. He raised a thousand cows on more than 500 acres of pasture, and two cows on one acre of grassland. You can eat the fodder as you please.
How long is it? It can hold up two cows.
Don't tell me, Zhang Chi's pasture is where you eat and grow, but you just can't tell others.
Zhang Chi was not prepared to explain anything to Lao Xu. As soon as he built the house, they might become friends after the house was built, but there were some things that he couldn't discuss with friends.
"There is not enough grass in the pasture, so just buy it. If the price goes up, there is always a certain amount. If the price of grass increases, the price of beef will also go up, right? So the rancher can't jump in?" Zhang Chi said with a smile.
What do you want Lao Xu to say after saying this? Lao Xu looked at Zhang Chi with admiration and prepared to go back and build a house honestly.
After just two steps, Old Xu opened his mouth and said: "The cowshed you built can't accommodate more than a thousand cows. When winter comes, it will be more than 20 degrees below zero, and sometimes it can even reach 30 degrees. You
These cows can't do without a cowshed. And even if there is a cowshed, you can't do it alone. One cow can make you more than ten kilograms of shit in a night. If you count more than a thousand cows, it's tons.
shit”.
Zhang Chi really hasn't thought about this, because he has never thought about how these thousand cows will survive the winter. Now he just wants to get these calves back first, and then - the boat will naturally straighten up when it reaches the bridge!
If any experienced old cowboy knew that Zhang Chi had this idea, he would definitely be furious. This is a thing that doesn't understand anything. How did it get into the ranks of our ranchers?
Well!
"We'll see when the time comes. When we have money, we can build a bullpen," Zhang Chi said.
"This kind of cowshed requires more than one roof, at least two are needed to accommodate so many cows," said Lao Xu.
Seeing that Zhang Chi was a little surprised, Lao Xu added: "The cows can't be crowded in the cowshed like cans. The cows must have space. How can the cows eat when they are milked?"
"Let's talk about it then," Zhang Chi said again.
Lao Xu has completely lost his temper now.
Go back and continue working. After all, it's not his ranch. People are not anxious about these things. Why should he be anxious?
Zhang Chi looked at these calves, delighted!
But he soon discovered the problem, that is, when the twenty calves came, they were scared for a long time, but when this group of calves arrived at his pasture, they began to eat grass after a while, and they did not
I don't know if these calves have gotten used to the new environment or something, but at least they are much bolder than the previous batch of calves.
Of course, the calves are much stronger than this batch of calves.
Originally, Zhang Chi was a little afraid of the two groups of calves mixing together, but after observing for a while, he found that the two groups of calves showed no signs of coming together. They each grazed on a piece of land, with an obvious dividing line in the middle.
After the calf ate grass, Zhang Chi felt relieved and returned to the pasture to continue watering the pasture with a drone.
The group of people who built the house were surprised when they heard that Zhang Chi had bought more than 900 calves. Many people had no idea about raising more than 900 calves on 500 acres of land. They looked at the previous issue
They thought that one-third of the calf that arrived was only a small amount, and it would not show up in the entire pasture.
It’s just that they didn’t think about it. It’s impossible for a group of cows to graze in one place, and there is no way to eat in one place. Not to mention the problem of grass, a group of cows can defecate together and cover the pasture.
Therefore, generally speaking, pastures need a recovery time for the grass and a digestion time for the cow dung.
You have to wait for the cow dung to decompose, so at this time, some of nature's porters, such as insects, etc. will come on stage.
What is the concept of Zhang Chi? As a novice rancher, his professional knowledge is actually the same as his academic qualifications. Having it almost means not having it.
But the good thing is that he has a gourd, which silently solves a lot of problems for him that are beyond his knowledge.
When the first batch of calves was transported into the ranch, the cowboys outside just laughed at Zhang Chi.
Waiting for the next day, when the second batch of calves arrived at the ranch, the cowboys in the town thought that George was not normal. When the third batch of calves arrived in the evening, the cowboys in the town realized that George was not in his right mind.
I was so shocked that I couldn't speak.
Nearly a thousand calves and 500 acres of pasture, how dare you buy so much!
In the evening, Zhang Chi drove his pickup truck to the bar in the town.
He wanted to find someone to ask how he could buy cheap and good-quality forage. He didn't plan to use it. Even if it was to spread the news, he had to show off, otherwise he would have to raise a thousand head on these 500 acres of land.
When the calf comes, it’s too scary.
This is one of the smoke bombs released by Zhang Chi. Besides, I saved some money by buying calves. It doesn’t matter if I use part of it to buy some fodder. It doesn’t need more. One or two cars are enough to show off.
enough.
Parked the car in the parking lot.
There were a lot of people in the bar at this time, much more than when he came last afternoon. Not to mention the cars and horses parked in the open space in front of the bar, it was estimated that there were more than a dozen people in the small bar.
After getting out of the car, Zhang Chi stood at the door of the small bar, reached out and pushed open the two small doors.
The originally lively bar suddenly became quiet when Zhang Chi walked in. All the cowboys inside looked at Zhang Chi blankly, as if they had seen some extraordinary peep show.
Zhang Chi was a little unaccustomed to it, but he bit the bullet and pretended that nothing had happened. He came to the empty seat on the bar counter and sat down on the high stool.
Zhang Chi looked at the female boss Kimberly and said, "Bring me a bottle of beer!"
Just as Zhang Chi finished speaking, the bar started to get noisy again, but it was much quieter than when Zhang Chi came in, when the cowboys were chatting.
Kimberly handed Zhang Chi a bottle of beer and asked casually: "George, you bought a lot of calves."
"It's not too much," Zhang Chi replied casually.
"Fattening?" asked an old cowboy sitting not far from Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi said: "That's right."
After hearing this, the old cowboy stopped talking and continued to drink the whiskey in his hand with his head down. From time to time, he would reach out and take the snacks in the editor's basket in front of him to suppress the smell of strong alcohol in his stomach.
Zhang Chi was about to ask Kimberly where to buy cheap hay bales when he looked up and saw the small blackboard behind Kimberly. It read the odds, how much he would lose if he failed, and how much he would lose if he survived for one year.
Kimberly saw Zhang Chi looking at the small blackboard behind her and said with a smile: "Everyone is betting on the future of your ranch."
Zhang Chi smiled after hearing this and didn't take it seriously. Apart from working, these cowboys probably only have this hobby. Of course, other hobbies are quite expensive, so this is a good hobby.
"My odds are not high." Zhang Chi took a sip of his beer.
Kimberly smiled after hearing this but did not answer.
But at this moment, many cowboys sitting closer to the bar pricked up their ears.
Zhang Chi took out his wallet from his pocket, pinched twenty dollars with tissue paper and handed it to Kimberly.
"I buy myself, and I'll be fine next year."
After speaking, he waved the note in his hand at Kimberly.
Kimberly smiled and took the money, then took a pen and wrote on the small blackboard: George pays George twenty dollars.