Chapter 653: Piglet

Spring has arrived, and the wild boars in the mountains have begun to give birth to piglets.

Lawrence stood on the top of the mountain with three elves and eight human men and women, looking at the wild boars foraging in the valley.

One of the three elves is a spiritual wizard, and the other two are elf twins who have no witchcraft talent.

The elf twins are the elves who have been specially kept by their side for education in the past two years. In the future, the Ice Land needs some sensible elf leaders to coordinate, and cannot always rely on useless elf slaves.

"There are so many pigs here, big pigs and small pigs!"

Aruchu pointed to a big wild boar with several piglets in the valley, saying something that everyone can see.

Kalda looked at the distance and said, "There are many pig holes. Can pigs dig holes?"

"No." Lawrence looked at the shallow caves all over the hillside in the distance. "We sent people to dig those two-meter-deep caves. They are mainly to provide these pigs with a place to avoid the wind, snow and cold, so that sows can give birth to piglets."

"Just like humans, people are willing to have children only if they are provided with a secure house."

Aruchu asked curiously, "Do piglets come out one or two every one or two years?"

These elf children rarely see wild boars. The wild boars in the forest have been eaten, and wild boars are also prohibited from approaching the human activity areas of Oak City and Snow Mountain Castle.

Lawrence replied: "Animals can give birth more easily than humans. The sows in the mountains can grow from piglets to piglets in seven or eight months, and can get pregnant and give birth to piglets. They can give birth to two litters a year, with four to eight piglets in each litter, and some can give birth to ten piglets."

"Humans and elves only have one pair of udders, while sows have six pairs. Some of the six pairs have very little milk. If too many piglets are born, some piglets will not be able to get a place with more milk to feed, and then starve to death due to lack of nutrition."

"Under normal circumstances, only five or six piglets in a litter can survive and grow up."

"Spring and autumn are the breeding seasons every year. After spring plowing and autumn harvest, it is time for sows to give birth to piglets. At this time, boars should be driven away from the valleys and hillsides to provide a safe place for sows with piglets."

"Some food should also be fed at ordinary times to prevent sows from biting piglets when they are hungry."

Lawrence continued to popularize basic knowledge about pig farming for elf children and human men and women who followed him to learn management.

Pig farming is something that is done everywhere in the Star Country, and replacing beef and mutton with pork has also been a policy in recent years.

From ham to pig's trotters, as well as the popular pig ears and braised pork, the pork culture in the Ice Land is very easy to promote.

Even the barbarians know the preciousness of cattle and sheep, so eating pork instead of beef and mutton is the most logical thing.

As more pigs are raised, the breeds of pigs are also screened.

Now heavy wild boars that are specially used to transport heavy objects have been bred. This heavy wild boar, which is similar to a heavy truck, is very greedy. Even a team of more than a dozen families can only barely raise one.

There are only two hundred heavy wild boars in the Ice Land. In addition to ceremonial use, most of them are used to transport wood for the garrison troops to patrol on horseback.

Nanzhen, Ster, Wakiri and the forest tribes all need this big guy to deter the villains.

At the same time, because the food treatment in the Star Country is good, the army has a lot of surplus food, so it can indeed raise heavy wild boars.

The role of heavy wild boars is to make up for the transportation function other than oxen and Dom sheep.

In addition to Pig, the king of wild boars, there is also a group of ordinary wild boars in the Agamar Mountains. These wild boars are relatively large, larger than elephants.

Lawrence did not hunt these wild boars with precious tusks for Pig's sake. As long as they do not approach farmland to damage and injure people, there will be no problem.

Some of Pig's descendants have been successfully domesticated and become mountain pigs that can help lumberyards and blacksmiths to drag heavy objects.

The big wild boars domesticated in the original Pig Trotter City are still used for charging in battles.

Lawrence has domesticated short, strong and obedient little wild boars. These little wild boars, which are less than 1.2 meters tall, are stronger and healthier and can be used as mounts for female warriors.

The most needed meat pigs are not bred so quickly.

Lawrence took the students to the free-range pig activity area on the other side, where there are many boars that are well fed and basking in the sun.

"The most important thing about raising pigs is castration." Lawrence took out the surgical box from the warehouse and began to disinfect the scalpel.

Some of the nearby pig farmers had seen it once, while others saw it for the first time.

While Lawrence sorted out the surgical tools, he continued to explain the reasons and share the knowledge used by piglets around the world.

"The meat quality of castrated boars will be better. Pork that has not been castrated tastes terrible."

"Also, it is convenient for management. Boars before castration will fight for the position of the boss all day long, and will also fight with other pigs for territory and food, wasting energy in the body, which is not conducive to stable growth."

"Boars after castration will be much more stable, no longer thinking about those unhappy things, and growing happily every day."

"Boars and sows must be castrated, so that they will not get pregnant casually. Otherwise, the sows in the pigsty will get pregnant casually, which will cause chaos in management. Now what we have to do is to stabilize the annual breeding period and fix the time after spring plowing and autumn harvest to let the sows give birth to piglets."

"Castration can only be used on animals. Don't think about using it on humans and elves. This is a capital crime and you will be beaten to death."

Lawrence educated the two twins who were eager to try, and the elf twins quickly agreed like chickens pecking at rice.

Lawrence asked the wizard to control the boars one by one, so that he could castrate the piglets that wanted to escape.

The students nearby also helped to do things. Some went to catch pigs, some were responsible for applying healing potions to the injured parts of the piglets, and some children squatted beside and watched curiously.

The elf twins were only five or six years old, and they were children both among humans and elves.

Although they could communicate, it would be naive to expect them to learn anything. Lawrence mainly carried out long-term education to make the two elves familiar with the operation of this country.

Elves have a longer lifespan and are generally conservative.

I used to think that elves were not good, but in recent years I suddenly felt that elves were not a problem, and even had the idea of ​​supporting elves to stabilize some radical ideas in this country.

The control of the elf queen over the tribe and the suppression and weakening of the wizards were actually no worse than those civilized countries that Lawrence had experienced in terms of political means.

Lawrence, who knew what kind of people the ruling groups in the civilized world were, the more he understood the difference between the upper and lower structures of the elves, the more he felt that the queen was right, and even found that the queen did more than he could imagine!

What did the queen do wrong?

If we compare it with the civilized world that Lawrence has experienced, he can't find any fault with the queen.

If we have to say what is wrong, it is probably that she is not capable of resisting the invasion of aliens.

Is this the queen's fault?

But Lawrence can't count on the elven queen, nor on most of the witches around him.

In addition to people like Salir, Lathander, Khalan, and Bull who can stand up and preside over the overall situation at critical moments, Lawrence also needs to stabilize the middle level and keep the ice land running normally.

Beoff is in the east, Luke is in the west, and Seravan is in the south. The north is uninhabited and has no enemies, and no one is willing to go there.

But even so, Lawrence arranged for the wizard Will to be stationed on the desolate ice island in the north.

Will likes the cold territory that can preserve corpses and materials. Anyway, he has a constant supply of fuel and food to hide in the house from the cold and conduct research. The colder and quieter it is outside, the more convenient it is for him.

Lawrence and Will have many unknown agreements, one of which is that when the Ice Land is in trouble, Will will come back to help.

Compared with the protection of the outside world, Lawrence cares more about the operation of the Ice Land and needs an internal affairs officer who can get things done.

The elf twins, who are just five or six years old, are an investment in the future. (End of this chapter)