Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 795 - Chapter 795: 785. Water Buffalo_1

Chapter 795: 785. Water Buffalo_1

This was clearly a very ordinary question, but Niu Ben felt something odd about it.

Nevertheless, as a professional in cattle farming, he seriously replied, “Cow meat is tender, while ox meat is more fragrant.”

“Moreover, female calves are more expensive, but they weigh less when fully grown. Take our local yellow cattle, for example, a grown ox can weigh around 1,000 or 1,200 jin, while a good cow might weigh 1,000 jin, though most are between 800 and 1,000 jin.”

After thinking for a moment, he added, “Those that can grow to 2,000 jin are all beef cattle.”

I see…

Professor Song laughed, “Yan Ran, you have listened a lot too. Tell us, if it were up to you, how would you plan the breeding?”

Yan Ran closed her notebook. She pondered briefly and said, “Given that Tantan’s family has a higher demand for funds this year, and considering that calves are quite expensive… so, this year the focus should be on the oxen.”

She calculated in her mind, “Out of these seventy cattle, it’s best to ensure that 40 to 50 are oxen. Raising them for one to one-and-a-half years, by next year there should be at least forty to fifty thousand jin, which should earn Tantan several millions.”

With these millions, whatever comes next can proceed without much restraint.

“Then, with the remaining cows, we adopt the model of selective breeding to produce calves every year, gradually increasing and adjusting over time…”

She finished her suggestion, then turned to Song Tan and Professor Song, “Does that sound good?”

Professor Song nodded, “I think it sounds good.”

Song Tan blinked, “Of course, I also think it sounds good.”

Niu Ben stood there, perplexed: It felt like something was not quite right…

“Wait!” he realized, “Why are you guys so confident? Even if every calf weighs three to four hundred jin, free-range farming can’t ensure that they gain over 600 jin within a year and a half!”

“And even if it’s fifty thousand jin, that’s not much money. At most, it would be seven hundred thousand.”

Seven hundred thousand is a lot for the average person, but for a cattle farm, it’s really not much! And even this is because free-range cattle sell for considerably more than beef cattle!

Where do you get the idea of earning millions?

Heaven’s sake, is the girl calculating retail prices instead of wholesale?

Even if you slaughtered and sold the meat on your own, there’s a purchase price to consider! With a meat yield of only 35% to 50%, how much can you actually sell?

Niu Jia, who was holding her child, also frowned,

“You’re oversimplifying it. Cattle farming isn’t a game where you can just click a mouse and harvest… In fact, throughout the entire breeding process, whether it’s nutrition formulation, periodic monthly weighing, feed adjustment, and prevention and treatment of epidemics and simple diseases, all of these require effort, concern, and cost.”

“Don’t harbor the idea that it will be smooth sailing; it won’t happen.”

The child could walk now, and having been set down on the grass, toddled and ran about, burrowing into the low bushes with a rustling sound.

Then suddenly, picking a stalk of Foxtail Grass, he popped his head out and loudly imitated his father’s words,

“It won’t happen!”

What was supposed to be a serious caution became hard to express when interrupted like this, and the Niu brothers were left speechless.

Of course, Song Tan wouldn’t just sell the cattle straight out of the field.

Even if she did sell, it would be after slaughtering them on her farm.

It wasn’t for any other reason than she was planning to make more rice wine mixed with Spiritual Energy next year, just like this year, and freeze them. Whatever cattle she decided to slaughter, she would simply feed them, and after the cattle got drunk, she would then proceed to slaughter them…

Going through this additional step wasn’t for any other reason but to lessen their pain.

Of course, professional slaughterhouses now use mechanical slaughter, which is also very quick and free of pain. But…

Song Tan thought to herself that when she was a child and raised pigs, Wu Lan wouldn’t even talk about butchering in front of them because pigs could truly understand, and afterwards, they would panic and eat less or lose weight from stress.

Cattle and sheep are the same; not feeling pain doesn’t mean they aren’t scared.

Just like she promised Qiaoqiao, she wouldn’t let them feel pain when slaughtered. She had to keep her promise, otherwise, Qiaoqiao would certainly cry!

Thinking about it, she would need to build a cold storage next year!

Oh, money!

As she thought about this, her mind wandered off, and it took her a while to snap back to reality. Then she smiled sheepishly at the Niu brothers, who were looking at her with speechless expressions, and unlocked her phone:

“Mr. Niu, I know you mean well for me. But don’t worry, look, this is our family’s online store–”

Ahem.

Song Tan got stuck for a moment because there was nothing in the online store, almost everything was off the shelves.

She hurriedly began to think, where was the backend access again?

Mr. Niu wasn’t a fool, either; he knew how to use Peach Treasure. He glanced at the store’s fan count of 234,478, then looked at the meager two products below and couldn’t help but sigh:

“Having so many store followers is useless–hiss!”

He gasped in shock!

What Song Tan was showing was the backend data of the online store; the recent sales figures showed that more than two thousand orders of sugar-roasted chestnuts had been sold in just ten minutes!

But the turnover was 264,000!

Niu Ben suddenly looked up: “How many kilos of chestnuts did you sell?”

Song Tan replied, “Exactly 3,000 kilos.”

For a moment, the grassland fell silent, with only the wind of midday whooshing by.

It took quite a while before Niu Jia picked up his phone to do the math: “88 per kilo? Are you selling golden chestnuts or what?”

At this moment, Yan Ran also spoke up: “Senior Brother, Tantan is first-rate at farming, her chestnuts are priced that way because they’re still not enough to meet the demand.”

“So, you see, selling your cattle to her, there’s really no need to worry. The price will definitely be high! Plus, there are regular customers. Maybe in a few years, you’ll be coming to her looking to bring in calves!”

Niu Ben wanted to say that farming and breeding were not the same thing.

But if she could sell chestnuts for 88 per kilo, her marketing couldn’t possibly lose.

If that was the case, he might as well stop worrying needlessly about her.

In that case…

He pulled out a calculator and started tapping away rapidly:

“70 cattle, most likely weighing between 300-400 kilos each, 50 males and 20 females, roughly a total price of about 450,000. We can calculate the exact weight later.”

“Also…”

He mused: “I’ll give those three calves to you as a gift.”

“Additionally, if you have the capacity to raise them properly, I have two prematurely born water buffalo calves here. They are very small and frail, weighing only about 200 kilos… I’ll give them to you as well.”

As he spoke, he led everyone towards a corner of the grassland: “These aren’t mine; they’re from a village nearby. The cow fell down a slope while pregnant… I took them in out of pity, thinking to raise them for a year to produce water buffalo milk for Jiajia, that little one…”

Water buffalo milk is sweeter and more fragrant than regular cow’s milk, and he thought the child would like it.

As it turned out, the calves were too weak, couldn’t endure wind or sun, and after four months of care, they hadn’t grown much. It seemed unlikely that they’d produce milk even in two years.

Seeing that Song Tan didn’t mind and even seemed pleased, he simply decided to ask. He could offer cattle in return for the tea she brought; that’s reciprocity!

And his cattle weren’t cheap, either!

Only Niu Jia was visibly moved:

“Brother, the baby was just a bit frail when it was born, but it’s been raised well now, there’s no need to go through the trouble of getting water buffalo milk… Huh? Where’s the baby?”

Everyone stopped in surprise.

At that moment, a child’s wailing came from afar:

“Mommy… Daddy… Daddy is gone wuwuwu…”