96. Calcium supplement
It is common sense that turtles can swim.
But what is not common sense is that not all turtles can swim. When you hear the name of tortoise, you will know that they are not good at water. Most turtles are land ducks.
Leopard-print tortoises are alternative. They can store some air in their lungs, so that after entering the water, they will float on the water and go with the flow. Occasionally, some old turtles touch the swimming doorway and they will use their limbs to pull them twice when drifting, which is often good.
This small river winds for dozens of kilometers and eventually flows into other rivers and flows into the wetlands. So if the leopard-print tortoises drift along the river, they will eventually go to heaven.
He quickly caught the turtle that had entered the water first, and then quickly went back to find a gauze net to intercept it on the river, so that they could not leave their territory.
All of them were bought with money!
Bought with money!
During the process of cleaning up the leopard tortoises, he found that the turtle group had grown in size overall. This was not what he expected. Healthy leopard tortoises have a good appetite and a large appetite. The grass buds and leaves around the river are abundant, so their growth rate must be very rapid.
However, grass leaves lack calcium, and tortoises mainly grow shells, and calcium is very important. Yang Shubao has discovered that some small tortoise shells grow tall, like living pyramids.
This is not possible, he has to supplement calcium for the turtles.
You can feed calcium tablets to supplement calcium because they don’t need much, and it’s easy to control. Calcium tablets have no effect on tortoises. First, they need a lot of calcium during their growth period, and second, Yang Shubao raises many turtles, so he cannot feed calcium tablets one by one.
So he thought about it, he had to make some stones by the river, such as limestone, calcite, dolomite, and marble, and leopard tortoises would take the initiative to gnaw the stones.
It is not difficult to find stones, especially the southwest of his territory, which are the tentacles of the Longshan Mountains.
The Longshan Mountains, also known as the Drakens Mountains, are famous mountains in Africa. They start to brew near the Tropic of Cancer in eastern South Africa and extend to the southeast of the Eastern Cape Province. They are slightly arc-shaped and stretch for about 1,200 kilometers, which is very spectacular.
The terrain on Yang Shubao is mainly grasslands and desert grasslands. The mountains undulating on the ground are often very small. They can only be called hills, and strictly speaking, they are not part of the Longshan Mountains.
But the hills are also mountains, just have stones.
After hanging the gauze net, Yang Shubao went to Nicole and asked, "Hi, beautiful girl, where did you buy the iron gauze net here?"
Nicole nodded and said, "You do need some protective equipment. I heard about you. Are those guys from Iron Beasts targeting you, right?"
Uncle Yang wondered: "How do you know?"
"you guess?"
"What Richard's big mouth told you?"
"I guessed wrong."
Uncle Yang was even more puzzled: "To my surprise, it wasn't something Richard told me?"
Nicole couldn't help laughing: "It was indeed Richard's report, but I knew it from Ellier. He told Ellier, and Ellier told me again."
Ellier is the owner of a small town supermarket and also a goblin.
Seeing Uncle Yang showing an angry expression, Nicole turned her head and pointed at the refrigerator and shouted, "Jiajin, go get a bottle of iced tea."
The big golden retriever who was lying on the ground playing with the ball immediately got up. It wagged its tail and bit the handle of the refrigerator door to pull it open, then ran back with a pack of yogurt in his mouth.
Uncle Yang picked it with his toes: "Why are you stupid? What you want is iced tea, tea, not yogurt!"
Joaquin silly and laughed, continuing to wag his tail.
Nicole gave it a pampered smile and said, "It's not stupid, it wants to drink yogurt."
As she opened her milk bag, the big golden retriever jumped excitedly.
"Go and get iced tea first, that's the tea." Nicole showed it the plastic bottle in front of her, "Go and take it for me, and then you can drink yogurt."
She took the opportunity to hand the bottle to Yang Shubao: "This is Nicole brand iced tea. The bottle I bought and cooked myself, the tea I cooked myself is very good."
Uncle Yang exclaimed: "You are so clever."
Nicole loved to listen to good things, and she was so happy that she lost her eyes. She shook her head at the old hero who was pruning flowers next to her.
This time, the Big Golden Retriever made a precise positioning, and it took out a bottle of iced tea from the refrigerator.
Uncle Yang was shocked: "It's smarter than I know."
He became alert and had to go back and tell John that he should not make animals too smart, that chickens are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.
Nicole didn't think much about it. She poured yogurt into the rice bowl of the big golden retriever and said, "Of course it's very smart. I posted a video of it on FB, and many people came to like it. But there are even smarter ones. There is a border herder in Russia who can actually do arithmetic, and a golden retriever in Brazil who can draw. Of course, Joaquin is the most charming one."
When Yang Shubao heard this, he felt relieved. The golden retriever seemed to be smart.
Nicole helped him contact the gauze net. Yang Shubao chose polyethyl material. The iron gauze net is not waterproof. The polyethyl gauze net is not as strong as the iron gauze net, but the advantage is waterproof.
Yang Shubao asked again: "If I want to go to the mountains southwest, are there any small roads nearby? I think it will be farther around the main road."
Nicole took his hand and said, "Come with me, I'll tell you."
The soft and warm little hand suddenly held his big hand, and Yang Shubao's heartbeat accelerated.
A rough man, understandable.
The old hero's face became unfair and pointed the scissors at Lao Yang.
Nicole pulled him out and let go of his fingers to the southwest: "You can see an intersection there after driving for a while. Follow this intersection to the west for a meeting to reach the town of Nongoma. Then you drive southward and it is at the foot of a mountain. Do you want to climb a mountain?"
Yang Shubao's attention had shifted. He looked at the girl's hand and said casually: "Oh, no, I want to make some stones, granite, limestone and the like."
Nicole turned her hand back and said, "You need a little stone and then decide to go to the mountain to find it? No, we are not a siege here, there are stones in the town."
Yang Shubao said: "I need calcium-rich stones. You may not know that there are some leopard-print tortoises in my territory, and they need calcium supplementation."
"Then you should need Odova." Nicole nodded seriously.
"Odova?"
Nicole nodded again and confirmed: "Yes, Odova, Kenyans like to call them that, and many women there like to eat Odova. This soft stone should not enter the stomach, but it is really rich in calcium and should be very suitable for supplementing calcium to the turtle."
Uncle Yang suddenly became interested: "Where should I find or buy this?"
Nicole said: "You are lucky. There are such stones when the Tail River enters Lake St. Lucia, but there shouldn't be too many. Odova can be used as a commodity. Someone used to mine it here and then send it to Kenya for sale."
After receiving these answers, Yang Shubao was very grateful. He smiled dryly and said, "I still have a question, where is the interface between Tail River and Lake St. Lucia?"
Nicole said, "You have to drive south first, leave the second intersection of the town and turn southeast. At this time, pay attention to the woods on the roadside. There is a path next to the third forest... Forget it, it's a bit difficult to explain. Why don't I ask Mr. Xiake to take you there."
The old man's voice rang out from inside the house: "No, I have no time."
Nicole shrugged and said, "Okay, that's all I can take you there."
Chapter completed!