Chapter 88: Exterminator
The growth of pasture grass is gratifying, not only cattle and sheep love to eat, but also insects love to eat.
In order to pursue pure naturalness and maintain the high price of beef and mutton, Cleveland Ranch cannot use chemical pesticides to kill insects, which forces the Zhang family father and son to think of other ways to prepare to raise more animals that like to eat insects.
Chicken is the first choice.
They can't fly and have a habit of homing home, and if they keep a bird, they are likely to run away.
On the whole, it is the most suitable exterminator, and the eggs can be sold for money, and the hens themselves are not worried about sales.
There are seedlings for sale on the Internet, and after finding the closest address to the Cleveland Ranch, Zhang Xiaokai drove with his father and followed the navigation instructions to that side.
I have called the nursery factory, but there are only two or three thousand hen seedlings, and some farms have tens of thousands of hens, and the other party replied that if they really want to buy it, they just have some stock.
Roosters are more popular than hens, and they can't be satisfied all at once, but the rest only need to wait for about a month, and the chicks can be taken away after they are slaughtered.
Zhang Xiaokai talked with the other party for a long time, hung up the phone and said: "When the chicks grow up, it should be autumn, and the insects will begin to decrease by then, maybe we should buy some hens that are already adults or about to become adults." ”
I think that's the truth.
After a brief discussion, the father and son called again, and the other party told him that there were half-sized hens too, and as long as the price was right, he could find enough supply.
Money is not a problem, earn more and spend less on weekdays, not to mention the funds in Zhang Xiaokai's account, there is also a lot of money in the name of the ranch, and the average annual net profit is more than 23 million, even if there is a large sum left after paying taxes, this profit can be listed in New York.
Negotiated a price through the mobile phone, and soon after the phone hung up, after driving for a while, Zhang Xiaokai said again: "No, the talk is almost finished, now we just need to ask the other party to send those half-big hens over, why do we have to make a special trip over?"
"What then, turn around and go back?"
It's been more than 20 minutes since I left the ranch, and I still have more than 20 minutes to get to the farm.
Realizing that he had done something stupid, Zhang Xiaokai said speechlessly: "Forget it, they have already gone out, let's go over and take a look first, in case the quality is not good, you can still refuse." ”
He is already a little sleepy, no matter what his son, he can go or not, he won't sell himself anyway.
After following the directions, the farm was located on the outskirts of town, about sixty-five miles from the town of Brookings, and the car was sparsely populated and drove very fast.
It just happened to be hot.
As soon as you get out of the car, you can smell an indescribable stench, there are many chickens here, and a lot of feces can be cleaned up every day, and they are piled up outside in the open air.
Don't look at the smell, it's actually a very good nutrient for plants, and it's occasionally used when growing organic vegetables, and the flower base is happy to buy them and mix them with the soil.
Fortunately, the smell of cow dung is small, and most of the time it is cattle and sheep raised in the open air, if he stays in such a strong smell of the farm all day, Zhang Xiaokai is worried that he will hang up.
It's hard to associate this place with delicious fried chicken thighs, and you don't even dare to think about it, for fear of leaving a shadow in the future.
An English bulldog barked incessantly, and in a short time someone came out to stop it, and the middle-aged man with sparse hair on his head was wearing boots and had chicken feathers on his body.
He looked at Zhang Xiaokai and Daddy Zhang, and said with a smile: "Come and buy a hen, right, this dog is very fierce, I'll tie it with a chain later, don't care."
It looks so cool, the size of the ranch is definitely not small, I definitely can't afford it anyway, please come in, I'll show you the chickens, first look at the newly hatched chicks, the vaccine has been given, and you can pay a certain fee to deliver it to your door. ”
Don't think that there is no money to run a ranch, in fact, the operators of those large ranches, especially those with a scale of more than 10,000 acres or 20,000 acres, as long as they run well, basically do not have to worry about life, and it is common to buy a helicopter for grazing.
Therefore, this is a middle-aged white man with blond hair, who guessed that the scale of the ranch must be not small, and in addition, some wealthy people are also willing to buy large tracts of land as fixed assets.
If the Cleveland ranch were to be sold, it might sell for four or five billion dollars, provided that the buyer was taught how to raise such good cattle and sheep, which has to talk about the secrets related to the golden bird.
Zhang Xiaokai is not short of money, and there are not many places to spend it.
has regarded the Cleveland Ranch as his home, so naturally he will not sell the ranch.
Although it is not clear whether the golden bird has always been useful, if it has always had a magical effect, it is a treasure that can be passed on.
Of course, now that you are alone, even if you want to pass on your family, you must first have descendants who can pass it on......
I came to buy chickens, not to make friends.
Zhang Xiaokai was not in the mood to talk to this middle-aged white man who looked a little neurotic, so he first went to the stuffy warehouse to see the chicks, which were yellow and cute.
Half-grown hens are not so endearing, they are kept in cages, and even if they are cleaned, the hygiene is still poor.
The price had been negotiated in advance, and after some discussion, it was decided to purchase 800 chicks, plus 400 half-sized hens, and 200 adult hens.
Originally, the hens were used for breeding, but the price was slightly higher, spending a total of more than 10,000 dollars, and 50 rooster cubs were included.
I was worried about their crowing, and I thought that when I grew up, I could braise them, grill them, and fry them, so I didn't shirk them.
When I was about to leave, I found that there were still pheasants and some red-bellied pheasants, these guys saw that this was much more beautiful, and immediately bought more than 100 of them, wrote a check and handed them over, and agreed to send them to Cleveland Ranch today.
The middle-aged man named Sam was surprised when he heard the name of the ranch, "Is it the magical ranch in Brookings?
"That's right, we spend a lot of time breeding. Zhang Xiaokai replied.
I had to explain to others why the Cleveland ranch was so peculiar, but then I got impatient, so I simply bought a breeding cattle base, and bought some female Australian Wagyu, pretending to be the result of my own breeding.
It costs a lot of money for this, but it also saves a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Under the watchful eye of the man, he got into the car and went back, and it was only noon when he returned to the Cleveland ranch, and not long after lunch, the chickens were delivered.
Half-sized hens and old hens are directly released to free-range, and the chicks are temporarily kept in the warehouse, and the chicken nest or something will be customized next.
An old hen had just enjoyed her freedom when she was accidentally crushed to death by Mocha the white bear.
What can I say.
You can stew chicken soup and drink it in the evening......