Chapter 44 Breeding Plan
If you want to raise wild rabbits, it is actually best to directly set up a breeding ground.
Of course, they don’t have the energy for that now, so they can just make a rabbit cage to keep the rabbits alive.
Considering the sharp teeth of hares, if you make a cage with bark ropes or straw ropes, the hare will be able to chew through the cage and escape if you are not careful overnight.
To do this, we must use stronger materials that are not easily chewed by them.
All that can be found now are wooden boards.
After all, the Black Moon Tribe used to be rich in "large shield soldiers".
Although Zhou Xu now also got the other party's true words, he did not intend to copy the other party's tactics completely.
The tactics of the former leader of the Black Moon Tribe, to put it simply, was to let all the tribal warriors hold up large shields to protect themselves, forming an iron barrel defense around themselves, and then let themselves be the core and the main C.
But the problem is that he can't be the main C with the ability of "Skeleton Control".
He can play a supporting and consuming role, but he lacks the ability to dominate the battle and determine the outcome at the critical moment, and he cannot set the pace at all.
At the beginning of the game, there is absolutely no problem in placing skeleton soldiers to consume the opponent.
But the other party is not stupid, it is impossible for him to let you consume himself to death.
The strength of the skeleton soldiers themselves is too low. If the enemy launches a surprise attack, what can a dozen skeletons do? Even if there are double the number of skeletons, more than 30 skeletons will not be able to withstand it.
Considering the current size of the tribe, Zhou Xu estimated that there would be at least fifty of them, and if a qualitative change was to occur, it would probably require more than a hundred.
This requires a prerequisite, that is, there are only more than 30 people in the opposing tribe.
Following this line of thought, facing the consumption of the skeleton soldiers, once the opponent launches a surprise attack, it will be difficult to catch up due to the speed of the skeleton soldiers.
At that time, it would form an awkward situation where the big shield soldiers would face the enemy soldiers alone. The advantages of the skeleton soldiers would be nowhere to be used.
And the heavy soldiers holding large shields, such as the Great Shield Soldiers, simply have no advantage in a melee of this scale.
According to Zhou Xu's idea, it would be a waste to have a bunch of big shield soldiers and use this defensive tactic.
In his tactics, he will not completely eliminate this type of soldier, but he definitely does not need that many of them either.
He now dismantled these ready-made large shields into wooden boards to make cages for raising rabbits.
Considering that wild rabbits are now an important food resource, they must be raised in the tribe. After finding a suitable location, Zhou Xu took a branch, drew a rectangle on the ground, and then called a tribal member.
"Come here and dig away the soil on top of the piece I drew. You don't need to dig deep, just one layer will do."
After giving the order, Zhou Xu turned around and started to dismantle the wooden boards. After all, he was the only one who knew how to build the rabbit cage, and the most others could do was to help him with some physical work.
Considering that the number of captive rabbits will definitely increase in the future, he also made this area relatively large.
However, Zhou Xu only asked him to dig away the surface layer of soil, so the overall efficiency was still relatively high.
"Chief, I have dug it."
After hearing the report, Zhou Xu, who was fiddling with the wooden board at the time, looked up.
"Very good, then you spread the gravel over the area where the soil was dug out."
Needless to say, Zhou Xu was planning to lay a stone floor for the rabbit cage, because his current idea was to directly insert these suitable wooden boards around at a certain distance to form a rabbit cage.
The biggest advantage of doing this is that it is convenient, simple and saves time. The only potential risk is that there is soil under the cage.
Rabbits can also dig holes, so there's no guarantee that they won't dig a hole to escape, or dig up the soil and cause the board to fall down. In order to avoid these situations, Zhou Xu's approach has been very clear.
You can't dig the stone anymore, right?
Inside the camp, there were a lot of extra gravel from polishing stone tools, and now they were just the right size to be laid there.
Then, put the wooden boards around it and a simple rabbit cage was soon completed.
Without further ado, Zhou Xu quickly threw the first 'resident' in.
After that, this "roof" certainly cannot be kept open all the time. He is not afraid that the hare inside may jump out. The height is almost as high as a person, and it is not easy for it to jump out.
He was mainly afraid that some birds of prey on the grassland would attack the rabbit.
In the past, wild rabbits hid in the grass and rabbit holes, and it took a lot of effort for birds of prey to catch them. Now he can keep the wild rabbits in this rabbit cage outdoors.
Then I'm afraid that all kinds of birds of prey will line up every day to come to his place to punch in and eat...
So this rabbit cage must be covered! It doesn't take too much effort, just take three door panels and cover it, and it's basically done.
Of course, after making the rabbit cage, Zhou Xu did not forget to get some food for the rabbit.
Now the question is, what should I feed my rabbits? I believe most people's first reaction is carrots and vegetables.
The answer is totally wrong! Rabbits cannot eat this kind of food with too high water content as their staple food. If they eat too much, they will have diarrhea or even die from it...
They are herbivores, they eat grass, and they have to eat hay, usually timothy grass as their staple food.
As for why Zhou Xu knows so much.
Because he had always wanted to have a pet, he researched almost all the pets available on the market, including rabbits.
At this time, Zhou Xu decided to raise rabbits in this primitive world, undoubtedly taking this into consideration.
Rabbits can survive by eating hay, and the hay that rabbits can eat is everywhere near the rabbit hutches. Raising rabbits will not put much food pressure on their tribe.
Under this premise, rabbits are very fertile. In the past, a certain country had experienced an overabundance of rabbits. Raising them is not difficult. Once they are successfully raised and form a certain scale, their tribe will be able to obtain a stable source of meat! In this way, after comprehensive consideration, this is undoubtedly the most cost-effective option at present.
I threw the hay I had picked on my way back directly into the newly made rabbit cage, but the rabbit did not immediately pounce on it to eat it.
Come to think of it, rabbits are usually timid, even to the point of being scared to death.
From the time it was caught by them to now when it is locked in this rabbit cage, the rabbit must be extremely scared. It is normal for it not to eat under such stress. We can just leave it there for now.
He didn't have time to stare at the rabbit here; he had to go back to the Salt Lake Camp later.
Since arriving at the Black Moon Camp, he has not returned to the Salt Lake Camp.
Although considering the geographical location, the development focus of their tribe will be shifted to the Black Moon Camp in the future, but he certainly cannot give up the Salt Lake Camp which has two major resources: coal mines and salt.
To do this, he had to go back quickly and make some arrangements.
(End of this chapter)
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