Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 366 Helping Neighbors

After returning to the ranch, Jian Heng forgot about the meeting and devoted himself to the work of the ranch, because after this heavy snowfall, grazing is no longer possible, except for Daniel and Qianlong, no matter who Neither the bison nor the wild deer have the ability to push away such thick snow to find dry grass under the snow. Even if they push all the snow in the pasture, pushing it for a day during the day is not enough for the animals to eat.

   What's more, even if the snow is pushed away at this time, the grass is still covered with ice slag, and ordinary cattle and sheep will definitely have diarrhea after eating it.

   To put it more bluntly, this is the time for the silage of the major pastures to play a role. If you want cattle and sheep not to lose weight in winter, you have to feed them silage. As for what kind of concentrate and beans are added, I’m sorry, but the beef fed is not pure grass-fed beef. Not only is the taste of beef different, but the price is also high. no the same.

  If someone uses this crooked brain, then the slaughter company will teach these crooked ranchers a good lesson.

It’s not that American ranchers are highly aware and don’t cheat, but that the cost of cheating in the United States is too high for most of them, and the punishment they face is far greater than the profit of cheating. They care about reputation, and every rancher knows how difficult it is to establish their own reputation.

Fortunately, Jian Heng has enough silage materials here, not to mention some of the original livestock at home, even the thirty-four newly remitted bison and deer, there is no problem at all, there is too much to overflow . Because it was the first time for Jian Heng to have his own ranch, and there was still space, he was so happy that he drove the tractor a little more diligently.

  Early in the morning, after Jian Heng finished his meal, he began to push the snow on the pasture. Jian Heng's push of snow here was not to let the cattle graze, but to provide a larger range of activities for the cattle. To be precise, Jian Heng's pockets are bulging, and the small cost of burning some oil is no longer attractive.

  The sound of the tractor chugging is strong and powerful Even so, after pushing for nearly a hundred meters, the tractor will become more and more squeezed due to the snow accumulation, and sometimes it will not move.

  At this time, Jian Heng would turn his head and change the direction. In this way, about every 100 meters or so, there would be a snow platform in the pasture, the kind that was pressed very firmly.

   Today's first snow platform happened just right. Jian Heng saw Zhang Jialiang galloping towards him on a horse, so he stopped the tractor, took a sip of water and waited for Zhang Jialiang to come.

  At this time, there is no need to patrol the pasture, because the entire fence has been buried under the snow to a depth of nearly 50 to 60 centimeters, and now the animals that can come out and move around can already see the fence and nothing.

The daily task of Toby and the others is to drive the animals out of the barn, and then use the feeder to feed the animals at regular intervals. When to feed hay and when to feed silage, they need to feed them every once in a while. If you don’t feed, you have to move the feed, and after moving the feed, you have to shovel the manure. In short, don’t look at the fact that you don’t have to drive the animals to the pasture now, but the workload has increased by 50% faster than normal.

   People are very tired, and Jian Heng also wants to hire people, but it is a pity that people are in high demand now, not only the price has increased by nearly half, but even if you can afford it, you can't hire people anymore.

  The most intuitive way is to go to Sara’s bar to have a look. Originally, there were only vacancies at the bar counter, but now you can find a single table at any time of the day, and you can also choose the seat you like.

  There is no way to hire people, so Jian Heng picked up the cowboy work again, and began to join the work of Toby and his group.

   "Boss!" Zhang Jialiang stretched out his hand and gestured, then got off the horse, got into the car along the ladder of the tractor, and talked directly to Jian Heng through the door.

   "Boss, Old Walsh is here"

  Jian Heng asked curiously after hearing this: "He's here? Why didn't he make a call?"

  I thought my phone was out of battery, but when I took it out, I saw that not only the battery was full, but the signal was also full.

   "Where is his house?" Jian Heng put the phone back.

  Zhang Jialiang said: "In the restaurant! It seems that the old man has encountered something difficult, and his face is not very good anyway."

  Jian Heng pushed open the door of the cockpit after hearing the words: "Come here and push it for a while, I'll go and have a look! By the way, isn't your work over there too busy?"

   "Fortunately, Uncle Jian helped, and Damai, Xiaomai and a few students helped. Everyone's enthusiasm is quite high..." Zhang Jialiang said, turning sideways to let Jian Heng pass, and got into the cockpit.

  Jian Heng was not interested in listening to him talking about these things. After a hmm, he quickly fell down the ladder to the ground, then turned on the back of the horse, and trotted towards the restaurant on Zhang Jialiang's horse.

   Arriving at the restaurant, Jian Heng found Old Walsh's pickup parked at the door, so Jian Heng tied the horse and strode into the restaurant.

"Kyle, what's the matter?" As soon as Jian Heng entered the door, he saw that old Walsh's face was covered with frost. The old man must have encountered some serious troubles to have such an expression. The last time he saw the old man had such an expression Well, back when old Anders was around, an oil company wanted to run their own pipeline right next to his ranch.

   "There was a disaster on the public ranch." Old Walsh stood up immediately when he saw Jian Heng entered the house.

   Jian Heng said: "I know."

   After finishing speaking, he signaled Old Walsh to sit down and talk. They are all old friends, and there is nothing particular about it, so they just sat at the dining table in the restaurant and chatted.

"It's no longer possible to graze over there. If this is the case, the silage at home is definitely not enough, and it will take at least half a month for the snow to melt! Do you know how much the silage has increased now, by a percentage Twenty! Even if you want to buy it, you may not be able to buy it," Old Walsh said.

  Before Old Walsh finished his words, Jian Heng understood why the old man came to him. He didn’t have silage, but he had it here. There were silage in two warehouses, one large, one small, and three warehouses. When Jian Heng was making materials, he could do everything. At that time, Toby hadn’t taken over yet, and there were only Zhang Jialiang and Huang Xiaodong. It was too easy for Jian Heng to fool them. Let’s put it this way, right now, Jian Heng The silage prepared at home can last until next summer if it is only eaten by the family's livestock.

   "How much green material do you want?" Jian Heng stopped making circles with Old Walsh, and asked directly with his mouth open.

  Old Walsh was stunned for a moment when he heard Jian Heng's question, and then said after a three-second pause: "How much money does your family have?"

   Jian Heng's next sentence almost moved the old man to tears.

"It's only for your family's pastoral use. Our family doesn't expect the cattle to sell for money. It doesn't matter if they lose some fat!" After Jian Heng finished speaking, he began to calculate in his heart how much green feed he could give to the old Walsh's family. .

   "Well, how about I give you two hundred packs?" Jian Heng said.

The bag Jian Heng mentioned was a bag wrapped with green material. No matter how you say it, a bag must weigh two to three hundred pounds. Old Walsh also knew it, because everyone stored green material in this way, so he naturally knew that the bag of green material was about 100 pounds. how many pounds.

  Jian Heng's number directly shocked the old Walsh, and he became excited immediately after recovering: "Really? Two hundred packs?"

I'm not in Old Walsh's position, so I don't know what the two hundred packs of silage mean. It can be said to be a life-saving feed. When the silage was brought in, the fat fell into nowhere. Besides, the road was blocked by heavy snow now. Waiting for the passage to connect with the outside to be opened up, and then the forage came in. Whether the calves and lambs could survive it was a question question.

  Jian Heng smiled and pushed away Old Walsh's hand. The old man's grasp almost hurt Jian Heng's bones just now: "I said, it's just two hundred packs of silage, you shouldn't be like this!"

   "As for it, this is equivalent to saving my ranch." Old Walsh didn't know what to say at this time.

  After the excitement, Old Walsh was surprised again: "You didn't raise so many cattle and sheep, what did you pile up so much silage for?"

Jian Heng can't say that he used a tractor to harvest the grass in the space, and he was very happy with the harvest. In the end, he got a little too much, not to mention the grass in the space, but the grass outside the pasture can also be cut. What's more, the two hundred packs here are scraped together, you must know that old Anders has been abandoned for two years here! If the pasture is good, it can't be better. There are fewer cows to feed, and it's not what a cowboy should do to waste pasture, so Jian Heng mowed more.

  But I couldn't bring it up, so I had to say: "I thought I could feed some deer or something during the winter, who would have thought you would use it."

   After thinking for a while, Jian Heng said: "When you see Catherine, ask her if she wants it at home. If she wants it, I will get her a pack of one or two hundred."

  Old Walsh immediately took out his mobile phone and called Catherine when he heard it. Catherine over there heard it and immediately dropped a word: Yes!

   Only then did Jian Heng realize that after the snowstorm, emotional silage became a hot commodity.

   "Can I come here to deliver materials in the afternoon? You don't need to help me, I will bring people over directly," Old Walsh said to Jian Heng.

  Jian Heng was confused by the old man and didn't know what to say. He joked to Old Walsh: "Okay, are you still afraid that what I say won't count?"

   "I don't have this idea, I'm just afraid that if I don't take it away, someone else will take it first!" Old Walsh said seriously.

   "Okay, okay! Come this afternoon!" Jian Heng didn't do anything to the old man.

   Originally, Jian Heng was going to give the silage, and it was not a blank check. Besides, the two families paid their own labor to transport the silage. Jian Heng didn't think too much about it, so he let them do it!

   Just like that, it was agreed at three o'clock in the afternoon. Jian Heng held the keys to the two silage warehouses and waited for the two families to come to pick up the materials. It was still three o'clock when Jian Heng saw a mighty convoy approaching.

You must know that two hundred packs of silage cannot be transported by one or two pickup trucks, so there are more than a dozen vehicles gathered here in the two families, including pickup trucks, small goods, and even trailers for transporting horses. Looking at it, Jian Heng thought that the two families were undergoing a great migration.

  (end of this chapter)