"So you all help Xavier herd his chicks together?" Jasmine asked.
"Yes, my chicks and Sir Xavier's, as well as Lyca's, are all kept together to be raised. Angus said letting the chicks run around more outside can make them grow healthier and less prone to getting sick."
When the number of chickens was large, they were very prone to getting sick, even leading to situations like a chicken plague. Currently, the subjects had not yet been distributed separate houses; dormitories where over a dozen people lived together were not suitable for raising poultry and livestock. Distributing chicks to the school children to raise as homework now was actually an idea for the children to test raising them separately from the flock first, and conveniently, it also cultivated the children's ability to care for poultry and livestock.
The terrain of the Black Dragon territory was flat, making it actually very suitable for developing animal husbandry.
