In the Tenth Year After the Natural Disaster, Follow me to Farm Chapter 694

Chapter 694: Eating Babies

After planting the bamboo, it was already evening.

Xia Qing took the sheep boss and carried a bamboo basket to catch chickens in the breeding greenhouse.

　　After the Weasel family moved away from the sheep shed, Xia Qing completely cleaned up the chicken coop and chicken pen at home. Just in the evening, when the chickens have been put on the shelf to rest, the big chickens that are not hatching eggs and without chicks are caught back to the chicken coop.

As more and more chicks break out of their shells, the already small chicken pen in the greenhouse becomes more and more crowded. If a group of big chickens are not moved out, a stampede may occur.

Moreover, it is already mid-March, and the temperature during the day has reached 20 degrees, and it will not drop below zero at night. The large chickens can be raised semi-free range outside, leaving the chicken pens in the breeding greenhouse with a higher safety factor. For hens hatching eggs, hens with chicks and chicks, pregnant rabbits, and spring fish full of fish eggs.

The chickens are okay, but the female rabbits need a quiet environment to give birth. The black-feathered roosters start stretching their necks and practicing their throats at around 4 a.m. every day. It's too noisy.

In order not to disturb the rabbits and the hens in the nest, Xia Qing caught the chicken without letting it make any sound.

How is it done?

When you touch a chicken, just pinch its beak and press its wings to tie it.

The first thing Xia Qing captured was the evolved black-feathered rooster. Unexpectedly, after Xia Qing **** the aggressive bird and stuffed it in the cage, the white-feathered hen gave up and jumped out of the nest, clucking and trying to peck Xia Qing's hand.

It was very fast, but unfortunately the light was too dark and its night vision was very poor. Not only did it fail to peck Xia Qing when it rushed over, it was also held down and **** by her.

This chicken was in a nest and could not be captured back to the chicken coop. Xia Qing put it aside and continued to catch the hens that were not in a nest.

Other green lantern chickens are not evolved species. Xia Qing easily caught everything that should be caught, stuffed it in a cage and let the sheep carry it home.

After Xia Qing untied the rope from the white-feathered hen, the advanced evolved chicken pecked her hand hard.

Even if a chicken is highly evolved, it will not cause any substantial harm to Xia Qing who is wearing snakeskin gloves. She flicked the white-feathered hen under its head, touched the stone particles on its neck, and then let the chicken go.

“Heartless little thing, keep hatching eggs. If you can't hatch ten chicks, you won't be able to bear the investment I made in you!”

After saying that, Xia Qing turned on the lights in the breeding greenhouse.

The white-feathered hen clucked twice before returning to its nest to continue incubating eggs. The remaining hens with nests or broods had not moved at all since Xia Qing started catching chickens.

After Xia Qing added enough drinking water to the chickens, she turned to look at the female rabbit in the rabbit cage. After confirming that everything was normal and not frightened, Xia Qing gave her enough water and fodder, then turned off the lights and went to plant next door. I picked two cucumbers and cut a handful of leeks in the greenhouse and went home to cook.

After walking out of the greenhouse, Xia Qing stopped and listened for a while, confirming that everything in the breeding greenhouse was normal before walking towards home.

She was so cautious because the pregnant female rabbit had started plucking her belly this morning.

This made Xia Qing very happy. Because after Blue Star evolved, it was difficult to raise rabbits caught from the wild and reproduce successfully. So even if the hare is pregnant, Xia Qing is worried about whether it can successfully give birth to a baby rabbit and raise it.

Now, the female rabbit starts to pluck her hair to build a warm and comfortable nest, which means that she will give birth to rabbits in the next two days.

This is really a very good sign. After having the second generation of chickens, her territory will soon have the second generation of rabbits!

Xia Qing returned home humming a little tune and put the chickens in the cage into the chicken coop. The black-feathered rooster walked around the chicken coop proudly, then jumped on the shelf to continue resting. After the hens also rested, Xia Qing turned off the light in the chicken coop and took the sheep boss back to the house.

Xia Qing was tired and fulfilled from morning to night. Listening to the chatter and broadcasts of the lords, Xia Qing began to prepare dinner. Because I am tired, I have to treat myself well. Xia Qing took out a few pieces of ribs from the refrigerator and made a ribs and bamboo shoots soup, as well as fried eggs with leeks and cucumbers.

I picked two cucumbers in total, one for her and one for the sheep.

After having a full meal, Xia Qing finished listening to the farming knowledge radio and left the sheep boss to look after the house while she went out to inspect the territory.

Cameras cannot cover every corner of the territory, so after the second son left, Xia Qing would patrol the territory twice every night to feel at ease.

Everything was normal for the first time. During the second inspection at ten o'clock in the evening, when Xia Qing walked outside the breeding greenhouse, she heard an abnormal creaking sound.

This is...the sound of carnivores eating their prey!

Xia Qing rushed in with the gun in hand. When she saw the scene in the rabbit cage clearly, Xia Qing pursed her lips.

Good news: Her rabbit has finally given birth.

Bad news: A mother rabbit is eating her newborn cubs.

Xia Qing put away the pistol, stepped forward gently, took out only half of the little rabbit that had been chewed up, and put it into the packaging bag.

After confirming again that the water and food in the rabbit cage were sufficient, Xia Qing stepped aside and looked at the female rabbit quietly.

The books on rabbit breeding she collected specifically introduced the phenomenon of female rabbits nibbling on newborn rabbits, which is called "chocophagia".

The reason why this phenomenon occurs may be due to insufficient nutrition of the female rabbit, lack of water during birth, or stress behavior caused by noise interference. Another possibility is that the maternal rabbit is not strong in mothering.

First of all, eliminate the lack of water as the reason, because there is also pollution-free spring water in the rabbit cage.

Secondly, stress behaviors caused by being frightened can be ruled out. It had been four hours since she removed the chickens, and the rabbit had been quiet and unresponsive for the past few hours.

The third issue is nutrition. Xia Qing fed the rabbits with green plants. She was worried that pregnant rabbits would not be nutritious enough. She also followed the feed formula in the book and added a small amount of salt, wheat bran, and corn to the female rabbit's feed. Under her feeding, the three rabbits all grew fat and plump, and it seemed that they lacked nutrition. Whether it is actually missing or not will be known after testing.

At present, the most likely reason for this female rabbit to eat her cubs is her lack of maternal instinct.

This left Xia Qing a little helpless.

Ten minutes later, after the mother rabbit gave birth to the second baby rabbit, she began to lick the baby rabbit. This is normal behavior.

But while licking, Xia Qing heard a weak cry from the newborn rabbit, and immediately rushed over.

When she took out the little rabbit, she found that its skin had been licked by the mother rabbit.

Xia Qing frowned, and immediately disinfected and medicated the bunny, and placed it in a small basket prepared in advance.

The third, fourth and sixth little rabbits, without exception, the female rabbit licks first and bites later. As a result, Xia Qingda's little basket contained five little rabbits that were injured right after birth.

Chapter end

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