Chapter 255 Primitive Beast World Cubs 29

Before raising chickens, all these preparations must be done, and now a feeding trough and a water trough are also needed.

Shen Ci simply cut two thick bamboo tubes, split them in half, and polished them smooth to make chicken feeders and water troughs.

A fully functional primitive chicken coop is finally finished!

Time flies by here; there's always so much work to do.

But doing these tasks is surprisingly exciting and gives me a great sense of accomplishment, as if I'm gradually building and perfecting this home.

I wish I could transform into an infrastructure construction maniac and live that leisurely life of picking chrysanthemums by the eastern fence and gazing at the southern mountains.

Everything is ready except for the final touch. The chicken coop is all set up, and now all that's left is to catch the chickens. Once you catch them, you'll get feed as a system reward.

The mother and son, carrying fishing nets and vines, arrived at a thicket where pheasants often appeared.

Pheasants are very alert animals; they will run away at the slightest sound.

Shen Ci and Cangye worked together. Cangye used his speed and agility to drive the pheasants away from one side, while Shen Ci seized the opportunity to use a fishing net to trap the startled pheasants.

The wolf cub could chase pheasants directly, but he would easily kill them. This time, what's needed are live, raiseable chickens.

"Mother! Over there! Another one has flown up!"

Cang Ye shouted in a low voice, while simultaneously flanking from another direction.

"I saw it!"

With quick eyes and hands, Shen Ci cast his fishing net and successfully caught a brightly colored male pheasant.

The process was not easy. The pheasants flew fast and hid cleverly. It took them most of the day to catch ten pheasants, both male and female.

Fortunately, the area around this initial birthplace is rich in natural resources, and pheasants are not uncommon.

However, wild pheasants are not domesticated, and they will still run away when caught. We need to realize the domestication plan for second-generation and third-generation pheasants as soon as possible.

To prevent the pheasants from flying away, Shen Ci decided to modify them.

She asked Cangye to help catch the chickens, while she carefully took a kitchen knife and chopped off the feathers on each side of the chicken's wings.

There are some things to be careful about when clipping chicken wings. If you clip too little, the chicken may fly away and you may hurt it if you clip too much. You need to pay attention to the position of the quill and avoid the blood vessels in the quill.

Fortunately, Shen Ci had raised parrots before and knew how to find a spot.

The areas in the middle of a feather without nerves will not feel pain.

"That way they can't fly very high, but they won't feel pain."

These places are all hollow, so even if you cut them, it won't hurt.

As she worked, she explained to Cangye, who was watching nervously, that the child would only bite the chicken's neck off in one go, and had never treated a chicken so carefully before.

Then, the flexible bark fibers are twisted into thin ropes to completely prevent the pheasants from escaping.

In addition to cutting off the chickens' wings, long ropes are tied to one leg of each chicken.

The other end of the rope is fixed to a tree in the center of the chicken coop. This allows the chickens to move freely and forage within a certain range, while preventing them from running away or flying away.

The ten pheasants, both male and female, have temporarily lost their ability to fly.

After being tied up, it paced back and forth in the chicken coop.

Shen Ci didn't feed them immediately, so the pheasants could only peck at grass seeds and insects on the ground.

"Ding-dong!"

Poultry training mission accomplished!

Salvage value +15%.

Current rescue value: 75%.

The reward has been issued.

"Alright, they'll live here from now on."

Remember to feed and water them every day, and clean the chicken coop. They're now our new family members.

Cang Ye nodded seriously, looking at the group of brightly colored pheasants. He never thought he could catch them and lock them up.

In the past, if the villagers caught a chicken, they would just kill it. But what my mother did—catching it, locking it up, and eating it when she wanted to—should be better, right?

He knew that if he took good care of them, his family would have a constant supply of delicious eggs.

According to the mother's description, as long as these chickens are taken good care of, there will be an endless supply of chickens to eat!

First, he piled the feed in the corner and stored it properly. Then, Shen Ci looked at the poultry raising manual, which introduced more than just chickens.

It's not just a simple booklet, but a thick book.

There are people raising chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, pigs, geese, dogs...

The variety is very rich, and the descriptions are very comprehensive, including how to tame them, what they eat, what diseases they might get, and how to treat them. All of these are described in great detail.

This booklet is very valuable; it will allow me to raise more poultry in the future.

The pheasants were in the coop. They had just been caught and were still wild and untamed. They jumped around in the coop, flapping their wings from time to time.

No matter how much they struggle or jump around, they can't escape from here.

Pheasants have bright and colorful feathers, but they are also timid. Shen Ci used the pheasant feathers she cut off to make two shuttlecocks for the wolf cubs.

Since there were no copper coins, she made one out of bamboo and wood, which worked similarly to a shuttlecock. The little wolf cub had never known that toys existed in the world.

After Shen Ci played with him for a while, he excitedly picked up the shuttlecock and started playing with it by himself.

There are ten chickens in the coop, both roosters and hens. I believe that with enough food, it won't be long before they start laying eggs.

There are cows in the cattle pen. The cows are much more docile now. Don't underestimate Bighorn just because it's a calf now. As it grows up, it will be useful in many ways.

However, that's not enough.

Next, they had to wait for the fertilizer to ferment. Every day, they would pick up all the grass roots in the cultivated land to make sure nothing was missed. In the end, Shen Ci made a rake.

This tool is very easy to make; the main material you need is a bamboo pole.

The bamboo pole should be about the thickness that one hand can hold. One end of the bamboo pole should be split open, then heated with fire until it softens, and then twisted into the shape of five fingers.

It's like making a bionic hand out of bamboo. Of course, this rake has more than five fingers; you can make as many as you want.

If that's all, it's not precise enough. Without a properly secured rake, it will wobble when used. So you still need to use thin bamboo strips to fix the rake at the hand position.

For horizontal weaving, you can simply use an alternating up-and-down weaving technique.

Making this thing is not difficult at all, so Shen Ci made two, one big and one small. It was not to exploit child labor, but to let the children participate in the work.

Since there's no need to go to school in this primitive society, the only option is to learn more survival skills.

With a rake in hand, a quick dig in the soil will unearth grass and tree roots that are usually overlooked.

A rake has many uses. If you raise pigs in the future, you can use it to go up the mountain and collect the dried fallen leaves, then spread them in the pigpen to make it much drier.

These fallen leaves, after being processed by pigs, will become farmyard manure.