I want to buy A Niu Gengdi. I don't know if it's a ox or a buffalo.

I have raised both kinds of cattle, so I know them better. When my father was in the production team, there were four cows, two buffaloes and two scalpers on the team, and all of them were cows, because bulls loved fighting and couldn't pull away, especially buffaloes. Because of different needs, we must raise two kinds of cattle, and we must raise more than four. Later, the production team gradually entered mechanization, and the frequency of using cows was very small, but the production team still left all four cows.

Slowly, everyone in the production team retired, and my father was the last one to retire. According to the regulations, all items of the production team should be returned to the unit. Of course, cows are no exception. According to the situation at that time, it was estimated that three cows would be sold to slaughterhouses (one buffalo died). My father was reluctant to part with a few cows and spent 6000 yuan to buy them all (the price given by the unit to take care of the old workers).

When my father couldn't afford to be idle after retirement, he rented 40 mu of land from the unit and planted corn, vegetables, rice and other crops himself. At this time, I began to help my father work in the fields. Because I have never done farm work, I basically do light work such as herding cattle and feeding them.

Only then did I realize the difference between these two kinds of cattle. In fact, cows basically don't work like this, because the agricultural machinery of the production team was rusted in the warehouse of the unit at that time, and my father borrowed it from the unit. )

Let's talk about buffalo first! Buffalo is big and strong, suitable for deep ploughing. Even if 10 mu of land is continuously ploughed, buffaloes will have no problem. If cattle are cultivated continuously, it is estimated that 3.4 mu of land will be tired. Of course, buffaloes also eat a lot and are very afraid of the heat. To this end, my father specially dug a small pond for the buffalo to bathe in. However, buffaloes are docile and have no problem riding. Later, the buffalo also gave birth to calves, and every time the buffalo saw me, it jumped over and rubbed me.

Speaking of scalpers, scalpers are not as troublesome as buffaloes. You don't have to dig a pond to bathe them. Just tie them directly under the tree in hot weather. Moreover, my scalpers eat less, and two scalpers are estimated to be equivalent to a buffalo. However, scalpers are neurotic, and they don't know where to go if they don't pay attention. Unlike buffaloes, the range of activities is not too large and it is easy to find. In addition, the speed of raising cattle is much faster than that of buffaloes, and buffaloes basically maintain a speed no matter what land they plant. But cows are suitable for shallow tillage, and deep ploughing can't pull buffaloes.

So what kind of cattle you want depends on your needs. Like our Guangdong area, there are basically many buffaloes, and there should be many scalpers in the north!