Leisurely Life: I Have Ten Thousand Acres of Grassland
Chapter 134 - 132: The Ranch Owner’s Joy Is Truly Beyond Imagination!
A factory building inside the sheep farm, used as an area to care for the spring lambs.
There are several pens inside, just put the ewes and lambs in there.
The ewes will automatically take care of the lambs.
A few employees are busy inside, preparing to feed the lambs.
Little Border Collie, Little White Wolf, and Coal Ball follow at Jiang Feng’s feet, inspecting their future herding targets.
As the owner of the ranch, Jiang Feng is quite at ease.
He explained to the online audience:
"Sheep are generally divided into winter lambs and spring lambs. I don’t have many winter lambs this year, about seventy to eighty, and they’re already three months old."
"There are a lot more spring lambs."
"Winter lambs and spring lambs each have their pros and cons. Winter lambs are born when ewes are pregnant in summer, when the grass is better, and ewes eat well, so the lambs born are relatively strong. The downside is winter is quite cold, and the survival rate of winter lambs is low."
"Spring lambs are born in spring when it’s relatively warmer, and once they’ve passed their first month, there’s green grass to eat and they can develop better."
"But the downside is also quite obvious."
"During this season, the temperature difference between day and night is large, and spring is a high incidence period for diseases, so lambs easily catch colds and fevers."
"Therefore, during this time, the lambs must be properly cared for."
"Once they’re a month old and have strong resistance, they can be taken out to graze."
He introduced the differences between winter and spring lambs to the crowd.
Spring lambs are born like money falling from the sky, every morning when you look into the pen, there’s lots of money to be collected.
But if not cared for properly, lambs catch colds and fevers, and they can easily die young.
However, Jiang Feng has milk powder from the lottery that can improve the lambs’ resistance, so very few lambs die young.
The lambs and ewes are brought into a pen.
A group of lambs gather together, bleating at each other, looking adorably innocent.
The newborn lambs’ fur is very new, white as if it’s been washed.
Unlike adult sheep, whose fur tends to look a bit dirty.
This scene is very cute.
"About thirty lambs were born today, these lambs are premature."
"For my ranch, this is just the beginning."
"With a scale of four thousand sheep, in the coming days, seventy to eighty lambs will be born each day, and at most, it could reach a hundred."
"During this season, many ranchers come out to buy spring lambs to raise, large farms usually sell lambs to reduce breeding pressure."
"I don’t need that here, I’m planning to hire two more people to keep an eye on the pens."
"I want to raise all the lambs born."
"Moreover, some ewes give birth to twin lambs or even triplets, these need to be well nurtured."
"Winter has passed, and it’s time for my ranch to develop."
Jiang Feng looked at the lambs in the pens, happily saying.
Regular viewers in the live stream responded:
[The more cattle and sheep you have, the more worry and risk there is, still need to be careful!]
[Spring lambs are the best, as long as the spring lambs don’t get sick, their survival rate is incredibly high!]
[So envious, dozens of lambs born each day!]
[I’m also a rancher, my sheep had two lambs today and that makes me so happy, Master Jiang’s place had thirty, he must be even happier!]
[When will this feeling of lying back and earning money turn to me!]
The scene of lambs gathered together is quite cute.
The ewes surround the lambs, and these mothers all recognize their children, with the herd gathered together, they feel at ease.
The lambs are all on the side close to the wall, quite distant from the fence.
At this moment, a brave lamb walked out from the herd, heading over to the fence, raising its head to look at Jiang Feng.
The little one is pure white all over, its ears gently swaying, with a curious expression.
Jiang Feng looked down at it and laughed:
"This little lamb skewer has a pretty big courage."
The lamb seemed to have heard Jiang Feng’s words, using all its strength, bleated towards Jiang Feng.
This response amused the audience.
[Lamb: You’re the little lamb skewer, your whole family are little lamb skewers!]
[Haha, this lamb has quite a temper, adorable!]
[Master, can you stand not roasting it? Roast milk lamb would be delicious!]
Seeing everyone’s comments, Jiang Feng shook his head.
"I never eat roasted milk lamb, I’ll wait till they grow big enough."
"Lambs are indeed quite cute."
"Many people keep lambs as pets and take them everywhere."
"Most mammalian babies are adorable when they’re young."
The lamb indeed has a big temper, with the fence between it and Jiang Feng, still bleating fearlessly.
The Little Border Collie at Jiang Feng’s feet saw this, barked at the lamb, then let out a low growl.
Hearing the Border Collie’s sound, the lamb was a bit scared, then ran off to find its mom.
The life of ranchers is always orderly
Grazing period is prohibited until early May, starting in May, ranchers are allowed to graze in the pasture.
From March to May, the main task is receiving spring lambs.
Veterinary stations in the townships will send inspectors to investigate and understand the growth condition of spring lambs at ranches and ranchers’ homes.
Many viewers didn’t know what spring lambs were until they saw Jiang Feng’s live stream.
This feeling of harvest brings joy that makes everyone enjoy watching.
So everyone begins to arrange to watch Jiang Feng find spring lambs again tomorrow.
His ranch can handle two thousand births without a problem.
But raising them all is a bit stressful.
Because there might not be enough milk.
Jiang Feng’s cattle farm has many beef cattle, but right now there are only over twenty dairy cows, which is not enough to produce milk for two thousand lambs.
The only option is to let the mothers feed them as much as possible, and also to purchase a batch of milk.
The day’s livestream mainly focused on taking care of the spring lambs.
This is just the beginning, not yet reached its climax.
Whenever Jiang Feng was free, he would go into the pen and play with a couple of lambs for a while.
The little lambs were all cute and didn’t resist, at most they’d stick out their tongues and bleat a couple of times.
That evening, Jiang Feng calculated the day’s livestream popularity value.
"The number of people online for more than a minute in the livestream today totaled 424,328, with an average online duration of 2.4 hours, earning a popularity value of 1,018,387.2."
"Current total popularity value: 15.4 million."
Since the beginning of the year, the stream had accumulated a popularity value of 15 million.
"Let’s go for a top-level lottery."
The previous advanced lottery brought a bunch of item rewards, with only average results, so Jiang Feng opted for a top-level lottery this time.
"Host chooses top-level lottery, drawing in progress..."
"Congratulations host on receiving the item:"
"Interior Renovation*1: The host can choose a style of interior renovation, including various luxurious furniture, with a total renovation worth approximately 600,000 Huaxia Coins."
The system’s voice sounded.
"Interior Renovation?"
Jiang Feng was always laid-back; he has his own courtyard which was just simply decorated, the style was quite plain, not luxurious.
The courtyard also has a kitchen and two storage rooms.
His room includes two bedrooms, a living room, and a bathroom with an independent bath.
Getting an interior renovation now is pretty nice.
Jiang Feng picked from the options provided by the system and ultimately chose a style combining traditional and modern, more aligned with the aesthetic of the Han People.
Later on, a renovation company would come over, and the payment would come out of his stock account, without needing him to do anything.
After the reward drawing, Jiang Feng took out the PS5 game console, played games with Little Border Collie, and as it got late, he washed up and went to sleep.
The next day, it was another day of watching the spring lambs.
Jiang Feng now checks on them once in the morning and again in the evening.
Upon starting the livestream, a large group of online users poured in.
Everyone’s purpose was simple—to see how many lambs Jiang Feng could find in the pens.
With this obsession, watching the livestream was more motivating and fun.
The number of people in the livestream rapidly increased, quickly reaching over 80,000.
It was only around nine in the morning, making this real-time online number quite astonishing.
[Has the lamb counting started?Or is it done!]
[Not started yet!]
[Just waiting to see the host picking spring lambs!]
[I guess at least forty lambs!]
[There are usually more in the morning, fewer in the afternoon, the morning should have about fifty!]
The barrage rolled continuously.
Before long, Jiang Feng appeared at his lamb pen.
The pen has a canopy, inside with railings all around, at a glance filled with lambs piled together.
Jiang Feng walked into the pen and started to look for lambs.
"Let’s see what the yield is like today."
"We need to separate the lambs out to live in a bigger pen."
As he entered the pen, the flock scattered away, keeping over a meter distance from him.
The lambs are like that, silly, squeezing around, with their backs turned to Jiang Feng.
Yang Maolin, Hadan, and Bugude were also looking for lambs.
One, two, three.....
The lambs and their mothers were taken out to another pen.
The online users were calculating the number of lambs.
Watching Jiang Feng’s busy figure searching for lambs in the pen, everyone felt joy.
At this moment, with sharp eyes, Jiang Feng quickly rushed over and grabbed three lambs at once.
He couldn’t help but laugh:
"This mother lamb had triplets!"
"Not bad, triple the joy."
Jiang Feng held the three lambs in his arms, satisfied, while carrying the mother lamb out.
The mother lamb, concerned about her lambs, closely followed beside Jiang Feng.
The atmosphere on site was very relaxed.
On the other side, Yang Maolin and Hadan, along with a few others, were also happily searching for lambs.
Spring is the season of harvest.
In just one morning, they found 43 lambs going around several times in the pen.
"43 lambs, it’s still not enough!"
Jiang Feng exclaimed.
Hearing his words, the online users promptly replied:
[The host is being a bit Versailles!]
[43 lambs, enough to eat for a month and a half if one a day!]
[Picking lambs looks really fun.]
[It’s a big ranch, a hundred lambs a day is normal, this is just the start!]
[The host’s happiness, you really can’t imagine.]
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