Lisco's American Life

The machine is a brush cutter. This machine can increase the cutting efficiency of ryegrass to more than 5 times. It collects about 1 ton of grass per hour, consumes 0.8 liters of fuel (mixed fuel, costs about 6 yuan), and costs 1 to 1.5 yuan for blade wear.

Yuan. After the grass is cut, it can be neatly arranged near the grass opening. The appearance is not much different from the uncut grass, making it easy to collect and bundle.

Therefore, this machine is also a large item commonly used in ranches.

Lisko watched the cowboys gradually finish their work, so he took out the beer from the refrigerator in the cafeteria and called everyone over.

"Hey Rooster, come over and have a beer."

The first one to run over was Locke. He fished out a bottle from the ice basin, chewed it open with his teeth, and the bottom of the bottle gurgled.

"Huh~ Comfortable" He squinted his eyes and felt the coolness.

The cowboys also gathered around, each holding a bottle.

Everyone drinks beer together, chats and brags, and feels the comfort of harvest.

There are now more than a thousand cattle in the pasture. Except for the lavender planting area, rye planting area, and vegetable planting, there is not much space left for cattle grazing. Rooster believes that this number of cattle is just right.

It's full.

Lisko's pasture has a total area of ​​500 acres, which is one of the largest in the neighborhood. Of course, it is far inferior to some pastures with tens of thousands of acres.

His cattle shed covers an area of ​​160 acres. Excluding the central lake, the usable area of ​​the remaining area is still good. In theory, it can breed about 4,000 cattle. However, because of the poor efficiency, the customers of Li's Ranch cannot digest that much.

of beef and by-products, so we have reduced the number of cattle like other ranches. When cattle are released, we will immediately contact the cattle dealer to put them in the slaughter, and always keep the number at about 1,200.

If there are too many cows, the cowboys will not be able to take care of them. Adding more people will increase the cost. Also, when the herd is large, something will happen. Bulls with strong physiques will attack humans, so many bulls will have their horns sawed off.

, and in a modern technologically advanced society, there is already a smooth way to manage cattle, and there will be basically no bloodshed.

Many bulls in the pasture have also been castrated. After castration, the young bulls can better fatten and grow rapidly. As for the breeding of cows, there is also a corresponding set of solutions.

There are special breeding companies on the market. They will send a dedicated person to the cattle farm to take charge. The salary is paid by the breeding company. Frozen semen is 5 US dollars per tube. The conception rate during estrus is 30%. The culling rate of the herd is 25%. The inter-partite spacing is 13 months.

, do not use the same period of estrus.

The cowshed is also a cowshed specially built by Liske at a high price. It adopts advanced low-roof cross-ventilation and constant-temperature cowshed technology. All cows are raised in one cowshed. The cowshed is 375 meters long and 127 meters wide, and is equipped with 200 fans.

, there are 20 rows of cattle beds in the house, and the walls and top floor are covered with tin foil insulation materials for heat insulation. 130 cattle are raised per 100 beds, but the cattle are very healthy.

Li's ranch currently has only 200 milking cows, and its main income comes from the sale of beef cattle and the supply of vegetables. Lisko is also equipped with a special milking machine to relieve the hard work of the cowboys.

The efficiency of the milking machine is very high. The 80-position rotary milking machine can milk more than 600 cows per hour. Li's ranch can often complete the work in just a few dozen minutes every day.

After the last rancher conference, Lisko was passing by other ranchers' homes and watched two or three tourism companies conducting inspections and training the cowboys to receive tourists correctly. The ranchers also paid great attention to it. After all,

Everything else is fine. Safety is a must. If tourists are injured in the early stages, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the tourism events that have just started here.

There are many people in the town, under the organization of the mayor, making some special cowboy handmade products, such as saddles, riding whips, cowhide handmade boots for cowboy suits, and many customized badges with the name of each ranch printed on them.

, outlined in gorgeous cursive characters, is a souvenir for tourists. This is an invisible brand promotion.

The whole of Garrison seems to have taken action. Even Leiter from the gun shop in the town bought a lot of goods and stockpiled a large amount of bullets for this incident because he heard that tourists come from many countries and there are many countries that ban guns.

The person has never touched a gun, so he is also looking forward to the upcoming business.

Lisko listened to Les's chat and said that the first batch of tourists will arrive in half a month.

Although Lisko did not join the ranks of these ranchers who were preparing to carry out tourism, he was not excluded either. Everyone knew that his ranch had regular customers and did not want tourists to disturb the normal work of his ranch.

Under Lisko's persuasion, Bo decided to give it a try. After undergoing an operation, his mood improved a lot and he felt like he had a profound enlightenment. Although he was still stubborn in many cases, he slowly learned to compromise afterward. Of course,

It’s also inseparable from all the nearby ranchers beating the drum.

So now the roosters often run between their own ranch and Li's ranch. The two homes are simply not far apart, and the work of Li's ranch can only be arranged. Since the ranch is small, there is no need to worry too much.

Colt's pasture has been renovated, and he also spent money to buy more than 20 cows from Lisko's pasture. He is excited to start a milking experience for tourists. Lisko also suggested that he buy a few docile cows.

Because there is a river in the pasture, fishing activities for tourists have increased.

Les's ranch launched hunting activities, but Lisko was not optimistic about his project because there are many kinds of animals in the Rocky Mountains behind the town. Representative large mammals among the undulating ridges include black bears, grizzly bears, mountain

Lions and wolves. This is dangerous to a certain extent, and tourists are as unstable as a group of children in Lisko's eyes. Maybe some idiot is injured due to his own negligence, and that's the end of it.

Of course, he mentioned this problem to Les, and Les had no good way to prevent it. He could only ensure that more cowboys were sent to guard it.

Nearby ranchers often get together for meetings to discuss the characteristics of each company to avoid business conflicts. If you milk cows, I will herd them; if they fish, I will roping cattle; if you shear sheep, I will

Just do horse riding.

They even raised funds together to buy several buses to run a route from Denver to Garrison to pick up tourists.

Female high school students in the town were also called together to train as tour guides to introduce the local customs to tourists.

Many ranchers renovated the redundant cowboy dormitories, re-roofed them, replaced the glass, and some even repainted the walls, intending to accommodate tourists.

The entire quiet town seemed to be on clockwork, everyone was busy.

Lisko is also happy to see that everyone is full of energy. The arrival of tourists will boost the town's economy and make people here's lives less embarrassing.