pasture leisure

Chapter 447 busy
Everyone transported the sick cows to the cowshed.

"The symptoms of all cows are the same. Let's go and look around the range where the sick cows move." The veterinarian thought that something that made the cow sick might be nearby, so he said to the cowboy beside him.

Hearing what the doctor said, everyone naturally obeyed, so Cannon began to divide the team.

"Boss, come with me, let's go to the cattle herd in the east." Cannon finally said to Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi nodded, and the two walked out of the cowshed side by side. Cannon didn't ride a horse, and sat directly in the back of Zhang Chi's three-legged car. Run to the place where the group stays.

There was still light rain in the sky, and all the cows gathered together, with their buttocks facing the southeast and their heads facing the northwest, hiding in the west of the grove.

The reason why the cows are all like this is because the rain and the wind blow from the southeast, and they use this way to avoid the cold wind and rain.

It is better to have your butt facing the wind than your head, and the cow is not stupid at all.

When he got near the herd, Zhang Chi threw the three jumpers aside casually, and Cannon also jumped off the back bucket.

"Which side do you choose?" Cannon asked.

Zhang Chi pointed at him casually, so the two separated and went around the herd of calves to find plants that might make the cattle sick.

Now the cows stand on the grass with alfalfa grass, the most common alfalfa, the grass has grown very high, and all the plants are similar, and there are no seedlings. Sometimes the seedlings of alfalfa can make cattle flatulence , is also to pay attention to the grass.

There are no seedlings now, so Zhang Chi focused on other plants.

Zhang Chi moved around and observed, and after almost 10 minutes, he didn't find any harmful plants.

Just when Zhang Chi was thinking about whether his good neighbor's little boy had itchy hands and caused trouble for himself, Cannon's voice came over.

"BOSS! There is a situation here."

Zhang Chi immediately brought Xiao Pao to Cannon's side as soon as he heard it, and asked loudly while running, "What's the situation?"

At this moment, when Cannon bent down and stood upright again, there was a dry plant similar to a withered vine in his hand. It was quite long. Although the leaves on the long side were dry and yellow, they could still be seen as heart-shaped. kind of shape.

"Coyote Vine?!"

Zhang Chi recognized this thing at a glance.

Coyote Vine is what it is called here. Zhang Chi really doesn’t know what it is called, but he just followed everyone’s name. When others said it was called Coyote Vine, he knew it.

This food is not poisonous when it is fresh. In fact, this food is not poisonous to humans, whether it is fresh or dried. You can eat it except that it is bitter and astringent.

However, it is not so friendly to ruminant animals. It can react with the enzymes in the body of cattle to produce toxic substances. This kind of substance does not cause symptoms as soon as it is eaten. Usually, animals need to accumulate a certain amount. There will be a reaction, and when there is a reaction, it is usually already a severe case.

"This……".

Zhang Chi now saw what was under Cannon's feet. It was a bundle of grass. According to Zhang Chi's judgment, this grass should have been bought by Nell's family last year or before the freeze this year for their cattle to spend the winter.

Anyway, Zhang Chi didn't buy it, because Zhang Chi never bought pasture grass, and his own pasture grass can't be used up now, so he still needs to buy pasture grass, even if he buys it, it's just a cover for others.

"I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, there is this thing in the bale." Cannon kept turning the dry vine, thinking about something while turning.

Zhang Chitong knew: "Let everyone take back all the grass that was going to be fed to the cows, gather them together for inspection, and then have to pass all the grass in the warehouse."

These days, the ranch is clearing materials, and with so many old materials stored, although the price looks good now, it is not worth it for such a small amount, and there is still something to be shipped.

So the cowboys throw these materials out to feed the cows, and put the newly plucked forage into storage after drying.

"Well, that's exactly what it should be." Cannon nodded solemnly.

I took out my mobile phone to make a call, and after asking around, I realized that someone over there also found the coyote vine.

Once the disease-causing plant was found, the veterinarian could prescribe the right medicine. Zhang Chi and the cowboys began to gather all the dry pasture that was thrown outside. Anyway, they couldn't be eaten by the cows anyway.

When Zhang Chi and his group were transporting all the scattered grass back to the gate of the hopper, grandfather Zhang Jiaren and father Zhang Youpeng appeared on their respective horses.

"Didn't it say that it won't rain anymore?" Zhang Chi looked at the two and asked curiously.

Zhang Jiaren got off the horse and said: "It's not interesting. After playing a few rounds of cards, we always failed, so we gave up our seats and came to see what we can do here."

Zhang Youpeng saw the broken grass on the ground, so he asked: "What's the matter, is this going to be sown or not? Oh, it's not like, this grass is brought from outside, the grass in the warehouse will definitely not be so wet of".

Zhang Chi gave Lao Tzu a thumbs up: "There is poison ivy in the haystack, and a few cows got sick after eating it. Now our task is to pick out these poison ivy."

"Oh, that's just right, we are here at just the right time."

Zhang Jiaren drove his horse under the eaves, and then put a bundle of grass next to the horse, and he and his son Zhang Youpeng, who had also finished his work, joined the working army.

The straw bales brought back are easy to find, because many of the bales are loosened by the cows, but the straw bales in the warehouse are kind of difficult, because all the straw bales are packed by a baler. If you want to get the poison ivy out of it, you have to break the bale.

Of course, the easiest and easiest way is to throw all these bales away.

It's a pity that neither Cannon nor Zhang Chi would do this, because if you want to throw it away, you have to pay for it. Isn't it harmful to give the grass to someone else's house?So the best way is to pick it up.

What this job does is patience, and people without patience can't do this job, such as Zhang Chi.

I removed five or six bundles of weeds here, but didn't find a single poison ivy, so I felt my back was aching, and my whole body seemed to be falling apart.

"I found another one here," Dominique said.

As he spoke, he raised a poison ivy in his hand, and the vine was quite long, about one meter or two meters long.

Brian said at this time: "Did you find out that the straw bales with poison ivy came from this side, and you have found one on the other two sides, but you haven't found one yet."

It wasn't just Bryan who figured it out, Zarrick did too: "Well, I figured it out too".

Cannon said slowly at this time: "Even if it is not found over there, we have to continue to dismantle it. We would rather believe that there are two piles over there, and we can't stop dismantling or picking it up just because we want to save some trouble."

Cannon's meaning is very clear, that is, even if no poison ivy is found in the two piles of hay, everyone has to practice and continue to remove it.

As soon as Cannon said this, the faces of all the cowboys couldn't help but become bitter. We are all human, and such a reaction is really normal. Who doesn't want to save some troubles.

Originally Zhang Chi wanted to stand up and sneak away, but seeing that it was difficult for everyone to leave, he had to bite the bullet and check the hay bales with everyone here.

This job can't be done in a day or two. Nell's side is in a hurry, and all the hay is not rushed to deal with it. There are at least [-] tons of hay in the entire warehouse.

It must take some time for four or five people to pick up more than [-] tons of grass.What's more, after the poison ivy dries up, the difference from pasture grass is not too big, so you have to be careful.

The reason why there are only three or four people is because other cowboys have to maintain the operation of the ranch, and it is impossible for everyone to come to pick up hay.

After four or five days of tossing and turning, everyone picked up all the hay. After confirming that it was correct, they had to use a baler to re-bundle the hay, and it had to be stacked after the baling.

Zhang Chi hadn't been picking up hay all the time. In fact, early the next morning, he used the pretext of delivering tofu to his uncle's family and ran away. He didn't show up until everyone finished their work.

In the morning, Zhang Chi went downstairs and found that except for Grandpa and Lao Tzu, everyone else was there, so he asked curiously.

"Why are people so complete today?"

Generally speaking, it is normal for grandfather and father Zhang Youpeng to be away. Now they are obsessed with the work on the ranch. If their wife does not allow it, they would like to sleep directly in the duty room of the ranch at night.

Zhang Juan and Sun Yanping usually have one less couple. Now Zhang Juan's riding skills have been practiced well, and there is no problem at all with trotting horses.

So Zhang Juan naturally became addicted to riding a horse. It was like a person who just learned how to ride a bicycle and wanted to sleep with the bike under his crotch.

The same is true for horseback riding, especially when you can gallop a horse, you can't wait to ride on the horseback without getting off.

Zhang Juan is now in such a period, so almost as soon as she opens her eyes, she will brush the horse or something, and then ride the horse for a lap. She will not come back for dinner until eight o'clock in the morning.

Sun Yanping won't run far, he has passed the period of horse riding addiction, but even if he didn't have horse riding addiction, he is now addicted to guns again.

Zhang Chi’s family has a gun, and because of Melika’s reason, the supply of bullets is also open, so Sun Yanping can’t find the north to play. Almost every other day, he will go to the simple shooting range to play for half an hour to one hours of time.

Xiaoxiao is also uncommon. The friendship between him and his little friends with a translation pen really surprised Zhang Chi, and children are really better than adults in learning foreign languages. too much.

It seems that many times when Zhang Chi speaks English, he has to translate it in his head, but children don't need it. Now Xiaoxiao can easily master many daily applications.

To be honest, Zhang Chi was a little surprised by Xiaoxiao's progress in English. He learned English much faster than when he first came here. He had studied for half a year and still couldn't talk to others.

Now Xiaoxiao's side is already a little small.

"I'll just wait for you, you and your brother-in-law don't leave today," Zhang Juan said to her younger brother who just came downstairs.

"What kind of demon moth is making trouble again?" Zhang Chi asked with a smile.

Zhang Juan said: "We are going to take a group of photos."

"What's the matter with me?"

Zhang Chi was surprised. The elder sister and his wife did not take pictures every day or two. Zhang Chi felt that they had already taken pictures of other places except his own manure pile.

(End of this chapter)