Chapter 317 New Dog Encirclement Attempt
Once, after the black eagle finished its routine flight in the yard, Yue Feng didn’t pay attention when returning to the house and didn’t put a hat on the black eagle.

This is not a big problem. It is normal to put on the hat when you return to the house. Black Hawk usually has no resistance to hats and will go to sleep with the hat on.

The big black eagle, who was squatting on Yue Feng’s arm normally and obediently, discovered the white spear squatting on another falcon stand as soon as Yue Feng pushed open the door and entered the west room.

The big black eagle had its feathers pressed against its body, its head lowered, and was staring at the wounded White Spear with a look of vigilance and anger, as if it would suddenly jump up and fight with the White Spear with a bayonet if the opponent dared to move.

Quack, quack, quack!
A threatening and intimidating rattling sound came from the big black eagle’s throat.

Bai Mao, who was squatting on the falconry with his hat on and relaxing a second ago, immediately curled up into a ball when he heard the noise.

Its fluffy feathers were pressed against its body, and it nodded slightly continuously to confirm the direction from which the sound came.

This reaction is very intuitive, and you can tell what it means without having to guess.

Because the big black eagle had been provoked several times before, it was very resistant to the white spear. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were ready to fight each other as soon as they met.

In comparison, Baimao was completely defeated by Big Black Eagle last time, so he no longer had the energy to show off and compete.

Whether in terms of physical fitness or combat ability, White Spear was completely suppressed by Black Hawk.

If Yue Feng, the master, had not seen that things were not going well and immediately blew the whistle to call back Big Black Hawk, Bai Mao would have been killed by Big Black Hawk 100%, and there would be no chance for him to recover from his injuries now.

“Alright, alright, alright! Stop scaring it! It’s convinced!”

Yue Feng did not immediately block Black Hawk’s line of sight to force an end to the confrontation. Instead, he stroked Black Hawk’s hair on the top of his head and whispered comforting words, like a parent trying to stop a quarrel between his children.

The big black eagle can understand the simple words of its owner and knows that he is trying to comfort it and not be so aggressive.

After barking a few times, Dahei stopped barking. He lowered his head and bit the large ring nail on his right claw. The sharp eagle beak rubbed against the large ring nail, making a crackling sound.

Yue Feng also understood this reaction and gesture. For the sake of his master, he will not bother with you. If you dare to show off again, I will use my sharp eagle beak and claws to deal with you!

“Alright, alright! Stop scaring it! It was severely injured by you last time. It’s still unclear whether it can fly!”

Yue Feng smiled slightly when he saw the big black eagle’s somewhat arrogant attitude. He reached out and touched its beak, then touched the breast flower on its chest along its neck.

After continuous soothing, the big black eagle finally calmed down.

He opened his mouth, released the claw hook, lifted his left leg, and squatted on Yue Feng’s arm with one leg. The feathers on his head and upper body also became fluffy, and he entered a state of dozing off to maintain his health.

“It’s a deal, from now on Xiaobai is your little brother! You can’t bully it anymore! Look up, I’ll put the hat on you!” Yue Feng muttered again and took off the eagle hat.

The big black eagle raised its head obediently. Yue Feng pinched the tassel of the eagle hat, put the hat on casually, and then put the big black eagle on the falconry to rest.

After calming down the big black eagle, Yue Feng took the clean water for Bai Mao as usual, dipped a cotton cloth in the water, and then squeezed it for Bai Mao to drink.

I don’t know if it was the cry of the big black eagle just now that gave Baimao a certain amount of survival pressure.

This time, its movements of drinking water were particularly cooperative, taking several big gulps. Almost no water leaked from the corners of its mouth, and all of it went into its stomach.

After taking two gulps of water, the white spear seemed to be still unsatisfied. He put on his hat and groped in the dark, looking up slightly to find the source of water. After his upper beak touched the soft cotton cloth, he actually took a tentative bite and tasted it with the tip of his tongue.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng was delighted, this is possible, he has only been home for three days and he is already preparing to eat?
Thinking of this, Yue Feng immediately turned around and left the house. He went to the back of the kitchen and got some hawk food that was normally prepared for the big black hawk.

The meat that black eagles usually eat can be divided into two types. If they have caught prey while out of range, they will basically eat it alive on the same day, mainly high-energy hearts, livers and internal organs. They will be fed as much as the prey eats. After a day in the mountains, they will have a large crop on their heads when they return home, and it will take several hours to be pushed down into the lower crop and digested.

If it is a day when it does not go up the mountain, the Big Black Hawk’s daily ration is basically the sand pheasants, turtledoves, quails and other birds caught during the daily hunting.

After a simple processing and removal of large claws, wing tips, keel and other parts, cut them into pieces of appropriate size and feed them together with the bones and soft hair on the body surface.

The beak of the black eagle is very sharp. When it eats a chick, it will chew the tiny bones into pieces and swallow them into its stomach. In the morning, it will spit them out together with the feather shaft.
This is the way you feed the eagles at home on a daily basis, but you cannot be so rough when feeding live eagles.

A live eagle is in a state of stress, so you should not feed it meat with bones or bits of meat. If it doesn’t eat well, it will enter the crop. If it struggles and flies around, it may hit the crop or other internal organs and damage them, which can easily cause problems.

After Yue Feng got the food prepared for the big black eagle, he selected a few relatively clean pieces of breast meat, removed the dragon bones and hairy skin, leaving only fresh clean meat, picked it up with a pair of chopsticks, and came to Bai Mao.

The clean meat was dipped in the bowl of water and then placed above the eagle’s beak. Clean water mixed with the blood drops on the clean meat fell down and was quickly drunk by Bai Mao.

After tasting the bloody taste, Bai Mao made an obvious smacking motion on his lips, and Yue Feng took the opportunity to pick up the piece of meat and bring it to his mouth.

The eagle’s beak felt the touch of the meat and took another tentative bite. This time there was a delicious smell of meat. Xiaobai immediately exerted force with his eagle’s beak and began to tear and bite.

As long as he starts to tear the meat actively, then the most difficult step of eating with a hat on will be considered successful. Yue Feng slowly held the meat and let Xiaobai tear it, tearing the meat into pieces and swallowing it.

After eating one piece, Yue Feng picked up the second and third pieces. He dipped the fresh meat in water and then in the golden-edged earthworm powder and fed them to Xiaobai together.

This golden-edged earthworm is also an animal-based Chinese medicine. Xiaobai had almost no resistance and quickly ate three matchbox-sized pieces of sand and half chicken breast.

With food in its crop, Xiaobai became much more stable. Yue Feng did not give it a big crop all at once. He stopped feeding it when it was 20% full.

Over the next few days, Yue Feng took good care of the injured white spear falcon, weighing and recording its weight every day, helping it blow the whistle when feeding it twice a day, and developing basic conditioned reflexes for falcon training.

Overall, the little guy’s recovery is relatively stable. The wound on his back has scabbed over, and the small fluff that fell off when the big black eagle kicked his back has also grown thin feather tubes again.

The effect of this golden-edged earthworm in removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration is indeed very good. Yue Feng can feel that Xiaobai’s condition is recovering day by day. On the seventh day after arriving home, the wings that had been drooping with their swords on them were finally recovered to their normal angle and position.

Seeing this scene, Yue Feng felt relieved.

Yue Feng was not afraid of minor injuries, as long as the eagle was well fed and well fed, it would recover sooner or later. What he feared most was permanent damage to the tendons, bones and ligaments on the wings, which would render the eagle useless.

On the other hand, while Bai Mao was recovering from his injuries, the family’s hunting team had been constantly hunting with hawks.

Whether it was the Iron-backed Red Eagle, the young eagle, or the Great Blue Harrier, the three main falcons were all of a relatively hard type. When they were fully fat, they could withstand the situation of releasing the eagles at a slightly higher intensity for a short period of time. When Yue Feng and his team went into the mountains to hunt large-scale eagles without releasing them, they only needed to increase their food appropriately to make up for the lost weight.

After this period of high-intensity hunting, the game reserves at the second canteen have reached a relatively high level, and there is time to continue leading the team to hunt in the mountains.

The night before, Yue Feng held a meeting with the hunting team members. In the next period of time, they would go up the mountain with high intensity as previously discussed.

The hunting team uses the distance they can go up the mountain early in the morning and return on the same day as their activity radius, and continuously searches a large area around their home.

On the one hand, if you encounter wild animals such as roe deer and wild boars, you must fight them back. On the other hand, if you encounter a sable, you must try your best to catch it.

Especially for adult pregnant minks with cubs, no one will be let go even if they are caught by mistake. All of them will be caught and used as future seed reserves for the sable farms.

Seeing this, some people may have doubts. Since they want to speed up the construction of the mink farm and hunt sables everywhere, why don’t they go to the forest farm and sweep the farm again?

Indeed, in terms of efficiency, catching sables is definitely more efficient in Xiatuozi Mountain and Jindingzi, but there is a relatively mature natural living environment there, which can keep the population density of sables breeding freely in the wild within a certain reasonable range.

In this situation, the high-intensity manhunt is like draining the pond to catch all the fish. After catching all the fish, there will be nothing more to catch in a short time.

The core production areas take breeding efficiency and local population density into consideration, while in ordinary mountain forests where sables are relatively sparsely distributed, there are no advantageous living environment conditions, so naturally there is no scale effect. Yue Feng and his team did not have any psychological burden after catching them.

On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, the four Yue Feng brothers had breakfast at home early, then they rode out of the village with their hawks and dogs, heading straight for Forest Area No. 35, which was farther away from the village.

It has been mentioned more than once before that within the planning radius of the forest farm designated as the logging area, in order to distinguish the places, the local authorities have assigned certain numbers to different forest areas on the mountain.

This Forest Area No. 35 is more than three and a half hours away from Xing’an Village, which is almost as far away as Woniu Mountain. It is a remote mountain area rarely visited by ordinary mountain people.

I left home just after daybreak in the morning, and by the time Yue Feng and the others arrived, it was already past half past eight.

This is a selective logging forest. After selective logging a few years ago, almost all the large trees that met the requirements in the huge mountain area were cut down and transported away.

Without the shelter of the big trees, the mountain field has become a paradise for small trees and shrubs, gradually turning into a secondary forest that is recovering but has not yet formed a certain scale.

In his previous life, Yue Feng and the old hunter who took him to collect big skins also came here frequently. They chose mountain areas for logging, where there was sufficient food and terrain advantages, as well as scattered trees, which they could use to climb trees and hide and escape. Therefore, the relative density of sables in such mountain areas would be slightly higher.

In addition, in this kind of mountain area full of secondary forests, animals such as roe deer, wild boars, etc. can more easily feed on tender branches, leaves and buds, so hunting here, whether it is hunting by hunting with dogs or hunting with wolves, is a good choice.

When they arrived at the destination, Xiao Tao, who was leading the dog, stopped.

“Brother, should we let the dogs go today, or should we keep them on a leash and have everyone spread out to search the mountain slowly?

I see that the field here is quite bright. The snow crust has flattened the bushes and branches, and the dog is running quite fast on them!”

There is a big difference between searching slowly while holding the dog and letting the dog go freely.

There is a trade-off here.

If the dog is on a leash, it will move with the person, tracking the prey by scent and footprints. After finding the prey, the eagle will be released, or the hunter will use a gun to end the battle and harvest the prey.

The advantage of this is that it is relatively safer, the dog will hardly be at any risk, and will be within the hunter’s sight throughout the process.

But there are also obvious disadvantages. When a hunter moves with a dog, the speed of tracking prey will be limited by the hunter’s walking speed.

In addition, searching the mountains while rushing will inevitably make some noises. Some more alert animals, such as lynx, fox, wild boar, deer, etc., will run away far away when they hear the noise before they come into people’s sight.

It is obvious that they live and work in this mountain area, but hunters just can’t find them, let alone hunt them.

Another method is to release the hunting dogs, give the command to search, and then let the leader dog lead the gang to hunt down the prey that has left a scent.

The dogs move much faster than the hunters. After the dog gang finds the scent and chases it, they are almost free to move.

It’s not certain what you will encounter or catch at this time. If you are lucky, you can hold down a wild boar weighing 100 or 200 kilograms, and the dog will not be hurt, and everyone will be happy.

If you are unlucky and encounter a cannon egg or a lynx, the dog will easily be injured.

To be fair, since Yue Feng has guns, dogs and eagles, he is not really in favor of the dog-dominated fighting style.

But even though he didn’t follow it, Yue Feng himself had to admit that if he wanted to improve the efficiency of searching the mountains and hunting, he had to let the dogs run wild so that he would have more chances of success.

Faced with the question, Yue Feng frowned slightly, took out a piece of wild boar skin from his pocket, and then took out a piece of sable’s paw fur.

“Black Wolf, smell this! Big Yellow, you come and smell this! Let’s let the dogs loose today!”

The scent of sable was given to Rhubarb, and the source of the scent of wild boar was given to Black Wolf.

This is an improved version of the dog hunting search mode. Instead of letting the dogs catch whatever they encounter, they are given a clearer target scent to search for.

The black wolf was very excited when he smelled the wild boar, and the big yellow dog was also very familiar with the smell of the sable. The two dogs remembered the scent left by their owner in a few seconds and barked a few times to signal their owner that it was time to start.

“Good dogs, go find them! Release the dogs!” Yue Feng called out, and the four dogs in the dog gang were immediately untied and started sniffing around.

The plan of dividing the troops this time was something Yue Feng had thought of before he entered the mountain.

Now Yue Feng also doesn’t know what new “chemical reaction” will occur when this new dog-encirclement method is used in actual combat with the support of the Big Black Hawk.

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