Chapter 24: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 24: Looking After

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

After Chai Mi left the old residence, only then was Chai You De sent to the hospital by someone.

It just so happened that Liu Zhanggui's son Liu Zhijing was at home, so he also drove the tractor, hauling Chai You De to the county hospital.

Chai Mi wasn't worried about what would happen to Chai You De's leg at all; maybe it was broken, maybe just a fracture or a sprain, anyway he wouldn't die. Besides, Chai You De indeed fell down himself, and moreover Chai You De himself wasn't a good thing, so Chai Mi didn't have the slightest sense of guilt.

A bad person, no bad retribution?

Then my rebirth, isn't it a rebirth for nothing?!

Arriving home, although Chai Mi felt a bit tired, because she had just obtained that piece of land belonging to her, she was somewhat too excited to sleep.

She wandered around a circle, only then remembering, had the calf returned home on its own or not?

So Chai Mi came out of the house again, went outside, and saw the calf nursing under Lao Qingniu.

However...

Lao Qingniu was very resistant...

After all, not to mention Lao Qingniu was already old, this Xiaohua had already drunk milk for seven or eight months, it was long past time to wean.

In her previous life Chai Mi had also raised cattle, so she understood this too. Generally speaking, after a calf is born, about half a year or so, weaning in the countryside is a relatively reasonable time.

This actually doesn't have a hard standard; however you calculate it counts as reasonable.

From the mother cow's perspective, the mother cow's colostrum in the first three days after the calf is born is the most nutritious, after that the milk in the first half month is a bit better.

The calf drinks the colostrum for the first three days, and won't get those inexplicable illnesses; that is to say the mother cow's milk in the first three days contains many components that can increase the calf's resistance.

By one or two months, the mother cow's milk begins to decrease; by three or four months it's even less.

By half a year, the mother cow basically has no milk left.

A calf generally at around one month can eat some grass. In this era, they usually feed calves corn stalks. If there's green grass on the mountain, or grain stalks, those work too. But you can't let the cattle eat too much.

Later many people see vast grasslands with herds of cattle and sheep, and develop the habit of thinking cattle can keep eating green grass. Actually not so; because of their special digestive system, if cattle eat too much green grass they cannot ruminate. Grassland cattle are mostly those left by natural selection... look closely and you'll find grassland cattle are generally thinner.

A calf generally after three months is about the same as an adult cow.

Chai Mi's Xiaohua is already seven or eight months old, long since eating grass and feed on its own, but it just keeps drinking milk.

The mother cow has almost no milk to feed it; after all the mother cow is pregnant again, nutrition extremely lacking. Although the calf was gone it would miss it, but now the calf returned it started to resent it again, so it kept butting the calf with its horns.

This made Chai Mi laugh; she entered a small storage room next door, where there was already crushed cornmeal; Chai Mi used a gourd ladle, scooped some, and then put some in the cattle trough for both Lao Qingniu and Xiaohua.

Only then did Xiaohua come running ga-you-ga-you to eat the cornmeal.

Chai Mi wanted to pet Xiaohua, but it dodged away.

"Aiyo, you rascal, who did you learn food-guarding from?" Chai Mi grabbed the calf's ear: "You're already six or seven hundred catties; just now when they caught you, why didn't you butt them? Now you're getting feisty?? You damn plaything."

Moo moo...

The calf called out pitifully.

"Forget it, forget it, eat your cornmeal properly; I don't have that bad a spirit to fight a cow for food."