Dongxue has been pregnant for more than fifty days now. Judging from her belly, she should be carrying a litter of male cubs. The male cubs will be born in about a hundred days. By then, the mother animal in their family will have raised her own cubs and can feed the tiger cubs.
Qiu Xiao said, "Ren Ge said we should lend them the female beast for a while, and then they can slowly search for her in the forest and return her to us when they find her. But everyone knows how hard it is to catch a female beast at this time. If they take her away, how can we get her back?"
Moreover, Xin Qin has so many tiger cubs. If the mother tiger eats the cubs to death again, what will happen to their cubs?
Ling Yun nodded to show that he understood: "Please tell me that if necessary, you can ask Qiu Xiao to come to me and help them capture the female beast."
"Ling Yun, you are so kind. Alas, we are also very reluctant. After all, they are all cubs in the tribe. No one is so hard-hearted as to watch them starve to death. But we must put our females and cubs first."
Qiu Xiao was also helpless.
"I understand what you mean, and what you did is right. I'll go back first. Lin Qiu is still at home worried about Dongxue."
Ling Yun went back and told Lin Qiu about this.
He knew Lin Qiu was a softie, and after hearing this, he would definitely feel pity for Xin Qin's cubs, so he comforted them, "It's already difficult to raise cubs in the tribe. Even male cubs have a hard time growing up safely, not to mention that these cubs have just been born and need to survive the cold season."
"Giving birth in the cold season is even more dangerous for Dongxue. Ling Yun, I remember that the oxen like to gather near streams. They like to eat the grass by the river and soak in the water. Even in the rainy season, they shouldn't be able to get far. You and Xin Qin's male should go to the stream to look for them."
"The oxen are herbivorous animals. They can't raise our tiger cubs."
The Cichlid loves water and is the only animal, besides snakes, that is willing to go outside during the rainy season.
But tiger cubs can't drink all kinds of milk. There have been such cases in the past. People caught cows and brought them back to feed the cubs. The cows' milk was plenty, and every cub could eat its fill, but it caused diarrhea in the cubs, and everyone was scared and didn't dare to feed them anymore.
But now Lin Qiu knew why: "Diarrhea is a problem that the tiger cub can't digest. Just don't drink too much. At this time, don't worry about it. Feeding less will at least keep it alive. Xin Qin's cubs have been born for a while. In addition to the milk of the ox, cutting the meat into minced meat and feeding it to them should help."
"We'll have to make do with this for now. Do you want to eat some terrier? I'll catch you one."
"Just help them catch the female beast. Hurry home. I'll ask Song Mu to boil a pot of hot water for you. Don't let it get soaked."
"good."
She used to live in Hongshi Village and had heard of a case where a kitten died from being fed milk. She said she bought a purebred cat in the city and it was very precious. She bought milk from the canteen and fed it to the kitten, and the kitten died from drinking it. She said it died of diarrhea.
Later she heard a rumor that there was lactose in the milk and that the kitten couldn't digest it if it drank too much.
Lin Qiu was very interested in this at the time, so she asked her teacher at school, who told her that it was due to lactase.
When kittens are very young, they can produce lactase and will not have diarrhea if they drink an appropriate amount of milk. However, the kitten that was brought back may have drunk too much, or it may have grown up and is no longer old enough to drink milk, so it had diarrhea and died.
These symptoms are exactly the same as those experienced by tiger cubs after drinking ox milk, so Lin Qiu thought that tiger cubs used to get diarrhea after drinking ox milk. It must be because people saw that ox milk produced a lot of milk, so they fed the tiger cubs madly, without filling their stomachs to the brim. If they fed them too much, how could they not have diarrhea?
After Lin Qiu figured it out, he felt that Ju Niu could be used.
The ox is not dangerous and produces a lot of milk. If it can be raised in captivity, the cubs in the tribe will no longer have to worry about getting milk.
However, taming a niu is not that easy. Just like the female beast caught by Xin Qin's family this time, these wild beasts cannot be kept alive at home even if they are raised from cubs.
An idea suddenly struck Lin Qiu: "We can fence off the forest and graze the oxen!"
"Xiao Qiu, what did you say?"
Ling Yun asked.
"I suggested we fence off the area where the yaks live with wooden fences. This way we don't have to search for them everywhere, and they won't feel the pressure of being caught. They can live freely. This will make it easier for us to get milk. We can also provide them with more comfortable sheds so they can live better."
Ling Yun said, "What you said makes some sense. However, we still need to try it first to see if the milk of the ox can be given to our cubs."
"Yes, let's let Xin Qin try it first and drink less at the beginning." Lin Qiu was also afraid that his guess was wrong.
Before noon, Ren Ge heard the news.
"Ling Yun, you are so kind, Tiger. All the males in our family have gone out to the forest to look for females, but we still can't find any. Not to mention females with cubs, we can't even find a female foraging alone. Our cubs have been weaned for two days, and we're afraid they'll get choked if we feed them meat."
It seems that Xin Qin's baby is Ren Ge's, and his old father is almost heartbroken.
"Don't worry, I'll go catch a safari with you first."
"Chu Niu..."
"Trust me, just feed it a little, nothing will happen. If it really can't drink, I will help you find another female beast."
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