Chapter 694 Eating Eater
After planting bamboo, it was still evening.
Xia Qing took the sheep boss and carried a bamboo basket to the breeding greenhouse to catch chickens.
After the weasels and their family moved out of the sheep shed, Xia Qing completely cleaned up the chicken coop and chicken pen at home. Just in the evening, the chickens were on the shelves and rested, and the big chickens who did not hatch eggs and did not bring small chickens back to the chicken coop.
As more and more chicks are broken, the chicken pens, which are not big in the greenhouse, are becoming more and more crowded. If a batch of big chickens are not transferred out, a stampede may occur.
And it is mid-March, and the temperature during the day has reached 20 degrees and will not drop below zero at night. Big chickens can be semi-free-raised outside, leaving the chicken pen in the breeding greenhouse with a higher safety factor for the hens that are hatching eggs, hens with chickens, small chickens, pregnant female rabbits and spring fish with a belly full of fish eggs.
The chickens are not bad, but the female rabbit needs a quiet environment for giving birth. The black-feathered rooster starts to pull his neck and practice his throat every day at around 4 a.m. It''s too noisy.
In order not to disturb the rabbits and the hens holding the nest, Xia Qing did not let the chicken make any noise when she caught the chicken.
How did it be done?
When you touch a chicken, just pinch your mouth and press your wings to tie it.
The first person Xia Qing won was the evolved black-feathered rooster. Unexpectedly, after Xia Qing tied the rooster''s mouth and stuffed it into the cage, the white-feathered hen stopped working and jumped out of the nest and clucked to peck Xia Qing''s hand.
Its speed is very fast, but unfortunately the light is too dark now, and its night vision ability is very poor. Not only did it not peck Xia Qing when it rushed over, she also held it down and tied it up.
The chicken was holding the nest and could not be caught back. Xia Qing put it aside and continued to catch the hen that had not been holding the nest.
Other green light chickens are not evolved varieties. Xia Qing easily caught everything he should have and stuffed them in a cage for the sheep boss to carry them home.
After Xia Qing untied the rope on the white-feathered hen, the advanced evolutionary chicken pecked her hand hard.
Even if a chicken evolves advanced, it will not cause substantial harm to Xia Qing wearing snakeskin gloves. She bounced under the white-feathered hen''s head, touched the icy stone particles on the chicken''s neck, and let go of the chicken.
"You are a little unscrupulous, keep hatching eggs. If you can''t hatch ten chicks, you''re sorry for the investment I''ve invested in you!"
After saying that, Xia Qing turned on the lighting in the breeding greenhouse.
The white-feathered hen chuckled twice before returning to her nest to continue hatching eggs. The remaining few hens who held the nest or had cubs have not moved at all since Xia Qing started catching chickens.
After Xia Qing added enough drinking water to the chickens, she turned over to look at the female rabbit in the rabbit cage. After confirming that it was normal and not frightened, Xia Qing added enough water and forage to it, then turned off the lights, went to the planting greenhouse next door to pick two cucumbers, cut a handful of leeks, and went home to cook.
After walking out of the greenhouse, Xia Qing stopped listening for a while and confirmed that everything was normal in the breeding greenhouse before walking home.
She was so cautious because the pregnant female rabbit started pulling out the hair on her belly this morning.
This made Xia Qing very happy. Because after the evolution of Blue Star, it is difficult for rabbits caught from the wild to feed and breed successfully. So even if the hare is pregnant, Xia Qing is worried that it can successfully give birth to the rabbit and raise it.
Now, the female rabbit has begun to pull her hair to build a warm and comfortable nest, which means it will give birth to a rabbit in these two days.
This is really a very good sign. After her territory has the second generation of chickens, she will soon have the second generation of rabbits!
Xia Qing hummed a little song and returned home and put the chickens in the cage into the chicken coop. The black-feathered rooster turned around the chicken coop with a arrogant look, then jumped onto the shelf and continued to rest. After the hens also rested, Xia Qing turned off the lights in the chicken coop and took the sheep back to the house.
From morning to night, Xia Qing was tired and fulfilled. Listening to the lords'' chat and radio, Xia Qing began to prepare dinner. Because you are tired, you should reward yourself. Xia Qing took out a few pieces of ribs from the refrigerator, made a pork ribs and bamboo shoot soup, and made fried eggs with leeks and cucumbers.
Two cucumbers were picked in total, one sheep was the eldest.
After eating, Xia Qing listened to the farming knowledge broadcast and left the boss to visit her house. She went out to inspect the territory.
The camera cannot cover every corner of the territory, so after the second child leaves, Xia Qing will patrol the territory twice a night before she can feel at ease.
Everything was normal for the first time. I inspected for the second time at 10 o''clock in the evening. When I walked outside the breeding greenhouse, Xia Qing heard an abnormal creaking sound.
This is...the sound of carnivores gnawing at prey!
Xia Qing rushed in with a snatch. When she saw the scene in the rabbit cage clearly, Xia Qing pursed her lips.
Good news: The rabbit she raised finally gave birth.
Bad news: The female rabbit is eating its freshly born cub.
Xia Qing put away his pistol, stepped forward with a slight foot, took out the rabbit that was left with only half of the chewed, and put it into a packaging bag.
After confirming again that the water and material in the rabbit cage were sufficient, Xia Qing stepped aside and quietly looked at the female rabbit.
The book on breeding rabbits she collected specifically introduces the phenomenon of female rabbits eating newly born rabbits, which is called "eating fetish".
The reason for this phenomenon may be because the female rabbit is insufficient nutrition, lack of water during production, or stressed behavior caused by noise interference. Another possibility is that the female rabbit has a weak mother.
First of all, eliminate the reason for water shortage, because there is still pollution-free spring water in the rabbit cage.
Secondly, stress behaviors caused by fright can be ruled out. It has been four hours since she moved the flock out. The rabbit has been quiet for the previous few hours without any stress response.
The third is nutritional issues. Xia Qing used green light plants to feed rabbits. She was worried that pregnant rabbits were not nutritious enough, so she also added a small amount of salt, wheat bran and corn to the forage of the female rabbit according to the feed formula mentioned in the book. Under her feeding, all three rabbits grew fat and did not lack nutrition from the surface. Is there any lack in reality, and I have to wait for the test to find out.
At present, the most likely reason for this female rabbit to eat her cub is that her mother is not strong.
This made Xia Qing a little helpless.
More than ten minutes later, after the female rabbit gave birth to a second little rabbit, it began to lick the little rabbit. This is a normal behavior.
But as he licked, Xia Qing heard the newly born little rabbit let out a faint cry and rushed over immediately.
When she took out the little rabbit, she found that it had been licked by the female rabbit.
Xia Qing frowned and immediately disinfected and applied medicine to the rabbit, 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 then bites it. So, there were five little rabbits in Xia Qing''s small basket that were injured when she was born.