Then he explained that planting just a few hundred acres of land could sustain a tribe of thirty or more people. Three to four hundred acres is actually a very small piece. A field 600 meters long and 400 meters wide is already 400 acres, which is just a small loop around the settlement.
As for breeding, since the survival rates of artificially bred lambs and piglets are far higher than those of wild ones, these livestock will become more and more numerous, more than they can eat.
They try to tame one or two sheep or pigs for these tribes, but whether they succeed depends on luck.
The young ones are relatively easy to tame, while the adults are hard to tame due to their wild nature.
Catching a pregnant female beast and keeping it in a cage until it gives birth makes it easy to domesticate the young ones.
Some primitives wish for easy gains, hoping Ma Lin and others would give them more iron tools, cloth, help with building houses, firing pottery, and taming wild animals.
