Chapter 678: Rebirth and Departure

After returning to the territory and meeting the sheep boss who was riding a water-drawing bicycle, the first thing Xia Qing did was to run to the breeding greenhouse to check how many chicks had hatched this afternoon.

The first brooding hen had a total of 20 eggs in its nest, and as of noon today, eight chicks had hatched.

When Xia Qing rushed to the breeding greenhouse, eight of the nine brooding hens were squatting in the nest and incubating eggs seriously, while one was strolling outside. The ten eggs it was responsible for were crowded in the nest, looking lonely.

Xia Qing stared at the strolling hen and said viciously, "Boss, did you see that guy? If it can't hatch a single chick in a few days, kill it and make soup!"

"Meh." The sheep boss who followed Xia Qing responded, but his eyes were fixed on the hen.

Xia Qing's eyes also turned to the wings of the brooding hen, where a furry yellow head with red dots was exposed. The other chicks were hidden very tightly and could not be seen at all.

Xia Qing turned on the lights to feed the chickens. The hen also left her nest to eat at the trough. Nine chicks followed their mother, each of them was fluffy and very cute. Among them, the little hen without red spots on its head had just hatched this afternoon.

The big chickens eat the feed in the trough, and the chicks have to get into the fine-toothed cage next to the chicken coop to eat the chick feed specially prepared by Xia Qing.

The chick feed is made of dried mealworms, more finely crushed corn, more finely chopped vegetable leaves and unpolluted spring water.

When the chicks with red spots on their heads got into the cage to peck at the feed, the newly hatched chick also left the mother hen and followed the brothers and sisters into the cage.

Before it pecked, Xia Qing reached in from the top of the cage, grabbed it out, and fed it with medicine for opening.

Raising chicks is not all right with the mother hen. From birth to the full moon, the chicks need to be fed medicine and vaccinated.

The opening medicine is a dropper, which is dripped directly into the mouth. Every newly hatched chick must eat it. It can expel fetal toxins, effectively prevent and treat diseases such as white diarrhea and chicken enteritis caused by evolved bacteria, activate the body's immune system, and improve the chick's disease resistance and survival rate.

After feeding the medicine, Xia Qing gently pinched the little Luhua chicken's beak and dripped a drop of medicine on its small nostrils. After it sucked the medicine in, Xia Qing used a wooden stick dipped in red dye to draw a big red dot on its head, indicating that this chick with black stripes around its eyes and back had been fed with the opening medicine and completed the initial vaccination.

She gently touched the chick's soft body and fluff, and after confirming that it had swallowed the medicine, she put the little guy in the cage and let it eat and drink water with other chicks.

Eating is an animal instinct, and it can do it from birth.

Watching the little guys, who are not even as big as a fist, pecking at the feed and drinking water obediently, Xia Qing's eyes turned into stars. Unexpectedly, after entering the territory, the first cub she caught was not a wolf or a weasel, but a chick.

The chicks became lively after eating. The full-fed hen held its head high and clucked a few times, and then the chicks crawled out of the small cage to find their mother.

After the hen took its children around the chicken coop twice, it returned to the chicken coop to continue hatching eggs. Some of the chicks burrowed into their mother's feathers to sleep, and some strolled outside.

Xia Qing carefully observed the other hens in the nest, fed the rabbits and fish, and then picked a handful of alfalfa and took three eggs home to cook.

When passing the door of the sheep shed, Xia Qing stopped and listened carefully and found that something was wrong. The sheep shed was too quiet, without the squeaking of the weasel cubs and the rustling sound of crawling on the grass!

Xia Qing called softly, "Is the plucking weasel, Little White Hair, here?"

After calling three times and hearing no sound from inside, Xia Qing turned on the surveillance camera and found that the cardboard boxes and haystacks in the sheep shed were clean, without a single weasel.

She took out her phone and dragged the progress bar of the surveillance video. She soon found that at 4:30 this afternoon, not long after she went to Wolf Valley, the plucking weasel dragged a big magpie back to the sheep shed.

About half an hour later, it came out with half of the magpie's body with long feathers plucked out of its mouth and placed it on the straw mat in front of Xia Qing's house. Then, the weasel, who always had a smile on his face, straightened his long body and stood in front of her door for a full minute before returning to the sheep shed.

After a while, the plucking weasel carried three little weasels on his back, and Little White Hair carried two little weasels on his back and walked out of the sheep shed and out of the yard.

Xia Qing went back, froze the frame, zoomed in on the picture, and carefully examined the weasel cubs on Little White Hair's body. The two little weasels, clinging to their mother's back with their little claws, finally opened their eyes that had been closed for a month and looked at the direction of the camera with wet eyes.

Xia Qing switched the camera and saw the weasel family leave the village from the east side and head north, climbing over the iron mesh wall.

After the cubs opened their eyes and passed the most dangerous period, the weasel couple took them out of the human territory.

Because Xia Qing had entered the two weasels into the monitoring system, the camera did not issue an early warning to her after capturing the weasels.

They did not leave without saying goodbye on purpose, but it was time for them to leave, and Xia Qing happened to be out of the territory.

Where was the half-plucked magpie that the plucked weasel placed in front of her door?

Xia Qing turned on the camera at home and clicked on fast forward. Fifteen minutes after the weasel family left, the red squirrel jumped down from the roof and took the magpie away.

Xia Qing once again froze the picture, carefully observing the red squirrel's elongated body when it jumped up, and found that its abdomen was obviously bulging.

This little guy should also be pregnant, so it needs to supplement nutrition. Xia Qing decided to spare it this time and not to search the house.

"Boss, the plucker and the little white hair are gone." Xia Qing went back to the house and told her companions the news, "It seems that they regard our house as a confinement club."

The sheep boss who was riding the power bicycle may not understand what Xia Qing is saying, but it can be seen or heard that Xia Qing is not in a good mood.

After Xia Qing took off her protective clothing, washed and changed her clothes and went into the kitchen. The sheep boss also got off the bicycle and stood at the kitchen door, chewing and watching her cook.

Before, when she had no companions, Xia Qing did not feel lonely; now that she has companions, she realized that she also needs company. The sheep boss is indeed not smart enough, but it will always be with Xia Qing, making her feel very at ease.

Hearing it coming, Xia Qing chatted with it casually, "I accepted a piece of Yishi from the queen, and only took care of the white-haired mother and son for a few days, and they left. I didn't even eat the eggs tonight. Boss, do you think the queen will come to take the Yishi back after knowing it?"

"Mee." The sheep boss responded.

"No way?! Do you really think so?" Xia Qing cut the washed alfalfa leaves into pieces and put them in a bowl, cracked two eggs into it, added salt and stirred evenly, "The queen is a respectable wolf standing at the top of the pyramid, and she shouldn't do such a thing."

"Mee."

"Sizzle——"

The alfalfa and egg liquid was poured into the oil pan, making a pleasant sound, and the fragrance soon wafted out.

Xia Qing shoveled the fried alfalfa eggs into the bowl, "They left at a very bad time. I'm going to dig bamboo shoots tomorrow. I was planning to bring back some bamboo rats for them as a snack. Boss, I'll dig bamboo shoots for you tomorrow. Do you like bamboo shoots?"

"Meh~~~" (End of this chapter)