Breeding Plan

To raise wild rabbits, it's actually best to fence off a dedicated breeding ground.

Of course, they don't have the energy for that right now, so they'll make do with a rabbit cage for the time being.

And considering the sharp teeth of wild rabbits, if a cage were woven from bark rope or grass rope, it's likely that if you weren't paying attention for even one night, the wild rabbit could gnaw through it and escape.

For this reason, it's necessary to use materials that are sturdier and not easily gnawed through by them.

The only material that can be found currently is wooden planks.

After all, the Black Moon Tribe was once famous for its 'Great Shield Soldiers'.

Although Zhou Xu has now received the True Word from them, he doesn't plan to completely copy their tactics.

The tactic of the former chief of the Black Moon Tribe, frankly speaking, was to have all the tribe's warriors hold large shields to protect themselves, forming an impenetrable defense around them, and then using themselves as the core main damage dealer.

But the problem is that with the ability 'Skeleton Control', he can't be the main damage dealer.

He can play a supportive role, consuming resources, but he lacks the ability to dominate the battle at critical moments and decide the outcome, unable to set the pace at all.

At the start of the battle, sending Skeleton Soldiers to wear down the enemy is absolutely fine.

But the enemy isn't stupid, they won't let you just wear them down until they die.

The strength of Skeleton Soldiers is too low. If the enemy launches a surprise attack, what can a dozen skeletons hold back? Even doubling them to over thirty wouldn't be enough.

Considering the current size of the tribe, Zhou Xu estimates that at least fifty would be needed, and to achieve a qualitative change, perhaps over a hundred would be required.

And this is with the prerequisite that the enemy tribe only has about thirty people.

Following this line of thought, when facing the consumption of Skeleton Soldiers, if the enemy launches a surprise attack, it would be difficult for the Skeleton Soldiers to catch up due to their movement speed.

This would then lead to the awkward situation of Great Shield Soldiers facing the enemy soldiers independently, and the advantage of having Skeleton Soldiers would be completely nullified.

Great Shield Soldiers, being heavy infantry armed with large shields, have little advantage in such large-scale melees.

Following Zhou Xu's line of thought, gathering a bunch of Great Shield Soldiers and playing this defensive tactic is a complete waste.

In his strategy, this type of soldier will not be completely eliminated, but there will definitely not be as many.

These ready-made large shields can now be dismantled into wooden planks, which will be used to make cages for raising rabbits.

Considering that wild rabbits are now an important food resource, if they are to be raised, it will definitely be within the tribe. Finding a suitable location, Zhou Xu took a tree branch and drew a rectangle on the ground, then called over a tribe member.

"Come here, and based on the area I've drawn, dig away the soil. You don't need to dig deep, just one layer."

After assigning this task, Zhou Xu turned around and busied himself dismantling the wooden planks. After all, only he knew how to build this rabbit cage; others could at most help him with the physical labor right now.

Considering that the number of wild rabbits to be raised in the future will definitely increase, he also chose a relatively large area for this.

However, Zhou Xu only asked him to dig away the top layer of soil, so the overall efficiency was still quite high.

"Chief, I'm done digging."

Upon hearing the report, Zhou Xu, who was fiddling with the wooden planks at the time, looked up.

"Very good. After that, spread those broken stones over the area where the soil has been dug away."

Without further explanation, Zhou Xu intended to lay a stone floor for this rabbit cage. His current idea was to directly insert these suitable wooden planks into the surroundings with a certain spacing, forming a rabbit cage.

The biggest advantage of doing this is that it's convenient, simple, and saves trouble. The only potential risk is that the bottom of the cage is made of soil.

Rabbits can also dig holes, and it's hard to guarantee they won't dig their way out or dig open the soil, causing the wooden planks to fall over. To prevent these situations, Zhou Xu's approach is already very clear.

You can't dig through stones, can you?

Within the camp, there are many leftover broken stones from grinding stone tools. Spreading them there now is just right.

Then, with the wooden planks enclosed, a simple rabbit cage was quickly completed.

Without any delay, Zhou Xu quickly threw the first 'resident' inside.

After this, the 'roof' definitely couldn't be left open like this. It's not that he was afraid the wild rabbit inside could jump out; the height was about as tall as a person, so it wouldn't be easy to jump out.

He was mainly worried about certain birds of prey on the grassland eyeing his wild rabbits.

In the past, when wild rabbits hid in the grass and burrows, those birds of prey had to put in some effort to catch them. Now, if he were to raise wild rabbits in this open-air cage.

It's likely that various birds of prey would line up every day to visit his place for a meal...

Therefore, this rabbit cage must have a lid!

It doesn't require too much effort, just take three shield boards and cover the top, and it's basically done.

Of course, after finishing the rabbit cage, Zhou Xu didn't forget to get some food for the rabbit.

At this point, a question arises: what should rabbits be fed?

The first reaction of most people is probably carrots and greens.

The answer is completely wrong!

Rabbits cannot have things with high water content as their staple food; eating too much will cause them to have diarrhea, and even die...

They are herbivores; they eat grass, and it must be dry grass, usually with Timothy grass as their staple food.

As for why Zhou Xu knows so much.

Because at one point, he always wanted to raise some kind of pet, so he researched almost everything that could be raised on the market, including rabbits, of course.

At this moment, Zhou Xu's decision to raise rabbits in this primitive world was undoubtedly due to this consideration.

Rabbits can live on dry grass, and dry grass that rabbits can eat is everywhere near the rabbit hutch. Raising rabbits would not put much food pressure on their tribe.

Under this premise, rabbits themselves are very prolific. In the past, there was an incident in a certain country where rabbits became a plague. Raising them is not difficult. Once the breeding is successful and a certain scale is formed, their tribe will have a stable source of meat!

Thus, after comprehensive consideration, this was undoubtedly the most cost-effective choice at present.

He directly threw the dry grass he had casually pulled up on his way back into the newly made rabbit cage. The rabbit did not immediately pounce on it to eat.

It made sense. Rabbits have always been timid, so timid that they can even be scared to death.

From being caught by them to being locked in this rabbit cage, the rabbit must have been terrified. It was normal for it not to eat in a state of stress. He would just leave it there for now.

He didn't have time to stare at this rabbit. He had to go back to Salt Lake Camp first.

He hadn't returned to Salt Lake Camp since arriving at Black Moon Camp.

Although considering the geographical location, the future development focus of their tribe would be entirely shifted to Black Moon Camp, he definitely couldn't abandon Salt Lake Camp, which possessed the two major resources of the coal mine and salt.

For this reason, he had to go back quickly and make arrangements.