Chapter 1003 988. Touching Bulldog Butt (4/5)

Chapter 1003 988. Touching the Bulldog's Butt (45)

Once winter comes, even with the support of the heart of the pasture, the growth rate of pastures is still reduced to the slowest point of the year. At this time, the pastures are completely dependent on their own resources. They cannot produce grass seeds and cannot regenerate.

In this case, Wang Bo believes that the first task of the ranch is to reduce the consumption of forage, especially to reduce the damage of some animals to the forage.

For example, prairie opossums, these mice especially like to eat grass roots, and they are very good at digging holes in the ground, so a lot of pastures are destroyed by possums every winter.

Wang Bo said this, the cowboys nodded, and Peterson said, "Yes, this is a headache for all ranchers, but what does it have to do with keas?"

"Of course it has something to do with it. We have seen that keas are fierce, able to fly, strong in exercise, and have a strong desire to prey."

"So, can we tame these keas and use them to hunt possums? Make them work for us so they have food and won't attack our flocks."

Kea is a very social bird species, they like to live in groups, which is also an advantage for dealing with possums.

There are too many opossums, a few parrots are useless to them, and a few parrots are not worth being Wang Bo to domesticate them.

"Here's the idea. These birds are opportunists. When they're hungry, they sneak up on all kinds of small animals. They move as quickly as a fierce eagle. If you use them against possums, the possums will There will be trouble." Cousins ​​nodded.

In fact, according to research, keas did not attack sheep at first. After all, relative to them, sheep are outsiders in New Zealand, and they are the natives.

Before sheep came to New Zealand, because they had a lot of parasites on them, these worms were one of the food of kea parrots, so the parrots flew to them to catch parasites and eat them.

Due to some accidental opportunities, they pecked through the sheep's skin and ate the sheep's meat, and found that the sheep's meat tasted better, so they gradually changed their eating habits.

It was precisely after seeing this research that Wang Bo came up with the idea of ​​training them to deal with possums.

Apparently the kea's diet can change, and can change very quickly, and when they find that possums are also a good food, they will take the initiative to catch possums.

In this way, what Wang Bo has to do is to make the parrots feel that eating possums is more appropriate than eating mutton.

Peterson didn't quite agree with his approach. He shook his head and said, "You may not know, boss. Kea parrots usually have no fixed place, and most of them are nomadic looking for food. They won't stop in a certain place."

"No, my buddy, they will stay. Kea is not stupid. Sunset Town has beautiful scenery and friendly people. When they find out that there is also a lot of food here, why should they leave?"

Peterson laughed and said, "You are overestimating the intelligence of the little birds."

Wang Bo smiled and said nothing, he has absolute confidence, because there is a bird's nest heart that has been useless in the box of tolerance.

There are several hills on the edge of the southeast corner of the pasture. In recent years, Sunset Town has celebrated Arbor Day every year. These hills had no trees at first, but now they are planted with some fir and pine trees.

He took out the heart of the bird's nest, and placed the heart in the center of the hills.

The heart of the bird's nest expanded after attaching to the land, covering the entire hill.

It seems that it could have extended to the pasture, but the two territorial hearts could not be superimposed, and finally the heart of the bird's nest controlled the position of the hills and the grassland a little behind.

The next thing to do is to capture these keas and domesticate them to catch mice.

Seeing that Wang Bo was determined to win this matter, Peterson shrugged and said: "Okay, boss, you are the boss, I listen to you, let's try, maybe we can domesticate them into good mouse catchers."

Cosy also didn't approve of this approach. She shook her head and said, "I think it's better to mobilize the townspeople to catch rats. When I was working in Creed's ranch, he used to clean up possums in the ranch like this."

"Maybe we can do both." Wang Bo laughed.

Peterson rubbed his hands and said, "Okay, let's start working. The first thing to do now is to catch the kea."

Cossy said: "It's not difficult. It's hard to get rid of keas, but it's too easy to catch them. These little idiots are naturally highly curious about anything new. As long as they find strange The things that are there will definitely come forward to check."

This is the nature of the kea, in order to be able to quickly find any food that can satisfy the hunger.

Wang Bo nodded and said, "In that case, let's decorate that hill and lure them with some food, maybe they will like it here."

"Boss, you are too idealistic." Peterson laughed.

This is not his idealism, he thinks the plan is feasible, especially the keas are really fierce, of course they can also be said to be stupid and cute.

The lack of resistance from the flock fueled the arrogance of the bastard birds, who scattered across the pasture chasing the panicked fat goats.

Because in the past autumn, the flock completed the task of adding fat, so they grew very fat and ran slowly, unable to get rid of the birds.

The birds don't even have to fly, they can catch up with the sheep just by hopping on their short legs.

Their short legs are powerful and their claws are sharp.

In Wang Bo's eyes, this is a good tool to deal with possums.

But they were a bit too arrogant and too blindly confident. As they ran, a kea ran into the eldest prince who was on patrol.

The princes have been carefully trained, they don't hunt casually in the pasture, unless they encounter hares or wild mice, keas are not within their target range.

So, although the birds were spotted early, they didn't attack.

In the eyes of the kea, the eldest prince is just a black quadruped. What is a quadruped? their food!

Seeing that the eldest prince was carelessly blocking his way, the kea jumped up quickly and landed on the eldest prince's back with lightning speed, then lowered his head and hit his ass for a while.

The eldest prince, who was thinking about what they were, was stunned by this sudden bite, it really hurts!

The Rottweiler is a famous fierce dog, and the eldest prince is even more ferocious. He is very good at fighting, and he shook off the kea.

Then, turning around and pounced, the eldest prince opened his mouth and bit the big parrot, grinning with murderous intent!

The big parrot was startled by the sudden murderous look, and stared at the eldest prince cutely. If it could talk, Lao Wang guessed it would definitely say: I am so cute, are you willing to eat me?

The eldest prince must be willing, but he didn't want to, so he yelled: "Eldest prince, come back!"