Chapter 93 Red-tailed Black Chicken (Please collect and recommend)
The day after sowing, the Han tribe returned to their normal life.
The lame man was still firing pottery, and Luo Chong selected a few older children from the new tribesmen to help the lame man. The newly fired pottery should not only be enough for the new tribesmen to use, but also have enough inventory to allow the Han tribe to continue trading with other tribes.
Monkey, Big Mouth, and the two brothers Da Mao and Er Mao were also constantly refining copper. They were 12 years old this year, barely considered adults. Luo Chong also planned to add more copper smelting manpower for them, and he was selecting people these days.
The men of the hunting team now had bows and arrows and bronze javelins, so hunting was no longer a problem. Usually, any prey that was found would be killed, and sometimes the prey could not be eaten on the same day. Because the weather was getting hotter and hotter, they were afraid that the food could not be preserved, so the hunting team had to stop hunting the next day and stay in the tribe.
But a group of people can't just sit there idle, so Luo Chong found other tasks for them. Some people went to the back mountain to collect the thorns of the man-eating tree. One reason was to make more feather arrows. After all, this was a strategic material. In the era of cold weapons, it was equivalent to ammunition and needed a large amount of reserves. Another reason was to plant man-eating trees.
The thorns of the man-eating tree would take root and grow after being taken away by animals. When they grew to three or four centimeters thick, they could be used to make wooden handles for spears. However, all the saplings that could be used to make wooden handles in the back mountain had been collected, so now they could only plant them.
Luo Chong asked them to insert the collected thorns near the stream and water them with the blood and internal organs of fresh fish every day, believing that they would grow quickly.
Another part of the people were arranged to continue cutting trees, leaving the trunks as wood for building things, and drying the branches as firewood.
The rest of the people continued to hunt in the jungle, but their main task was to catch chickens.
Yes, Luo Chong wants to expand the scale of breeding in the Han tribe, and the best project is poultry. First, the Han tribe currently has no poultry. Second, the feathers of poultry can be used to make arrow feathers for bows and arrows, which is also a strategic reserve.
At present, it is not the arrow shaft or the metal arrowhead that affects the Han tribe's arrow making, but the feathers. You can't catch pheasants every time you make arrows. This is too unreliable. Sustainable breeding is the right way.
Luo Chong has seen many birds that can be bred in the woods on the mountain, such as the flightless dodo. This thing is easy to catch, but the meat is not very delicious. However, for primitive people, they will not dislike any meat.
In addition, there are grouse and guinea fowl. There is also a bird that looks like a turkey, which is what Luo Chong cares about the most. This bird is very large, and can reach the height of a person's knees when standing up. It can fly but not fly high, and can only glide at low altitude. Its diet is also very diverse, including fresh grass, wild vegetables, nuts, small berries on bushes, and insects. The eggs it lays are light green, and the size is between duck eggs and goose eggs. Luo Chong named it Red Tailed Black Chicken, which is a very vivid name.
This chicken has a red crown, two drooping red wattles on both sides of its mouth, and no hair on its neck. It looks like a vulture, with black feathers all over its body, but its tail feathers and feathers on its wings are bright red. It will also spread its tail like a peacock, but its tail feathers are not as big as a peacock, only about 20 cm long, which is particularly suitable for arrow feathers, and the meat is delicious, with a lot of meat, and it is not picky about food, which is very suitable for artificial breeding.
This is the main species that Luo Chong is going to raise. In order to catch them, Luo Chong also asked the women to weave a round net with the bark peeled off the arrow shaft, and tied some small stones around it as counterweights. When they saw this kind of chicken, they would directly cast the net to cover them, greatly increasing the probability of catching them.
In addition, a new home was prepared for these red-tailed black chickens. Luo Chong marked out a place next to the rabbit pen. He first built a row of chicken nests with bricks, sticks and thatch, and used branches to make a one-person-high and dense fence on the periphery. There was no cap on the top, because the feathers and tail feathers of the chickens would be plucked first, so that they could not fly.
For the time being, they collected wild vegetables and grass to feed them. There are not many chickens now, only less than 20, and the demand for feed is not very large. At present, children are collecting feed. The activity range is in the grassland west of the tribe. Luo Chong scattered a lot of grass seeds here. Now the alfalfa and ryegrass have grown tall, just right for feeding chickens and rabbits.
On the third day after sowing, the two old men, the Rat Wizard and the Elder, were talking excitedly in the morning. Old people always sleep less, and the two old men got up so early.
Luo Chong went out of the wall and was about to go to the artificial river to wash up. Before he got there, the Elder and the Rat Wizard shouted to Luo Chong: "Chief, come and see, the rice you said has grown."
"Rice has grown? Really?"
Luo Chong, who was still a little confused, suddenly became energetic and ran towards the rice field. He saw many tender green heads popping out of the seedling field, and the seeds sprouted and broke through the soil.
"Good, good, good, it really grew, I can eat rice again." Luo Chong looked at the seedlings in the rice field and said with a choked voice.
"Chief, what's wrong with you?" The elder asked curiously when he saw Luo Chong was about to cry.
"Ah? No, it's okay, I'm happy. By the way, you two go and tell all the tribesmen not to walk through the fields. Anyone who tramples on the seedlings will be punished by not being allowed to eat for a day. Let the children keep an eye on the animals and wolf cubs and don't come to the fields. Anyone who commits this will be starved for a day. Anyone who dares to destroy the food will be punished by having his food. Tell all the tribesmen." Luo Chong calmed down and turned to the two old men to make arrangements.
"Well, we'll tell everyone when we have breakfast later." The elder nodded.
"Chief, how about we use branches to build a fence around here?" The Rat Witch suggested.
"No, that would be a waste of manpower and time. Just tell everyone my ban." Luo Chong waved his hand to express his disagreement.
In this way, the tribesmen heard the ban set by the leader while eating breakfast, and they did not object. Everyone knew that it was food, and they could not protect it in time, so why would they destroy it.
Don't underestimate the obsession of these primitive people with food. In the past, they were often hungry. It was only after Luo Chong became the leader that life became better. If they saw modern people wasting food like this, they would definitely be beaten to death by them. Let's see who dares not to eat up the rice in the bowl.
On the seventh day, peanuts and peppers also sprouted and broke through the soil. At this time, the rice had grown its first leaf. The field was green and full of vigorous life.
There were already more than 30 red-tailed black chickens in the chicken coop, and the rabbits were about to give birth. Luo Chong looked at the livestock in the pen and thought of the four-wheeled cart that had not yet been built.
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