The old herder Zada and his herd were tightly surrounded by hundreds of wild wolves, and at the moment of life and death, a group of wild yaks swooped down from the hillside and swept the wolves to pieces.
Zada fixed his eyes and recognized the leading yak, his Bighorn King, who had returned.
A few years ago, Zada rescued the newborn Bighorn King in the snow and raised it, and the Bighorn King returned to the wilderness to become the leader of a wild yak herd.
Zada thought that he would never see his BigHorn King, but he did not expect that at this critical juncture, the BigHorn King came back to save Zada. The story between Zada and the BigHorn Begins One Winter 4 years ago.
Breeding of cattle
In Sanjiangyuan, there is a village that makes a living by raising yaks in captivity, and the environment here is particularly suitable for yak growth, but over the decades, villagers have found that captive yaks are getting smaller and smaller, and the meat quality is not so tight.
Seeing the price of yak falling year after year, the villagers can't help but worry about how to live this winter!
One summer, Zada's neighbor rescued a male yak from the wolf pack, and the wild yak did not rush to go after the neighbor's ranch was injured, the reason was unbearable, it turned out that it looked at several cows, unlike the wild female yak, the female yak here has a gentler temperament, and this male yak is also stronger and more powerful than the captive bull, and in the neighbor's pasture, there is a bit of a "standing herd" feeling.
At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to this matter, and the wild yaks stayed in the pasture for half a month and then left. However, after the cow gave birth to the calf, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that this calf was taller and more vigorous than the other calves, and they fought at every turn, like a "little bully" of the cattle.
One day, the village chief gathered everyone together and said one of his ideas: regularly organize villagers to go out into the wild to catch wild yaks and come back to breed them.
Although every year some wild yaks will run down the mountain to "seek pleasure", but the number is limited, if they take the initiative, in a few years, the quality of their yaks will be greatly improved.
Wild yaks are fat and strong, and they grow faster than in captivity, so why not shorten the growth cycle and improve the yak's talent!
In the next two years, everyone has done everything in their moves, and the "food meter" and "beautiful cow meter" have been carried out at the same time, and the effect is really good. But there is a saying called "there is a gain and a loss", and before long, the villagers found that the bull often took a few cows with him when he left, and once the cow went to the wild, he would not come back.
Over time, everyone lost a lot of cows, and Zada was recently abducted and ran away 8 cows, which made everyone start to be alert, but there was no good way to deal with it.
The sullen Zada was unwilling, he called two villagers, prepared his tools, and decided to go to the wild yak gathering place to try his luck, and did not come and go to be rude.
They can abduct our cows, can't we go and take away their cows? This time, it was the herders who took advantage.
What Zada did not expect was that this time on the mountain, they really found a single female yak, and there were unexpected surprises.
Reach out
At this time, it was already December, and the altitude of the Sanjiangyuan in Qinghai was high, and the mountains were also high, and this time it had already been covered by thick ice and snow. The animals went into hibernation, or hid in the covers, and looked at the endless whiteness, stinging people's eyes.
Zada, who is nearly 50 years old, struggled to climb to the top of a mountain with the help of two young people, and at this location, it is possible to observe the movement of animals nearby.
After searching for half a day, they finally found the footprints of wild yaks, at least dozens of them, which should have gone very quickly, as if they were threatened.
Zada wondered, "What is so bold that even dozens of wild yaks dare to provoke?" The young man next to him joked, "Most of them are wild wolves, these guys may be hungry and anxious, plus there are many numbers and tricks, as long as they make good use of the terrain, they have enough patience to slowly consume the yak herd, even if they can't die, it is okay to pick up some leaks." ”
The three men inspected the trough and walked along the yak's footprints, and as the footprints grew deeper, they also became cautious, and stopped to listen to the movement after walking tens of meters.
In this way, after walking for more than 600 meters, they finally heard the fierce tearing sound.
It seems that the front is the main battlefield. The three of them motioned to each other and found the tallest tree to climb up.
Finally, I could see the scene of the fight, and even a well-informed old herdsman like Zada was stunned by the scene in front of him.
In front of it is a canyon with 200 wild wolves, three layers inside and three outer layers, one before and one after the other, blocking more than 40 yaks inside.
More than ten of the more than 40 yaks are calves, but even if the number is ten times different, the fighting power of the wild yaks is still very strong, and the wolves do not dare to touch hard, but only harass them from time to time. Relying on the numerical advantage, changing shifts every once in a while and maintaining physical strength.
Zada found that in the middle of the herd, there was a cow, tightly guarded by several bulls, supposed to be born, and the wolves cleverly seized the moment to launch an offensive.
Seeing more and more injured yaks, the few bulls left around the cows to be produced still maintained full combat effectiveness, and if they continue to be consumed, more than 40 yaks will be completely destroyed.
The yak leader walked over to the cow, as if exchanging something, and then roared angrily at the sky, and the strongest bulls formed arrows, followed by a dozen adult yaks with full color, guarding a group of calves inside, ready to charge, which was to abandon the cow that was about to give birth.
Under the charge of several mighty wild yaks, the wolves were quickly rushed out of a gap, and more than forty wild yaks ran forward like locomotives, and the wolves were killed and injured for a while, and the unwilling head wolves quickly organized a pursuit. Leave a few wolves to deal with the female yak.
Zada talked to the other two and felt that there should be a chance to save the cow.
When the wolves left for a distance, several wild wolves were also ready to attack the cows, just at this time, three gunshots accurately hit 3 wolves, only 2 wolves remained, and after being caught off guard, the 2 wolves ran towards the wolves in a panic.
The three of them climbed down the tree, and without the threat of the wolves, the cow also exerted its strength at this time, and successfully gave birth to a calf. However, the cow was also seriously injured before and stopped breathing after giving birth to the calf.
Zada quickly found a cloth bag, wrapped the calves in it, and then said to the 2 young men, you two take turns carrying, hurry up, the wolves will return soon.
In this way, the cow was not harvested, but a calf was obtained, which is a pure bison breed. And everyone did not expect that this calf would later become their patron saint.
Savage growth
Under Zada's care, the little bison grew very tall, and its size was almost twice that of an ordinary yak of the same age.
At the age of two, the little bison was much larger than the average adult yak, and its horns were particularly long and powerful, and it soon became the overlord of the Zada ranch.
In the third year, the little bison continued to grow, and several times the ranch was attacked by wolves, and its performance was unusually fierce, and every time the wolves tentatively attacked a few times, they were hit by it, and when Zaka brought people to the scene, the wolves had no choice but to leave.
Xhaka became more and more fond of the little bison, giving it a mighty and domineering name , "The BigHorn King", and the Bighorn King was also recognized by the cattle and became the leader.
But soon after, the accident happened.
One day, Zada Ranch came a few uninvited guests, it was two female bison, the Big Horn king found a familiar breath in these two female bison, Zada saw this scene, his heart was very unhappy, he was reluctant to the Big Horn King, but also knew that the Big Horn King did not belong to them, the wilderness is its destination.
When the two cows left, they obviously extended an invitation to the Bighorn King. But the BigHorn King has lived here for 3 years, and although it wants to go, it hesitates, and Zada walks over, strokes the Bighorn King's neck, and drives it outside the door, "Let's go, your home is outside."
In this way, the Bighorn King left them after living on the ranch for 3 years.
regression
More than half a year has passed, zada has never seen the big horned king again, and it seems that it has adapted well in the wild.
The winter of the year came particularly early, and by the end of December, the temperature was getting colder and colder, and Zada, who was already in his 50s, had rarely herded cattle anymore, and one day Zada's son rushed in and told Zada in a panic that there were several cows outside surrounded by wolves, and there were many of them.
Zada hurriedly picked up the shotgun, the family of 6 people rushed outside, between the night, dense wolves, about 4-50 heads, surrounded by 3 cows, Zada They shot and killed several, but at night the line of sight was not good, seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and the cows were in danger.
Suddenly, on the top of the hillside next to it, a rumbling sound of footsteps sounded, it was a herd of bison, about 30 or so, and strangely, this group of wild yaks rushed directly at the wolves. In the case of small differences in numbers, wolves are only abused. In less than two minutes, the wild yaks settled the battle, and the wolves did not love the battle and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.
The Zada family stood there in a daze, and at this time, a yak with a pair of long horns came out of the yak herd, slowly walked to Zada's side, knelt down on his knees, and lay down next to Zada.
Zada trembled and stretched out his hands, looking at the familiar long horns, and tears flowed out: "Big Horn King, my Big Horn King is back"!
After a short pause, the Bighorn King left with his herd, but they took root not far away, and every ten days and a half months, the Bighorn Would come back to see Zada, and the yaks of Zada Ranch were getting stronger and stronger.