"Brother Liu, you have to say that no matter these cattle and sheep of your family, these cattle and sheep of your family will not last for a few days......" Sitting in the starry sky house, Tashi Dawa looked at the white grassland outside and the cattle and sheep who were looking for grass to eat.

The grass outside was covered with snow nearly 30 centimeters deep, and because the snow had stopped, the wind was strong, and the temperature became exceptionally low. When the sun rises, the intense sunlight melts the upper layers of the snow, but then it freezes at low temperatures, forming "snow and ice".

There are more than a dozen yaks and 20 sheep scattered in the grassland near the starry sky house, and they are struggling to find grass to eat in the grassland.

Because they were not worried about the Starry Sky House, on the morning of the second day when the heavy snow stopped, Liu Moang and Tashi Dawa stepped on the snow and came to the Starry Sky House.

It's not bad, because the Starry Sky House is oval-shaped, so there is no snow left on the top, so it can't cause any damage to the Starry Sky House.

The day before yesterday, it had snowed heavily for nearly 20 hours, and the snow in the grassland was nearly 30 centimeters deep. Although it is far from being compared with the 10.7 snow disaster in Namco, this heavy snow is a rare heavy snow in the southern part of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountain in recent years.

The white lion and steamed bun lay at Lao Liu's feet, tilting their heads to look at the cattle and sheep outside who were looking for grass to eat.

The calf followed his mother, who was looking for grass to eat, and beside them, there were more than twenty sheep and several other yaks.

These cattle and sheep are all cattle and sheep raised on the pasture that now belongs to Lao Liu. In the past, when Lao Liu's second uncle was walking outside, the cattle and sheep at home were taken care of by the nephew of the second eldest mother, Yang Jin, but a few years ago, the nephew of the second eldest mother married a daughter-in-law from Bayi, and the family moved to Bayi.

After the second uncle came back, the second uncle took care of these cattle and sheep, but when the second uncle left, these cattle and sheep were basically left alone.

Before Lao Liu came to the plateau, he was busy dealing with the aftermath of the second uncle, busy opening an inn, busy pulling customers to the inn to treat tourists, busy chasing his wife, busy sending his wife home, and busy helping others, but he was not busy taking care of these own cattle and sheep on the grassland.

That is, when the dumplings were learning to hunt, their own sheep were almost in trouble, and Lao Liu bought more than 20 sheep from other families, so that the pasture could ensure a certain number of cattle and sheep.

But now, this sudden heavy snowfall has made the cattle and sheep on their pastures unlucky.

In the plateau grazing, in addition to the transition of spring and autumn, many qualified herdsmen will also prepare some dry grass for their cattle and sheep before winter, in case the snow disaster comes, their cattle and sheep have no grass to eat.

But Lao Liu had never grazed at all before, and he didn't know how to help the cattle and sheep survive the winter, let alone prepare grass for the cattle and sheep for the winter, and he couldn't even drive the cattle and sheep back to the cattle and sheepfold.

As a result, other people's cattle and sheep are now grazing on the grass prepared by their owners in the pen, while his family's dozen yaks and twenty sheep can only find grass to eat on the pasture.

The sheep were better, and despite shivering from the cold, the goats that hit the head showed their skills in the hard hoofs and planing. The goats use their hooves to scrape off the crusty snow before looking for dead grass underneath to eat.

In contrast, the sheep do not have the skill of goats, or the skills of sheep have not yet reached home, so the remaining ten or so sheep can only follow closely behind the goat's buttocks and eat the "leftovers" that the goats trample on......

In contrast, the resistance of the dozen or so yaks to snow disasters is undoubtedly much weaker.

Yaks don't have upper teeth, so they can only rely on their tongues to roll long grass to fill their stomachs, but at this time, it is difficult to eat grass in the grassland that is deeply pressed by the snow, so most of the ten or so yaks can only lick the snow and then look up, looking helpless......

A few yaks seem to understand that eating grass in such a situation is a luxury, and simply lie on the snow and stop looking for grass to eat.

The little calf has a spirit of perseverance. Perhaps because she was breastfeeding, the cow was desperately looking for grass to eat in order to let her son eat more milk.

It is grass that is eaten, and milk that is expressed.

It's true to describe a cow, but you have to make it grassy!

If you can't even eat grass, where can you milk it?

Although the calf can eat grass now, it can't find grass to eat in this weather, where can it get grass to eat?

So the calf simply got under its mother's belly and was ready to suck two mouthfuls of milk, but when he turned his head, he found Lao Liu and the white lion sitting in the starry sky house, so it ran over again, mooing at Lao Liu through the transparent starry sky room glass.

Lao Liu sighed and asked Tashi Dawa: "Brother Dawa, do you still have extra grass in our village?" ”

Although Lao Liu is not very concerned about his cattle and sheep, it is always a life, and he can't starve to death like this.

Tashi Dawa shook his head and said, "Brother Liu, you'd better go to Sunshine City to buy pasture, the grass in our village is not enough." ”

"Then you take the sheep and cattle back to the village first, and see who can get some hay out first. After the road was opened, I went to Lhasa to buy pasture. Oh, you tell the old man Basang Gyaltsen, and ask him to count how much fodder and grass is left in the village, and I will bring back all of them. ”

"Brother Liu, isn't this okay? Originally, you had already suffered a loss by giving shares to the villagers, and now you have to buy feed and pasture for the villagers......

"Don't think it's so beautiful, I only give half of it, and the remaining half will be deducted from the dividend. You tell the old man about this, and ask him to ask if there is anyone willing to buy it? If there is, count it, and forget if there is none. ”

Tashi Dawa nodded, "Then I'll bring the cattle and sheep back now." ”

When the second uncle was hospitalized before, Tashi Dawa had helped take care of these cattle and sheep for a short time, so he knew what to do.

After the death of Liu Moang's second uncle, although Liu Moang did not live in the village, he still had the house of the second uncle, and of course, there were cattle and sheep pens.

After Tashi Dawa brought the cattle and sheep back, he went straight to the house of the old man Pasang Gyaltsen, and when he got there, he explained the situation, and the old man began to contact him without saying a word.

After a while, a few men came to Liu Dahe's former home with a cart pulling a few carts of hay, and the cattle and sheep who had been hungry for two days were finally able to eat grass.

The old man walked from house to house, and many villagers were willing to buy forage in a unified manner, but there were also villagers who had already prepared enough forage and did not sign up to buy it.

Liu Moang bears half of the cost of buying forage, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the villagers. The price of different forage is different, good forage is more than 1,000 yuan a ton, and the almost one has to be hundreds of yuan a ton, Lao Liu bears half of it, which can undoubtedly save the villagers a lot of money to buy forage.

Yaks on the plateau eat very little feed, and most of them are free-range. If it weren't for the severe snowstorm on the plateau in winter, there would not be many herders to buy forage.

Nowadays, many herders in remote areas almost do not buy forage, one is that the price is too high, and the other is that it is inconvenient to transport.

However, it is better to have forage than no forage, and with forage, at least the cattle and sheep will not starve to death in the difficult winter.

For example, in the 90s, a few severe snowstorms caused a large number of cattle and sheep to starve to death, and if the herders had spare forage in their hands at that time, they would not have starved to death so many cattle and sheep.

However, how to buy forage and what kind of forage to buy is not Lao Liu's responsibility.

He didn't know anything about these things, and he didn't know what kind of forage to buy, so he was just responsible for paying for it.

Good forage is not cheap. Like those pure alfalfa hay, a meal can cost a thousand dollars.

Five catties of fresh grass and one catty of hay will not starve to death as long as a cow is guaranteed to eat 15 kilograms of hay a day. That is, one ton of hay can only feed one cow for two months.

Although the yaks can find grass to eat on the pasture after the snow melts, and a meal of hay can be eaten for a longer time, the money to buy hay is also a heavy burden for an ordinary herdsman family.

This incident also reminded Lao Liu of the fact that the big dog inadvertently mentioned that he planted pasture.

The plateau pastoral area is the largest alpine meadow grassland pastoral area in China, and the grassland area ranks third in the country. However, due to the influence of high livestock carrying capacity, excessive grazing intensity and intensified human activities, except for the natural grassland in the southeast valley of the plateau, the rest of the alpine pastures have been degraded to varying degrees, which is more obvious in the ecologically fragile zone of northern Tibet.

Therefore, the importance of artificial grass planting on plateau for the restoration of natural grassland vegetation is becoming increasingly prominent.

Oat grass has developed into the main variety of artificial forage cultivation on the plateau because of its strong adaptability and high forage yield.

It is said that some high-grade oat grass, in the area with better hydrothermal conditions in the south of the mountain, can mow three to four stubbles a year, and the highest yield of one hectare can reach 30,000 kilograms, that is, two tons per mu!

That's a pretty scary number.

Don't forget that this is a plateau, not a plain.

Even if the natural conditions on the side of Obacuo cannot be compared with those in Shannan, even if the yield is half worse, the yield per mu can reach one ton. If it is dried into hay, the yield per mu will be more than 200 kilograms!

If, according to the previous idea, all the more than 4,000 acres of grassland in his own house are planted with oat grass, or even the pasture of all the villagers in Obacuo is replanted with this kind of high-yield oat grass, then only the forage grass produced by Obacuo can not only feed all the livestock of Obacuo, but even feed all the livestock in the surrounding five or six natural villages!

With high-yield pasture, even if there is such a big snowstorm, the herdsmen do not have to worry about their cattle and sheep not having enough to eat and go hungry.

Lao Liu's heart moved, and a small seed suddenly appeared out of thin air on the tip of his fingers, which was the seed of oat grass......