Chapter 84 Farm
Ye Zi asked: "Then what can I do?"
Auntie: "Wash your hair and go to bed and wait."
Ye Zi nodded: "Oh, then I'll go wash the white hair."
Hearing the sound of leaves taking a bath, the little tiger baby followed in and then jumped into the bathtub to make trouble.
Ye Zi hugged the baby's head and kissed him: "Baby, don't add me. You don't know that your tongue is full of barbs. Mom's skin is very delicate. Just kiss it in the future."
Baby: "Aowoo~"
Ye Zi: "I'm wrong, call meow~"
Baby: "Meow~"
Ye Zi: "Yes, meow~"
Baby: "Meow~"
On Saturday, Zhang Cheng drove to the farm with his aunt Ye Zi and his baby.
The farm staff are four women and six men, who have more than 2,000 turkeys and more than 300 pigs and sheep. After seeing the farmer's family coming, Ms. Casey reported to Ye Zi: "Mike from the farm is usually responsible for raising and training horses. After the former farmer left, she took her horse away. Now Mike has nothing to do, so she can help us do chores. This is not good news for your capital utilization rate."
Ye Zi: "Ms. Casey, do you have any good suggestions?"
Casey: "If you don't want to fire Mike, you should buy three or five ranch horses so that you can ride horses when you are on vacation. We can also use it when we stock turkeys and sheep."
Ye Zi wondered: "Don't raising chickens in rows of cages?"
Ms. Casey said: "The nutrition of turkey eggs raised in that way will decrease, but it will only increase the egg laying rate of turkeys and save space, which will not be beneficial to the health of turkeys. I will give you a new egg laid on the farm turkey and you will see it."
In order to prove that the turkey eggs on her farm are not comparable to those of large-scale farming, Ms. Casey took a turkey egg and knocked it on the edge of a plate. After breaking the turkey egg, the yolk and egg white fell onto the plate together: "Look at his color."
Ye Zi didn't quite understand this part, so my aunt looked at it and said, "This color is much more formal than the eggs bought in supermarkets. This is the traditional way to raise firewood eggs. I'll fry an egg for you at noon, and you will understand as soon as you eat it."
Ms. Casey said: "This lady is right. The farm's turkey eggs are rated very well in terms of taste and nutrition. The turkey eggs picked out every morning are served in large hotels in Las Vegas."
The turkey eggs on the plate were licked and eaten by the baby in Ye Zi's arms. This little food is really not a snack for half-year-old babies.
Ms. Casey also noticed that the baby is not a plush toy: "Is this your pet?"
Ye Zi: "That's right, Bengal white meow, the name is baby."
Baby: "Meow~"
Zhang Cheng asked: "Is there a horse-selling ranch nearby?"
Ms. Casey: “Yes, there are professional ranches where horses are kept.”
Zhang Cheng: "Let Mike come here and we will go see the horses. Ye Zi and his aunt will also go pick the horses."
Mike, who is responsible for raising horses on the farm, is a white man who cannot tell the age of Zhang Cheng. He looks about 25-45 years old, with a bearded and cowboy, and has all kinds of horse boots and spurs.
After getting on the car, Mike said, "I always feel a little light these days when I don't ride a horse. Every night I go to the stables to check it out. Now I can only see empty stables at night. I always feel that the stables without horses are like something missing."
Zhang Cheng: "Where is the ranch for selling horses?"
"Two miles ahead, there is a thick dirt road just turn left, and it's a few hundred meters away. It's a family ranch, specializing in domestic horses for ranch and rodeo performances. There are also rodeo in Las Vegas to buy horses. What kind of horse do we need?"
Zhang Cheng looked at the two ladies in the back seat, thought for a while and said, "A docile horse."
The family ranch was not far away. After arriving at the ranch, Mike, who was familiar with the road, went up to say hello and everyone went to the horse farm behind to see the horses.
Because there are no purebred horses used in the track here, the advantage is that they are cheaper. The trained pasture horse costs thousands of dollars per horse, while the untacled horse is cheaper and the price is only a few hundred dollars.
In terms of personality, horses, especially stallions, are not docile. When running, the strongest stallions must run at the front of the cool wind - this is also the basis for horse racing to be held. However, stallions running behind will bite and kick the stallions running in front.
The only ones who are relatively docile are mares and geldings. Mike chose a three-year-old stallion for making breeding stallions, and Zhang Cheng and his aunt Ye Zi both chose a three- to four-year-old mare that they got together with him.
There is also a saying that humans and horses are in harmony. When a horse sees a person, it will decide whether he likes this person at the first sight, accepts touching, feeding and intimacy from this person. If the horse retreats, it will not like it. The stallion is 3,600 yuan, and the mare is about the same price, ranging from 3,300 to 3,500 yuan.
Of course, this price is definitely not as good as a saddle. A set of water reins and saddles cost thousands of dollars. If you buy a horse, you will only get a blanket spread on the horse's back. This ranch also sells water reins and saddles. After buying four saddle ropes, it will cost more than six thousand dollars.
After Zhang Cheng fed a carrot to the mare he chose, he gave her a name: Jenny. He covered the mare with sweat pads and put water on the reins. Without a saddle, Zhang Cheng jumped up and jumped onto the back of the horse. Zhang Cheng knocked his feet on the belly: "Stand."
Mare Jenny seemed to understand and walked forward in small steps. Seeing Mare Jenny moving, the remaining three horses followed.
Mike: "Wow, bareback riding. Dear, were you a cowboy before?"
"No. You can drive them back, and I'll take them back."
Mike drove Cadillac slowly in front, and Zhang Cheng rode Jenny and followed behind with three horses. After arriving at his own farm, Ye Zi got off the car and wanted to ride a horse: "Brother, when did you learn how to ride a horse?"
Zhang Cheng: "I forgot about it a long time ago, but when I saw this horse, I suddenly felt that I could ride her, and then I jumped on it. Do you want to try it?"
Ye Zi: "Okay."
Zhang Cheng dismounted the horse and put the reins and sweat pads on Ye Zi's horse. He held Ye Zi and rode on Ye Zi's horse without a bad condition.
Zhang Cheng asked Ye Zi: "Have your horse named it?"
Ye Zi: "Not yet, I think about it, well, just call Bechi."
Zhang Cheng: "The teacher who teaches you English is a foreign teacher from Tangshan."
Ye Zi: "Don't talk nonsense, they are of Mexican origin."
Zhang Cheng: "Okay, sit up right now, raise your chest and raise your head. Try to give orders to the horse with reins, legs and voice. It's okay, even if you fall, you won't fall."
Under Zhang Cheng's teaching, Ye Zi quickly learned to ride a horse without a bad horse, which made Mike, who had been trained for many years, very strange. Why did people who have no experience in riding horses do not even use saddle stirrups for the first time? These are obviously tools that are convenient for riding horses. In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that the Chinese are really strange.
Chapter completed!