Xiaoma scratched his neck and dragged the noose back tightly. From time to time, he would look sideways at Zhang Chi and others.
Zhang Chi and Kevin successively took their nooses away from the pony's neck, so that only Cannon's noose remained around the pony's neck.
"Bring some oats," Cannon said to Kevin.
Zhang Chi said at this time: "I'll go back and get it!"
As he spoke, Zhang Chi took the horse's reins, and Chi Yanshan took Xiao Bao up the hillside and returned to the camp.
At this time, everyone had rested, and the cowboys who had work to do were sorting out their things. They were not too busy, and everyone was a little lazy. Some people were still sorting it out while drinking coffee.
Naturally, there is no one to feed the horse. For a cowboy, the horse he rides must be the most satisfying. Only when a person and the horse reach a certain tacit understanding will he continue to ride, so taking care of the horse has become every cowboy's life.
a part of.
Zhang Chi pretended to be looking for something and climbed into the tent. At this time, both his grandfather and father had already rested, and there was no one else in the tent.
A bag was pulled out from the gourd. The bag contained some apples produced this year. These apples tasted good, but the size was not very good.
It’s not that the fruit produced by fruit trees is not good, but that there are always some fruits that are not ready for use. These are the fruits that are not ready for use.
It was originally dry food from Chiyan Mountain, but now that a new pony has been caught, it is natural to take it to give the pony a good impression.
Horses are timid, and they are also greedy. Let’s put it this way, if you can make a horse feel that it can eat, drink, play and have fun with you, then even if you beat it to death, it will not
Run into the wild and hang out with the horses.
The reason is very simple. Since you have free meals, why should you bask in the sun in summer, chew snow in winter, and be hungry in the rain hoping that thunder will not strike?
Don't think that the IQ of horses is low. When it comes to survival, horses are also very knowledgeable.
After analysis, this is the key point of modern equestrian training: giving food and drink, greeting you with a smile, and making the horse feel that there is meat to eat by following you!
Unlike in the past, if you just do it directly and beat the horse into submission, then the horse will be honest.
I carried seven or eight small apples out of the tent, and when I came to Chiyanshan, I stuffed one into Chiyanshan.
Hanging the bag on the head of the pommel, Zhang Chi got on his horse, and just when he was firmly seated, a horse came over and started searching for the apple bag on Zhang Chi's pommel.
This horse does not belong to Zhang Chi's family, nor does it belong to Miller. Zhang Chi naturally knows Miller's horse, so this horse can only belong to the cowboys who came to help.
Reaching out to push the horse's head away, Zhang Chi took out an apple from the bag, broke it into two pieces, put half of it in the horse's mouth, and put the other half in his own mouth to chew on it.
"Walk!"
Chiyanshan also doesn't like this kind of person who comes to eat at his place, but Chiyanshan has a good temper. If it were in the Great Secret Realm, he would have opened his mouth to bite it.
Back below, I saw Cannon and Xiaoma looking at each other, glaring at each other.
At this time, the pony still straightened its four hooves, stuck its body on the ground, and used its own weight and strength to pull the noose around its neck. However, Cannon's horse was motionless now. As a seven-eighth horse,
Cannon's horse, a middle-aged horse, obviously knows what to do, and he has done it countless times, and has long been able to skillfully deal with a young pony under the command of his owner.
"Cannon!"
Zhang Chi took out an apple and threw it to Cannon.
Cannon took the apple, wiped it with his hand, then put it to his mouth and took a bite.
Click!
After a crisp sound, a gap appeared on the originally round apple.
Cannon chewed it.
Zhang Chi, who was watching from the side, felt that he could feel the sweetness, crispness and juiciness of the apple in Cannon's mouth.
Kevin was obviously also greedy by the way Cannon was eating an apple. He led his horse over, took an apple from his pocket, wiped it on his front, and took a bite.
"It's not that delicious?" Kevin muttered after taking a bite of the apple.
As long as there are fruits on the fruit trees at home, the cowboys can pick and eat them, so Kevin has eaten fruits grown on the ranch.
They all tasted good, but what Cannon ate just now was so delicious that Kevin was a little suspicious that what he was eating was not the same kind of fruit as Cannon's.
Cannon took another bite of the apple at this time, and while chewing it, he walked towards the pony, slowly, almost taking one step at a time.
As soon as he heard this, he moved forward and chewed the apple, letting Xiao Ma hear the sound of the apple in his mouth.
Obviously Xiaoma is not as slick as Cannon. Xiaoma looked wary at first, and then his eyes were gradually attracted by Cannon. Of course, Xiaoma's attention must be on Apple, not Cannon.
This old face, rough and pitted, is not attractive to horses, not to mention people.
The pony smelled the fruity aroma and snorted softly.
咴咴咴!
Although the movement was small, it was still captured by Cannon.
"Hi! Boy! I was wrong, it's a girl, hi girl!"
Cannon had a smile on her face, like Grandma Wolf approaching a young girl.
"Grasp……".
Just when Cannon was about to get close to the pony, Zhang Juan ran over excitedly and shouted something at the top of her lungs, which immediately made all Cannon's previous efforts in vain.
The law!
Xiaozai stood up and looked like he wanted to crush Cannon to death with his front hooves.
Fortunately, Cannon was alert and took two steps back in an instant, and at the same time a whistle sounded.
Cannon's mount immediately stepped back, and the pony that had just stood up was forced to put down its front hooves.
"Stand further away. Why are you here to join in the fun? Didn't you see that the horse is being trained?" Zhang Chi said to his sister.
At this time, Zhang Juan also knew that she had made a mistake, and immediately apologized to the two cowboys: "SORRY!"
If I don’t know other words, how can I do this? As for what I said later and I didn’t notice it, Cannon and Kevin naturally couldn’t understand it, but they also knew that there was no way to take it seriously, so who gave the fuck?
Where is BOSS's sister?
"fine".
After replying, Cannon turned his attention to Pony. The prop that attracted Pony was still the half-pull apple in Cannon's hand.
As for Zhang Juan, she stood honestly with her brother. The two of them shared an apple and gnawed it while watching Cannon approach the pony.
Cannon didn't fail this time, and the pony ate half of the apple in Cannon's hand.
When he put the other half into the pony's mouth, Cannon slowly stepped back and put his hands behind his back a few times.
Kevin understood, and when Cannon retreated to a safe distance, he placed an apple cut into seven or eight pieces into the hand behind his back.
Then Cannon approached the pony again.
This time, Cannon stood next to the pony and fed it piece by piece. Waiting for the pony's wariness to disappear, Cannon stretched out and stroked the bridge of the pony's nose. Seeing that the pony didn't react, he began to work on the neck and chin.
Waiting for an apple to be fed, the pony no longer had the strong dislike for Cannon.
Next came another apple. Cannon took a few steps away from the pony and stretched out his hand for the pony to come up and eat it.
After eating such an apple, the pony followed Cannon obediently. Just like that, Cannon successfully took the pony into the horse-tethering field next to the camp.
In this place, two horses were caught in the morning. The three horses were together, and they seemed to have company, and they became quiet.
"This pony is so beautiful, its color is very rare, sandy white with lava red, but its size is a bit off...".
At this time, an old cowboy passed by. He leaned on the horse and looked at the pony he had just captured, and gave him a fairly fair evaluation.
The pony is a little short, about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall at the shoulder. In fact, such a horse is not short anymore, but the old cowboy is tall. Considering his height, such a horse
It is indeed a bit short, he must be at least 1.6 meters tall to fit him properly.
But as Zhang Juan's mount, it must be enough. Let's put it this way, for the horses in Zhang Chi's house now, Zhang Juan has to lead the horse to the corridor and borrow three or four steps to get on it.
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Next, everyone who passes by Pony has to say something. Everyone praises her coat color, and nothing else. What kind of praise do they praise her?
If it was of such a color and had a divine horse, how could such a pony grow so big that no one wanted it, and how could it be chosen by Zhang Juan.
Although it is a wild horse, there are dozens if not hundreds of people who come here to catch wild horses every year. Because of their outstanding color and slightly better performance, they have been captured long ago.
"George".
Miller rode his horse and signaled to Zhang Chi as he passed by.
Zhang Chi smiled and got on the horse, joined the working team and followed everyone down the slope to catch the horse.
After catching three more horses from the herd, the horse king and the herd seemed to finally understand that if they didn't leave and avoid these bastards, there would be more horses in their herd.
The horse king, who was deeply aware of this, took the horses to the top of the mountain. According to custom, the horses would not appear again for at least three to five days.
The horses got out of the way, but Miller and others were still not in a hurry, because everyone knew that there would be no way for horses to come to this geomantic treasure land.
As expected, soon the second largest group of horses came over. They may have felt happy that they had gotten a bargain, but who knew that as soon as they stepped into this place, they were already being targeted.
"Let's go, the new ones are here, let's go to work."
Following Miller's shout, all the cowboys got on their horses with laughter, and followed their respective leaders back to the plains.
As the sound of horse hooves sounded, another pony soon fell into the hands of humans.
It wasn't until it was getting late that everyone caught ten horses. Today's task was more than half completed, and the rest could only be left until tomorrow. No one had practiced catching horses at night.
Fortunately, everyone is not in a hurry. It will be later in the evening. At most, we can go home after noon tomorrow.