Chapter Seventy-Two: Breeding of Beef Cattle
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In order to prevent these still growing Ganoderma lucidum from being remembered by the sheep not far away, Wang Hao could only use a fence to enclose the Ganoderma lucidum, which was something that had to be done.
To be honest, Wang Hao was skeptical that this mushroom seed bag could provide enough nutrients for so many Ganoderma lucidum to grow, he could only pin his hopes on the oak tree next to him that exuded vitality, plus he came over every day to cast a spell, hoping to hold on until it matured.
After throwing the Lingzhi here, Wang Hao saw Neil not far away driving the beef cattle forward with a whip, and the pasture had to be changed every few days to avoid eating up the pasture in one place.
The mighty herd of cattle was driven by him and walked not far away, but the speed was a little slow. Neil rode on the healed cheese, flicking his whip and shouting loudly. After he saw Wang Hao, he excitedly rode over and asked puzzledly, "Boss, what are you doing here?" ”
Wang Hao pointed to the oak tree over there, and said with a smile: "I planted a tree and mushrooms, which grow quickly, you can help me watch it, don't be eaten by cattle and sheep." He didn't know how to say the word Ganoderma lucidum in English, so he could only use mushrooms to summarize them, after all, they were all mushrooms.
"Then I'll continue to drive the cattle and we'll talk later." Neil looked at the cattle running around in a mess, quickly dropped the sentence and ran over. There was also the sound of whipping through the air in the distance, presumably the rest of the cowboys were helping him, otherwise hundreds of cows were not something he could control alone.
I have to say that the cowboys he invited to the ranch are all with real strength, meticulous in the work of the ranch, and they are quite well done, no matter where they are, they are in order, and they never need him to worry about it.
Watching the cattle move forward, he shrugged his shoulders and walked towards the cowshed, although the cattle in the pasture are grazing on the grassland, they often need to be artificially moved to the pasture, and at the same time, they often have to go back to the cowshed to eat soybeans, corn and other things, keep their bodies clean, and so on.
In Australia, pastures are pasture-to-pasture, with a little farmland wheat fields and vineyards in between, and there are more or less trees growing on the golden pastures, generally with a diameter of tens of centimeters. These trees provide shade for the cattle and sheep in the meadow: the boundary between the pastures is a wire fence or a few rows of golden cypresses, the pasture is evergreen all year round, and the meadow is the home of the cattle and sheep, from its birth until it is slaughtered and sold, no matter day and night, or wind and rain, it always lives on the grass, and there are very few cowsheds. Cattle and sheep mate naturally, and do not engage in artificial breeding; Cattle and sheep calve themselves. No human assistance is required. The incidence is low. Every epidemic prevention and ear trumpet season, livestock owners will rush cattle and sheep to the management center (a fixed place surrounded by iron railings in the management center), and inject needles, ear numbers, and tracking and identification electronic cards one by one.
Now the beef cattle in the pasture are facing two forms of fattening mode, one of which is grass fattening, the half-sized bull, and the culled cow, with a fence to fix it on the grass with good grass, so that these beef cattle can eat freely, grow to more than a year old, can be slaughtered. Such cattle do not feed a little concentrate feed, slaughter weight 500 ~ 700 kg, its slaughter ** marbling is poor, the meat is mainly supplied to the domestic and Middle East Islamic regions, Australians do not like fat beef.
Another method is to concentrate the selected cattle in the fattening field and feed hay, silage and concentrate for a fattening period of about three months, or one year if it is longer. Generally, the slaughtered cattle are more than 24 months old and weigh more than 800 kilograms, and the beef marbling pattern produced is better. Beef is mainly supplied to Japan, South Korea, the United States, etc. The feed raw materials are mainly wheat, barley and peas, and the concentrate accounts for about 70% of the dry matter of the diet. The formula is relatively simple, without adding weight gainers and fattening spirits.
This kind of marbled beef is extremely expensive, and it is particularly popular in many countries and is a symbol of gastronomy. Australian beef implements a slaughter grading system, with high added value of products, and the price of beef ranges from 6~50 Australian dollars. Among them, the price of beef with marbling is the highest. Australia's top 3 processors account for half of the country's annual slaughter.
Of course, the main means of making money on the ranch is to sell **beef, that is, a whole cow is packaged for sale, according to Wang Hao, the current ** slaughter price is not high, 1.8 Australian dollars to 5 Australian dollars. Because after slaughtering a cow, not all parts can be sold for a good price, and some parts can only be discarded and cannot be sold at all.
What Wang Hao has to do now is to work hard to train beef cattle and strive for the certification of the South Wales Cattle Association and get the highest rating. It's just a few hundred cows, and he plans to use his druid skills to transform them to the top of their game, no worse than Angus cattle or Japanese Wagyu cows. It's a long-term business that can't be achieved overnight, so he plans to use this batch of cattle to see how much impact his druid skills can have.
Now that the cattle on the ranch are half the size of the cow, it will be too late if they are not fattened, so he has to make a decision to see how the number and variety should be distributed in order to get the most profit. As a layman, Wang Hao decided to go to the cowshed first, go home and call the cattle association to consult the price and make an appointment for the review, and then carefully calculate how to produce cost-effective.
Perhaps the most high-tech and mechanized place in the entire ranch is the neat row of cowsheds, and the whole shed area is an enclosed environment, surrounded by a fence and a babbling stream, forming a relatively independent space. This is perhaps the only creek in the Golden Pasture, and the water of the stream is constantly rushing through it, so clear that you can even see a few small fish.
In addition to the four necessary passages, it is not easy to enter the shed area. No matter who wants to enter the cowshed, they have to go through strict disinfection procedures, Wang Hao to himself. Such good conditions allow the entire shed area to be in operation. Contamination from outside can be avoided as much as possible.
A complete shed, in addition to the necessary sanitary cleaning equipment, will also have a fully automatic drinking water supply, air humidifier, feed feeding system and air conditioning system.
These automated and semi-automated equipment are basically under the control of the computer, which greatly reduces the workload of the ranch staff in the daily work. Take the most important air conditioning system, for example, the fully automatic sensing system allows the computer to clearly sense the temperature changes in each room. According to the numbers provided by the technicians, the Wagyu cattle in each barn have different temperature requirements at different stages of growth. The computer can be adapted to the specific conditions of the environment at the time. The temperature is automatically adjusted, so that the Wagyu beef can always live in a comfortable temperature.
The use of computers allows cowboys to save a lot of time and effort by not having to keep an eye on the temperature in the barn when the weather changes. In addition, because of the automatic adjustment of the air conditioning system. There are also savings in energy, which has reduced the operating costs of the ranch.
"Boss, why are you here?" At this time, Luna was holding a sterilizer and spraying every room constantly, and when she saw Wang Hao coming, she was a little surprised, so she stopped what she was doing.
Wang Hao looked around and found that Joseph really spent a lot of money, and this set of equipment was worth a lot of money, which made him a little ashamed, and the ranch seemed to be too cheap.
"Keep busy, I'll just come and see, as a rancher, this is actually my first time in the cowshed area, and I really don't know the way." Although Wang Hao said this, there was no look of shame on his face, but Luna looked at her in surprise, looking disbelieving.
Believe you, Luna has been cleaning and disinfecting the inside while Neil and the others drove the cattle out. Cattle excrement has a special place to accumulate, and it is not used very often, and the cattle used to come in every few days to replenish food, and by the way, check their weight, epidemics, etc.
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