Chapter 82 Raising donkeys to protect against wolves?
When the two entered the ranch, they saw a scene of chicken feathers all over the place. There was a lot of stuff piled up at the door of Simmons' house, and they saw several large pieces of furniture far away.
Not many people came, including Zhang Chi and Sean, there were only seven or eight people.
"Simmons!"
Zhang Chi said hello to Mr. Simmons.
"Look at it as you like." Simons saw Zhang Chi and smiled, indicating to Zhang Chi that he could look at it as he pleased.
Zhang Chi glanced around and soon saw something he was interested in.
There is a plastic bag on the ground. The bag is quite large and contains some bridles, reins, sweat pads and so on.
Walking to the plastic bag, Zhang Chi reached out and opened the mouth of the bag and found that there were other things inside, such as triangular belts that were not commonly used, forehead protectors, etc. In short, they were all used by horses.
Zhang Chi stretched out his hand to sort it out and calculated in his mind almost three sets.
"How much is this?"
Zhang Chi turned to Mr. Simmons and asked.
"Twenty if you want," Simmons said.
After the items were returned, Zhang Chi took out twenty yuan from his pocket.
After taking the money from Zhang Chi, Simmons tied up the mouth of the bag and placed a sold paper sign on it.
Zhang Chi paid the money and of course continued the transfer.
He has no interest in furniture or anything like that. The furniture in Simmons's house is all white Victorian furniture. Not only does he dislike it, he doesn't even want to look at it. Putting this thing at home is just tormenting yourself. You have to do it with so many lines.
Taking care of it can make you cry.
He has no interest in furniture, let alone small appliances. Now that he has some money, it is naturally impossible for him to use other people's second-hand small appliances.
My brother, things are different these days.
Not to mention, the old couple owned quite a lot of small household appliances, many of which Zhang Chi had never seen before.
In addition to these, there are some books, which Zhang Chi is even less interested in. They are all in English. I found two books and flipped through them, but I didn't see any illustrations. If it were some men's magazine, he would be more interested.
But these were all books in English. He really didn't want to read them and couldn't understand them.
Originally thinking that these were all, Zhang Chi did not expect that the Simmons couple also sold horses, alpacas and other living animals.
Sean is now watching the alpacas at the fence where the alpacas are kept.
Zhang Chi didn't want to get close to the alpacas. Seeing them for the first time was still refreshing, but after watching them a few times, he understood that these guys will spit at you, and sometimes the spit is still green, which can make you sick if you touch it.
You've been here for several days, so Zhang Chi doesn't want to get close to them.
Of course, alpacas vomit people for a reason.
Either it doesn't like you, or it just wants to spit you out.
There is no way to deal with this kind of behavior, that is, raise a few alpacas, so that the alpacas will not spit on you.
Of course, this is not right. If you don’t want to be spit on in disgust, the best way is to stay away from this thing.
Staying away from the alpacas, Zhang Chi began to look at the horses.
The horses of the Simmons family are also of an ordinary kind. They are all quarters, and their colors are also in the brown color range. These horses are just ordinary pasture horses, nothing special.
If it were in the past, Zhang Chi would have bought these horses, but now he has enough horses in the pasture. He has several horses. Who can he buy more horses for? Most of the horses in the pasture now have no one.
Riding.
Recruiting cowboys?
As for his current small ranch, one Cannon can handle it. It would be a waste of money to hire more.
As I was looking at the horses, I suddenly heard Simmons and old Penny talking.
The two old men were talking about life in Florida. Zhang Chi didn't think it was interesting and was about to look aside.
Before he could move his feet, he heard Penny calling him.
"George".
"Hello, Beni" Zhang Chi could only walk towards Beni.
When Penny saw Zhang Chi approaching, he opened his mouth and asked, "George, don't you have any donkeys in your pasture?"
"No," Zhang Chi replied.
Zhang Chi was a little surprised when he asked this question. The old man was already in his seventies. He asked himself if there were donkeys in the pasture for what purpose. He mainly raised cattle. If you asked donkeys, could you be confused?
"That's good, let's buy some donkeys and go home," Penny said with a smile.
Zhang Chi said: "I don't think I need it too much."
At this moment, Zhang Chi thought to himself: I know you two have a good relationship, but that's not how you promote it, right? You want me to raise donkeys in the pasture where I raise cattle? What can donkeys do? No one eats the meat.
But when he thought of eating it, Zhang Chi couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Americans here don't eat donkeys, and there's no such thing as dragon meat in the sky or donkey meat in the ground.
They didn't have it, but we, Lao Zhang, did. When he thought of donkey meat, Zhang Chi felt that his mouth was a little wet.
He was thinking in his mind, but Zhang Chi didn't show it on his face. Instead, he looked around pretending not to care.
"What you need, with these donkeys, you can prevent wolves from attacking your cattle," said Beni.
Zhang Chi doesn't believe this statement. A donkey is guarding against a wolf? Are you afraid that the wolf won't have enough to eat and give the wolf extra food?
Only then did Penny realize that the Chinese boy in front of him really didn't know that donkeys could protect against wolves, and thought he was lying to him.
So he smiled and said: "I'm not kidding you, I'm telling the truth! If you don't believe it, ask them which family doesn't keep a few donkeys."
Zhang Chi really doesn’t believe that a donkey’s defense against a wolf is not the same as a meat bun’s fight against a dog.
But when Zhang Chi glanced at the people around him, he realized that this seemed to be true.
Zhang Chi really doesn't care whether he is guarding against wolves or not, because no wolf can come to his pasture to act arrogantly, because the gourd is his talisman.
He is not interested in guarding against wolves, but Zhang Chi is interested in eating donkey meat.
"How much?"
Zhang Chi looked at the seven donkeys and asked Simmons.
"Six hundred dollars," Simmons said.
When he heard six hundred dollars and a donkey one hundred dollars, Zhang Chi immediately shook his head. How much did he pay for a cow? If you asked him to spend six hundred dollars on a donkey, Zhang Chi would not be happy.
Eat donkey meat, eat donkey meat, but Zhang Chi is not happy to spend 600 US dollars to buy six donkeys.
So Zhang Chi shook his head and said directly: "It's too expensive."
"How much did you say?" Simmons asked.
In fact, Simmons is also worried about these donkeys, because the ones that should be available in the nearby pastures have long been available, and people who should not buy them will not buy them. As for selling them, these donkeys really don’t fetch much money. Where is this?
This is the western farm and ranch area, and the most valuable things are these furry things.
"Two hundred," Zhang Chi opened his mouth and said.
Simmons shook his head after hearing this: "It can't be too cheap."
"Forget it".
It costs 600 yuan to buy meat, but Zhang Chi is not that rich yet. Although he wants to eat donkey meat, he can only spend 600 yuan to buy it and get some calves. Wouldn't it be fun to raise them by himself?
As a result, the business could no longer be negotiated. Simons felt that the price he had offered was already the lowest price, and Zhang Chi was not willing to spend more money, so it was normal for the business to abort.
Not long after, Mrs. Simmons took out a few saddles. Zhang Chi liked two saddles, normal ranch saddles, the price was OK, the remaining handmade saddles, and display saddles. For Zhang Chi,
It's too expensive even for Chi.
After the transaction was completed, Zhang Chi took the two saddles he bought and a bag of horse gear, tied them to the horse in Chiyan Mountain, and rode home.
After returning home, Zhang Chi delivered all the things he bought to the small RV where Cannon lived.
"Where did you get all these things?"
Seeing that Zhang Chi had made two saddles and a bunch of horse gear, Cannon was a little curious. He only took one look and knew that these things were used. Not only were they used, the previous owner was very attentive and maintained them.
Pretty good.
Second-hand things? My boss went to the wild market again?
Zhang Chi talked about his trip to the Simmons family ranch and reported the price to Cannon.
"It's a bit expensive. It's not economical for him to take these things away, and no one will buy them. The saddle and these are about forty dollars," Cannon said.
"I knew I would take you there," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Cannon said: "But Simmons can also understand that this old Jew only thinks about business."
"Originally, Beni sold me their donkeys for 600, but I didn't want them because they were too expensive."
"One end?"
"How is it possible? One hundred and six donkeys in total, tell me donkeys can protect against wolves," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"There is no price like this. They want to move out and are in a hurry to deal with it. I can give him two hundred at most," Cannon said.
Zhang Chi patted his thigh when he heard this: "I also said two hundred, but the old man didn't sell it. Put the donkey aside first. Can this donkey really guard against wolves?"
Cannon nodded: "It's true. Many pastures keep these wild donkeys to prevent wolves."
"How to prevent it? If it eats the donkey to death, it will stop biting the cow?" Zhang Chi laughed and said.
Cannon said, "How do you think the donkey would react when he saw the wolf?"
"Run, why don't you run?" Zhang Chi blurted out.
"Cows can run, but wild donkeys can't," said Cannon.
Seeing Zhang Chi's confusion, Cannon continued to explain: "Donkeys are social animals, just like cattle and horses. The difference is that there is usually a leader in a herd of cattle and horses, so when they encounter danger, they will instinctively look at the leader.
The reaction is very panic, and this panic is usually amplified. The cattle and horses follow the herd and run away when they encounter danger, and the whole group panics.
But wild donkeys don't do that. There is no leader in a herd of donkeys. When they are together, each one is an independent individual. Therefore, when encountering danger, the donkeys will not run away, but will first look at the surrounding situation.
Moreover, this kind of wild donkey is very fierce. When attacked, it usually fights back, biting and kicking with its teeth. The strength of the donkey is not small, and its hooves are smaller than those of horses and cattle, so if they are kicked, the wolf will also
It was seriously injured, so generally wolves that have encountered a donkey will not bite the donkey unless they are extremely hungry."
"I really can't tell." Zhang Chi thought this was too amazing.
However, when I thought of a story called Guizhou Donkey's Skills Are Exhausted, I immediately understood that what Cannon said really made sense.
I figured out why donkeys can protect against wolves, but it's actually of no use. Zhang Chi's pasture doesn't need donkeys. The only pity is that donkey meat can't be eaten.