Chapter 303 Small Town Animal Husbandry
After leaving the bay, Yang Yi went to the Beast Raising Valley north of Ratchet Town.
There are two main animals in the valley, wild boars and kodo beasts.
At the beginning, Yang Yi caught all kinds of common animals near Ratchet Town and raised them in the valley, and even tried to hatch velociraptor eggs. Later, Yang Yi also listened to the advice of Qianmo Ke Jiagu and concentrated on raising wild boars and kodo beasts. All other animals except for some with good attributes were slaughtered.
The two people in charge of raising wild boars and kodo beasts were both murloc hunters. Benbolba quickly called them over and asked them to report to Yang Yi.
The two murloc hunters were also young murlocs, and they were also graduates of Tide Academy.
Grassland kodo beasts are difficult to tame as pets, so the two murloc hunters brought spotted wild boars as pets.
There are now about 100 spotted wild boars and more than 50 grassland kodo beasts in the Beast Raising Valley.
According to the method of raising wild boars given by the orcs, the spotted wild boars were raised well at the beginning.
The growth cycle of spotted boars is about half a year, and many of them have been raised and marketed, becoming one of the stable sources of meat in Ratchet Town.
However, these spotted boars were caught by the fishmen from the wild. Because they are untamed, they are easily agitated and often fight in the pigsty, which greatly affects fattening.
According to Jagu, it is best to raise domesticated pigs, which is conducive to growing meat.
Yang Yi has decided to spend money to buy some piglets from the orc farm to raise. He has entrusted this matter to the goblin merchant, asking the goblin merchant to help contact the orc farmer.
There is no problem with the grassland kodo beasts.
With the soothing potion and the strategy of taming kodo beasts taught by Jerrick Gaoshan, the grassland kodo beasts grow very fast in the beast valley.
The growth cycle of grassland kodo beasts is much longer than that of spotted boars. At present, the grassland kodo beasts in the valley are not yet adults.
Training kodo beast mounts is a secret that the tauren do not pass on, and Jerrick Gaoshan did not teach it to Yang Yi.
"It's best to start training mounts from young ones. As these kodo beasts grow up day by day, they can only be used as cargo kodo beasts in the future."
Although Yang Yi knew this result long ago, he still felt a little regretful.
"The tauren don't want to spread the technology of training kodo beast mounts. Can we send the kodo beasts to the tauren and let them help train? But the tauren are not greedy goblins. How can we get the tauren to help?" Yang Yi thought.
The scene of the enraged grassland kodo beasts chasing the Kolkar centaur troops everywhere is still vivid in Yang Yi's mind. He hopes that Ratchet Town can also have such a heavy cavalry.
Thinking of the grassland kodo beasts, Yang Yi thought of the thunder lizards.
Yang Yi took out the tamer horn given to him by Beast King Rexxar.
Thunder lizards are a common beast in the vicinity. Whether in the southern barrens, Durotar in the north, or the Stoneclaw Mountains in the west, you can find the huge figure of the thunder lizard with a single horn on its head.
There are many similarities between the Thunder Lizard and the Kodo Beast. Some people say that there is a blood relationship between the two beasts, while others do not think so.
The Tauren and the Thunder Lizard have the closest relationship. In the Tauren legend, the Thunder Lizard is a magical animal. They have been favored by the God of the Sky and have the power to control storms and lightning.
Therefore, the Thunder Lizard is also called the Storm Dragon or Lightning Lizard by the Tauren.
Standing next to Yang Yi, Benbol Ba noticed the Tamer Horn in Yang Yi's hand.
"Boss, what is in your hand? It looks like the horn of a Thunder Lizard." Benbol Ba asked curiously.
"This is the Tamer Horn given to me by the Beast King Rexxar. It is said that the Tauren Bain said that the Beast King once used this horn to control the Thunder Lizards in an entire valley." Yang Yi explained.
"So powerful! Can you let me see it?" Benbol Ba became more curious when he heard it.
This Benbol Ba is curious about any new things, but each time he only has a three-minute enthusiasm.
Seeing Benbol Ba's eagerness to try, Yang Yi handed him the tamer's horn.
"Wow, it's so heavy!"
When Benbol Ba took it, he found that the weight of the tamer's horn exceeded his imagination. He almost fell to the ground without catching it.
Benbol Ba held it with both hands and looked at the tamer's horn carefully.
This horn is made of the horn of a thunder lizard. Benbol Ba has seen many horns of thunder lizards. It is needed in the materials for brewing Lao Chen's storm liquor. Compared with the horns of ordinary thunder lizards, this horn itself is very heavy. It can be imagined that the former owner of this horn should have lived a very long time.
"How to use this horn?" Benbol Ba asked.
"I don't know either." Yang Yi said that when Beast King Rexxar gave him the horn, he didn't teach him how to use it.
"Probably blow the horn and use the sound of the horn to control the thunder lizard." Yang Yi guessed.
After hearing this, Benbolba pointed the trainer's horn at his fishman's big mouth and tried to blow it a few times.
The trainer's horn made a few hissing sounds of air leaking.
Mojimus, who was standing by, did not say anything when he saw this scene, but just looked at Benbolba with a squint.
Benbolba saw it and knew that Mojimus must be laughing at him.
"Humph~"
Benbolba couldn't stand Benbolba's ridicule the most. He tried his best to puff up his fishman's cheeks and blew a breath into the trainer's horn.
Puff~ Hiss~
Benbolba used all his strength but couldn't blow the trainer's horn.
Mojimus couldn't help laughing.
"You think blowing this horn is so easy. If you don't believe me, come and try it." Ben Boerba handed the horn to Mojimus. He expected that Mojimus would not be able to blow the horn.
Mojimus took the animal trainer's horn. He secretly held back his strength, puffed up his cheeks like a balloon, and then blew the horn with all his strength.
Moow~Moowow~
The trainer's horn made a low muffled sound, like the suppressed roar from the bottom of the throat of a ferocious beast when provoked.
The low sound of the horn spread far away in the beast valley.
"I blew the horn." Mojimus raised his head.
"Tch, what's the big deal." Ben Boerba was still unconvinced.
Yang Yi smiled as he watched the two little followers compete with each other. This was already the daily routine of the two little fishmen.
Shortly after the horn sound stopped, bursts of roars of wild beasts came from the Beast Valley.
The roar grew louder and louder, as if in response to the sound of a trumpet.
Yang Yi listened carefully and found that the roar came from the direction of the captive grassland kodos.
"No, it's the cry of the prairie kodo. The cry is very violent. They are frightened." The fishman hunter who is responsible for raising the prairie kodo was startled by the cry. He had never heard the prairie kodo. The beast roared so violently.
"Mojimus got into trouble?"
"It's none of your business, let's go see the grassland kodos."
Yang Yi rode a turtle mount towards the place where Kodos were kept in captivity.
The place where grassland kodos are kept in captivity covers an area of about two to three hectares. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only entrance and exit is blocked by a long village level 3 log fence.
When Yang Yi and the others arrived, the frightened prairie kodos had already broken through a fence, and all large and small prairie kodos ran outside the fence.
Yang Yi saw that the largest leader Kodo had broken its horn and had several deep lacerations on its head. There were a dozen other adult kodos that were also injured, with blood flowing all over the floor.
It seems that these prairie kodos were frightened and rushed into the wall desperately, otherwise they would not have been so seriously injured.
Unfortunately, the leading prairie kodo broke its horn before it reached adulthood. From now on, it will lack its most important weapon when fighting for population leadership and mating rights.
Probably because the sound of the trainer's horn stopped soon, the prairie kodos that rushed out also stopped.
However, these grassland kodos are still as violent as thunder. They keep pacing back and forth, and use their hooves to dig hard at the sand and gravel on the ground, causing dust to fly.
"Do you need to go to the military camp and ask the fishmen to help?" Yang Yi asked.
"Don't worry, Mayor, we can solve it." The fishman hunter responsible for raising Kodo beasts vowed.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Yang Yi said.
This group of grassland kodos is usually taken care of by five murlocs. In addition to the murloc hunters, there are also four murloc hard workers.
After the Kodo beast broke through the wall, the four fishmen peons were already in a panic.
The murloc hunter quickly ran to gather the murloc peons and distributed the soothing potion to them.
Captive grassland kodos are more likely to fall into a violent state, and these murloc peons are already very experienced. They moved out the drinking water tank for the prairie kodos and placed it not far from the leader kodo.
The fishman peon diluted the soothing potion in the drinking water, and then stayed away from him.
Soon after, the leading prairie kodo was the first to walk to the sink, drank the water mixed with soothing potion, and slowly calmed down.
The leader Kodo took the lead, and the other Kodos followed and came to drink water.
The scene was slowly brought under control.
"You did a great job." Yang Yi said happily.
After being praised by the mayor in person, the murloc hunters and murloc peons nearly jumped up for joy, their big murloc faces beaming with joy.
"Boss, what is the origin of this horn and why is it so powerful? Isn't it used to control thunder lizards? Why is the grassland kodo beast also affected by it so much?" Mojimus couldn't help but ask.
"This trainer's horn was made by the Beast King Rexxar himself, so it certainly has its power. I just don't know why the sound of the horn also has an effect on the grassland kodos. Could it be that the thunder lizards and the kodos are really related." Yang Yi guessed.
After appeasing the prairie kodos, the murloc peons drove them back into the wall.
The wall destroyed by the prairie kodo had to be rebuilt.
"The log fence is not safe. Let the town's construction workers build a town-level earth wall to prevent the grassland kodos from knocking down the fence and escaping next time," Yang Yi said.
Ben Bolba quickly took out his notebook and wrote down Yang Yi's instructions.
"After this place is built, we will use the first-level earthen wall of the town to enclose a place as big as the captive grassland kodos." Yang Yi said.
"Boss, is it also used to raise grassland kodo beasts in captivity?" Ben Bolba asked.
"No, it is intended to be used to raise thunder lizards in captivity." Yang Yi said, "We need to find a remote place, away from other captive wild beasts, and it must be at a distance where we can't hear the horn when we blow it."
"Yes, I understand." Ben Bolba said.