Chapter 156: Herd Animals
"Chief, what should we do now? Should we capture all four bison?"
This situation made Ye Jinghong undecided for a moment.
Having experienced the previous operation, they knew how tiring the return trip would be. They had been dragging two calves and an adult bison, and they felt like they were almost dying of exhaustion on the way.
This is only the second trip, and they have suddenly replaced it with four adult bison.
They really couldn't imagine how tiring it would be.
But now that they have been caught, it would be a bit unwilling for you to let them go.
Sweeping his eyes over the crowd, Zhou Xu could sense that everyone was thinking the same thing.
In fact, he is a little bit like that.
Under this premise, he hopes to let his tribe use ox carts before autumn. Considering the time, he has to speed up.
"Catch them all back!"
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu divided the skeleton soldiers into four groups while giving orders, and sent them to consume the physical strength of the four bison respectively.
Compared with the previous time, this step will undoubtedly take more time.
After all, the physical strength of four adult bison is not so easy to consume.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Xu changed his mind and changed the configuration.
As for the other three adult bison, he first sent five skeleton soldiers to each of them to slowly consume their physical strength, and the remaining skeleton soldiers all rushed towards one adult bison.
The purpose is to consume the physical strength of one of the adult bison more quickly and allow it to enter the next stage first.
In this way, the time for each stage can be separated, which can indirectly improve their efficiency and reduce their pressure.
After the target's physical strength is almost exhausted, there is nothing much to say about the rest of the process.
This wave took them more time.
Because they had a good rest before arriving at their destination, they actually discovered the herd of bison in the morning.
By the time they had initially subdued the four adult bison, it was almost dark.
But they obviously can't just rest like this.
The sufficient rest before was for the purpose of traveling all night now.
The four adult bison made their journey more tiring, but Zhou Xu's psychological pressure was not great.
Because he had seen with his own eyes that saber-toothed tiger killed a bison.
In other words, the other party has obtained enough food and does not need to come out to hunt in the short term.
Without this threat, Zhou Xu was not particularly worried about the other wild beasts.
This time, when they returned to the grassland camp, it was already midnight, but just like before, it was the patrol team who found them and picked them up.
When I woke up, it was dawn outside the tent.
It’s not that he woke up early, but that he slept for a whole day and night, and it’s already the next morning.
After finishing breakfast, Zhou Xu walked slowly to the cattle farm.
The breeders from the Ministry of Agriculture who were responsible for taming the bison had arrived earlier than him, and now had baskets full of fodder placed in front of the bison.
Needless to say, the first three bison they captured didn't care about the presence of the keepers at all. As soon as the grass was served, they couldn't wait to eat it.
This effect is inseparable from the strategy Zhou Xu taught to the breeders, which is not to let them eat too much and to keep their desire for food at all times.
But what surprised the keepers was that after the three bison started to eat, the other four bison also slowly walked towards the hay baskets placed in front of them.
The fact that the four new bison could attain enlightenment so quickly was completely beyond the expectations of the keepers. Zhou Xu, who happened to come over and see this scene, had some ideas in his mind.
Cows are social animals, and most social animals have a herd mentality.
When I first came, I was nervous and scared, and was very wary of them, so it was normal for them not to eat.
But after a while, their emotions calmed down a little, and they started to feel hungry. When they saw their three fellows busy eating, they were easily motivated.
This is undoubtedly a good thing for Zhou Xu and others.
Can greatly shorten their domestication time.
Among them, in the case of the two young bison, the keepers had already stood directly in front of them, but the two young bison were still only concerned with eating and ignored them at all.
Seeing this, Zhou Xu gave new instructions after breakfast.
Originally, the bison here did not have lunch, and they only ate grass in the morning and evening. This was to keep them motivated to eat and make it easier for them to domesticate them.
But today, due to changes in the domestication plan, they are naturally given this meal.
However, this lunch is different from their original breakfast and dinner.
For this lunch, the keepers have to hold the grass in their hands and feed it to the bison! Simply put, it is to get closer to the bison and establish a certain degree of trust with them.
They had never done this before, so they were a little nervous.
For safety reasons, Zhou Xu asked them to feed the two bison calves first so that even if an unexpected situation occurred, they would be able to control it in time.
The whole process went much smoother than they expected.
The two bison cubs were still young, and after the initial period, their heartless nature was quickly exposed.
Looking at the fodder in the breeders' hands, they hesitated for a moment and then quickly started eating again. After all, they didn't eat enough in the morning.
During this time, the mother bison also came over, obviously wanting to have a bite, but due to the length of the rope, she couldn't get close at all.
But the keepers were not stupid. When they saw that the mother bison wanted to eat, they immediately took another handful of grass and started feeding her.
As for the four new ones, they were not able to do that at the moment and were hiding in the distance, mooing the whole time.
Although they could not understand cattle language, they could probably understand what the four bison meant. To put it bluntly, they were also hungry and wanted to eat, but they didn't want to get close.
The breeders simply ignored this, as they had now mastered their leader's training ideas quite well.
After some hand feeding, the distance between them and the three bison was invisibly shortened a lot.
After hand-feeding the bison several times, Zhou Xu signaled the keepers to start touching the bison during the feeding process, and later to touch them even when not feeding.
Once all these can be done smoothly, trust will be established.
The bison can now officially begin their work training.
In this way, in the following period of time, Zhou Xu and his team were busy catching bison back to the camp, and the breeders were busy taming the bison. Their days were busy and peaceful.
On the other hand, their allies, the Centaurs, are also very busy every day, except that they are busy hunting hyenas! (End of this chapter)
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