pasture leisure

Chapter 82 Raising donkeys to prevent wolves?

When the two entered the ranch, they saw a scene of chicken feathers all over the place. A lot of things were piled up at the door of Simmons' house, and they saw a few large pieces of furniture from a distance.

Not many people came, including Zhang Chi and Xiao En, there were only seven or eight people.

"Simmons!"

Zhang Chi greeted Mr. Simmons.

"Look at it casually." Seeing Zhang Chi, Simmons smiled and signaled Zhang Chi to look at it casually.

Zhang Chi glanced around, and soon saw something he was interested in.

There was a plastic bag on the ground, it was quite big, and it contained some bridles, reins, sweat pads and so on.

Walking to the side of the plastic bag, Zhang Chi reached out and opened the mouth of the bag, and found that there were other things in it, such as triangular belts that are not commonly used, forehead guards, etc., in short, they are all used by horses.

Zhang Chi stretched out his hand to sort it out, and calculated about three things in his mind.

"How much is this?"

Zhang Chi turned to Mr. Simmons and asked.

"Twenty if you want," Simmons said.

When the things were ready, Zhang Chi took out twenty yuan from his pocket.

After taking Zhang Chi's money, Simmons tied up the mouth of the bag and put a sold card on it.

Zhang Chi paid the money and of course continued to transfer.

He is not interested in furniture. Simmons’s furniture is all white Victorian style furniture. Not only does he not like it, but he doesn’t even want to look at it. Taking care of it can make you cry.

He has no interest in furniture, and even less in small appliances. Now that he has some money, it is naturally impossible to use other people's second-hand small appliances.

Our buddies are different now.

Not to mention, the old couple has a lot of small appliances, many of which Zhang Chi has never seen before.

In addition to these, there are some books. Zhang Chi is even less interested in this stuff. They are all in English. I found two books and flipped through them, but I didn’t see any illustrations. But these are all books in English, he really doesn't want to read them, and he can't understand them.

Originally thought that these things were all there was to Zhang Chi, but what Zhang Chi didn't expect was that the Simmons couple also sold live animals such as horses and alpacas.

Sean is now watching the alpacas from the side of the enclosure where the alpacas are kept.

Zhang Chi didn't want to get close to the alpacas. It was still fresh to see them for the first time, but after seeing them a few times, he realized that these guys would spit at you, and sometimes the spitting was green. You have been there for several days, so Zhang Chi doesn't really want to get close to them.

Of course, alpacas spit people for a reason.

Either it doesn't like you, or it just wants to spit on you.

There is no way to deal with this kind of behavior, that is to raise a few more alpacas, so that the alpacas will not spit on you.

Of course, this is not right. If you don't want to be slobbered with disgust, the best way is to stay away from this thing.

Staying away from the alpaca, Zhang Chi began to watch the horse.

The Simmons family's horses are also of the ordinary kind, all of them are quarters, and the color is also jumping in brown. Such horses are ordinary ranch horses, nothing special.

If it was in the past, Zhang Chi would have bought these horses, but now he has enough horses in his ranch, and there are several horses. Who will buy the horses for? Most of the horses in the ranch are unoccupied now. ride it.

Hire cowboys?
As far as his current small ranch is concerned, one cannon can handle it, and it would be a waste of money to hire it again.

While watching the horse, he suddenly heard Simmons and old Benny talking.

The two old men were talking about life in Florida. Zhang Chi didn't seem to be interested, so he was going to take another look.

Before he could move his feet, he heard Penny calling himself.

"George".

"Hello, Benny..." Zhang Chi had no choice but to walk towards Benny.

Seeing Zhang Chi approaching, Penny opened his mouth and asked, "George, don't you have donkeys in your pasture?"

"No," Zhang Chi replied.

Zhang Chi asked this question a bit strangely, the old man is over seventy, he asked himself if there are donkeys in the ranch, and he mainly raises cattle, if you ask donkeys, is he confused?
"That's right, let's buy some donkeys and go home," Penny laughed.

Zhang Chi said: "I don't seem to need it too much."

At this moment, Zhang Chi said in his heart: I know you two have a good relationship, but that's not how you sell it, right? You asked me to raise donkeys on your own cattle ranch?What can a donkey do?No one eats meat.

But when he thought of eating, Zhang Chi couldn't help but swallowed. Laomei here doesn't eat donkeys, and there is no such thing as dragon meat in the sky or donkey meat in the ground.

They don't have it, but our old Zhang has it. When he thinks of donkey meat, Zhang Chi feels that the water in his mouth is a little bit rotten.

I thought in my heart, but Zhang Chi didn't show it on his face, but looked around pretending that Mo didn't care.

"What you need, with these donkeys, is to keep wolves from attacking your cattle," Penny said.

Zhang Chi didn't believe this statement a little bit, donkey guarding against wolves?Are you afraid that the wolf will not have enough to eat and give the wolf extra food?

Only then did Penny understand that the Chinese boy in front of him really didn't know that donkeys could guard against wolves, and thought he was lying to him.

So he smiled and said, "I'm not joking with you, I said it's true! If you don't believe me, ask them, which family doesn't have a few donkeys."

Zhang Chi really didn't believe it, the donkey guarding against the wolf was not the same as the meat bun beating the dog.

But when Zhang Chi glanced at the people around him, he realized that it seemed to be true.

Zhang Chi really doesn't care if he doesn't guard against wolves or not, because no wolf can come to his ranch to be arrogant, because the gourd is his amulet.

Not interested in wolf prevention, 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.

Zhang Chi shook his head immediately when he heard that it was [-] dollars, [-] dollars for a donkey. How much does he buy a cow? If you asked him to buy a donkey for [-] dollars, Zhang Chi was not happy.

Eating donkey meat is eating donkey meat, but Zhang Chi is not happy to buy six donkeys for six hundred dollars.

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 nearby pastures already have what they should have, and people who shouldn't have won't buy them. As for selling them, these donkeys really don't sell for much money. Where is this? This is the western farm and pasture area, and the least valuable thing is 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."

Buying meat for [-] yuan, Zhang Chi is not so rich now. Although he wants to eat donkey meat, he can buy it for [-] yuan at once, and bring a few calves over.

As a result, the business could no longer be negotiated. Simmons felt that the price he had offered had reached the end, and Zhang Chi was unwilling to spend more, so it was normal for the business to fail.

Not long after, Mrs. Simmons took out a few saddles, Zhang Chi took a fancy to two saddles, normal ranch saddles, the price is not bad, the rest of the handmade saddles, and display saddles, for Zhang Chi Chi is too expensive.

After the transaction was over, Zhang Chi took the two saddles he bought and a bag of harness, tied them to Chiyanshan's horse, and rode home.

After returning home, Zhang Chi sent all the things he bought to the small caravan, where Cannon lived.

"Where did you get all these things?"

Seeing Zhang Chi get two saddles and a pile of harnesses, Cannon was a little curious. He knew that these things were used after just one glance. Not too bad.

Used stuff?Your own boss went to the wild market again?
Zhang Chi talked about his going to Simmons' ranch, and at the same time reported the price to Cannon.

"It's a little expensive. It's not worthwhile for him to take these things away, and no one buys 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 has business in his mind."

"Originally, Benny sold their donkeys to me at a price of [-] yuan, but I thought it was too expensive and didn't want it."

"One end?"

"How is it possible, one hundred and six in total, tell me donkeys can guard against wolves," Zhang Chi said with a smile.

"How can there be such a price? They are going to move away, and they are in a hurry to deal with it. They can give him two hundred at most," Cannon said.

Zhang Chi patted his thigh when he heard it: "I also said two hundred, but the old man didn't sell it. Put aside the donkey or not. Can this donkey really protect against wolves?"

Cannon nodded: "It's really possible. Many pastures raise this kind of wild donkey to prevent wolves."

"How does it prevent it? It won't bite the cow after eating the donkey to death?" Zhang Chi said with a laugh.

Cannon said, "How do you think the donkey reacts when it sees the wolf?"

"Run, what are you waiting for if you don't run?" Zhang Chi blurted out.

"Cows can run, but this wild donkey can't," Cannon said.

Seeing that Zhang Chi was puzzled, Cannon continued to explain: "Donkeys live in groups, just like cows and horses. The difference is that there is usually a leader in a herd of cows and horses, so when they encounter danger, they will instinctively look at the leader. The reaction is very panic, and this panic is usually magnified. When cattle and horses are in danger, the whole group panics when they run.

But wild donkeys can't. There are no leaders in the donkey herd. They are all independent individuals when they are together. Therefore, when they encounter danger, the donkey herd will not run away, but will first look at the surrounding situation.

Moreover, this kind of wild donkey is very fierce. When it encounters an attack, it usually counterattacks, bites and kicks with its teeth. The strength of the donkey is not small. Its hooves are smaller than those of horses and cows, so if it is kicked by them, the wolf will also Seriously injured, so generally the wolves who have encountered donkeys will not bite the donkey unless they are extremely hungry."

"I really can't see it." Zhang Chi thought it was too amazing.

But when I thought of a story called Qian Donkey's Poor Skills, I immediately understood that what Cannon said really made sense.

I figured out why donkeys can protect against wolves, but it’s actually useless. Zhang Chi’s ranch can’t use donkeys. The only pity is that donkey meat can’t be eaten.

(End of this chapter)