Chapter 256 Primitive Beast World Cubs 30
While waiting for the compost to ferment, Shen Ci started busying herself with other things.
We need to cut down trees every day, select trees of suitable thickness, and also bamboo, as we urgently need these building materials for our home.
Fortunately, the forest wasn't far from my home, and having a basket made transportation convenient.
After inspecting the timber and bamboo, Shen Ci began to plan the next step of the breeding program. There were enough chickens for now; ten chickens were neither too many nor too few, and these were all grown chickens.
Even if there are some losses along the way, the remaining chickens can still lay eggs, and once the second generation of chickens is born, they will be much easier to tame.
Next step: raising sheep!
There are many benefits to raising sheep. The meat is delicious, lambs can be used to make lamb chops, and older sheep can be used to make soup. Most importantly, sheep have wool, which is a valuable resource.
With wool, you can make clothes, quilts, sheets, and everything else you can make. Raising sheep is essential!
Of course, it also depends on what specific animals you can catch and what you can keep as pets. You can keep whatever you catch, but the prerequisite is to build the enclosure first.
Sheep pens and cattle pens are actually quite similar, but sheep have a better jumping ability, so sheep pens should be higher and preferably have sharp fences to prevent the sheep from running out.
Raising sheep also requires protecting them from wolves and wild animals, and of course, cattle also need to be protected.
Therefore, it would be best to create a larger protected area for the livestock breeding area.
Sheep and cows are both quite strong, so the outermost part of the sheepfold is made of wooden sticks instead of bamboo poles.
Now, the ground is divided into areas for raising sheep, then holes are dug to bury the pillars, and then the logs are buried one by one, which feels a bit like Robinson Crusoe.
The main fence branches are made of thick wood, while the middle is made of thinner wood. Where there is not enough wood, stones are directly brought from the riverbank to build the wall.
What if you can't move the stone and put it in the basket?
Don't panic, Shen Ci has a solution!
Since it won't fit, why not try the opposite approach? Simply place the basket directly over the stone you want and press it down hard, forcing the stone into the basket.
After returning home with a basket full of stones, if you want to take out such large stones, you only need to turn the basket upside down, reach out your hand, and think about what you want to take.
Then, quickly pull your hand back before the item falls to the ground. This will trigger a bug, allowing you to easily move the stone out.
This is much more convenient than cutting down trees to build a sheepfold yourself; you just need to wander around and look for stones.
Furthermore, the stones that Shen Ci was carrying were all very large, the kind that one person couldn't lift at all, so the lambs wouldn't be able to break through them.
External dangers should not be allowed to enter easily. Add another layer of fence outside the stones. The stones will prevent the sheep from bumping into them, and the fence will prevent them from jumping out. This two-pronged approach will prevent the sheep from getting out.
Half a circle of stones crashed down with a bang. In this world, there's never a shortage of stones; you can have as many as you want, and as big as you want.
So she built the sheepfold a little bigger, still surrounding the mountain in a semi-circle, with a gate made of fence at the entrance.
The number of sheep can be increased. They can be eaten for meat, used to make clothes, and even their droppings can be used as fertilizer. Every part of them is valuable.
Furthermore, the fact that people on the grasslands can raise thousands or even tens of thousands of cattle and sheep demonstrates that these two species can be raised on a large scale.
This brings us to another prerequisite: the need for horses and dogs.
Dogs, also known as sheepdogs, help herd sheep, while horses are used for riding, moving around, and serving as a means of transportation.
She didn't plan to raise thousands or tens of thousands of sheep; a dozen or so would probably be enough for the two of them to keep their clothes warm.
The imagination is rich, but the reality is harsh. In her imagination, she now owns thousands of acres of fertile land, countless cattle and sheep, and an inexhaustible supply of food.
In reality, she had only just finished building the sheepfold.
As Shen Ci pondered this, she suddenly realized that it seemed too quiet around her. If the child became quiet, she would have to be careful.
She quickly searched with her eyes and saw the dumbfounded wolf cub under a tree nearby.
The little wolf cub was still holding more than half a sweet potato in his hands. At this moment, his eyes were wide open, and his mouth was so surprised that he forgot to close it. He just stared at her in shock.
"What's wrong?"
Shen Ci stepped forward and asked, because the child was so engrossed in the work, and unlike before, was no longer afraid of anything and unfamiliar with anything.
When she went to move the stones, she left Cangye at home without taking him with her, letting him play by himself for a while.
With so many small animals at home now, he won't find it boring.
"Mother, Mother."
What is this? How did such a big stone fall out of the basket?!
What kind of amazing thing is this? He couldn't understand it yet, he was just extremely shocked, he had never heard of it before and had never seen it before.
"This basket is a family heirloom."
Didn't your mother tell you that last time?
You just don't know that the basket can hold such a huge thing. Our precious basket is more than just a place to put things.
There are many more wonderful uses inside; you'll find out when you grow up.
"Don't be afraid, okay?"
The wolf cub remembered the last time when no matter how much prey he threw into the basket, it was never full.
But he didn't expect that not only would the basket not be full, but such a large stone could also be poured out of it!
Who can understand how terrifying a wolf's heart can be?
He had only been playing under the tree for a short while when he saw his mother hurriedly carrying a basket out and then hurriedly returning.
She kept her head down the whole way, seemingly lost in thought, and didn't speak to him.
But when the mother returned, she turned the basket upside down, and several huge stones fell out of it.
The feeling was as absurd as if stones were suddenly falling from the sky. I watched helplessly as my mother quickly used stones to create a semi-circle.
...
That was truly decisive and efficient.
"Let's go catch a sheep."
Do you know what a sheep is? Don't wolves love to eat sheep?
Sheep are animals that have four hooves, run on the ground, and are covered in wool.
If the fur is snow-white, that would be the best.
Oh right, didn't we catch a gazelle before?
Have you seen any other kinds of sheep here?
Sheep are not native to foreign countries; they are also found on the Chinese mainland. Sheep generally live in alpine meadows at altitudes of 2,000 to 5,000 meters.
Wild sheep typically have brown, yellow, and white wool, which becomes thick and dense in winter.
This is the kind of sheep that Shen Ci wants.
As a local wolf, Cangye, even though he was born not long ago, had a general idea of what was on this continent.
"I've seen it! But there's a huge flock of sheep like that in a very, very far mountain!"
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