Chapter 210 204. Buying an Alpaca (2/5, Thanks to the Dragon Alliance)

Chapter 210 204. Buying an Alpaca (25, Xie Mo Longmeng)

During lunch, Wang Bo and Carter finalized the town's network development issues, and Charlie Bowen and the others were not idle. They found a car repair shop that could repair the jeep.

The car repair shop is located on the outskirts of the small town, using an abandoned villa. The environment is very good, surrounded by green grass and trees, even though it is winter, it is still green and the scenery is pleasant.

The boss is a white man named Jones, who always smiles when he talks. After checking the jeep, he said that there are many problems, and he made a list for Wang Bo to see, and asked him if he would like to have a major repair.

Wang Bo looked at the bill. Although it was said to be a major repair, in fact, except for the replacement of the gearbox, other repairs were small. Most of them were sheet metal corrections, engine oil replacement and other problems. The total was 1,500 yuan, not counting. expensive.

In this way, he signed the maintenance form, and then asked: "How soon can I pick up the car? I am more anxious to use this car."

Jones said with a smile: "Three days, you can pick up the car next Monday."

Wang Bo was quite surprised and asked, "Three days? Your speed is fast enough, that's no problem, thank you very much."

Leaving the car behind, they returned to town.

On weekends, the New Zealand Telecom company's network outage construction team came very quickly, which shows how scarce their business is now.

Carter came with the construction team. In private, he said: "We are lucky. The situation of smart cities is not optimistic. The company wants to make your town a star pilot for publicity."

Old Wang laughed: "Welcome, absolutely welcome, and there is no problem at all in cooperating with publicity in the future."

When Carter left, Wang Bo got a lot of beef, sheep, chicken and duck to bring him. If he didn't have a place suitable for breeding, he planned to send two lambs.

Carter accepted it with a smile, and said, "I have heard several times that the beef and mutton in the ranch taste very good, and finally I have the opportunity to taste it."

On Sunday, Motak called and asked, "Wang, I remember you are planning to do some alpaca farming, right? There is a farming and animal husbandry auction in Kurau next week, and there will be some alpacas at that time. Don't go and see?"

Wang Bo readily agreed that he really planned to raise alpacas, not just a few, but a lot of alpacas.

In traditional animal husbandry, alpacas are of high value. They are full of treasures. Let’s talk about wool first. The wool of alpacas is longer than wool, bright and elastic, and its quality and color are unique among its kind.

Now in the high-end clothing market in Asia, Europe and America, the value of alpaca wool, which is twice as tough as sheep wool, is the most valuable, and it has no wool fat, less impurities, and the net cashmere rate can reach 90%. The clothes made are light and soft, comfortable to wear, and drape Good feeling, no wrinkle, no shape change, favored by rich people.

According to Wang Bo's survey, each alpaca can only produce 3 to 5 kilograms of wool per year, and can only be sheared once a year. The price of wool is 100 to 500 New Zealand dollars per kilogram. On average, an alpaca is only The fur can contribute about 1,000 New Zealand dollars a year in return.

Besides, alpacas are cute, but when they were domesticated in South America, they were not for cuteness, but for transporting goods.

Finally, let’s talk about eating. Unfortunately, alpacas, which are regarded as cute babies by the Chinese people, are mostly used as food in their origins such as South America and Oceania.

The meat of alpaca is very good. It is a kind of herbivore with both wool and meat. The taste is between lamb and beef. It does not have the smell of lamb. It is stronger than lamb and tenderer than beef. It is also better overall.

In the past, New Zealand did not have the habit of eating alpaca meat. This is a way of eating alpaca from South America in recent years, which brought up the price of alpaca meat. It can be sold for 200 to 300 New Zealand dollars per kilogram, which is much more expensive than beef and mutton up.

So to sum up, why does Wang Bo not breed alpacas in large quantities?

However, it is not easy to raise a large number of alpacas. There are not many alpacas in New Zealand. Even in the world, there are only about 3 million alpacas. More than 95% of them 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 for many years.

As the economic benefits of alpacas increase, pastures everywhere want to raise alpacas, but they are not easy to raise. The price of breeding animals is very expensive, and the cheapest is more than 10,000 yuan per head.

Alpacas can only give birth once a year, and only one alpaca can be born at a time, and this one may not survive. Putting it all together, it is much more difficult to increase the number of this thing than humans.

Wang Bo has always wanted to look like an alpaca since he encountered a cattle thief, but he didn't have a chance. When he learned that it appeared at the animal husbandry auction this time, he was definitely unwilling to give up the opportunity.

On Monday, he went to the car repair shop first, planning to pick up the car and go to buy alpacas.

As a result, when he arrived at the garage, the boss Jones smiled and apologized to him, saying that he had suddenly received a big order on the weekend and it hadn't been repaired yet, so he had to wait another two days.

Wang Bo can wait, anyway, it will take him two days to attend the animal husbandry auction, so we can talk about it when we come back.

This auction was also held in a small town called Kulau, with a population of just over 2,000. It cannot be any smaller. People in China are ashamed to call themselves a village.

But this is normal in New Zealand, after all, the country has a total population of just over four million.

Kulau is a standard agricultural and animal husbandry city. The residents here are either farmers or herdsmen, and the regional output value is also driven by agriculture and animal husbandry.

The alpaca was sold this time by a large ranch. It has 400 alpacas and plans to sell them all. Because the South Island has encountered a rare drought, many farms have died of thirst and suffered heavy losses.

Compared with cattle and sheep, alpacas are very delicate. They have high requirements on aquatic plants and poor resistance to diseases. Therefore, although this kind of livestock is valuable, the scale of breeding has not expanded accordingly.

It's not that ranchers don't want to expand farming, but it's too difficult, too costly, and too risky.

Together with Wang Bo and Motak, they first tasted the famous local hand-brewed seasonal dark beer after they arrived in Kurau.

Seeing that he couldn't drink this kind of beer, the waiter brought him a large glass of black beer. Wang Bo asked, "What kind of dark beer is this? Stout?"

Stout beer is also a well-known local beer. Cowboys and farmers like to drink this high-strength thing. They are tired after a day and need alcohol comfort.

The waiter said with a smile: "No, this is Ethiopian coffee beer. You can try it. It has a higher concentration and the aroma of coffee and beer. It should suit your taste better."

Wang Bo took a sip. The beer was very light, and it did have the bitter aroma of coffee, especially the dense bubbles, which made the aroma even stronger.