The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 72 Planning the Rabbit House

Chu Ying went to Uncle Qi's house early and invited Uncle Qi to build a house. Now there are not many houses built, so Uncle Qi is making some wooden pieces at home.

When she came back, Chu Ying chopped a few thick chestnut trees, arranged the wood in the downwind of the house, and then drew the plan of the rabbit nest she had envisioned with charcoal on the paper.

Ventilation and heat preservation are the key. The purpose of building this rabbit nest is to prevent the heatstroke of the rabbits due to the hot weather outside in summer, and several rabbits are about to give birth. More partitions are needed to separate them separately to avoid harassment and uninterrupted conception of male rabbits.

Place 3 layers of rabbit cages in the middle of the house with the best view, and distribute them around the four walls of the house. The rabbit cages are divided into different sizes, which is convenient for the mating of male and female rabbits and the care of the born rabbits.

The bottom of the rabbit cage has a tray that can be pulled out, and hay is placed on it to facilitate the cleaning of the rabbit's poop. Rabbits are very clean animals and will lick their bodies to clean themselves, so cleaning the rabbit nest is very important.

Rabbits like to be dry and avoid wetness, and the water in the bowl may be polluted by the rabbit's poop, so the rabbit will get sick and die after drinking the dirty water.And there is no drinking fountain suitable for rabbits here, so Chu Ying can only draw the bamboo bowl in the middle and lower part of the cage alone.

Put it at the bottom of the cage to avoid the rabbits polluting the water, and install it too high to prevent the rabbits from reaching it. The middle and lower positions are the best, and you are not afraid that the rabbits will wet their nests by playing with water.

Rabbits move day and night, lie in the cage during the day, jump and run more at night, eat and drink constantly, need to put more fodder, but if you put too much in the nest, you are afraid of being trampled by rabbits and eat it. And afraid of getting sick.

Chu Ying hasn't figured out how to deal with this forage problem, after all, there is no special feed for rabbits here. "It's time to eat."

Chu Ying watched a little rabbit with its mouth upturned eating the grass growing outside the fence. Because of the fence, the rabbit tried several times before it could eat it.

This time I finally ate rice, Ye Qiu even ate two more bowls of rice, but Chu Ying was only thinking about feeding grass fodder.

Ye Qiu waved his hand in front of Chu Ying's eyes. Today, the child is only staring at the rabbit and drawing something he doesn't understand. He doesn't know what he's doing, and he doesn't eat well now.

"If you don't eat it, you don't have anything to eat." Ye Qiu put some water shield in Chu Ying's bowl, and went to the lake in the morning to pick a barrel of water shield and lotus root. The young leaves on the water shield didn't need to be planted, just picked In order to cook, the lotus root joints were also cut up according to what Chu Ying said, leaving the section connected in the middle of the lotus joints, and planting these small sections separately.

"I figured it out." Seeing Chu Ying yelling, Ye Qiu ran back to draw something on the paper. Ye Qiu could only add more firewood to the stove, or it would cool down before Chu Ying was ready to eat. up.

Chu Ying drew another basket outside the rabbit cage. The rabbit cage is made of wood at intervals. Chu Ying added a horizontal fence outside, starting from the height of the bamboo water cup and going up. This small fence can hold fresh grass , Make it bigger and you can put the forage needed at night.

If you don’t put it in a cage, the rabbit will not be able to ravage it, and it starts from the height of the water cup, which is a suitable position for the rabbit to sit, so that the rabbit eats the grass below, and the grass above will fall by itself. If the fence is lowered, the rabbit will not eat the grass at the bottom, so the grass will be wasted, and the grass will be broken if it is left there.

After all, when the time comes, the feed will come in directly from above.And the forage should be placed vertically with the fence, so that the forage will not fall out from the gap in the fence.

The problem of fodder and drinking water has been solved, and what is left is the exercise of the rabbits. After all, these are wild rabbits, which are more active and do not want to be domesticated by humans for several generations of domestic rabbits and pet rabbits.

Moreover, exercising more rabbits can enhance immunity. There are no pills or potions specially prepared for rabbits here, and rabbits are mostly prey. If you take them to a pharmacy, no one will be willing to see a doctor.

Chu Ying drew a few roads surrounded by wood on the paper on the outside of the house. From the time of going out, there was only one road, and some places were left for her to enter and exit. Divides into three lanes leading to three fenced wooden fences.

Originally, it would be enough to just make a fence, but Chu Ying wanted to control the fur color, let the variegated and variegated play together, and the pure color play with the pure color, so that even if she didn't pay attention when playing, she had The new bunny doesn't worry about color either.

Chu Ying only has black, white and motley-colored rabbits now, but seeing that the mottled-colored rabbits still have brown on them, it is estimated that there will be brown rabbits. This fence can be rebuilt by myself at that time, and only needs to be in the side passage Just separate out a wooden door, and the wooden door can be used to control the passage at that time.

Chu Ying drew a few raised wooden pots for feeding grass in the fence, just like in the rabbit nest, there are gaps in the middle of the wood, so that the grass will not be wasted.And it is made into a round shape, which is also convenient for many rabbits to eat at the same time.

When the flowers were almost ready, Chu Ying compared the blueprints on the location to be built, as if feeling that the rabbit nest was about to break out of the ground, and looked at those big eyes waiting for Yuanyuan to look at her cutely. Rabbit, I feel as if there is something I have missed.

Chu Ying looked at the fence that had already been bitten by rabbits and had several layers of skin peeled off, and drew a few round pieces of wood on the rabbit cage, hoping that the rabbits would stay far away and seek closer, instead of biting the cage, they would bite these molar sticks instead.And these small logs should be thicker, so that the rabbit can lie on the logs or play.

Chu Ying did not paint these molar sticks on the outer fence. If the outer fence is broken, it is very convenient to replace it, but if the rabbit cage is ready, it will be troublesome to replace one or a few pieces of wood.

Chu Ying looked at the drawn blueprint several times, and finally put it under the clothes with satisfaction, but seeing her hands blackened by charcoal, she smirked, washed her hands, and went to the kitchen to pick up the still warm meal.

"Hurry up, it's already hot." Chu Ying looked at Ye Qiu who was already washing the dishes, and it was true that the rice and fish soup were still hot.

The rabbit house is built a little far away from the bedroom, because the rabbits sometimes grind their teeth and make squeaky noises in the middle of the night, which affects sleep, and the rabbits still have some smell after all, so it would be bad if you wake yourself up in the middle of the night.

Chu Ying slowly moved the logs together one by one, looked at Ye Qiu who was planting water shield in the pond, and sucked in the snot that was about to flow down, she still had to pay attention to her body, otherwise the bitter medicine would be inseparable I'm sick, and it's not because I'm hypocritical. The medicine seems to be more bitter this time. When I go to the city to see if I can buy some sugar, I can use it if I take medicine.

This iron ax is really handy to use. Before it was hard to cut down a tree, but now I can cut down a tree in a few strokes. The efficiency has been improved a lot, and I don't worry that it will become two petals when the ax goes down.

(End of this chapter)