A few cents a day may not sound like much, but ordinary farmers nowadays do not have so many ways to make money. They can earn more than ten yuan a month by walking around the streets releasing eagles and catching birds for fun. Such jobs are not easy to find.

You know, Yue Feng’s family is building a house, and such heavy work, the wage for a laborer is only fifty cents a day.

If you perform well in spring and summer, you can be selected to join Yue Feng’s hunting team and participate in falconry hunting in the mountains in autumn. By then, your income can be multiplied several times.

“Hearing what big brother said, it seems that there is no problem! Let’s come early tomorrow. Do we need to prepare anything?” Xiaowen continued to ask.

Yue Feng shook his head: “You don’t need to prepare anything in advance. Your main task tomorrow is to wear cotton gloves to tie up the little eagle, and then go outside to punch the eagle in the face!

As long as there is open sky and where there are many people, you can go there! Gather at my house in the evening, and then gather together for a few hours in the first half of the night to light the lanterns! “

“That’s great, these eagles, we can just pick whatever we want?”

After hearing about the free activities, Xiao Tao was quite excited to give Ying Chuang a face. This job has no restrictions, he can just stay at the entrance of any market or village.

“Well, just pick whatever you want! We train eagles in batches, and once they become top eagles, we’ll move on to the next batch.

The next few days will be quite tiring. Tomorrow I will go to the woods to catch little eagles. You should be prepared to serve several eagles by yourself.

This is a good eagle with good appearance and excellent in all aspects. You guys can keep it for yourselves to play with while I work later!

This one I just caught today is pretty good, I’ll handle this one myself!”

“What’s this bird called? What does ‘clean hair’ mean?” When the three brothers heard Yue Feng say this, they all looked at Xiao Songzier who was squatting in Yue Feng’s hands.

Only a few hours after Songzier returned home, he was already able to stand steadily on his hands. He stood in a very elegant manner, with his legs apart and his crotch more than two fingers wide. Looking from above, his body was almost a straight line, standing perfectly straight!

Yue Feng grinned: “Hehe! This is also a falcon from last year, but it left the nest early and was caught by chance. Its fetal hair has almost been replaced, so it is called clean hair!

Of the four eagles caught today, except for the first one with four pine nuts which was not so good, the other two were also pretty good!
Train him first, there’s still time to change him when something better comes along!”

Having said that, everyone immediately gave up the idea of ​​fighting over a good eagle. Among a dozen or twenty eagles, there would always be an eagle of good quality. The one who is close to the water will get the moon first. With Captain Yue Feng here, the others don’t have to worry about the eagle.

The brothers chatted for a while and then went home to rest early. Yue Feng said hello to his parents, held Xiao Jingmao in his left hand and held a flashlight in his right hand, and strolled to the new house.

The main work on the new house has been completed, leaving only the doors and windows of the main room and the new furniture. My mother is here most of the time except when she cooks during the day, so there is no need to worry.

Yue Feng had a good habit. He had many dogs, eagles and other livestock at home. He would inspect them every morning and evening as long as he was free.

He strolled to the new house with a flashlight, took out the key from his pocket and opened the door, then Yue Feng walked into the yard with a flashlight.

No one is living in the new house for the time being. To ensure safety, the family’s four hunting dogs are tied up in a doghouse made of wooden boards under the eaves of the north room.

Hearing their master’s movement, the four dogs came out of their kennels, whining a few words, and wagging their tails at Yue Feng.

Yue Feng played with the dog for a while, then opened the door of the warehouse on the east side with a flashlight.

The big black eagle lay in the nest, hugging the nest obediently, while the white eagle squatted on the falconry next to it. When it heard the noise, it cackled a few times.

After a winter of close interaction, the two eagles have become very familiar with their owner. Yue Feng checked the situation in the eagle house and confirmed that there was no problem. He played with Bai Mao for a while before putting it back on the falconer.

Half a month has passed since the black eagle laid its first egg. According to Yue Feng’s memory of the information in the online documentary, the incubation period of the common gyrfalcon is about 28 to 30 days.

This means that in about half a month, the two eagle babies will hatch.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng moved towards the place where the big black eagle was lying in its nest. While whispering comfort, he reached under the big black eagle’s body and took out a warm egg.

The big black eagle was very smart and knew that its owner had no ill will towards it, so it behaved extremely calmly during the egg-stealing behavior. It clucked softly and tilted its head to see what its owner was going to do.

Yue Feng shone a flashlight on the black eagle’s egg. Through the light, he could vaguely see that the inside of the egg had begun to hatch and some tissues had begun their initial development.

Great, this is a healthy fertilized egg!
Yue Feng returned the egg and took out another one. There were five eggs in total, and he checked them all one by one with a flashlight.

I don’t know if it’s because the two eagles have extremely strong physical fitness, but there are no unfertilized eggs among the five eggs. All of them are fertilized eggs with some developed tissues.

If everything goes well, we will get five offspring of the cross between the white gyrfalcon and the melanistic gyrfalcon.

The melanistic plumage gene of the Gyrfalcon is a dominant gene over the white plumage gene. When mating with a white Gyrfalcon, if the Black Hawk is homozygous for the melanistic gene, all offspring will be black.

If it is a heterozygous black feather gene, when it is paired with a white gyrfalcon, there is also a 50% chance of getting a black offspring. Theoretically, out of five baby falcons, at least two or three will be black individuals.

Yue Feng was very excited when he thought that this big baby would give birth to cubs every year.

After spending some time with the two birds in the eagle house, Yue Feng closed the door of the shed and strolled back home.

The next morning, just after daybreak, the three brothers Xiaotao, Xiaowen and Xiaowu arrived at Yuefeng’s house on time.

Meng Yulan cooked a big pot of breakfast. After waking up her family, everyone gathered around the table and ate breakfast, slurping corn porridge.

After my mother brought the last bowl of pickles, she said to Yue Feng, “By the way, Xiaofeng, your little sister has something to tell you! She wanted to tell you last night, but she fell asleep when you came back!”

Yue Feng raised his head slightly and looked at Jingjing who was still a little confused: “What’s wrong, Jingjing, what do you want to tell me?”

“Brother, can our family raise a bear cub? My classmate Liu Maochen’s family wants to sell the bear cub!” Jingjing said to Yue Feng with sparkling eyes.

“What the hell? You think there aren’t enough mouths to feed at home? And you’re urging your brother to raise a bear cub?”

Hearing that what her daughter was obsessed with was instigating Yue Feng to raise a bear cub, Meng Yulan put down the bowl she was holding with a sullen look on her face.

Jingjing hugged Yue Feng’s arm, half of her body pressed against Yue Feng and whispered: “Brother, our family has a place now… let Uncle Zhao raise the pigs in the farm on the mountain!!” While saying this, she secretly glanced at her mother and father’s reactions.

When Yue Feng heard his little sister encouraging him to raise a bear, his first reaction was to refuse, but then he thought again and it seemed possible.

Yue Feng had an impression of the little bear cub in Jingjing’s family. Last winter, the little bear cub was cut down by lumberjacks and their house was ransacked before it even opened its eyes. The bear cub was then given to Jingjing’s classmate Liu Maochen’s father as a toy to amuse the child.

This bear cub has a small appetite before it opens its eyes, so it doesn’t matter if you keep it for fun. But once it grows up in spring, its appetite will increase sharply. Yue Feng guessed that it was probably because the family couldn’t afford to keep it, so they wanted to get rid of it.

“Is it the little bear cub that was brought home before the New Year without opening its eyes? Why do you want to sell it?” Yue Feng did not agree immediately, but asked.

Jingjing chattered, “I heard from Liu Maochen that the little bear in his family eats more than the big fat pig at home, and he can’t afford to keep it!
I am the deputy monitor, and I am responsible for checking Liu Maochen’s homework. If our family buys it, I will ask him to sell it to us at a lower price! ! “

Wow, Jingjing has found out almost all the information and can even use her “privilege” to bargain.

“Xiao Feng, are you really spoiling your little sister? Do you want to buy her a bear? No!!” Meng Yulan raised her voice immediately when she saw the two of them starting to discuss something.

Yue Feng smiled and glanced at his mother: “This bear cub that was taken back before its eyes opened can be raised!
My uncle Zhao is in the mountains, and he has no one to keep him company. If he wants to keep it, I can buy it back for a little money!”

“You bought a bear just to raise it for fun? Is it because your family’s life has just gotten better that you’ve become proud of yourself? Boss, tell me about your son!!” Seeing that her son was really interested, Meng Yulan turned to look at Yue Lei.

Without waiting for Yue Lei to speak, Yue Feng continued, “If I buy this bear, I won’t just keep it for fun!
My uncle Zhao is an expert who can even train a red dog and take him hunting!

It would be awesome if he could train this bear cub to be a hunting helper!

By then, with eight dogs as support and a black bear as the main force, we can deal with tigers, bears, and bears, not to mention the three or four hundred kilograms of cannon balls!”

“Fuck!!”

“Fuck!”

When Mom and Dad heard Yue Feng’s idea, they didn’t react. But Xiao Tao, Xiaowen and Xiaowu, who were eating beside them without interrupting, said something in unison.

It would be difficult for those who have never taken hunting dogs to the mountains to hunt seriously to understand Yue Feng’s strange train of thought.

The most fundamental shortcoming of hunting dogs when they go into the mountains to hunt in a dog enclosure is their lack of ability to engage in head-on confrontation.

No matter whether it is a wild boar, a bear, a tiger, a leopard or any other large prey, the dog can only feint and wait for the owner to catch up before ending the fight as soon as possible.

During this process, if the terrain is not advantageous, the lead dog will not be able to avoid the attack of the prey and may be injured at the very least, or even suffer direct casualties.

However, what if there is a thick-skinned black bear in the dog pack to serve as a “trusted” participant in the battle?

During World War II, Poland had a record of taming brown bears to carry artillery shells and even awarding them military ranks.

If Uncle Zhao can train this bear cub to be a hunting partner, with the addition of the bear, the actual combat effectiveness of the dog gang will soar to what it is! (End of this chapter)