Chapter 120: The Ox Returns
Ju An nodded and said to the two of them with a smile: "In this way, there are enough people in the ranch at the time, and if there is a shortage of manpower next year, then we will buy a few more helicopters, and it will be more convenient for the single one to catch the cattle at that time."
Lawrence shook his head and said: "Helicopter cattle, it is indeed easy and labor-saving, but the meat quality will be a lot worse, because the helicopter catches up, the cattle run too fast, so that the muscles are more developed, so now in addition to the helicopter for leisure pastures, ordinary manual grazing is generally used, it is recommended not to use helicopters, although it saves cowboy wages, but the quality of beef has also decreased a lot, and the ranch is still a loss."
Belch! When Ju An heard this, he secretly thought that there was no excuse to play with a helicopter now, but it was a pity.
At this time, old Thomas looked at Ju An with a regretful face and said with a smile: "Actually, it is not bad for the ranch to prepare two helicopters next year, and it will be more convenient for me and Lawrence to inspect the ranch when the time comes, and it will be convenient to run a long distance on horseback, even to check the fence around the ranch, after all, more than 50,000 acres are circled, and it is a lot slower to drive alone."
When Ju An heard this, he immediately became happy again: "Then I will buy two units at the beginning of spring next year, and I will follow when the time comes."
Lawrence said with a smile: "Then let's get two, a hundred thousand dollars, just now I heard Thomas say that the ranch came to the scalp Flo, followed to take a look, it's really a good cow, my suggestion is to put down the work in hand, the three of us go to find it together, I'm afraid that there will be problems after a long time."
Ju An scratched his head, how did he go back to the big cow's head, it seems that this good cow is really attractive to the two old cowboys, and the plan is going to be implemented faster, looking at the hopeful eyes of the two people, Ju An had no choice but to nod and say: "That's okay!" We'll leave tomorrow afternoon."
Thomas and Lawrence, who had received the answer, picked up their hats and left the room.
After Ju An waited for the two to leave, he entered the space, fed the birds, carefully counted a group of cattle, connected with the newborn calves, the whole herd had more than 60 heads, and took a closer look, the cows accounted for more than half of the 40 heads, and the bulls accounted for more than 20 heads.
Ju An observed before and after, and then went out of the space, thinking that he would get these guys out tomorrow morning, and the two old men of the province would urge him.
At night, Ju An secretly ran out, sneakily found the big cow mixed in the stable, this guy is lying in front of the horse pen of the bean grass and the bean grass face to face eating grass, the bean grass in front of the grass is obviously a lot higher than the rest of the haystack, it is estimated that Nancy deliberately put it, seeing Ju An come in, some horses looked at Ju An with big eyes open, and patted it gently on the head one by one, when Ju An approached the big cow, he put this guy into the space.
When Ju An came out of the space, he saw that the horses in the entire stable were looking at Ju An with big eyes, Ju An clapped his hands and said proudly: "Although you have the IQ of a two- or three-year-old child, it's a pity that you can't speak, you can't report me." Then he opened the door of the stable, looked out, and left the stable sneakily under the watchful eye of a group of horses.
In the morning, Ju An was still sleeping in a daze, when he heard a knock at the door, and then came the voice of old Thomas: "Ann! Quiet! Hurry up, the cow is gone".
Ju An opened his eyes, only wore a big pants and open pajamas and opened the door, only to see old Thomas standing in the door with a cowboy hat.
Seeing Juan open the door, old Thomas said: "The cattle you brought back yesterday are missing, I searched near the pasture, but I didn't find it, Nancy said that it was in the stable at the end, and she deliberately added more forage."
Ju An looked at the anxious old Thomas, a little apologetic in his heart, and said: "Then you take care of the cattle first, I will also clean up, we are looking for it, if we can't find it, then we will set off into the mountains at noon to find it."
Thomas nodded, and left the house, his hurried footsteps made the floor crackle, Ju'an closed the door, quickly cleaned himself, entered the space and put some shredded meat to feed the baby bird, and left the space, and then took the two little mountain lions out of the space, drove Teddy out of the house, and asked Wu Song to feed the little mountain lions.
Then he went out of the house, went to the stable and saddled the bean grass, galloped towards the foot of the mountain, reached the edge of his pasture, passed through a mountain forest, got off the horse, released all the cattle in the space, and then patted the big cow on the head, and said, "Be good, take the herd back to the pasture," and then stepped on the back of the bean grass, walked a few steps towards the pasture, looked back at the big cow, the big cow held his head high, mooed, and followed slowly, and the big cow moved, and the herd moved forward.
Ju An put his mind at ease, beat the horse and galloped towards the ranch, and when he returned to the ranch, Thomas and Lawrence had gathered a dozen cowboys, everyone stepped on the horse, the two old men were allocating manpower, it seemed that they were ready to disperse to find, Ju An saw this scene, and the guilt in his heart was a little stronger, his uncle's future is still less of a do, after all, the two old men are in their fifties, so the two old men are not at ease, Ju An is also a little guilty, after all, the secret of the bead Ju An can't say.
Watching Juan come on horseback, Lawrence said, "Thomas came to me early in the morning and said that the cow was gone, and I brought a few people over after I cleaned it up." Listening to Lawrence's words, Juan also noticed that there were a few Chilean cowboys among the cowboys.
As Thomas finished his assignment, a dozen cowboys scattered in all directions, and Juan followed Lawrence Thomas in a group of three to search.
As Ju An deliberately took the two old men to zigzag forward in the direction of the enlarged cow, and when they arrived at the place where Ju An was grazing the cattle, the big cow was gone, Ju An was a little worried, this guy was a big joke.
Thomas looked at it, but exclaimed happily: "Ann! Lawrence came to see, there was some cow dung here, and cow hoof prints, and there were quite a few good guys, estimated to be dozens."
Lawrence also urged the horse forward, and then dismounted, plucked the cow dung with a twig, and said happily: "Left more than an hour ago, the herd is not far away, and if you look around, you will find out which direction they are going." As soon as he finished speaking, the two old men searched around, and after a while they found the whereabouts of the cow, the three of them got on the horse again and followed the traces to find it, and slowly looked in the direction of the pasture, and when the three of them entered the pasture, they found more than sixty cows in a forest, the big cow was slowly gnawing on the young leaves on a small tree, and the cows also protected the calf in the middle, and were eating, drinking and resting in the woods, and some of the cattle were still lying down.
Thomas and Lawrence immediately excitedly picked up the walkie-talkie and beckoned the rest of the cowboys to come over, and then got off the horse and carefully inspected the herd, looking at the excitement of the two old men, Ju An said to the two people: "Wait for the herd to be driven back, and then these cattle will be called Thomas and Lawrence Cow for short, referred to as TL Gray Cow."
Thomas and Lawrence had more smiles on their faces, and after checking for a while, the rest of the cowboys also arrived, and everyone dismounted one after another and joined the inspection ranks.
Waiting for a group of people to check it out, did not find any marks, then happily drove the herd back, who knew that the big cow this guy didn't seem to be very happy with the herd, walked for a while and then came to the side of the bean grass, old Thomas saw this scene and said with a smile: "It seems that this guy thinks he is a horse, this time he can find a herd of cattle so easily, thanks to this guy, knowing that he came back with the herd, I thought he ran away, Ann!" I have to say you're in good luck."
Ju An scratched his head and said: "This has nothing to do with luck, everything is possible with good character." Seeing that old Thomas had a question mark in his head, he explained what character is.
Lawrence laughed and said, "Are you still unlucky? I bought a ranch, the previous owner didn't maintain it much, who knew that the crooked fight was right but grew a special pasture, went into the mountains to hunt, who knew that the hunt was not hit, but found a batch of good cattle, forgot that now it is called TL gray cow, the two of us also followed a little light, now I hope it will be a unique breed, then Thomas and I will be famous, as long as the book mentions this kind of cattle will mention our name".
After driving a bunch of cattle back to the pasture, Lawrence took the Chilean cowboys back to his place, and Thomas called Wynne and Da Zhuang over and separated the gray herd, the strongest four or five bulls remained in this herd, and the rest of the adult bulls were driven to the big herd, so that Wynne took over Wynne's place and managed the big herd.
Ju An asked puzzledly, "Why do you want to drive the rest of the bulls away, isn't it better to put them together?"
Thomas explained: "Those sturdy bulls are enough to breed after they stay, and the other physique is slightly weaker than those ones, or just a little bit wrong, so they stay in the large herd as breeding cattle, maybe they can also improve the overall weight of the existing herd, even if these little bulls are left behind after growing up, they must be removed to ensure the breeding cattle genes of this herd, so that the quality of this herd can be higher and higher, in fact, it is similar to horse breeding, all of which are survival of the fittest. Bad stallions are basically geldings, the same thing".
Ju An thought about it for a while, and felt that what Thomas said made some sense, so he didn't interfere with Thomas's distribution plan.