Chapter 926: Irrigation System Wedge-tailed Eagle
"Poof, poof......"
When herding cattle, it was actually quite leisurely, Yan Fei rode a horse and held a small pistol, and when there was nothing to do, he would shoot indiscriminately.
The cattle I bought were delivered, and there were only 400 heads, and more than a dozen cowboys said that this cow was really not enough to toss. So when the few horses he bought arrived, Yan Fei was idle, and when he had nothing to do, he took a small pistol to shoot rabbits - there are really a lot of pasture rabbits that have been idle for a while, and they can be seen in broad daylight.
Although Yan Fei's marksmanship is good, he is a bit blind when he rides a horse and fights rabbits, and it is actually quite boring to herd cattle, so he takes advantage of the two days he is idle to practice.
The horses are not famous horses, but they are all bought from nearby pastures, and they have been trained, and even Xu Xiaoyan has no problem trying to ride them. But once you run, it's very difficult to hit the target with a horse on a horse - anyone who has never shot a gun can use junior high school math to calculate how far the muzzle of the gun is off by a millimeter, and when the bullet reaches the target fifty meters away, it can be deviated.
It's really good to be outside, and now many people in the family know that others are not in the country, so basically they don't look for him again if there is nothing particularly important. In this way, there are fewer phone calls, and the roots of the ears are much quieter.
But the leisure was short-lived, and before he had walked a few laps, he rode back on horseback.
When he came to the ranch's new home, he saw Xu Xiaoyan and Daniel, and two strangers waiting for him.
Yan Fei dismounted, and Daniel introduced: "Mr. Yan, this is Mr. Adolf. Mr. Adolf, this is the owner of Morning Glory Ranch, Mr. Yan Fei. ”
The two sides shook hands, and Yan Fei beckoned a few people: "Let's go inside and talk!"
In the koala country, water can not be used by just digging a well, there are various strict laws and regulations. If it's a layman to study these things, it's a big head.
And the water is also used for different purposes, for example, if you want to dig a well in your own pasture to drink water, what if you want to make an irrigation system - the most lenient of these is to make an irrigation system for the pasture.
The reason is also very simple, because beef is for people to eat, so the quality and quantity of water needed for cattle pasture must be guaranteed, and the water for cattle to drink will also be regularly tested - there is a special agency to test.
If you follow the idea of a normal person, it is that the typical person is inferior to a cow. It is limited to dig wells with your own draft, but you can do it as an irrigation system. But it's reasonable to think about it, in a big agricultural country, everything is for agricultural services, especially animal husbandry.
The irrigation system is easy to control and can make more rational use of water resources, which is the most encouraged under the policy of strict water control.
Yan Fei wants to irrigate, which is unnecessary in the eyes of others. His pasture is large enough to raise tens of thousands of cattle, and it is enough to rely on the grass that rains every day.
However, Yan Fei considered that he needed the best pasture for fattening and breeding in the future. Not only pasture, but also some crops - whether the crops are used as feed or sold, in short, this is good for the development of the farm, and in the future, you can consider recruiting more workers to find something for them to do.
Adolf is the person Yan Fei asked to find to make the irrigation system of the ranch, and he is also responsible for negotiating with the official on behalf of the ranch and completing the necessary procedures.
The original ranch procedures are actually quite complete, and although it has been out of use for a while, it is not troublesome to reactivate some things. And if you want to come to the government, you must welcome investment, these things are not difficult to do, but they are too trivial. For Yan Fei, these things are better to spend a little money to let people run errands.
Half an hour later, Adolf left with his assistant and a thick stack of protocols with Daniel. Yan Fei and his daughter-in-law went to prepare lunch crookedly.
The workers only have temporary shelter in the pasture, and Yan Fei does not eat with the workers as they used to do in Sanchahe - they can eat together when they need to work, and there is really no need to eat together. Besides, how can you eat well when you eat together?
said that it was preparing lunch, but in fact, the ingredients were all taken out of the dinosaur world, and Yan Fei was only responsible for making it.
After a few busy days, the two of them had free time, of course, to seize the time to enjoy the world of the two.
"I feel like it's usually empty here!" Xu Xiaoyan said with emotion from the bottom of her heart.
A ranch is dozens of miles in radius, surrounded by their family and a dozen workers, and usually no one else is seen at all. There is no internet to pass the time, and after the novelty has passed, it will make people feel that there are too few people here.
"I forgot to bring the golden eagle. Yan Fei thought for a while and said. "I only found out that someone called me just now, and if the two golden eagles were there, they could alert me that an outsider was coming. ”
Seeing people warn such a simple job, the golden eagle flying in the sky is fully qualified for this job.
"Then you can keep a few more birds here. Xu Xiaoyan said. "There's a wedge-tailed eagle here, and it's quite big, and it can catch rabbits and snakes. ”
"Then I'll go back and find two eagles, get them and raise them. "Yan Fei doesn't have to think about it, it's too easy to find a few small eagles.
In the afternoon, Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan set off on horseback, the pasture was too big, and the cowboys could only guard the herd, and they couldn't see it if they walked away.
Yan Fei waited until there was no one, so he sent the two horses and his daughter-in-law into the dinosaur world, and then turned into a little black bird to be a bird thief.
The wedge-tailed eagle is one of the three species of birds of prey in the koala country, but it does not need to be specifically listed as a protected animal in the vast and sparsely populated areas of the koala country. Therefore, as a rancher, if Yan Fei 'accidentally' finds two abandoned young birds, he can raise them.
Needless to say, the flight speed of the little black bird did not take long for Yan Fei to find the nest of the wedge-tailed eagle in a small forest. The three wedge-tailed eagle chicks in the nest are not idle at all, the youngest one is a little dumbfounded waiting for the parents to feed them, and the other is a big one is bullying the smaller ones.
These are a few small eagles that are just starting to grow feathers, and even the biggest one who is bullying his younger siblings has no ability to protect himself at all. Of course, it doesn't matter if you have it, what else can you do when you meet Yan Fei, let's go with Xiangfu!
However, Yan Fei thought about it for a while, and still only took the largest one.
He is doing a good thing, if he doesn't take the biggest one, it won't be long before the two smaller ones will be bullied to death by it.
The law of natural selection for the survival of the fittest is particularly obvious in the animal kingdom, and it is impossible for a litter of three small wedge-tailed eagles like this to survive all three. Even if Yan Fei took the largest one, the next two would definitely have to compete with each other, and it was estimated that the youngest one would have to be killed by his second brother.
After flying for a while, he found another wedge-tailed eagle's nest, Yan Fei was dumbfounded, there was only one small wedge-tailed eagle in it. It seems that it has probably killed its younger siblings, so it has been able to dominate the food sent by its parents - just look at it, it also looks stronger than the one Yan Fei took just now.
In the case of no trouble, Yan Fei is still very reasonable. So he flew to the nest and rescued the dumb guy and put him in the newly discovered nest - the couple found out that the child was not their own, but it was possible to feed this one in the event of the loss of the child.
The one who was originally here followed Yan Fei to 'enjoy happiness'!
This is a good deed, saving two small wedge-tailed eagles at once.
The little wedge-tailed eagle is still young, although it was a little scared to see people at first, but in line with the habit that having milk is a mother, when Yan Fei used chopsticks to hold the shredded meat and sent it to their mouths, they quickly forgot the fear of leaving the nest, and rushed to eat the meat.
As the first pair of wedge-tailed eagles on the planet to eat dinosaur meat, they should be proud.
When the cowboys came back to eat in the evening, they saw Yan Fei playing with birds.
"Hey, boss, where did you get the bird, it's a wedge-tailed eagle?" asked Luke.
"I picked them up, and when we went out for a walk in the afternoon, we met these two little wedge-tailed eagles, who somehow left the nest and wandered outside. Yan Fei said without changing his face.
"They're not easy to feed. Luke said. "Even if they can grow up, they will need someone to train them to hunt alone in the future, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to raise them well. ”
"When I was at home, I had two golden eagles, and they have long been the overlords of the sky in our place. Yan Fei said with a smile. "By the way, if you know someone who finds a wedge-tailed eagle cub who can't find a nest, you can bring it back. I can even pay some money to buy it back, and I am still very experienced in raising eagles. ”
"He's really experienced. Xu Xiaoyan laughed beside her. "We have tigers, golden eagles, sables, black bears, etc., and even our dogs are smarter than others. ”
Luke didn't have any doubts about what Yan Fei said, and after two days of grazing, he found that Yan Fei's knowledge of cattle was not only not less than them, but also much better than them. Although the workers are usually rude, they are not stupid. Yan Fei's professional level was a little revealed, and they knew that when they wanted to follow Yan Fei to the bull market to help Yan Fei 'grow his eyes', it was 'playing a big knife in front of Guan Gong' - although they didn't say this here.
Moreover, if a worker like them said that he would raise eagles and tigers, they would not believe it. With their family conditions, they can't even eat meat every day, and it is impossible to afford to eat meat. Only like Yan Fei can a rich man with a lot of money and nowhere to spend it be able to afford it.
Waiting for Luke to leave, Xu Xiaoyan watched Yan Fei continue to feed the eagle, and then looked at the group of barking puppies under her feet, and suddenly laughed: "You don't look like a young master now, walking the eagle and teasing the dog is not a proper job?"
Yan Fei hehehe: "The family has thousands of acres of fertile land, walking the eagle and teasing the dog every day is not a proper job, and there is nothing to tease and tease the little lady of the good family, isn't that quite happy?"
"Who else are you teasing?" the girl glared at him.
"What do you say!" Yan Fei saw that the workers were not nearby, hugged his daughter-in-law and walked into the house.
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"This bar!" Yan Fei stretched out his hand and pointed to the bullpen.
"Good boss. Ethan agreed, letting the other worker stay.
"And this column. Yan Fei pointed again.
"It's a little smaller, isn't it?" Luke whispered.
"Our ranch is big, and the smaller ones can be raised for a while. "Yan Fei doesn't care. "Buy more now, and you don't have to run every time! Soon we will have someone over there, and we will have to choose a batch for fattening at that time!"
"Good boss. Luke didn't ask any more, and this time Ethan stayed. Now that there are cattle in the pasture, you can't just come to the cattle market at once like last time.
This is the third time that Morning Glory Ranch has come to the bull market, and the last time there were few cattle in the bull market, and only 200 heads were harvested. So this time, Yan Fei thought about simply choosing even smaller cattle, at least cultivating the size of the herd first.
Yan Fei didn't mind some questions or suggestions from the workers. Workers are willing to think more about the pasture, even if it is not on time, which is a good thing. At least it proves that everyone thinks about the pasture. If everyone sleeps after finishing work and doesn't think about anything all day, although such workers are easy to fool, it is not a good thing for the development of the ranch, especially for themselves.
Yan Fei also wants to find a few reliable talents, and go to other ranches to be managers in the future!
"Hey, that little cowboy!" Yan Fei had just selected a few cows when he heard someone shouting over there.
When I looked up, an old white man with a rosacea nose and a little bald was looking at him: "Are you talking about me?"
"Yes!" the old man looked a little misty, probably drinking early in the morning. "I heard that you have bought a lot of cattle in the bull market these few times, are you deliberately driving up the price?"
"My ranch is huge. Yan Fei explained casually. He was still a little unclear about the origin of rosacea, and the drunkenness was a bit like a provocation, but he didn't feel any malice.
"I know, you bought Old Matthew's ranch. Rosacea walked over and said with a snort. "You have to work hard, if the ranch can't be managed, I won't let you go. ”
"......" Yan Fei didn't know what to say, I guess this was an acquaintance of Matthew's father, right? But this tone made Yan Fei a little unwelcome.
"Old Hatton, what are you doing?" said Luke. "You've drunk too much again, and if you keep going like this, it won't be long before you'll go to old Matthew. Our new boss isn't Matthew Jr.'s loser, he's a professional. ”
"Little Luke, you were bought by him, I know. Old Hatton said, shaking his head. "Whether it's professional or not, you have to try it at the bull race to find out. Not by a few of you bought cubs. Little cowboy, do you dare to participate in the bull race?"
"What kind of bull race?" Yan Fei has been idle for two days to accompany his daughter-in-law, and he really doesn't know some local customs here. "But since it's a bull race, if I have enough time, I will definitely participate. ”
"Haha!" Old Hatton squinted at Yan Fei. "It's good to have self-confidence, but blind self-confidence is arrogant! I'm waiting for you at the bull race......"