How much does a sheep sell for "sky-high prices"? The "Waggill sheep" from Afghanistan sold for 12 million? Is this a deliberate "price speculation" behind it, or is there really something special about it? And in addition to it, what other outrageously priced sheep among the "nobles"? Next, let's take stock of four kinds of "sky-high sheep"!
The whole body is snow white, the limbs are strong and developed, a huge eagle hook nose is high and bulging, and the ears that droop like a fan are pulled on both sides of the head, as if it has two cute double ponytails, it seems that it is cute all over the body, which is the most representative feature of the elegant and lovely "Waggill sheep"!
In April 2012, a special "Waggill sheep" could be regarded as a whole network, shocking the entire livestock breeding circle. It all starts with the existing condition of the "Waggill sheep". More than 100 years ago, the number of "Waggill sheep" was still considerable, and they mainly lived in the subtropical mountains of Central Asia, mainly in Afghanistan, where the climate was very dry, cold in winter, hot in summer, and very low annual precipitation.
But the "Waggill sheep" still survived in such a harsh climate, so that their limbs were very strong and powerful, and the flesh was also strong, and these high-quality characteristics once made the "Waggill sheep" a large number of Afghan herders. But the good times are not long, 100 years later, the climate environment in Central Asia has become worse and worse, which has greatly affected the normal breeding of "Waggill sheep", so now, the stock of this population has been very rare, and it is difficult to see the figure of "Waggill sheep" in ordinary farmers or herders' homes.
The so-called "rarity is precious", the more precious things are, the higher the value. In 2012, in Yingjisha County, Xinjiang, China, a large farmer named "Palhati" offered a sky-high price of 12 million yuan for a "Waggill sheep" he owned, which could even buy a few villas! The reason why he asked for such a high price was simple: this snow-white and distinctive "Waggill sheep" was the purest breed that Palhati had personally searched for a long time in Afghanistan and successfully bought, and now it is extremely rare in the world, of course, it can be sold at a sky-high price!
A purebred "Waggill sheep" was offered a sky-high price of 12 million because it was too rare, so what other high-priced sheep were there? Why are they so expensive?
More than 100 years ago, herders and caravans in Xinjiang, China, imported a batch of "Waggill sheep" from Afghanistan, but these sheep were not suitable for survival and breeding in Xinjiang, so the farmers crossed the "Waggill sheep" with the local Megeti native sheep in Xinjiang according to their own experience, and coincidentally crossed a very good new breed, which people called "McGetty Daolang Sheep".
Similar in features to the "Waggiir Sheep", the "Daolang Sheep" also has a pair of large ears like banana leaves, a large eagle hook nose, strong bones and limbs, but their coat color is redder than the pure white "Waggill Sheep", and some subspecies of black fluff appear.
After the "Daolang Sheep" was bred and bred, people were pleasantly surprised to find that it had the characteristics of both meat and fat, was tall, and the growth and development speed was much faster than that of the ordinary McGetty earth sheep, and the "Daolang Sheep" was extremely adaptable, not easy to get sick, and the reproduction was very stable. In terms of quality and value, "Daolang sheep" also has a series of advantages of tender and juicy meat, small taste and high double lamb rate, compared with ordinary native sheep, the income from breeding "Daolang sheep" is absolutely multiplied, so soon, "Daolang sheep" has become an excellent livestock breed that is key to protection and vigorous development in Xinjiang region of China.
It is precisely because of the various typical advantages of "Daolang Sheep", so that its price has been high, an ordinary sheep on the market, its price is about a thousand yuan or more, but the price of "Daolang Sheep" has risen, in the case of much higher than the price of ordinary sheep, and even many times there have been speculations.
A few years ago, also in the Xinjiang region, a "Daolang sheep" with excellent body and developed limbs was fired for 14 million yuan, even more expensive than the "Waggill sheep" worth 12 million yuan, and the reason for the owner of the sheep who offered the "Daolang sheep" a sky-high price was also very strange!
According to him, in 2005, he sold the sheep to a friend for 950 yuan. Later, he felt reluctant, plus the appearance of the sheep was longer and more peculiar, so that he realized that the sheep was precious, so two years later, he spent a full 1 million sheep to buy back, and since then, the story about this "knife lang sheep" has been spread by word of mouth, whether true or false, naturally it has laid the foundation for the sky-high price it was speculated. I wonder what your view is on this kind of price speculation?
Xinjiang's "Daolang sheep" hybridized with "Waggill sheep" is of high quality and high price, and was once speculated for 14 million days, so is there any sky-high sheep abroad?
One is the Texel sheep from the United Kingdom, in August 2020, there was a news sensation in the entire sheep breeding circle, in the United Kingdom, there is a Texel sheep, at a price of 267,500 pounds, was successfully auctioned at an auction in Lanark, Scotland, converted into RMB, its value is 3.38 million yuan, which is the real price, compared to the first two kinds of sheep that offer sky-high prices, but in the end were not sold There is a fundamental difference!
Coincidentally, in 2009, the British "Daily Telegraph" also reported on an auction of Texel sheep, when a Texel sheep called "Berfini" was sold for 231,000 pounds, equivalent to about 2.12 million yuan. Why do Texel sheep sell so high? One is because its flesh quality is really excellent, in the Uk it is ranked first excellent breed, and the other is because the breeding method of Texel sheep is very special, it is born using embryo transfer, each of them has the best genes, and its price is of course rising!
In addition to the Texel sheep, there is another breed from the Middle East that has been sold for more than 400,000 yuan, which is the "Damascus sheep" known as the "world's ugliest goat". This kind of sheep has a very peculiar appearance, and when it was a child, it was somewhat similar to the "Waggill sheep" with large ears, most of which were brown-black hairs, and they looked cute and lovely.
But as it grows into adulthood, you will find that it grows longer and more strange, squinting into the dead fish eyes and the towering bridge of the nose, making him look like both a donkey and a camel, in short, there is no place like a sheep, its shape is ugly, even very much like the ugly demigod named "Paine" in Greek mythology!
However, even so, the "Damascus sheep" has an innate advantage in price increases, and like the "Waggill sheep", its stock is now very rare, which of course leads to a rise in its value. It is reported that the most expensive "Damascus sheep" was sold at auction at a high price of 460,000 yuan, and many rich people bought it home, not for food, but as a pet to raise, the so-called "noble among sheep", but so! What do you think of these sheep that are sold at sky-high prices? Think they're really worth that much money?