Chapter 423 Leisure Summer
"Is this the Angus black cow?" Before she had time to have lunch, Li Chunying was taken by Tang Zhengqing to see the Angus black cow.
"Mom, this is the Angus black cow. It looks good!" Looking at the group of black cows not far away, even the well-informed Lin Xuehan was shocked. After all, there are thousands of cows and tens of thousands of cows.
It is impossible to say that it is not spectacular. After all, no matter what it is, as long as it is in quantity, it will be very shocking.
Angus cattle generally refer to black cattle breeds. Although Angus cattle also have hair of other colors, the world generally believes that black cattle are superior breeds. The Angus Cattle Association only considers black cattle to be Angus.
Cattle, this association was first established in Chicago, and later moved to St. Louis, three hundred miles away from Chicago. However, there are also people in the United States who specialize in breeding red Angus cattle, and they also created a Red Angus cattle association imitating the Angus Cattle Association.
Here comes the Gus Cattle Association.
This is not surprising. After all, this is America. We want freedom and democracy. Let alone red. Even if there are white, yellow, or even flower colors in the future, it is possible.
Angus cattle are native to Aberdeen, Angus and other places in northeastern Scotland, and are named Angus cattle for this reason. Angus cattle are very closely related to the British Curly Garroway cattle.
Angus cattle are currently distributed all over the world and are one of the main cattle breeds in England, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Argentina. They are also found in Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Germany and other countries.
A certain quantity distribution.
Angus cattle are characterized by their black coat and hornlessness, so they are also called hornless black cattle. Some cattle have white spots on their belly, navel and chest. The occurrence rate is not high, only about 30%.
as a breed defect.
Red Angus cattle have red coats, and there is no big difference in body structure and production performance from black Angus cattle. Angus cattle are smaller in size, have low bodies, compact and strong bodies, and have small and square heads.
, The forehead is wide and the forehead is protruding, the eyes are round and bright, flexible and energetic, the mouth is wide, the cleft is deep, the upper and lower lips are neat, the bridge of the nose is straight, the nostrils are large, the nose is wide, the color is black, and the neck is medium
Long and thick, with obvious dewlap, straight backline, plump waist and spine, wide and deep body, cylindrical shape, short and straight limbs, wide distance between two forelimbs and two hind limbs, rectangular body shape, and full body muscles.
, the body is smooth and plump, the waist and butt muscles are well developed, and the thigh muscles extend to the hocks. The skin is soft, elastic, and the coat is shiny and moist.
The average birth weight of Angus calves is about 30 kilograms, and they have good weight gain performance. Under the conditions of natural lactation with the mother, the weaning weight of male calves is 200 kilograms at six months old, and the weaning weight of female calves is 180 kilograms.
A one-year-old Angus cow can weigh up to 400 kilograms and reaches the required carcass grade, gaining about one kilogram per day.
The average live weight of adult Angus bulls is eight to nine hundred kilograms, and the height can reach one ton. The weight of cows is generally five to six hundred kilograms, but this is the place where Tang Zhengqing specializes in raising Angus cattle.
With the blessing of Zhengqing's Spirit Gathering Formation and Catalytic Formation, the Angus cattle here can generally grow to a weight of one ton, and the largest one can even grow to a weight of 1.5 tons, and the growth rate is also very fast.
It only takes two years to grow to a weight of one ton, and even one year can exceed 500 kilograms.
Angus beef has good performance, matures early, is easy to fatten, and has a high feed conversion rate. It is the best meat quality among various specialized meat varieties in the world. Angus beef carcass has good quality, high clean meat rate, and obvious marbling.
, the slaughter rate is over 60%. Angus beef has very good tenderness and flavor. It is the only breed of beef cattle in the world that uses the breed name as the brand name of its meat. Even Wagyu beef cannot compare in this regard.
Get on it.
"It's so big!" Although Tang Zhengqing has only taken over Broken Ranch for a year, these Angus cattle were purchased from nearby pastures. They were quite big when they were originally purchased. After being catalyzed here,
, many black Angus cattle have reached a weight of one ton, and they continue to grow.
The black Angus cow that appeared in front of Li Chunying weighed more than one ton, and it goes without saying that it was so big.
Youyou looked at the black cow and kept saying, "Dad, cow, daddy, cow!" Youyou said while pointing at the black cow. If it weren't for this action of Yuyou, Tang Zhengqing really thought that Yuyou would say it again.
It's yourself.
"Yuyou, do you want to ride a bull?" Tang Zhengqing asked while holding Yuyou.
"Yeah!" Youyou's little head nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Xiaoqing, no, it's too dangerous." Tang Jianming and Li Chunying both stopped her.
"It's okay, don't worry, I can still make fun of Youyou!" Tang Zhengqing casually came to a cow with Youyou in his arms, turned over and sat on the cow, a 1.45 meter black cow. Not to mention, this
It's just more interesting than a horse.
"Back then, there was an old man who liked riding bulls very much. He had a green bull. I will also get you a green bull in the future." Tang Zhengqing said to Youyou.
Youyou didn't know who the old man riding the green bull was, but she knew her father loved her.
"Okay!" Youyou clapped her hands and was very happy.
Hei Niu was very obedient, and even if he disobeyed, Qing Niu walked slowly and honestly under Tang Zhengqing's intimidation. In this way, Hei Niu walked up to Tang Jianming and Li Chunyang, and handed Youyou to Lin Xuehan
, "Duoduo!" Tang Zhengqing reached out and picked up Duoduo again.
However, Youyou was unwilling to do so, so Tang Zhengqing had no choice but to take the two of them to sit on the black cow. Fortunately, the black cow was larger, so it was no problem for the three of them to sit down.
Many years have passed, and Yoyo still remembers this incident. Recalling that her father took her to ride a bull, Yoyo was very happy.
"Would you like to come up and sit for a while?" After turning around twice, Tang Zhengqing finally asked Lin Xuehan again.
"Me?" Lin Xuehan was quite scared, "It's okay, there is no one else here, it's just our family, don't worry." After Tang Zhengqing said this, Lin Xuehan dared to sit up.
Youyou and Duoduo were already being held by their parents. Lin Xuehan sat in Tang Zhengqing's arms and said, "Drive!" Just like that, the two of them rode on the cow and turned around before coming back. Lin Xuehan felt that it was quite interesting.
"I still remember when I was in school, there was a girl in the class. Her family was from the grassland. She often said that when she came to school, her father sold two cows. At that time, we thought her family was very poor. We later found out that her family was poor.
The family has more than a thousand cows."
"In the future, Duoduo and Duoduo can also say this when they go to school." Tang Zhengqing smiled and touched Yuyou and Duoduo's little heads and said, regardless of whether they understood it or not.
It took almost an hour for the group to return to the room. Next, Tang Zhengqing started cooking. Needless to say, in addition to fresh vegetables, it was beef. After all, this is a ranch, so you can have as much beef as you want.
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Moreover, Tang Zhengqing asked Old Moore to leave some beef offal for himself. What's the point of just eating beef? Beef offal is delicious, at least Tang Zhengqing prefers to eat beef offal.
Tang Zhengqing made a pot of beef offal soup, but it took a little longer. At noon, he simply ate a beef offal hot pot. It has to be said that Americans just don't know how to eat beef offal. They don't like to eat such a good thing as offal.
After Tang Zhengqing processed the beef tripe, beef intestines, beef lungs, beef tripe, beef tendons, yellow throat, beef louvers and beef heart, he made another pot of butter hot pot, and then started to eat. Of course, he made two
The pots, one is spicy and the other is not spicy.
The two little guys still have something to eat, which is cow brain. Tang Zhengqing is naturally not afraid of any bacteria or parasites in it. His spiritual thoughts can kill anything. Yoyo and Duoduo will naturally have no problem eating it.
of.
Regarding the soft and delicious beef brain, Yoyo and Duoduo felt like they had discovered a new world and were very happy eating it.
Lin Xuehan can't eat spicy food, but she wanted to eat something spicy. In the end, she had no choice but to make another pot of mildly spicy hot pot. This could satisfy the family's needs, either non-spicy or mildly spicy.
Super spicy.
Tang Jianming took one bite of the super spicy food and stopped eating it. It was too spicy and he couldn't stand it. Even Li Chunying, who can eat spicy food, didn't take two bites.
Tang Zhengqing threw a pile of cut tripe and tendons into the beef tripe and beef tendons, and chatted while boiling them. The large log table was very spacious.
"Not to mention that American beef tastes better than domestic beef." Li Chunying praised after tasting it for a few bites.
"Mom, most of the beef in China is artificially raised in captivity, but here we are all natural. Apart from feeding some feed, they are allowed to grow in the wild and have to run around. Although in China,
Yes, but the beef is much more expensive." China is also a grassland, and there are also naturally raised cattle. Naturally, there is delicious beef, but such beef is generally not available. It is very expensive, costing more than 100 yuan per pound. Compared with
Normal beef is two to three times more expensive.
The meat that Tang Zhengqing likes to eat is beef and mutton. "Mom, I still remember when I was a child and I begged you to make a beef stew with potatoes during the Chinese New Year. I begged you for a long time but you didn't make it. Now I can finally eat it without having to do it again."
I'm worried about eating what I don't have." When Tang Zhengqing said this, Li Chunying thought of twenty years ago, when Tang Zhengqing had just entered the sixth grade of elementary school and was very greedy for beef. In the end, Li Chunying did not satisfy him with a single word.
The family is poor.
When it comes to eating meat, other kinds of meat are easy to handle. You can find them in the mountains, including pheasants, hares, wild sheep, and even wild boars. If you want to eat fish, go get two from the reservoir. There are also some birds in the mountains that you can eat.
Only there is no bison in Niu Mountain. If you want to eat beef, you can only buy it, but Li Chunying is reluctant to part with it.
"Yes, yes, you don't have to worry anymore." Li Chunying shed tears as she spoke.
"Grandma doesn't cry, grandma doesn't cry, dad is bad, dad is bad!" As soon as Youyou saw Li Chunying crying, she immediately stretched out her little hand to wipe Li Chunying's tears.
"Yuyou, be good, grandma didn't cry, it was the smoke from the hot pot that blinded your eyes." Li Chunying said with a smile.
"What happened in the past is over. We have to look forward. Things were not good in the past, but things are going very well now." Tang Jianming saw that the atmosphere was not right and quickly changed the topic.
"Tang Zhengqing, go and get two more pairs of cow brains. Youyou and Duoduo have eaten them all." Lin Xuehan still had good eyesight, so she asked Tang Zhengqing to go to work. When Tang Zhengqing came out of the kitchen, everything seemed to be over.
Nothing has changed.
Sitting on a chair, Tang Zhengqing picked up the tripe, beef tendons, and yellow throat lobsters in the hot pot and started to eat them.
After lunch and a rest, Tang Zhengqing planned to drive his family to visit the ranch in the afternoon. Since he was here, he wanted to take a look at the ranch, which was considered a tour.
The pasture is narrower from east to west and longer from north to south. To the west of the pasture is the Rocky Mountains. However, the pasture is not at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It can only be regarded as a branch of the Rocky Mountains. The pasture is on the east side of this branch and goes south along the mountains.
There are two small rivers with a width of more than ten meters, and many small creeks. The creeks are so shallow that even a raptor can drive through them, and an Angus black cattle can also wade through them.
In addition to small rivers and streams, there are also many lakes, especially the large lake next to the mountains, which is quite large. Last time Tang Zhengqing saw North American brown bears there.
Tang Zhengqing stopped and walked, not driving many cars, and his family members did not sit in the car, but in the car. For this reason, Tang Zhengqing also specially bought a few soft chairs to put them on, saving them time.
There is no place to sit.
Whenever Tang Zhengqing came to a place, he would stop and explain to them what the place was and what it was used for.
It took more than an hour to finally reach the southernmost end of the entire ranch. "Mom, this is the southernmost end of the ranch. If you go further, it will be out of bounds." Even if Tang Zhengqing didn't say anything, Li Chunying and Tang Jianming could do it.
You can see clearly, after all, there are concrete piles more than two meters high in front of you, and they are also covered with barbed wire.
"Look, over there is the famous Yellowstone National Park." Tang Zhengqing pointed to the mountain range in the southeast and said.
Li Chunying and Tang Jianming were not interested in Yellowstone National Park. Only Lin Xuehan was surprised. It turned out that this ranch was so close to Yellowstone National Park. It seemed that the distance was not even 20 kilometers away.
"What is Yellowstone National Park? Is there a park here?" Li Chunying asked, looking in the direction Tang Zhengqing pointed.
"Mom, Yellowstone National Park is very famous. When we have time in a few days, I will take you there to see it. It is very nice, the scenery is also very good, and there are geothermal fountains there."
"Geothermal?" This is the second time Li Chunying has heard this name.
"Mom, actually there is a big volcano under our feet, but this volcano has been dormant, and Yellowstone National Park is sitting at the mouth of that volcano."
"What if the volcano erupts? Xiaoqing, why don't we go back?" Li Chunying said worriedly.
Chapter completed!