I originally thought that whether it was possible to raise a mixture of domestic animals and wild animals would only be known after the domestic animals gave birth to their cubs.
As a result, the next day, Ruya came and knocked on the door again.
Meng Yuqing opened the door to the courtyard and looked at Ruya and asked, "What's wrong?"
"A bleating beast has given birth," Ruya said with an exaggerated expression. "It looks different from the other bleating beasts. In some ways, it resembles the horned beast we caught yesterday."
"It gave birth so soon?" Meng Yuqing was stunned and didn't react for a moment. "We just caught a wild beast to mate with our livestock yesterday, and today our livestock gave birth?"
"No, it's the baa beast that got pregnant last year." Ruya pulled Meng Yuqing out.
Seeing this, Xuan took two pancakes and followed over. Meng Yuqing had just gotten up and hadn't eaten yet.
"Last year? Our livestock were secretly colluding with wild beasts last year!?" Meng Yuqing was shocked. The farm had always been guarded by orcs. Although most of them were young orcs, there were also adult orcs.
There are sometimes seven or eight adult orcs, and sometimes only three or four.
How come wild animals sneak in and kill livestock?
"I'm not sure about that." Ruya shook his head. He was only responsible for delivering pig food occasionally, and he was not specifically responsible for guarding there.
The three of them came to the farm. The sheep that had just given birth were in the shed, and the beastmen didn't dare to get too close for fear of scaring them.
Meng Yuqing pulled Ruya closer to the shed. The ewe was lying on the hay, and the lamb was lying quietly beside her.
Meng Yuqing took a look at the newborn lamb. At first glance, it looked no different from an ordinary lamb, but its limbs were obviously thicker than those of an ordinary lamb.
A fourteen-year-old orc walked up to Meng Yuqing, pointed at the lamb, and said, "This is it."
As he spoke, he revealed a puzzled expression. "I don't know when the beast mated with this bleating beast. We didn't notice anything last year, and there was no chaos among the bleating beasts."
An adult beastman who often guards the breeding area also said, "If the beasts came in, they would definitely not be able to hide it from us. We have no idea how they are together."
Meng Yuqing didn't dwell on how the beast had managed to sneak in without being noticed by the orcs. He was more concerned about the little beast's situation. "When did this bleating beast give birth? Do you know?"
"Anyway, it was before the autumn hunt. Several of them were already pregnant then, but the others had already given birth a month ago. They were normal bleating beasts, but this one has been delayed until now," said the fourteen-year-old orc.
"That means the pregnancy will last another month." Meng Yuqing nodded, then continued, "Anyway, keep a close eye on the little cub during this time. Stick to the original plan, and if we can keep it alive, we'll expand the scale."
With Meng Yuqing's words, the little beastmen no longer worried about how the sheep became pregnant with the beast cub.
However, the adult beasts did not want to let it go. Under their supervision, wild beasts were allowed to sneak into the breeding area and even mate with livestock. To put it mildly, this was due to their lack of ability, and to put it more seriously, it was their dereliction of duty.
They must find out the reason. This time a harmless beast sneaked in, but what if next time a powerful one sneaks in and hurts someone?
Although the expressions of the orcs guarding the breeding area remained unchanged, it was obvious that they had already started a fight with these beasts in their hearts.
While Meng Yuqing and Ruya were looking at the lamb, Xuan was also outside chatting about this matter with the orcs in the breeding area.
He didn't think that the orcs in the breeding area were lazy, he thought that there might be loopholes in the management of the breeding area.
Sure enough, after a few days, these orcs found the reason.
"What's the reason?" Meng Yuqing asked impatiently as he pulled Xuan to the breeding area.
"Today we saw a bleating beast suddenly leave the herd in an abnormal manner, so we followed it. We found that the bleating beast kept walking out and even reached the edge of the breeding area. Just when we wanted to catch it back, we saw this spiral-horned beast appear, and then they mated, and we caught them on the spot." said an adult orc.
Because of the birth of the lamb, they had to watch over the flock extra strictly. So when they found a ewe walking out abnormally, they immediately assigned one person to follow it.
"So you suspect that the baa-baa beast that gave birth to wild beast cubs also ran away like this?" Meng Yuqing asked.
"It's not suspicion, it's certainty," the adult orc explained. "Because a young orc said that for a period of time last year, the bleating beast did often leave the herd. At first, it was only for a short while and would return quickly. Later, although the absences became longer, it always returned safely. Plus, at that time, the temporary tribe members hadn't arrived to help, and everyone was a little busy, so they didn't take it seriously. Later, after the bleating beast had its cub, it became more and more obedient and stopped wandering around, so no one paid any attention to it."
They said, how could wild animals sneak in and mate without being discovered? A few days ago, the wild animals entered the breeding area and were discovered by them not long after.
They saw that these beasts were non-threatening and showed no intention of attacking livestock, so they did not drive them away immediately. Instead, they wanted to see what these beasts were trying to do. By the way, they called some little orcs over to let them practice.
As they watched the movements of the beasts, they saw a live version of the wild beasts and domestic animals.
The beasts worked so quickly that before they could react, they were done and looked like they didn't want to leave.
It seems that they are preparing to establish a population in the breeding area.
So the beastmen didn't wait for the little beastmen to come over, but directly captured the wild beasts and locked up the livestock that had mated with the wild beasts separately.
When they carefully checked the situation of these wild animals, they found that there was actually a wild animal that could give birth and came to them looking for male livestock.
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