During lunch, Wang Bo and Carter finalized the town's network development issues, and Charlie Bowen and others were also busy. They found a car repair shop that could repair the car.
The car repair shop is located on the outskirts of a small town, using an abandoned villa. The environment is very good, surrounded by green grass and trees. Even in 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 inspecting the jeep, he said there were many problems. He made a list and showed it to Wang Bo and asked him if he wanted an overhaul.
Wang Bo looked at the bill. Although it was said to be a major repair, in fact, except for the gearbox that needed to be replaced, the rest of the repairs were minor. Most of them were sheet metal corrections, oil changes and other issues. The total was one thousand five hundred yuan, not counting. expensive.
In this way, he signed the maintenance order, and then asked: "How soon can I pick up the car? I am anxious to use this car."
Jones said with a smile: "It will take three days. You can pick up the car next Monday."
Wang Bo was quite surprised and asked: "Three days? You are fast enough, that's no problem. Thank you very much."
Leaving the car behind, they returned to town.
Over the weekend, New Zealand Telecom's network outage construction team arrived very quickly, which shows that their current business is very scarce.
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."
Lao Wang chuckled: "Welcome, absolutely welcome. There will be no problem at all in cooperating with publicity in the future."
After Carter left, Wang Bo brought him a lot of beef, sheep, chicken and duck meat. If he didn't have a suitable place for breeding, he would have given him two lambs.
Carter smiled and said, "I have heard several times that the beef and mutton from the ranch taste very good, and I finally have the opportunity to taste it."
On Sunday, Motak called and asked: "Wang, I remember you are planning to do some alpaca breeding, right? There will be a farming and animal husbandry auction in Kulaw next week, and there will be some alpacas there. Do you want to do that?" Don’t you want to go take a look?”
Wang Bo readily agreed. He indeed planned to raise alpacas, not just a few, but a lot.
In traditional animal husbandry, alpacas are of high value. Their whole body is a treasure. Let’s talk about wool first. Alpaca’s hair is longer than wool, bright and elastic, and its quality and color are unique among its kind.
Now in the high-end clothing markets in Asia and Europe, alpaca wool, which is twice as tough as sheep wool, is the most valuable. It has no hair grease, few impurities, and a net cashmere rate of 90%. The clothes made of it are light, soft, comfortable to wear, and drape. It feels good, does not wrinkle, and does not change shape, so it is favored by wealthy people.
According to Wang Bo's investigation, each alpaca can only produce 3 to 5 kilograms of down in a year, and can only be sheared once a year. The down price is 100 to 500 New Zealand dollars per kilogram. On average, an alpaca alone is The fur can contribute about a thousand New Zealand dollars a year.
As for use, although alpacas are cute, when they were domesticated in South America, they were not just for cuteness, but for transporting goods.
Finally, let’s talk about food. Unfortunately, alpacas, which are regarded as cute babies by the Chinese people, are mostly used for food in their native places such as South America and Oceania.
The meat of alpaca is very good. It is a herbivore that can be used for both hair and meat. Its taste is between mutton and beef. It does not have the mutton smell. It is stronger than mutton, more tender than beef, and overall better.
In the past, New Zealand did not have the habit of eating alpaca meat. This is a way of eating that has been introduced from South America in recent years. It has brought up the price of alpaca meat. One kilogram can sell for 200 to 300 New Zealand dollars, which is much more expensive than beef and mutton. .
So all in all, what reason does Wang Bo have for not breeding alpacas in large quantities
However, it is not easy to breed in large quantities. There are not many alpacas in New Zealand. Even in the world, there are only about 3 million alpacas now. More than 95% of them live in the highlands of Peru and Chile in South America, followed by Australia, and then New Zealand.
According to statistics, there are less than 10,000 alpacas in New Zealand, and the number has not increased for many years.
As the economic benefits of alpacas increase, ranches all over the country want to raise alpacas. However, it is difficult to raise alpacas. The price of breeding animals is very expensive. The cheapest one costs more than 10,000 yuan.
Alpacas can only give birth once a year, and they can only give birth to one child at a time. This one may not survive. Taken together, it is much more difficult for this thing to increase its population than for humans.
Wang Bo has always wanted to own an alpaca after he encountered a cattle thief, but he had no chance. This time he learned that it appeared at the animal husbandry auction, and he was definitely not willing to give up the opportunity.
On Monday, he went to the car repair shop first, planning to pick up the car and go buy an alpaca.
As a result, when he arrived at the garage, the boss Jones apologized with a smile, saying that he suddenly received a big order during the weekend and it had not been repaired yet, so he had to wait for two more days.
Wang Bon can wait. Anyway, it will take him two days to attend the animal husbandry auction, so he will discuss it after he comes back.
This auction was also held in a small city called Kulaw, with a population of just over 2,000. It is a very small city. In China, people are embarrassed to call themselves a village.
But this is normal in New Zealand. After all, this country has a total population of just over four million.
Kurao 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 alpacas sold this time were to a large ranch that raised 400 alpacas and planned to sell them all because the South Island suffered a rare drought, and many farms had their livestock die of thirst, resulting in heavy losses.
Compared with cattle and sheep, alpacas are very delicate. They have high requirements for water and grass and have 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 breeding, but it’s just that it’s too difficult, expensive and risky.
Wang Bo and Motak were together. After they arrived in Kulao, they first tasted the famous local hand-brew seasonal dark beer. This beer was very strong and Motak liked it better. Lao Wang 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. Wang Bo asked: "What kind of dark beer is this? Stout?"
Stout is also a very famous local beer. Cowboys and farmers like to drink this high-alcohol beer. They have been tired for a long day and need the comfort of alcohol.
The waiter smiled and said: "No, this is Ethiopian coffee beer. You can try it. It has a higher alcohol content and has the aroma of coffee and beer. It should be more to your taste."
Wang Bo took a sip. The beer was very light and indeed had the bitter aroma of coffee, especially the dense bubbles, which made the aroma even stronger.
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