Chapter 204: .Purchasing Alpacas (2/5, Xie Molong League)

At lunch, Wang Bo and Carter finalized the development of the town's network, and Charlie Bowen was not idle. They found a car repair shop to repair jeep. Shi
The car repair shop is located on the outskirts of a small town, using an abandoned villa in a very good environment, surrounded by green grass and trees. Although it is still green in winter, the scenery is pleasant.
The boss is a white man named Jones. He always smiles when he talks. He checked the jeep and said there were a lot of problems. He listed a list for Wang Bo and asked him if he would come for an overhaul.
Wang Bo looked at the bill. Although it was an overhaul, in fact, except for the gearbox, the repairs were small. Most of the problems were sheet metal corrections and oil changes. There were a total of 1,500, not counting. expensive.
So he signed the repair order and asked, "How long can I pick up the car? I'm in a hurry to use this car."
Jones said with a smile: "Three days, you can pick up the car next Monday."
Wang Bo was surprised, and asked, "Three days? You're fast enough, that's fine, thank you very much."
Leaving the car, they returned to the town.
During the weekend, New Zealand Telecom's network disruption construction team came at a very fast speed, so we can see how scarce their business is now.
Carter accompanied the construction team. In private, he said: "We are lucky, the situation of smart cities is not very optimistic, and the company wants to make your town a star pilot for publicity."
Pharaoh grinned: "Welcome, absolutely welcome, there is no problem to cooperate with the publicity in the future."
When Carter left, Wang Bo made a lot of beef, mutton, chicken and duck meat to bring to him. If he didn't have a place suitable for breeding, he planned to send two lambs.
Carter smiled and said, "I have heard several times that the beef and mutton on the ranch tastes really good, and I finally have a chance to taste it."
On Sunday, Motak called and asked, "Wang, do you remember that you are going to do some alpaca farming? Kurau will have an agro-pasture auction next week. There will be some alpacas. Don't go and see? "
Wang Bo gladly agreed. He did intend to raise alpacas, but not a little, but a lot of them.
In the traditional animal husbandry, alpacas are of high value. Their whole body is treasure. First of all, wool is longer than wool, bright and elastic, and its quality and color are unique among its kind.
Nowadays, in the high-end clothing market in Asia and Europe, the alpaca wool that has twice the toughness of sheep wool is the most valuable, and it has no hair fat, less impurities, and a net cashmere rate of 90%. The clothes are light and soft, comfortable to wear, and draped. Feel good, wrinkle-free, unchanged shape, favored by rich people.
According to Wang Bo's survey, an alpaca can only produce 0 to 3 to 5 kilograms of fluff a year, and can only cut it once a year. The price of fluff is 100 to 500 dollars per kilogram. On average, the light of an alpaca is The fur can contribute a return of about $ 1,000 a year.
Besides, don't look at the alpacas cute, but when they are domesticated in South America, they are not used to sell cute, but to transport goods.
Finally, when it comes to eating, it is a pity that the alpaca, regarded as a cute baby by the Chinese people, has its biggest use in food production in places of origin such as South America and Oceania.
The alpaca is very meaty. It is a kind of hairy meat herbivore. It tastes between mutton and beef. It does not have the smell of mutton, is stronger than mutton, tenderer than beef, and overall better.
In the past, New Zealand did not have the habit of eating alpaca meat. This is the way of eating from South America in recent years, which has brought the price of alpaca meat. It can sell for two hundred to three hundred dollars per kilogram, which is more expensive than beef and mutton. Already.
So all in all, why does Wang Bo not breed alpaca in large numbers?
However, it is not easy to breed in large numbers. There are not many alpacas in New Zealand. Even in the world, there are only about 3 million. Of these, more than 95% live in the plateaus of Peru and Chile in South America, followed by Australia, and then New Zealand.
According to statistics, the number of Alpacas in New Zealand is less than 10,000, and the number has not increased over the years.
With the increase in the economic benefits of alpacas, in fact, ranches everywhere want to raise alpacas, but this thing is not easy to raise, breeding animals are very expensive, and the cheapest is more than 10,000 yuan per head.
Alpacas can give birth once a year, and they can only deliver one at a time. This one may not be able to survive. In this way, the growth of this stuff is much more difficult than humans.
Wang Bo always wanted to look like an alpaca after encountering cattle thieves, but he didn't have a chance. This time, he learned that the animal husbandry auction had appeared, and he was definitely unwilling to give up the opportunity.
On Monday, he went to the garage first and planned to pick up the car to buy an alpaca.
As a result, after arriving at the garage, the owner Jones apologized to him with a smile, saying that at the weekend, he suddenly took a big order and had not repaired it. He had to wait another two days.
Wang Boneng waited. Anyway, it would take him two days to participate in the animal husbandry auction, so come back and talk about it.
This auction was also held in a small city called Kurau. It has a population of more than 2,000 people and is a small city that cannot be too small. In China, people are embarrassed to say that they are villages.
But this is normal in New Zealand, after all, the country has a population of more than 4 million.
Kurao is a standard city of agriculture and animal husbandry. The residents here are either farmers or herders, and the regional output is also driven by agriculture and animal husbandry.
This time the alpaca was sold in a large ranch. It farmed four hundred alpaca and planned to sell all of them. Because of the rare drought in the South Island, many farms experienced thirst for livestock and suffered heavy losses.
Compared to cattle and sheep, alpacas are very delicate. They have high requirements for water plants and poor resistance to the disease. Therefore, although this animal is valuable, the scale of breeding has not increased accordingly.
It's not that ranchers don't want to expand farming, but it's too difficult, too expensive, and too risky.
Wang Bo and Motak together. When they arrived in Kurau, they tasted the local hand-made seasonal dark beer, which is very strong. Motak prefers it. Pharaoh stopped drinking after two sips.
Seeing that he couldn't drink this kind of beer, the waiter brought him a large glass of black beer, and Wang Bo asked, "What kind of stout is this? Stout?"
Stout is also a very well-known local beer. Cowboys and farmers like to drink this kind of high number of things. They have been tired for a day and need the comfort of alcohol.
The waiter laughed: "No, this is Ethiopian coffee beer, you can try it, the degree is higher, with the aroma of coffee and beer, it should be more suitable for your taste."
Wang Bo took a sip. The beer was light, and indeed it had the bitter aroma of coffee, especially the dense bubbles, and the aroma was even stronger.
(To be continued.)