Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 415 Black Spot Pregnancy

Up to now, Xu Han has hatched a total of 164 chicks, and now 120 of them are raised in the orchard. The others are still too young, so they are temporarily kept at home and will be released into the orchard when they are older.

If chicks that are too young are kept in the orchard without anyone to take care of them, their survival rate will be low. When they grow up and can eat by themselves, no additional management will be required.

As for the hatched ducks, Xu Han asked Lu Chuan to help her fence off an area downstream of the creek and keep them there for the time being. She did not rush home at night and also asked the dog at home to watch over them there.

From then on, the dogs at home had something to do. After raising them for so many years, they finally didn’t eat for free.

In recent years, Lu Chuan has rarely gone into the mountains to hunt, and the dogs at home have nothing to do except guarding the house on a daily basis.

It's simply a waste of such good hunting dogs, and now the dogs have done their part for this family.

Dogs particularly like this job and will even rush to do it.

Of course, letting them watch the livestock doesn't mean they have to watch them all the time. During the day, no small animals will come here, so Xu Han opens the gate to let them move freely and stroll around the house.

When it is time for dinner, they will come back to eat by themselves, and at night several dogs will take turns living there.

This was not a shift arranged by Xu Han for them. They were all very smart. Ever since Lu Chuan took the dogs there a few times at night, they would run over by themselves every time it got dark.

At the beginning, only Edamame and the other dogs would go to the orchard, but later, when the other dogs saw this, they would follow.

However, Black Spot and Black Wind had never spent the night there.

Even if they would go out for a while after dinner, when it was time to go to bed, Heifeng and Heidian would pull on the door and ask Lu Chuan to open it for them.

Xu Han thought that the two dogs were probably worried about their masters at home. They were worried about the children being outside, but they were also uneasy without the dogs at home.

Time passed day by day, and suddenly one day Xu Han discovered something surprising: Heidian was pregnant again after many years.

With the experience from last time, Xu Han noticed as soon as Black Spot became pregnant this time.

But Xu Han was afraid that Heidian would have another accident this time, so she was extra careful and took better care of Heidian in her daily life.

After other people in the family found out, they took extra care of Heidian. Even Mu'er knew to save her own food and share it with Heidian, just to nourish his body.

Ze'er also followed suit. Although he couldn't understand what his mother said, that there were baby puppies in Heidian's belly, it didn't stop him from following his brother's example and taking care of Heidian.

Children have a strong ability to imitate, and Xu Han is happy to see that.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was already April. During this period everyone was busy with their own work in an orderly manner.

There is not much to do in the fields. Apart from daily weeding and vegetable planting, there is no other work.

After a year of growth, the fruit trees in the orchard are now in bloom, and as time goes by, the fruits are beginning to swell.

After breakfast that morning, Xu Han took Lu Chuan to the orchard to thin the fruit trees.

Lu Chuan was confused about picking the good fruits. "It would be a shame to pick such good fruits. Can't we just leave them like this?"

While thinning the fruits, Xu Han patiently explained to Lu Chuan, "It's not good to have too many fruits. The nutrition will not be enough, and the fruits will be small and not tasty."

Seeing that Lu Chuan still didn't quite understand, Xu Han patiently said, "It's like a sow giving birth to 10 piglets and two piglets. The sow's milk is definitely not enough for ten piglets, and the piglets are all very small and look malnourished.

But if there are two piglets, then these two piglets have milk to drink, and the sow's nutrients are delivered to them, so these two piglets will definitely grow fat and plump. "

After Xu Han's explanation, Lu Chuan immediately understood. In order to be able to eat big and sweet fruits, he no longer felt sorry when thinning the fruits.

The couple spent one day thinning out all the fruit trees in the orchard.

Some fruit trees are tall, so Lu Chuan climbs up the trees and tries to thin out all the fruits in all places, so that the fruits will be uniform in size and taste better.

However, these fruit trees were planted just last year and are not very old. In addition, Xu Han had specially pruned them in the winter, so all these fruit trees are not growing very tall, but have many fruit-bearing branches.

When the couple went back from thinning the fruits in the afternoon, Lu Chuan mentioned, "These fruits are at the stage of growing taller. The Taoist priest and I will go get some manure tomorrow to fertilize the fruit trees."

"Well, it's time to apply some fertilizer. By the way, the chickens in the orchard are getting bigger and bigger. We should raise more earthworms this year and feed the chickens more earthworms. The chickens will grow faster and lay eggs more often."

Lu Chuan helped Xu Han and they walked down the hillside. "This is easy. There are the most earthworms in manure, and each one is very fertile. We can just catch some and raise them separately."

Xu Han smiled and took Lu Chuan's arm, "Then I'll leave this matter to you."

Lu Chuan was particularly pleased with Xu Han's action. He patted his chest and said, "Just leave it to me. I promise to make it beautiful for you."

The two chatted and laughed all the way and soon returned home.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, Mu'er excitedly shouted to them, "Daddy, Mommy. Grandpa Zhao said Heidian is going to have a baby."

The two looked at each other and walked in quickly. "Where is the black spot?"

"In the backyard. I'll take you there."

After Mu'er finished speaking, she took Xu Han's hand and quickly ran to the backyard.

When the three arrived, Grandpa Zhao had already prepared soft straw for Heidian and laid a layer of worn-out clothes on top.

The black spot on the straw was whining and looked as if it was in great pain.

Lu Chuan asked, "How is it? Is Heidian about to give birth?"

Grandpa Zhao cleaned up the area around Black Spot and replied to Lu Chuan, "She's about to give birth. Although these years have been natural disasters, Black Spot's physical foundation is very good, so there won't be any major problems."

Xu Han looked around Heidian and said, "That's fine. Looking at Heidian's belly, I guess this is another baby."

Lu Chuan smiled and said, "Last time, they had four babies in one litter, and they all survived. Judging from this belly, there should be about three or four more."