"Brother Liu, if you say that no matter what cows and sheep in your family are, these cows and sheep in your family will not last for a few days..." Sitting in the starry sky house, Zhaxi Dawa said quietly, looking at the white grassland outside and the cows and sheep who were looking for grass to eat.

The grasslands outside are covered with snow that is nearly 30 centimeters deep, and because the snow stops and the wind is strong, the temperature becomes particularly low. The sun rises, and the strong sunlight will melt the upper layer of the snow, but it will be frozen at low temperatures, forming "snow and ice".

There were about a dozen yaks and twenty sheep scattered on the grassland near the Starry Sky House, and they were struggling to find grass to eat on the grassland.

Because he was worried about the Starry Sky House, on the morning the next day when the heavy snow stopped, Liu Mo'ang and Zhaxi Dawa came to the Starry Sky House while the snow was covered.

Not bad, because the starry sky house is oval, there is no snow left on the top, so it cannot cause any damage to the starry sky house.

The heavy snow the day before yesterday fell for nearly twenty hours, and the snow on the grassland was nearly thirty centimeters deep. Although it is far from comparable to the 10.7 snow disaster in Namtuo, this heavy snow is one of the rare heavy snow in the area south of the Nianqing Tanggula Mountain in recent years.

The white lion and the steamed bun were lying at Lao Liu's feet, tilting their heads to look at the cattle and sheep outside looking for grass to eat.

The calf followed his mother, who was looking for grass to eat. Beside them, there were more than twenty sheep and several other yaks.

These cattle and sheep are all cattle and sheep that belong to Lao Liu’s pasture. In the past, when Lao Liu’s second uncle was walking outside, the cattle and sheep in the family were taken care of by the nephew of the second aunt Yangjin. However, a few years ago, the nephew of the second aunt married a daughter-in-law from Bayi, and the family moved to Bayi.

After the second uncle came back, the second uncle took care of the cattle and sheep, but after the second uncle left, almost no one cared about the cattle and sheep.

After Lao Liu came to the plateau, he was busy dealing with the second uncle's funeral. He was busy opening an inn and attracting tourists to treat altitude sickness. He was busy chasing his wife, sending his wife home, and helping others, but he was not busy taking care of these cattle and sheep on the pasture.

In other words, when Dumplings were learning to hunt, they almost caused trouble for their own sheep. Lao Liu bought more than 20 sheep from other families to ensure a certain number of cattle and sheep in the pasture.

But now, this sudden heavy snow has caused great danger to the cattle and sheep on my pasture.

Grazing on the plateau, in addition to the transition between spring and autumn, many herders with conditions will also prepare some dry grass for their cattle and sheep before winter to prevent snow disasters from coming.

But Lao Liu had never let go of herding before, and he didn't know how to help cattle and sheep survive the winter. Not to mention preparing the forage grass for the cattle and sheep for winter, he couldn't even drive the cattle and sheep back to the cow pen.

As a result, other people's cattle and sheep are now gnawing on the grass prepared by their owners in the pen, while the dozen yaks in his family can only find grass to eat on the grassland.

The sheep were a little better. Although they were trembling with cold, the goats that were at the forefront still used their hard hooves to dig. These goats first used their hooves to dig out the hard-shelled snow, and then looked for the dead grass below to eat.

In contrast, sheep do not have the skill of goats, or the skill of sheep has not been mastered yet, so the remaining ten sheep can only follow behind the goat's butt and eat the "leftovers" exposed by goats...

In contrast, the ability of those about a dozen yaks to resist snow disasters is undoubtedly much weaker.

Yaks have no teeth, so they can only rely on their tongue to grow grass to fill their stomachs. However, it is difficult to eat grass on the grass field that is deeply pressed by snow. Therefore, most of these dozen yaks can only lick the snow and then look up, looking helpless...

A few yaks seemed to understand that eating grass in this situation is simply a luxury, so they simply lie on the snow and stop looking for grass to eat.

The calf has a persistent spirit. Perhaps it is because it is breastfeeding, so the cow is trying hard to find grass to eat in order to make his son eat more milk.

What I eat is grass, what I squeeze out is milk.

This is true for describing cows, but you have to let the cows eat grass!

If you can’t even eat grass, where can you go to milk it?

Although the calf can eat grass now, in this kind of weather, her mother can’t find grass to eat. Where can she go to make grass to eat?

So the calf simply got into its mother's stomach and was about to suck her breasts. When she turned her head, she found Lao Liu and a white lion sitting in the starry sky room. So she ran over happily and called Lao Liu mooing through the transparent starry sky room glass.

Old Liu sighed and asked Tashi Dawa: "Brother Dawa, do we still have extra grass in our village? I want to buy some."

Although Lao Liu is not very concerned about the cattle and sheep in his family, he is always a series of lives, so he can't starve to death just like this.

Zhaxi Dawa shook his head and said, "Brother Liu, you'd better go to Rikkan to buy forage grass. The forage grass in our village is not enough."

"At that time, you will take these cattle and sheep back to the village and see who can get some hay first. When the road opens, I will go to Lhasa to buy grass. Oh, tell me, Mr. Basangjianzan and let him count how much feed grass is missing in the village. I will take all of it back."

"Brother Liu, isn't this good? You had already suffered a loss for the villagers' shares, but now you have to buy feed and grass for the villagers..."

"Don't think it's so beautiful. I only pay half of it, and the remaining half is deducted from the dividends. You also tell the old man about this and ask him if there is anyone who wants to buy it? If there is, count it, and if there is no, forget it."

Tashi Dawa nodded, "Then I will bring the cattle and sheep back now."

When the second uncle was hospitalized, Zhaxi Dawa had helped to take care of these cattle and sheep for a short time, so he knew what to do.

Although Liu Mo'ang had never lived in the village after Liu Mo'ang's second uncle passed away, Yubacuo still had the second uncle's house, and of course there were also cattle and sheep pens.

After Zhaxi Dawa brought the cattle and sheep back, he went straight to the house of Mr. Basangjianzan. After he got there, he told the situation. The old man started to contact him without saying a word.

In a short while, a few men used carts of hay to Liu Dahe's former home. The cattle and sheep that had been hungry for two days were finally able to eat grass.

The old man walked around the house and there were many villagers who were willing to buy fodder together, but some villagers who had prepared enough fodder did not sign up for the purchase.

Liu Mo'ang bears half of the cost of purchasing forage, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the villagers. Different forage prices are different. Good forage is more than one thousand per ton, and the fewest ones are even hundreds of yuan per ton. Old Liu bears half of it, which undoubtedly saves villagers a lot of money for purchasing forage.

Yaks on the plateau eat very little feed, most of them are free-range. If it weren’t for the severe snow disaster on the plateau in winter, there would not be many herders who bought grass.

Nowadays, many herders in remote areas almost never buy forage. One is because the price is too high, and the other is because the transportation is inconvenient.

However, having forage is better than having no forage. With forage, at least cattle and sheep will not starve to death in the difficult winter.

For example, the severe snow disasters in the 1990s caused a large number of cattle and sheep to starve to death. If the herdsmen had spare grass in their hands at that time, they would not have starved to death so many cattle and sheep.

However, how to buy forage and what kind of forage is not Lao Liu's responsibility.

He didn't know these things, nor did he know what kind of forage to buy, so he was just responsible for paying.

Good forage is not cheap. For example, those pure alfalfa hay can cost about a thousand yuan in one meal.

Five kilograms of fresh grass and one kilogram of hay can dry. As long as a cow eats fifteen kilograms of hay a day, it will not starve to death. In other words, a ton of hay can only be eaten by one cow for two months.

Although yaks can be found to eat grass on the grassland when the snow melts, a meal of hay can last longer, and the money to buy grass is also a heavy burden for an ordinary herdsman family.

This incident also reminded Lao Liu of the incident that Dagou accidentally mentioned before that he planted grass by himself.

The plateau pastoral area is the largest alpine meadow grassland animal husbandry area in my country, and the grassland area ranks third in the country. However, due to the high livestock load on the grassland, excessive grazing intensity, and intensified human activities, except for the natural pastures in the southeastern canyon area of ​​the plateau, the other alpine pastures have deteriorated to varying degrees. This situation is more obvious in the ecological fragile zone of northern Tibet.

Therefore, the importance of artificial grass planting on the plateau in restoring natural pasture vegetation is becoming increasingly prominent.

Due to its strong adaptability and high forage yield, oat grass has now developed into the main variety of artificial forage planting on plateau.

It is said that some high-product number oat grass can be mowed three to four crops a year in areas with better water and heat conditions in Shannan. The highest yield per hectare can reach 30,000 kilograms, which is two tons per mu!

This is a pretty terrifying number.

Don't forget that this is a plateau, not a plain.

Even if the natural conditions in Yubacuo cannot be compared with those in Shannan, even if the output is half the difference, the yield per mu can reach one ton. If it is dried into hay, the yield per mu will be more than 200 kilograms!

If you plant all the more than 4,000 acres of pastures in your home with oat grass, and even convert all the pastures of all villagers in the Obacuo to this high-yield oat grass, then just the forage produced by Obacuo can not only feed all the livestock in Obacuo, but even feed all the livestock in the five or six natural villages around you!

With high-yield forage, even if there is such a big snow disaster, herders don’t have to worry about their cattle and sheep not being full or hungry.
Chapter completed!