In the next half month, Yue Feng did several things.

According to the agreed time for custom-made silverware, we went to Tiecheng on time to pick up the customized sterling silver anklets. When the eaglets reached 12 days old and could be distinguished by appearance whether they were male or female, we put the anklets engraved with their identification numbers on them.

The meat reserves stored in the cellar at home were also transferred to the freezer in advance.

In the following two months of June and July, Yue Feng basically went back and forth between his home, Uncle Chen’s home, the breeding farm on the mountain, and the second canteen.

As time went by, the five eaglets in the family grew up slowly. They changed from tiny balls of fur at the beginning to eaglets weighing two or three pounds with healthy feathers all over their bodies.

Among these five eaglets, there are three black ones, one male and two females, and two white ones, one male, one female and two white. The gender ratio is relatively balanced. Two of the three black gyrfals are females, which surprised Yue Feng even more.

During the period from the time the eaglets hatched to the time they grew their feathers, Yue Feng focused most of his energy on these little guys.

Every day, I participate in feeding on a regular basis like a parent bird, and then establish a conditioned reflex for the little ones to gather and eat when the whistle is blown.

When the baby eagles began to learn to fly, Yue Feng spent most of his time with these little guys.

According to Yue Feng’s plan, these first batch of five chicks must be kept as breeding birds.

When the breeding farm on the mountain was first built, relevant plans and cages for raptor breeding were left behind. The chicks will be taken to the new cages for breeding after they leave the nest.

Here we need to mention a common-sense point: there is actually a certain difference in the breeding and later management of birds of prey kept as breeding birds and falcons taken to the mountains for work and hunting.

As breeding birds, what is required is the purity of appearance and bloodline, so that they can stably produce high-quality offspring to expand the population.

As long as the basic daily activity is guaranteed, it is enough to let the breeding birds live a healthy life.

As for a combat falcon, it is even more troublesome. A good falcon is obtained through slow training, learning and tempering in actual combat, and it has higher requirements on physical fitness and actual combat performance.

The reason why Yue Feng maintains a very high level of affinity with these five eagle chicks is mainly because he evaluates the chicks’ personality traits through daily contact and makes advance preparations for the future.

Which eagle is timid and sensitive, and which eagle is stable, courageous and friendly are all continuously evaluated and followed up in Yue Feng’s breeding log.

When the subsequent chicks grow up and are paired up, they will serve as first-hand information.

It takes about one and a half months from the time the chicks leave the nest to the time they leave the nest. These young eagles, which can already fly, regard the one or two kilometers around Yue Feng’s new home as their own activity area.

If the breeder does not understand the key points, he will not be able to effectively control the activities of the chicks. After all, these winged creatures will fly everywhere after leaving the nest, and there is nothing people can do about it.

But who is Yue Feng? The conditioned reflexes of blowing the whistle and calling Yuan to feed the eagle have already been engraved into the bones of the young eagle.

During the initial period of learning to fly and laying a solid foundation, Yue Feng basically took a stroll around the area near his home. When the little ones heard the whistle, they would ask this two-legged dad for food. The five chicks successfully passed the most dangerous period of learning to fly when they were most likely to get lost.

As the young eagles’ wings gradually began to grow stronger, Yue Feng’s basic subject training for the little ones gradually came to an end.

Yue Feng picked a day and brought all five eaglets to the raptor cages at the breeding farm on the mountain, and the work for this year’s breeding season was completed.

According to the foreign raptor breeding knowledge from the forum in my previous life, Gyrfalcons can reach sexual maturity and begin breeding at about two to three years old. In the long period of time that follows, these young eagles, which serve as breeding falcons, basically have to spend their time in cages on the breeding farm.

If there is something to talk about, it will be long; if there is nothing to talk about, it will be short. Spring and summer passed quickly, and time unknowingly came to the end of August.

After successfully caged the eaglet, Yue Feng had more time and focused more energy on the breeding farm on the mountain.

At present, there are many kinds of livestock in Yuefeng’s farm.

Among the sixteen wild-caught female sables, more than 80% gave birth to cubs. Including the parents and their cubs, the total number of sables in the farm exceeded fifty.

In addition to the five gyrfalcon chicks, three sika deer, five musk deer (three large and two small), one blind bear, and four wolf-blood hounds in the eagle house, the daily expenses for food and horses alone are a considerable expense.

Fortunately, with Uncle Zhao helping to look after the animals, both large and small, are managed in a very orderly manner.

Uncle Zhao is a very capable person. Living in the tiled house on the mountain farm is much more comfortable for him than living in the cellar on Woniu Mountain.

With so many livestock accompanying us every day, Yuefeng would send us various home-made ingredients every now and then. There was nothing missing on the mountain, and life was very comfortable.

Autumn is coming. Since the construction started in the spring, the hunting team has basically not gone up the mountain to hunt on a large scale in spring and summer. Now that autumn has arrived, Yue Feng and his team, who have been silent for a long time, finally have a new hunting opportunity. I don’t know if it is because there is less rain in summer than in previous years, but this autumn, herds of mountain animals have come down the mountain to the villagers’ contracted fields at the foot of the mountain to gain weight and harm the crops.

In less than a week, there have been several incidents of wild boars and blind black bears injuring people.

The higher-ups attached great importance to the villagers’ autumn harvest and immediately organized a farmer protection team in the village, which was on duty day and night to prevent livestock from coming down the mountain from damaging the crops.

Xing’an Village, Xingfutun, Kaoshantun and more than a dozen other natural villages around it have all organized farmer protection teams. They selected strong laborers, built duty huts in the fields, and guarded the farmland.

Gunpowder rifles, firecrackers, and broken gongs became the main weapons for ordinary villagers to drive away wild beasts and mountain livestock.

However, over the course of a week or so, the damage done to crops by wild animals did not slow down but became even worse. There was even an incident where a large group of more than twenty wild boars of varying sizes destroyed all the corn on several acres of land overnight.

Although Yue Feng’s father-in-law Wang Jianguo found a job in the town, he still took on part-time work in the village. After holding a meeting to call on villagers to work as hunters, Wang Jianguo immediately organized the hunters in the village.

Codenamed Operation Autumn Wind, the operation organized people, guns, hunters and hounds to encircle and hunt the mountain livestock that were destroying the villagers’ production.

Upon hearing the news, Yue Feng, who hadn’t taken his hunting dogs up the mountain for several months, immediately became excited.

Gather the hunting team members, put aside the task of catching eagles and sparrows for the time being, and go hunting in the mountains at Xishankou, the worst-hit area in the village.

This year’s Yue family hunting team is more powerful than last winter. In addition to the four main hunting dogs, Yue Feng will also bring the one-year-old wolf-blood cubs that have been raised in the farm on the mountain down the mountain to participate in the hunting activities.

After being carefully fed by Yue Feng for a long time and trained by Uncle Zhao, the wolf-blooded puppies are now nearly seventy feet tall at the shoulder, and each one is shiny and smooth.

Although they had not experienced much formal combat, they had practiced hunting by lassoing or shooting wild boars with Uncle Zhao, and Canglang and his dogs had also caught many of them. They had already mastered the basic skills of hunting in the mountains and only needed to be honed more deeply in subsequent combat.

As for the bear cub Meiqiu that Yue Feng brought back? At half a year old, Meiqiu was still a baby and could not go hunting with the hunting team. He was still being raised in the mountains.

On that day, Wang Jianguo called the three hunting teams of Yue Feng, Zhou Yuanchao and Zhang Junhong, as well as a number of young and strong villagers from the outskirts of the village, to the threshing ground of the village.

Wang Jianguo cleared his throat and said, “I don’t need to explain the details. You are all well-known hunters in our village. We have been given the status of hunters by the higher-ups, and are allowed to hunt all kinds of prey in the mountains. Naturally, you all have corresponding obligations!

Now is the time when the organization needs everyone’s contribution!

After active efforts by me and my superiors, our village will provide four 56 semi-automatic hunting rifles, 2000 rounds of ammunition and a reward of 300 yuan in this Autumn Wind Operation!

Do you have confidence in protecting the food that our villagers have worked hard for a year and destroying the wild animals that are causing harm to people?”

“Yes!! They all collapsed!”

“I haven’t eaten meat for a long time. It’s a good opportunity to hunt some wild animals to replenish my body!”

“Secretary, what are the rules for distributing guns in our village?”

“Uncle Wang, can the villagers form a team freely? How will the reward be divided?”

……

There were dozens of villagers in the threshing ground. Except for a few elite hunters like Yue Feng who had guns and dogs, most of them were people who set traps and caught small prey to supplement their family income. When they heard that the village had provided guns and bullets, they were eager to try.

Wang Jianguo glanced at the crowd, stretched out his arm and pressed it down: “Everyone, be quiet, I will tell you the general distribution rules!
In principle, guns are given priority to experienced hunters. If hunters bring their own guns, an extra base amount of bullets will be given!
In our village, Xiao Yue, Lao Zhang, Xiao Zhou, your hunting teams, do you have enough weapons?”

Yue Feng was the first to speak out: “I have enough guns here! But I don’t have many bullets!”

Zhang Junhong also expressed a similar attitude: “I also got a 56, so I don’t need any guns at the moment!”

Zhou Yuanchao: “I’m still using a hanging tube in my hand. It’s too dangerous to encounter a group of pigs without continuous firepower. 56, half of each for me!”

These hunting teams are recognized by the villagers, and no one has any objection to giving priority to the distribution of guns.

After the three team leaders expressed their opinions, Wang Jianguo nodded and said, “Give Xiao Zhou a 56 rifle, and three more rifles, one for Ma Xifeng, one for Liu Wenyi, and one for Zhao Bing!
The three of you will be the captains and each form a temporary hunting team of three to four people!

Other retail investors without any affiliation are responsible for coordinating and driving the work outside the village!
As for the 300 yuan prize, the competition will be held in hunting teams for one week. The hunting team with the most harvest will get the money! ! “(End of this chapter)