Chapter 82: Raising Donkeys to Prevent Wolves?
When the two entered the ranch, they saw a scene of chicken feathers, a large pile of things at the door of Simmons' house, and a few large pieces of furniture were seen in the distance.
There weren't many people coming, plus Zhang Chi and Sean, there were only seven or eight people.
"Simmons!"
Zhang Chi said hello to Mr. Simmons.
"Look at it casually" Simmons saw Zhang Chi and smiled and motioned for Zhang Chi to look at it at will.
Zhang Chi's eyes swept around, and he soon saw what he was interested in.
There was a plastic bag on the ground, the bag was quite large, and it contained some bridles, bridles, sweat pads and something.
Walking to the side of the plastic bag, Zhang Chi reached out and opened the mouth of the bag, and found that there were other things inside, such as the V-belts that are not commonly used, forehead guards or something, in short, they are all things for horses.
Zhang Chi stretched out his hand and sorted it out, and calculated almost three sets in his heart.
"How much is this?"
Zhang Chi turned to Mr. Simmons and asked.
"Give twenty if you want," Simmons said.
When the things were ready, Zhang Chi took out twenty yuan from his pocket.
After taking Zhang Chi's money, Simmons tied the mouth of the bag and put a sold card on it.
Zhang Chi paid the money, of course, and continued to transfer.
He has no interest in furniture or anything, Simmons's furniture is white Victorian furniture, he not only doesn't like it, he doesn't even want to look at it, this thing is at home is tossing himself, so many lines you have to take care of, can wipe you to tears.
He has no interest in furniture, and he is even less interested in small household appliances, and now he is a little rich, so it is naturally impossible to use other people's second-hand small household appliances.
We're not the same people we used to be.
Don't say it, there are really a lot of small household appliances for this old couple, and Zhang Chi has never seen many things.
In addition to these, there are some books, this thing Zhang Chi is even less interested, all in English, I found two and flipped through them, and I didn't see any illustrations, if he was a gentleman, he would still be interested, but these are all books in English, he really doesn't want to read them, and he can't understand them.
originally thought that these things were all, but what Zhang Chi didn't expect was that Simmons and his family also sold horses and alpacas.
Sean was now watching the alpacas from the edge of the fence where the alpacas were kept.
Zhang Chi didn't want to get close to the alpacas, the first time he saw them, they were still fresh, but after watching them a few times, he understood that these guys would spit on you, and sometimes they were still green when they were spit out, and they could disgust you for several days, so Zhang Chi didn't want to get close to them.
Of course, there is a reason why alpacas spit people.
Either it doesn't like it, or it just wants to spit on you.
It's not impossible to deal with this kind of behavior, that is, raise a few more, so that the alpacas won't spit on you.
Of course, this is not right, and the best way to not want to be disgusted is to stay away from this thing.
A little farther away from the alpaca, Zhang Chi began to look at the horses.
Simmons' horses are also the same kind as usual, all of them are quartes, and the colors are also jumping in the brown system, such horses are ordinary ranch horses, nothing special.
If it was before, Zhang Chi would have bought these horses, but now there are enough horses in his ranch, there are several horses, who will buy horses for now, most of the horses in the ranch have not been ridden yet.
Recruit cowboys?
With his current small ranch, one cannon can be done, and it would be a waste of money to recruit again.
He was looking at the horses when he suddenly heard Simmons and Beni Sr. talking.
The two old men were talking about life in Florida, and Zhang Chi didn't listen to it interestingly, and he was ready to take a look to the side.
Before he could move his feet, he heard Beni call himself.
"George".
"Hello, Beni" Zhang Chi had to walk towards Beni.
When Beni saw Zhang Chi coming, he opened his mouth and asked, "George, you don't have donkeys on your ranch yet, right?" ”
"No," Zhang Chi replied.
Zhang Chi asked this question a little strangely, the old man is in his seventies, and he asked himself if there was a donkey in the ranch to do anything, and he mainly focused on raising cattle, you asked the donkey, isn't it confused?
"That's right, buy some donkeys and go home," Beni laughed.
Zhang Chi said: "I don't seem to need it too much."
At this moment, Zhang Chi said in his heart: I know that the two of you have a good relationship, but it's not like that, right, you let me raise donkeys on your own cattle pasture? What can a donkey do? No one eats meat.
But at the thought of eating, Zhang Chi couldn't help but swallow his saliva, Lao Mei here doesn't eat donkeys, and there is no saying about dragon meat in the sky and donkey meat in the ground.
They don't have it, but our old Zhang has, when he thinks of donkey meat, Zhang Chi feels that the Jin in his mouth is immediately a little rotten.
thought in his heart, but Zhang Chi's face didn't show it, but pretended to be unconcerned and looked around.
"What you need, with these donkeys, you can prevent the wolves from punishing your herd," Beni said.
Zhang Chi didn't believe this statement a little, donkeys prevent wolves? Are you afraid that the wolf will not have enough to eat, so you will feed the wolf?
Beni then understood, the Chinese boy in front of him really didn't know that the donkey could prevent wolves, and thought he was lying to him.
So he smiled and said, "I'm not joking with you, I said it's true!" If you don't believe me, ask them which family doesn't have a few donkeys."
Zhang Chi really doesn't believe it, donkeys don't fight dogs with meat buns when they prevent wolves.
However, when Zhang Chi's eyes swept over the people around him, he understood that this seemed to be true.
Zhang Chi, who can't prevent wolves or anything, really doesn't care, because no wolf can come to his ranch to be arrogant, because the gourd is his talisman.
I'm not interested in wolf prevention, but Zhang Chi is interested in eating donkey meat.
"What's the price?"
Zhang Chi looked at the seven donkeys and asked Simmons.
"Six hundred dollars," Simmons said.
As soon as he heard that it was six hundred dollars and a donkey was one hundred dollars, Zhang Chi immediately shook his head, how much does he only buy a cow, and you let him buy a donkey for six hundred yuan, Zhang Chi is not happy.
Eating donkey meat is eating donkey meat, but spending six hundred dollars to buy six donkeys, Zhang Chi is not happy.
So Zhang Chi shook his head and said directly: "It's too expensive."
"How much do you say?" Simmons asked.
In fact, Simmons is also worried about these donkeys, because the nearby pastures should have been there for a long time, and people who shouldn't have them won't buy them, and as for taking them out and selling them, these things really can't be sold for much money, where is this, this is the western ranch area, and the most worthless thing is these hairy things.
"Two hundred," Zhang Chi said as he opened his mouth.
Simmons shook his head when he heard this: "It can't be too cheap."
"Forget it".
600 yuan to buy meat to eat, Zhang Chi is not so proud now, although he wants to eat donkey meat, but he can buy it for 600 yuan at once, get a few calves over, and raise them by himself.
In this way, this business can't be discussed, Simmons feels that the price he has offered has been exhausted, and Zhang Chi is not willing to spend more money, so it is too normal for this business to be aborted.
Not long after, Mrs. Simmons took out a few saddles, Zhang Chi took a fancy to two saddles, normal ranch saddles, the price was okay, the rest of the handmade saddles or something, and display saddles, were too expensive for Zhang Chi.
After the transaction was completed, Zhang Chi took the two saddles he bought and a bag of horse harnesses, tied them to the back of the horse in Chiyan Mountain, and rode home.
After returning home, Zhang Chi sent all the things he bought back to the small RV, where Cannon lived.
"Where did you get all that?"
Seeing that Zhang Chi had made two saddles and a bunch of harnesses, Cannon was a little curious, he only glanced at it and knew that these things had been used, not only had they been used, but the previous owner was quite attentive, and the maintenance of the things was quite good.
Second-hand stuff? MY OWN BOSS WENT TO THE WILD MARKET AGAIN?
Zhang Chi told him about his trip to Simmons' ranch, and quoted the price to Cannon.
"It's a bit expensive, it's not worth it for him to take these things with him, and no one buys them for sale, and the saddle is about forty dollars with these," Cannon said.
"I knew I was going to take you," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"But Simmons can understand that this old Jew has all business on his head," Cannon said.
"Originally, Beni also sold me their donkeys, and offered me six hundred, but I didn't ask for it."
"One head?"
"How is it possible, one hundred and six in total, tell me that donkeys can prevent wolves," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
"How can there be this price, they are going to move away, and they are in a hurry to deal with it, and they will give him two hundred at most" Cannon said.
Zhang Chi patted his thigh when he heard this: "I also said two hundred, but the old man didn't sell it." The donkey is not put aside first, this donkey can really prevent wolves? ”
Cannon nodded: "It's really possible, many ranches raise this kind of wild donkey to prevent wolves."
"How can it be prevented? If you eat a donkey and die and don't bite the cow? Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Cannon said, "How do you think a donkey reacts when he sees a wolf?" ”
"Run, don't run, what are you waiting for" Zhang Chi blurted out.
"Cows can run, but this wild donkey can't," Cannon said.
Seeing that Zhang Chi was puzzled, Cannon continued to explain: "Donkeys are social animals, which is the same as cattle and horses, the difference is that there is generally a leader in the herd of cattle and horses, so when they encounter danger, they will instinctively look at the leader's reaction, very panicked, this panic is usually amplified, cattle and horses are in danger and the whole group panics.
But wild donkeys don't, there is no leader in the donkey herd, they are all independent individuals together, so when they encounter danger, the donkey herd will not run, but will look at the surrounding situation first.
And this wild donkey is very fierce, when encountering an attack, it usually fights back, bites with its teeth and kicks with its feet, the donkey's strength is not small, its hooves are smaller than those of horses and cows, so when they kick, the wolf will be seriously injured, so the wolves that have generally encountered donkeys will not bite the donkey as long as they are not extremely hungry."
"I really can't see it," Zhang Chi felt that this was too amazing.
But when I thought of a story called Qiandonkey's poor skills, I immediately understood that what Cannon said really made sense.
I figured out why donkeys can prevent wolves, but in fact, it's useless, Zhang Chi's ranch can't use donkeys, the only pity is that he can't eat donkey meat.