Alpine pasture

Chapter 130 Trouble brought by the deer

When the plane landed at Lewistown Airport, when I got off the plane, Ju An felt the cold in Montana, not the temperature in New York. When I got out of the airport, I found that Er Zhuang came to pick up the plane and put my luggage in the back seat. After throwing it, Ju An took the seat of the co-pilot. Once Ju An was seated firmly, Er Zhuang started the F150 and drove the two people towards the pasture.

"By the way, has Thomas made arrangements for the old beauty to go home for Thanksgiving?" asked Ju An.

"Well, it has been arranged. When the cattle are gathered in the evening, they can go back. In two days, they will be returning to the pasture. The people in the pasture need to gather the cattle twice," Er Zhuang said.

"That's why it will be more difficult to gather the cattle tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. When the group of Chilean cowboys in the east have finished gathering the cattle, let them come and help you gather the cattle here." Ju An thought about it. said below.

Er Zhuang said with a smile: "Brother Ang, don't worry, the cows on our side are better than the Chilean cowboys, and the gray cows don't need to be said. The strongest cow is like a leader. Go with him, and a group of cows will follow him. The cows in the ordinary herd are similar. The gray bulls that were divided into the past are much more energetic. They fight with the original bulls all day long, and naturally take the original bulls. The herd is divided into several small herds. As long as you drive these cattle, you can easily gather them. The common bulls have been injured a few days ago, but there is no major problem. Thomas said that they are basically useless. ".

Ju An Zou frowned and asked, "What's going on? How can those bulls be useless? When they are raised, they will sell for the same amount of money, and there will be more meat."

Er Zhuang replied with a smile: "The bulls in the pasture are mainly reserved for breeding. The young bulls are usually sent to the slaughterhouse for slaughter at the age of two. Now some bulls in the original herd have no chance of breeding at all. The bull had several fights with the assigned gray bull, and was injured a lot by the gray bull that was two laps bigger. Thomas said that he should discuss it with you when you come back and send it to slaughter."

Ju An nodded and said, "That's not bad, but don't send it to slaughter, let's slaughter and eat it on your own pasture to save money on beef. By the way, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is estimated that it won't take a month. It's going to snow, and the grass in the pasture has dried up."

Er Zhuang said happily: "Other pastures are already withered, although the grass in our pasture looks like it is withered, but the roots are still slowly growing, that is, it grows much slower and shorter, and the grass leaves change. It is much wider, and it turns yellow soon after it grows out. The cow still likes to eat the withered leaves on the ground, but not the hay that we store. Thomas now puts the cow in a few woods at night and feeds the hay, so as not to be afraid of the cow Going to gnaw on the grass roots destroys the pasture, and the pasture will not grow well in the coming year. Part of the pastures of Taylor and the other three are similar to ours. They came to chat with Thomas the day before yesterday, saying that if the grass can fill their pasture next year. Their days are much better."

Ju An smiled. This was because he was afraid that it would be too conspicuous, so he expanded the pasture. If Taylor's pastures were covered, he would have to bring at least a dozen nearby pastures. Isn't that friendship? Not only will it be like this after next year, but he said that there are still a few corners of his ranch that have not been expanded, so he can take care of others, and then asked: "So this year's There should be enough hay storage, how much does Thomas of corn and oats think can be consumed.”

"Half is enough, and there are too many corn and oats. Thomas estimates that only one third of the two is enough. When you come back, I will tell you to sell some." Er Zhuang watched Road side replied.

Ju An said: "This is where, the coldest night in Montana in winter is minus ten or twenty degrees, not necessarily too much, so stay in the pasture first, and if there is more, feed the cows from time to time. consumption".

"Thomas said that it will snow by then. Once it snows, the temperature under the snow will be much higher than that on the snow. Maybe the grass will turn green and grow faster." Er Zhuang replied with a smile.

After listening to it, Ju An thought about it and it was right. After all, the old cowboy's consideration was completely reasonable.Since there is no need to worry about pasture or anything, Ju An also calmed down and followed Er Zhuang to understand the situation of Xia Er Zhuang's home. The two of them chatted like this and went to the pasture.

As soon as the two returned to the ranch, Er Zhuang parked the car back to the warehouse, prepared his horse, and went about his own business.

As soon as he opened the door with his luggage and returned to the house, Ju An naturally received a warm welcome from the two comrades Teddy and Wu Song, and followed Teddy and Wu Song to have a good time.I looked at the two little eagles on the gun cabinet. The two little guys are still growing very fast. They haven't seen a lot in a few days. The black feathers are more and more, and the white lanugo is basically invisible. Wo went upstairs to put down his luggage, put the bird's nest into the space, and then found a thick coat in the cloakroom to put on, and when he arrived at the horse, he prepared a saddle and reins for the bean grass, and rode on the bean grass, I was going to visit my ranch for a while, and I said hello to the cowboys by the way, and told everyone that I was back. Who knew that I had just stepped on the back of the bean grass and ran a distance, and I felt cold, sitting in the house and sitting I didn't feel anything in the car. I ran on the bean grass, it was cold, and I turned around again. After wearing a windbreaker, I continued to patrol the pasture. After a circle, Ju An was very satisfied with the situation. Just like what Er Zhuang said, when they got to the pond, they saw a few dwarf vines with green and black leaves, and they were full of energy. The big geese and ducks that Sith watched alone were still the same, with fat heads and big ears. , paddling and pulling in the water, they can give full play to their role when eating hot pot in winter.

Just after dinner at noon, Ju An was playing with Teddy and Wu Song on the sofa. Old Thomas pushed the door and came in, put the cowboy hat on his head on the coffee table, and began to tell Ju An about going to the ranch. In addition to a few nearby American cowboys, Lawrence will also go back to town to spend the holidays with his family, but only for one night.Thomas is no longer his wife, Wynn and Andrew are not married, so they both stayed to take care of the ranch.

After he finished talking about Thanksgiving, Thomas thought about it and mentioned one more thing: "Ann, there are thirty or forty deer coming to the pasture near the foot of the mountain, just upstream of the creek to the east, I guess I know where it is. The grass is good, that is, the grass in the pasture has grown past, and it is close to the water source, and it seems that it is ready to spend the winter there.”

Ju An said: "As long as they don't get into the pasture, don't care about them. There is time to deal with deer there. If there is a deer with more than a dozen prongs, I'd be interested."This guy himself didn't take this situation into consideration at all. The deer also eat grass. In winter, there is so little grass outside that even the deer know that they will go to the edge of the buddy's ranch to catch the autumn wind.

"Haha, don't think about this, Tyler and the others have already beaten a few big deer, this is what they told me, bigger deer such as moose and red deer can't get through, but the smaller ones Deer are capable, just like white-tailed deer. If there are too many, they must drive them away. If they are not competing with the cattle for pasture, and if the wolves in the mountains find that there are deer here for the winter, maybe the wolves will also be there. I'll come over," Thomas said.

Why!This guy is good at raising cattle, and he has also attracted wild deer. This may also attract wolves. This guy has serious side effects. Anyway, it's a wild deer, what does it have to do with us."

Thomas shook his head and said, "After all, deer run fast. After it snows, it will be more difficult for wolves to hunt deer on the snow. I'm afraid that at night, the wolves will shift their targets to the calves in the pasture."

When Ju An heard this, this is really a troublesome thing.After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Then if you have any suggestions, let's listen to it."

"The key is that we have too few cattle dogs now, so we can only walk around the fence with a few cattle dogs every few days, leaving a smell, so that the wolves of seven or eight wolves will know that there are cattle dogs in the pasture. , when everyone wakes up at night when they go to sleep, there will be basically nothing to do," Thomas said.

Ju An nodded: "If you find a pack of wolves near the ranch, do this, dare to enter the ranch to fight one and two to kill one pair."My buddy didn’t plan to raise so many cows in the first place. According to the original plan, there will be forty or fifty cattle dogs on the pasture in more than a year. Who knows that so many cows will be added all at once.Do you want your buddies to go to China to get dogs again?If you think about it, forget it. The dog will play an alarming role. When the time comes, people should be smarter. How can seven or eight wolves make the buddies so nervous?

Following Ju An, he said to Thomas: "In the afternoon, we also go to buy turkey or something. Tomorrow night, everyone in the ranch will not share a small turkey for the festival. What else is there to eat for Thanksgiving? When the time comes, you can make a list, and I will go to the town to buy it in the afternoon."

Thomas thought for a moment and said, "It's turkey, pumpkin pie, whatever, you'll know when you ask the clerk. The main thing is turkey and ham. By the way, when you buy turkey, you must buy bread crumbs, that is For those stuffed in the turkey belly, remember to also buy honey, just buy two bigger turkeys, and then send one to the east for them to roast themselves, and we can roast one here.”

Ju An nodded, and then the two said Thomas again and then got up and left.Leaving Ju An to make a list on a piece of paper, thinking about what to buy in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)