First Arrival Territory: 204.Buy Alpaca (2/5, Xie Demon Dragon Alliance)

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At lunchtime, Wang Bo and Carter finalized the development of the town's network, and Charlie Bowen and the others were not idle, they found a car repair shop that could repair jeeps. し

The car repair shop is on the outskirts of the town, using an abandoned villa, the environment is very good, surrounded by green grass and trees, although it is still green in winter, the scenery is pleasant.

The owner, a white man named Jones, always smiling when he spoke, checked the jeep and said that there were a lot of problems, made a list for Wang Bo to see, and asked him if he wanted to do a major repair.

Wang Bo looked at the bill, although it was said to be a major repair, in fact, in addition to the gearbox that needed to be replaced, the rest of the repairs were small places, most of which were sheet metal corrections, oil changes and other problems, a total of 1,500 yuan, not expensive.

So he signed the repair order and asked, "How long can I pick up the car?" I'm in a hurry to use this car. ”

Jones smiled and said, "Three days, you can pick up the car next Monday." ”

Wang Bo was quite surprised and asked, "Three days?" You're fast enough, that's fine, thank you very much. ”

Leaving the car behind, they returned to town.

At the end of the week, the network outage construction team of New Zealand telecommunications company came, and the speed was very fast, so it is clear that they are now in a lot of business.

Carter accompanied the construction team, and in private he said: "We are lucky, the situation of the smart city is not optimistic, and the company wants to make your town a star pilot for publicity." ”

Lao Wang smiled: "Welcome, absolutely welcome, there is no problem at all to cooperate with the propaganda in the future." ”

When Carter left, Wang Bo brought him a lot of beef, sheep, chicken, and duck meat, and if he didn't have a suitable place to breed, he planned to send two lambs.

Carter laughed and said, "I've heard a few times that the beef and mutton on the ranch tastes so good, and I finally have the opportunity to taste it." ”

On Sunday, Motak called and asked, "Wang, I remember that you were going to do a little alpaca farming, right?" There's a farming auction in Kurau next week, and there will be some alpacas, would you like to check them out? ”

Wang Bo readily agreed, he did plan to raise alpacas, not a little, but a lot.

In traditional animal husbandry, alpacas are very valuable, they are treasures all over their bodies, let's talk about wool, alpacas' hair is longer than wool, bright and elastic, and the quality and color are unique in their kind.

Now in the high-end clothing market in Asia and Europe and the United States, the value of alpaca wool with toughness is twice that of sheep wool, and it has no wool fat, less impurities, and the net lint rate can reach 90%, and the clothes made are light and soft, comfortable to wear, good drape, wrinkle-free, and unchanged, and are favored by the wealthy.

According to Wang Bo's survey, each alpaca can only produce 0 fluff 3 to 5 kg a year, and can only shear 1 time a year, and the fluff price is 100 to 500 New Zealand dollars per kilogram.

Speaking of use, don't look at the alpacas, but when they were domesticated in South America, they were not used to sell cuteness, but to transport goods.

Finally, it is a pity that the alpaca, which is regarded as a cute baby by the Chinese, is used as food in places of origin such as South America and Oceania.

The alpaca has good meat quality, it is a herbivore with both hair and meat, the taste is between mutton and beef, it does not have the smell of mutton, it is stronger than mutton, it is more tender than beef, and it is better overall.

In the past, New Zealand did not have the habit of eating alpaca meat, which is a way of eating from South America in recent years, which has brought up the price of alpaca meat, which can be sold for 200 to 300 New Zealand dollars per kilogram, which is much more expensive than beef and mutton.

So all things considered, what reason does Wang Bo have not to breed alpacas in large quantities?

However, it is not easy to breed in large quantities, there are not many alpacas in New Zealand, even in the world, there are only about 3 million alpacas, and more than 95% of them live in the highlands of Peru and Chile in South America, followed by Australia, and then New Zealand.

According to statistics, there are fewer than 10,000 alpacas in New Zealand, and the number has not increased for many years.

With the growth of the economic benefits of alpacas, in fact, pastures everywhere want to raise alpacas, but this thing is not easy to raise, and the price of breeding stock is very expensive, and the cheapest is more than 10,000 yuan a head.

Alpacas can only give birth once a year, and they can only give birth to one at a time, and this one may not survive, so all together, it is much more difficult for the number of people to grow.

Wang Bo has always wanted to look like an alpaca after encountering a cattle thief before, but he didn't have a chance, and this time he learned that there was a livestock auction, and he was definitely unwilling to give up the opportunity.

On Monday, he went to the garage first, intending to pick up the car just in time to buy an alpaca.

As a result, after arriving at the garage, the boss Jones apologized to him with a smile, saying that he suddenly received a big order on the weekend, and he had to wait for two more days because he had not repaired it.

Wang Bo can wait, anyway, it will take two days for him to go to the animal husbandry auction, so let's talk about it later.

The auction was also held in a small city called Kulau, with a population of just over 2,000 people, which is a small city that is embarrassing to call itself a village in China.

However, this is normal in New Zealand, where the population is just over 4 million.

Kulau is a standard agricultural and pastoral city, where the inhabitants are either farmers or herders, and the regional output value is also driven by agriculture and animal husbandry.

The alpacas were sold by a large ranch with 400 alpacas, which were going to sell them all, because the South Island was hit by a rare drought, and many farms had died of thirst and suffered heavy losses.

Compared with cattle and sheep, alpacas are very delicate, they have high requirements for aquatic weeds, and their resistance to diseases is also poor, so although this kind of livestock is valuable, the scale of breeding has not expanded.

It's not that ranchers don't want to expand farming, it's that it's too difficult, too costly, and too risky.

Wang Bo and Motak together, after they arrived in Kulau, they first tasted the local famous hand-brewed seasonal dark beer, this wine is very strong, Motak prefers it, Lao Wang drank two sips and stopped drinking.

Seeing that he couldn't drink this kind of beer, the waiter brought him a large glass of black beer, and Wang Bo asked, "What kind of dark beer is this?" Stout? ”

Stout is also a well-known local beer, and cowboys and farmers like to drink this high number of things, who are tired from a long day and need the comfort of alcohol.

The waiter smiled: "No, this is Ethiopian coffee beer, you can try it, the degree is relatively high, with the aroma of coffee and beer, it should be more suitable for your taste." ”

Wang Bo took a sip, this beer is very light, and it does have the bitter aroma of coffee, especially the dense bubbles, and the aroma is even stronger.

(To be continued.) )