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When he got up in the morning, Shi Lei ran around the main house a few laps as usual, had a simple breakfast, and then rode on a mountain bike and went to the farmer's market in the city to buy some fresh vegetables.

By the time Shi Lei got home, Hanks was already waiting at the door. These cowboys got up very early, and Hanks knew Shi Lei's work and rest habits, and he came to find Shi Lei after he had already done part of the work.

"Hey, Locke, I've got in touch with a few pastures around, let's go and see the horses and cows and sheep in the pastures, and if they look suitable, they can send them over right away.

In addition, the cattle economy also has eyebrows, they now have a large number of Piflo cattle in their hands, and there is a certain amount of room for price, if time permits, we can also go and see together. Hanks was still so direct, and he came up to show his intentions.

"Okay, then let's go and have a look, you can arrange the itinerary." After Shi Lei finished speaking, he simply packed himself up, got into the pickup truck driven by Hanks, and began to buy his belongings.

"The first thing we're going to is Tom's, and their family is mainly a horse breeder. By the way, do you plan to use anything specific for ranch horses? Hanks asked Shi Lei, who was sitting next to him, as he drove.

"Which horses are good to use? What do they have in their house? "Shi Lei really hasn't touched horses.

"If you want to graze, you can choose the Quarter horse, which is very gentle, has good speed and endurance and is very agile, very suitable as a ranch horse, and has become the most widely used horse in the United States, and it is relatively cheap. Of course, you can also use wild horses or flower horses.

If you are going to pick a horse to ride on your own, there are many options to choose from, such as Friesian horses, Hanoverian horses, quart horses, all kinds of warmbloods and even Arabian horses, thoroughbreds, and of course you can also choose some crossbreeds, it all depends on your preference.

But as a beginner, I think it's better to choose a more docile horse, and of course, I can help.

Tom's horses are mainly quartes and flower horses, and there are some other horse breeds, but there are not many, and some horse breeds are too difficult to take care of, and the buyer is difficult to find, so their family does not have them. "Hanks is always very rigorous in his dealings, and he seems to have a detailed understanding of the situation.

The pickup truck didn't drive for a long time, and Shi Lei and they came to Tom's ranch. Tom had been waiting at the door for a long time, and after some politeness, the white man in his 60s led the two to the side of the racecourse.

Before coming, Shi Lei told Hanks, Hanks was responsible for selecting the horses he thought were suitable for the stone pasture, Shi Lei only needed to choose a horse he liked as his mount, and if the number of horses he needed was not enough, there were still a few horse farms to go.

So when they arrived at the place, the two of them went their separate ways, Hanks carefully selected there, broke the horse's mouth to look at the teeth, touched the horse's muscles, and looked at the horse's hooves and the horse's joints.

But Shi Lei looked at the horse farm in the horse farm, his selection criterion is to look at which horse is pleasing to the eye, the more handsome the appearance, the better, because he has an animal optimization and transformation system in hand, and he is not worried about the horse's temper or body at all, but if he looks too frustrated, he will have no love, so the highest criterion is whether he likes it or not.

In Shi Lei's opinion, Quart and Hua Ma both looked similar, and there was no one here that made Shi Lei feel bright, so he strolled to other areas to have a look. This look really made him discover two strange horses.

One is a pony that looks like a foal, there are dozens, and it is supposed to be of the same race. The other ** shoulder height is more than 170 cm, very tall, and the four hooves have a long mane, and the hair on the back and tail is even more flowing in the wind.

Tom, the owner of the horse farm on one side, saw that Shi Lei was very interested in these two **, so he proudly introduced Shi Lei:

"This is the British Shetland pony, which is very adaptable to the natural environment, resistant to rough feeding, and has two layers of coat in winter to protect against the cold. Queen Elizabeth of England was the honorary president of the Shetland Pony Registration Society, and the British royal nobility had a particular preference and value for the Shetland ponies.

This pony is obedient and easy to maneuver. It was both the pet of the royal nobility and the intimate companion of children. It can be ridden by children or pulled by horse-drawn carriages for competitions.

I had introduced a few horses a long time ago as an initiation mount for my children, and then when their children were born, they imported a few more from England to improve the population, and now my Shetland pony is a popular breed.

As for the other ** you see, the shire horse breed, I went to England to introduce Shetland horses occasionally saw, the first few were eliminated service horses, after coming to the United States by me with a few Frisian horses to improve, now these horses not only retain the elegant posture of the Shire horses, but also have the strong physique of the Shire horses and the beautiful mane they all have. Look how beautiful these babes run. ”

Tom looked at the horses as intently as if he had seen a beautiful woman, and could see that he really liked them.

Shi Lei was indeed attracted by one of the white skewered scarred horses without any trace of miscellaneous hair, although this horse ran a little staggering, completely unrelated to chic, slightly obese and obviously shorter than other similar heights made it look a little bloated, but these did not affect Shi Lei's love for it, Shi Lei can buy it back and carry out appropriate transformation, its shoulder height is not too high to 170 than other similar people close to 180 is also more suitable for Shi Lei's height of 182 to ride.

In addition, Shi Lei also plans to buy a few ponies and put them in his own pasture, in the near future, Guoguo will definitely come to the ranch to play, ponies can be used as Guoguo's mount and playmate, of course, to make long-term plans, but also as Shi Lei's future children's enlightenment mount.

Shi Lei told Tom that he had chosen a few horses, and that they would be settled together after Hanks had finished choosing. After waiting for a short time, Hanks finally finished the selection with a satisfied look, and after determining the horse that Shi Lei wanted to buy, he bargained with Tom.

Most of the nearly 20 horses selected by Hanks are quart, only a few flower horses, and the average price is less than $4,000 a piece, and the horses selected by Shi Lei, even if they seem to be the smallest ponies, are nearly twice as expensive as those like quart, and the skewer shire horse, which is definitely the most frustrated in Hanks's opinion, will also go to Shi Lei's tens of thousands of dollars.

All the horses needed for this trip were procured, and Tom would be sent to the stone pasture in a large trailer for the horses.

The remaining cows and sheep were quickly chosen. There is no doubt that the cows are black and white cows, and now they are all cows bred from artificially selected high-quality sperm, and the quality is not picky.

When choosing meat sheep, at Shi Lei's insistence, he finally bought a lot of merino sheep with both meat and wool. Originally, according to Hanks's words, he chose Boer goats for pure meat, but of course Shi Lei planned to open a golden finger with the idea of a sheep for multiple purposes.

In this way, in the morning, the two of them almost bought the livestock other than the main herd.

In the afternoon, the two met up and went directly to see the cattle economy. Finally, with the help of Hanks, the herd was selected in line with the principle of more cows, especially cows with cubs. Of course, Hanks is still as serious as ever when choosing, striving for perfection and trying to pick a better one.

Finally bought all the big livestock, Shi Lei left Hanks to the ranch to take over all kinds of animals, and he drove his beloved F150 Raptor pickup truck to the city alone, planning to buy a few skewer dogs to bring back to the ranch, so that he could assist the cowboys in their work as cattle dogs.

However, after looking at many pet stores, I found that most of the pet stores sell all kinds of purebred dogs, and most of them are dogs.

However, every place that sells pets is generally written with slogans similar to "give priority to adopting pets, and consider how to take care of pets before buying them later", since there are all places to adopt, Shi Lei also plans to go to the pet rescue station to see if there is a dog he wants to adopt.

After asking the clerk of a pet store for the location, Shi Lei drove to the largest pet rescue station in Los Angeles in high spirits.

Shi Lei, who entered the rescue station, followed up with the zoo, and it seems that the American people are really very diverse in raising pets.

There is a special reptile area for dogs, pet mink, cats, birds, and even big cats like lions and tigers.

According to one of the volunteers who works here, you can buy a tiger cub or a lion cub for 300 yuan on Amazon, and many people choose these animals because they are cute when they are young, and secretly keep them in the basement or garage, but when they grow up, they become more and more dangerous, and the cost of feeding them makes many people unaffordable, so these big cats are abandoned.

There are all kinds of poisonous or non-venomous snakes in the reptile area, pythons and lizards, geckos, palace guards and the like. All kinds of pet mink are very cute, and it seems that Laura has one, and you can consider raising one when you go back. All kinds of cats Shi Lei just took a look, because Shi Lei didn't like this kind of animal that could never be raised.

The bird area is dominated by all kinds of parrots, gray parrots, macaws, etc., and the most peculiar thing is that one of the gray parrots actually plucked all the hair on his body with his beak because of depression.

It is said that the cause is that its previous hostess was very good to it, and then the male and female owners divorced, and it always called the predecessor's name in front of the new hostess, so it was locked in the basement by the male hostess, which caused it to look miserable now.

After visiting these areas with great interest, Shi Lei came to the canine area, where there are all kinds of fierce dogs, and there must be a Labrador Retriever nicknamed the American Grass Dog.

In the end, Shi Lei still selected more than a dozen middle-sized or purebred or cross-bred pitbulls, which are very rare by Shi Lei for their square body shape and tenacious conduct.

On average, each dog charges Shi Lei about $100 in adoption fees, including adoption fees and various vaccines. However, Shi Lei, who paid the money, could not continue to take the dog away.

Because Shi Lei adopted so many dogs at one time, the staff of the rescue station must go to Shi Lei's house to inspect the dog's future living and working environment to ensure that the dog can be well integrated into the environment of Shi Lei's family, and at the same time exclude the possibility that he can breed and sell the dog to him after he has bred it privately.

Shi Lei had no choice but to drive back to the ranch alone, and there were still a lot of belongings waiting for him.