Chapter 432 Eagle
The next second, Yue Feng immediately pushed open the door of the eagle house and walked in.

Seeing its owner coming in, the little white eagle standing on the falconry hung its head and cackled a few times, while the big black eagle next to it lay in the nest without getting up. It stretched out its neck, held a pine stick in its mouth and moved to the side.

Yue Feng did not rush to check, but slightly tilted his ear to listen to the movement in the nest.

Chi Chi Chi!
The sound is not loud, but it is very recognizable, like the clear little cry of a newborn bird.

“The baby has hatched? Let me take a look!!” After Yue Feng confirmed the voice of the little eagle, he immediately moved towards the big black eagle.

He reached out his hand and felt among the feathers under the big black eagle’s belly. Sure enough, two warm and furry little guys had hatched from the eggshells.

Newly born gyrfalcon chicks are very small, covered with white fur, and look like a miniature plush toy.

The little guy has only been out of the shell for half a day at most, and his eyes are not even open yet.

Feeling someone touching him, the little guy whined and cried a few more times.

Hearing the cub’s cry, the little white spear who had just become a father became a little nervous. He made a long “ga ga ga” sound and moved closer to Yue Feng with his wings drooping.

The meaning of the body movement is quite simple. The child is still young and cannot resist evil. So don’t pick it up.

Yue Feng checked the health of the two babies. They had no injuries or defects, and their activities were normal.

Compared to Bai Mao’s nervousness, the big black eagle was relatively calm. It gently rubbed its head against the back of Yue Feng’s hand, its eyes squinted lazily, and it was not at all wary of its master touching its cub.

Yue Feng looked at the two furry little cubs for a few seconds and then put them back into their warm nest.

The next second, Yue Feng opened his palms and lifted them up consciously, forcing the big black eagle to stand up from its nesting position, revealing the other three eagle eggs under its belly.

Among the three eagle eggs, one had a small hole pecked in it near the big head, and the faint cry of a baby bird could be heard from the hole.

It goes without saying that the third chick should be able to hatch by tomorrow at the latest.

The other two eggs should be the last two laid, and they will need one to two days of incubation before they can hatch.

After checking the general condition of several eaglets in the eagle house, Yue Feng released the big black eagle back.

This guy has been lying in the nest incubating eggs for a long time. Most of the feathers under his belly have fallen off, and you can even vaguely see the flesh.

There were fresh sand chickens on the table next to the eagle’s nest. With Xiaobai, a capable nanny, there would be no worries about food. After checking it for a few times, Yue Feng made a breeding record of the first day of the eaglet’s birth in the record book under the eagle’s nest.

In his previous life, although Yue Feng had come into contact with many birds of prey, he had never had close contact with such a legendary and majestic bird as the Saker Falcon.

He gained more knowledge about raptor breeding through professional forums and documentaries watched over the Internet from abroad.

At present, the breeding of gyrfalcons in China is definitely still an absolute blank, so from the perspective of academic research, these seemingly insignificant records are of extremely high value.

Now that the breeding farms have been set up, the follow-up will naturally require more professional development.

After making the record, Yue Feng slapped his head and suddenly remembered that he forgot to prepare something in advance.

The leg ring represents the symbol of artificial breeding!!

In later generations, whether it is homing pigeons or parrots, or birds of prey introduced from abroad such as Harris’s Chestnut-winged Hawk, the closed-mouth leg rings they wear when they are still chicks are very important reference marks.

At this point in time, the relevant rules of the domestic wildlife protection law have not yet been issued, so there is no legal risk if you don’t wear a leg ring.

But now that the artificially bred chicks have left the nest, we naturally cannot be afraid of the trouble of buying professional things like leg rings.

If you want to make the raptors you have more valuable, you need to prepare things like breeding pedigree, bloodline tracing, and identity authentication in advance.

Yue Feng can use the experiences summarized by his predecessors in the previous life without hesitation, without worrying about taking any detours.

Realizing this, Yue Feng took out a small piece of cotton thread from his pocket and carefully measured the leg bone data of several adult birds’ claws and leg bones around the leg bones of the two adult birds, the Big Black Eagle and the Little White Spear.

With the circumference data of the adult bird, we can calculate the diameter of the leg ring. Then we can go to Tiecheng to find a jewelry craftsman to use silver to make a suitable leg ring, and the task will be completed.

Other things can be delayed, but this matter cannot be delayed. Just like the pigeon’s leg ring, it must be arranged as soon as possible before the chicks reach a certain age, otherwise when they grow up, the closed-mouth leg ring will not be able to be worn.

Realizing this, Yue Feng went to his father-in-law’s house that day and asked Wang Jianguo to help him get a letter of introduction. Then he rode his motorcycle straight to Tiecheng, which is adjacent to Fengcheng but more prosperous.

The last time I came to Tiecheng was last year when it snowed and I went with Uncle Li to buy a 56-yuan bicycle. I rode my bicycle unsteadily and fell several times on the way home, but I didn’t feel any pain. It’s been less than a year now, and Yuefeng’s bicycles have been relegated to the background. I’ve replaced them with military-branded motorcycle tricycles. It took more than an hour to reach our destination, Shixing Silver House on Tiecheng Commercial Street.

In this era, consumption of expensive gold and silver jewelry and the like is relatively low, but there is already a mature custom sales industry.

With money in his pocket and a letter of introduction issued by the village, Yue Feng walked to the front counter and found the salesperson. He mentioned that he wanted to customize a batch of silver jewelry. He was soon taken to the back to meet the master chef in charge of production.

Shixing Silver Shop has a store in the front and a workshop in the back. The person who received Yue Feng was a middle-aged man who was about 47 or 48 years old.

Yue Feng mentioned the approximate size, data, and requirements of the silver anklet. After a simple calculation, the other party quoted a fair price.

Affected by the international silver price, the silver price fluctuated greatly in 81. According to the quotation customized by Yue Feng at that time, the price of pure silver was one dollar and forty-three cents per gram.

The size of the anklet that Yue Feng wanted to customize was slightly larger. After calculation, the price of a finished anklet, including the labor cost, would be around eight yuan.

Five falcons, five leg rings. The cost of the leg rings alone is 40 yuan, not to mention the cost of riding a motorcycle all the way here.

However, Yue Feng paid the bill without hesitation. He made five male and female coins of different calibers, with a total price of more than 70 yuan. Both parties agreed to pick up the finished products in a week.

After getting the ID anklet for Xiaoying, Yue Feng went for a stroll in the business area in front of the silver shop and bought a women’s gold bracelet for his wife and mother respectively. Both were women’s rings weighing a little over 4 grams. They cost him more than yuan, and he took them home happily after paying.

After solving the problem of the eagle’s leg ring, Yue Feng went to the eagle house every morning and afternoon for the next few days to continue to observe and follow up on the eagle’s condition.

Three days later, all five eaglets had hatched, and the first two little ones to hatch were the first to open their eyes.

The newly hatched eagle does not actually eat much food every day. The food that Xiao Baimao catches every day is more than enough for the daily consumption of his wife and five children.

At the beginning, Yue Feng was worried that Black Hawk had no experience in taking care of babies for the first time, and would not make another mistake like not knowing how to feed the cubs and letting them starve to death.

After several observations, Yue Feng found that he was obviously worrying too much.

Although the big black eagle is quite fierce when following its owner into the mountains to hunt, it is extremely patient when feeding its babies.

Can you imagine that it can tear a little bit of meat from the chest of a sand chicken with just the eagle hook on its beak, and then carefully stuff it into the shaking mouth of the chick?

The feeding efficiency is indeed not very high, but it can fill the stomachs of several babies.

After the eaglet opened its eyes, Yue Feng consciously joined in the task of feeding the eaglet.

This is the only way for artificially breeding birds of prey and conducting double imprinting. It can ensure that after the chicks grow up with their parents, they will not have serious misjudgments about their owners’ identities, thereby improving basic affinity while ensuring the safety of subsequent breeding.

Every day, Yue Feng feeds the little guy fresh meat with tweezers once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

At first, the little fur balls were a little uncomfortable, but after eating a few times, they gradually accepted being fed by this two-legged beast they saw every day.

Before we knew it, it was already June. The temperature continued to rise, with the local outdoor temperature at noon easily exceeding 30 degrees.

The snow stored in the cellar finally melted as the temperature continued to rise, and the meat reserves stored at home faced a storage safety crisis for the first time.

If such a high temperature is left unchecked, the meat will go bad and rot in just a few days.

Fortunately, there is always a way out. Just as Yue Feng saw the temperature continue to rise and began to arrange with his family to keep the meat reserves from spoiling by using salt or boiling, good news came.

The village is going to have electricity!!

As soon as he heard the news from his father-in-law Wang Jianguo, Yue Feng rode his motorcycle into the city to find Brother Tiger.

I need help, no matter what the cost. I beg Brother Tiger to help me get a freezer with a larger capacity to store the meat that has not been consumed from hunting in winter and the offal for feeding the dogs.

When Yue Feng went to Wang Hu’s house this time, his sister-in-law was already pregnant. The due date was September, and she would give birth in three months. It was said that according to the ultrasound, it would be a big fat boy.

With the help of Wang Hu, Yue Feng finally got the quota for the commercial freezer that he had been longing for. After waiting for a few more days at the supply and marketing cooperative, he successfully drove his family’s tractor into the city and brought the village’s first large freezer back to his new home.

Rows of electric poles have been built in Xing’an Village, and the electric wires are then connected to every household.

With electricity, more possibilities were opened up. Electricity was available on both sides of Yue Feng’s new and old houses, and the meat reserves that had been preserved with great concern were finally guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)