Leisurely Life: I Have Ten Thousand Acres of Grassland

Chapter 248 - 246: Gene Selector, an Unexpected Choice!

On this day, the weather was clear.

Jiang Feng ran to a deer shed in the Northeast to select Sika Deer.

His plan was to raise about thirty of them.

It wasn’t really for profit, he just wanted to raise them for fun.

This is the joy of being a rancher.

If Jiang Feng were an ordinary herdsman, personally taking care of cows and sheep and handling all the work himself, he certainly wouldn’t have the energy to raise other animals.

But Jiang Feng has his own ranch and employees. He has specialized people to look after the cows, sheep, horses, and camels, so he has plenty of spare time.

Therefore, he has a lot of energy to do things he enjoys.

Jiang Feng arrived at the deer shed to personally select Sika Deer.

The environment of the shed was ordinary, with brick walls and regular soil floors. The Sika Deer were eating feed from troughs, looking quite unspectacular.

However, the advantage was the large number of Sika Deer, with a scale of about two thousand.

The owner of the deer shed, Qin Yu, asked Jiang Feng:

"Master Jiang, have you gotten your breeding permit yet? You need a permit to raise Sika Deer."

"After all, Sika Deer are quite special."

Hearing Qin Yu’s words, Jiang Feng had Lin Wansen, who came along, hand the certification materials to Qin Yu.

Lin Wansen worked meticulously. Although he didn’t love joking around, he had a serious work attitude.

He thought the treatment here was good, with an average monthly salary of 20,000, plus social insurance benefits, so he cherished it greatly.

Jiang Feng said to Qin Yu:

"Don’t worry, I’ve prepared all the materials properly before coming."

Seeing that the materials were complete, Qin Yu happily let Jiang Feng select the Sika Deer.

The unit price of the Sika Deer was not low, about seventy to eighty thousand to over a hundred thousand. Selling some would also be an income for the shed.

After all, Jiang Feng definitely preferred to choose younger and stronger Sika Deer for raising.

Additionally, he planned to select two adult female deer.

At this moment, Jiang Feng remembered he still had two uses of the Talent Filter left.

He previously got three from a lottery and used one when selecting the gray parrot.

He got a mischievous gray parrot, which grew even more mischievous as it got older.

Now that he’s choosing Sika Deer, such spiritually rich animals, Jiang Feng decided to use it again.

The Talent Filter was activated.

Jiang Feng received a system prompt.

He walked all the way in until he reached the outside of an enclosure.

The system prompt indicated that within this shed was the area where the deer with the best talent and genetics were located.

Inside was an indoor enclosure with the door closed.

Jiang Feng asked the owner of the deer shed, Qin Yu:

"There are also Sika Deer inside here, why can’t I go in and pick?"

Hearing this, Qin Yu replied with a smile:

"Inside here is the maternity ward, all pregnant does."

"These deer are not for sale."

Upon hearing Qin Yu’s words, Jiang Feng thought to himself that the Sika Deer selected by the Genetics Filter might be an unborn fawn, and he became interested.

"I happen to want to personally raise a fawn, so how about I choose a pregnant doe and pay you the price for two deer?"

Jiang Feng asked calmly.

"That would be fine." Qin Yu agreed immediately.

Both were wearing sterile suits and had been disinfected, so entering inside posed no problem at all.

Qin Yu had the staff of the deer shed open the enclosure, and several people went inside to let Jiang Feng personally select the Sika Deer.

Jiang Feng saw the deer indicated by the system.

As he expected, the doe’s belly emitted a faint golden glow.

This indicated that the deer with the best talent selected by the system was inside the doe’s belly.

This doe appeared quite ordinary, even its sika spots were unusually faint, looking worse than the other Sika Deer.

Jiang Feng quickly scanned the area and pointed to the pregnant doe, saying:

"I’ll take this one."

Hearing Jiang Feng’s words, Qin Yu was somewhat surprised.

"This one?"

"This one doesn’t look very impressive, the fawn it has might not be good either."

"Those over there look much healthier."

Jiang Feng didn’t change his choice, instead, he said mysteriously:

"It’s this one. I feel a sense of affinity with it."

"I tend to trust my instincts."

Seeing Jiang Feng’s persistence, Qin Yu didn’t say more.

"Sure, no problem," Qin Yu agreed.

Jiang Feng confirmed the doe and thought about the fawn being possibly lonely, he scanned the area again and said:

"I’ll buy that doe too, so the fawn can have a companion after it’s born."

"Alright."

Jiang Feng began selecting the remaining Sika Deer.

Lin Wansen was responsible for checking the health condition of the deer and their vaccination status.

Raising animals requires being reasonable and compliant, to ensure the animals raised are healthy.

Once the Sika Deer selection was complete, they found two large trucks to slowly transport them to the grassland.

The journey was long and would take two days to reach.

Jiang Feng wasn’t in a rush.

During the journey, he uploaded a video of the Sika Deer, updating his fans on the progress.

The fans were very eager to see the Sika Deer and left comments under the video:

"The ranch owner bought new animals again! The ranch is getting more lively!"

"When are you going to buy a tiger?"

"How about raising some leopards or honey badgers?"

"Is it possible to raise giant pandas on the prairie?"

Jiang Feng took a moment to check the comments from everyone.

Seeing the suggestion to raise giant pandas on the prairie, Jiang Feng couldn’t help but laugh.

Frankly speaking, just having a pasture doesn’t make it suitable for raising giant pandas.

As a national treasure, Genggeng has extremely high environmental requirements, needing not only gardens but also fresh bamboo, a suitable climate, and various structures for climbing and playing.

The prairie is more suitable for animals that enjoy running.

After a day and night’s drive, they finally arrived at the ranch the next morning.

The ranch staff, including Hadan, Bugude, and Yang Maolin, had come out early to watch.

While there are some large ranches in Hulunbei’er that raise sika deer, in Ximeng League, raising sika deer is indeed quite rare.

Ordinary herders certainly wouldn’t raise them; they would either have specialized deer sheds or be run by more capable ranch owners like Jiang Feng.

As the vehicle drove up to the deer shed, employees opened the back of the truck and started unloading the sika deer.

This was also a task requiring strength.

Most of these sika deer were only one year old, very young, and scared of everything.

Once they entered the enclosure, they immediately fled to places without people, keeping a good distance from humans.

They huddled together.

Jiang Feng focused on caring for the pregnant doe.

This doe had very light spots and didn’t look particularly pretty.

However, she had a gentle demeanor and moved slowly, seeming rather approachable.

One by one, the sika deer were placed into the yard.

The little dogs ran over to watch as well.

Xiaojin Hua and a few others wagged their tails excitedly, as if they thought there were new animals they could herd.

But Jiang Feng definitely wouldn’t let them herd the sika deer.

After all, sika deer aren’t sheep; they’re not that dull, and the intimidating tactics of the Border Collies might not even concern them.

The sika deer entered the enclosure one by one.

Jiang Feng immediately arranged for the staff to provide them with water and feed.

The livestream was already up and running, and Jiang Feng was simultaneously giving the viewers some insights:

"The diet of sika deer is similar to that of sheep; they can eat a variety of grasses."

"However, they love eating corn the most, so the best feed for sika deer is corn."

"Of course, you can’t feed them corn all the time; they still need a variety of foods."

As he spoke, the employees scattered corn in the feeding troughs.

The surrounding sika deer, already hungry, eagerly approached the troughs and started eating voraciously.

They ate corn very quickly.

Watching a large group of sika deer gathering on both sides of the troughs to eat was quite a stress-reliever.

Jiang Feng stood by watching.

The sika deer had just arrived at the ranch and probably needed some time to adapt.

"In the future, I can also let the sika deer roam free."

"Some tourist ranches have sika deer, where visitors can get close to them."

"That feeling is quite nice too."

Jiang Feng remarked again.

Hearing Jiang Feng’s words, everyone immediately chimed in:

[Master Jiang, will your ranch be open for visits?]

[When can I go see your sika deer?]

[If you start a tourism business, it will definitely be popular; being in a tourist area, you’ll surely get lots of visitors!]

Seeing these comments, Jiang Feng quickly responded:

"I run a closed-off ranch focused on livestock, so it’s not open for tourism."

"Everyone can go enjoy those sightseeing ranches."

Seeing Jiang Feng make an effort to explain, the viewers couldn’t help but laugh.

Everyone knows that livestock-focused ranches are all closed off; except for occasional local visitors, they generally don’t welcome tourists from outside.

There’s just no way around it.

Though people still like to tease a bit.

Jiang Feng looked again at the sika deer in the enclosure.

After eating, these sika deer gradually settled down.

There was clean water in the trough, and a few sika deer lowered their heads to drink.

After drinking, they lifted their heads and observed this unfamiliar area with their eyes.

The environment here was much better than that of the deer sheds, where the ground was generally just dirt, with no plants, and the deer were dirty and black, with who knows how much dust accumulated in their fur.

Only free-ranging deer, or those raised on beautiful grasslands, exhibited bright orange coats.

"Once they’re used to this place, we’ll give them a bath or clean them up."

"Deer need to be kept clean."

"It keeps them looking spirited."

Jiang Feng said with a joyful smile as he gazed at the sika deer’s lively eyes.

There were more and more animals on the pasture.

As a ranch owner who loves raising animals, Jiang Feng must be happy inside.

Seeing Jiang Feng’s demeanor, the viewers were also infected by his joy.

Everyone smiled slightly as well.

In the following two days, Jiang Feng focused on the sika deer in the enclosure.

And the doe with very light spots was nearing her due date.

Jiang Feng was filled with anticipation about this.