Chapter 238 Business Opportunities of Sika Deer
Xiaowen came over quickly after hearing the call: “What’s wrong, brother? Hey, why is there a blind doe here! It won’t run away with a rope tied around its neck? Why is this deer so obedient!”

Yue Feng handed the rope to Xiao Wen and said, “This deer seems to have a much better character than the others. I tried it and it was able to be led after it got used to it, so I didn’t bleed it and then slaughter it!

But the big black eagle was a little unhappy when he saw me holding it. He kicked the deer just now and scared it! You hold it, I will go to the other deer and feed the eagle first!”

“Okay! Leave it to me!!”

When the black eagle saw that the rope was handed to Xiaowen, its screaming stopped noticeably.

Yue Feng whistled at the big black eagle and then stretched out his arms.

When the big black eagle heard the whistle, it immediately swooped down from the sky, folded its wings and landed on Yue Feng’s arm, screaming “ga ga ga”, like a general showing off his power after winning a battle.

“Alright, alright! I know this is your contribution! Let’s go eat some meat to reward you! That deer is our trophy, not our partner!!”

Yue Feng kept muttering to the big black eagle as if he was coaxing a child. He didn’t know whether the big black eagle could understand him or not. Anyway, after Yue Feng’s words of comfort, the big black eagle’s reaction was obviously much more stable.

By the time Yue Feng arrived at the place where the big deer was shot with the eagle, Uncle Zhao had already taken out all the deer’s internal organs.

The hot deer’s internal organs gave off a strong smell of blood. When the big black eagle saw it, it flapped its wings and screamed excitedly.

“Okay, I’ll give it to you first! You’re the one who has done the most today!!!!” Yue Feng responded, then squatted next to the deer’s internal organs.

“Ga gaga gaga gaga!” The big black eagle gaga and fluttered its wings excitedly.

“How many are left in total?” asked Uncle Zhao.

Yue Feng replied excitedly, “Five, one big male deer, three female deer, and one fawn! We shot and kept two, one male and one female, and the other three, two big and one small, should all be the work of Big Black Hawk.

This guy becomes smarter the more he goes out hunting. Not only does he know how to drive the prey towards where we are, he also knows how to maximize the results. When Xiao Tao and I rushed over, we found that Heilang and Xiaohua had pinned down a deer, and Dahuang and Dahei had also pinned down a deer!

In addition, there was another one whose eyes had been pecked out by a black eagle and it lay there motionless!”

“What a good eagle! With this eagle, even if I don’t have a gun, it will be difficult to go into the mountains empty-handed!” Uncle Zhao exclaimed sincerely without any politeness.

“I’m not surprised that it can entangle its prey, but this guy actually knows how to use the driving stick to cooperate with its owner and dog. This is an unexpected surprise!”

“Not many dogs can drive sticks, let alone eagles! You, the eagle, will continue to grow. After a year or two of actual combat experience, you will become even more powerful!”

“Hehe! Good luck to you! When the hunting falcon in your hand starts training, I will tell you the whole process of falcon training. As long as the big black eagle doesn’t fight with it, we can let the hunting falcon follow and learn a few times when we go out, and it should be able to be trained!”

While speaking, Yue Feng was busy with his work. He used a leg hook to take out the whole stag’s heart, then signaled Uncle Zhao to take out the wine jug, squeeze out the blood from the stag’s heart, and then cut the heart into slices of appropriate thickness, and fed them one by one to the big black eagle squatting on his arm.

It seems that the stronger and more handsome the mountain animal is, the more excited the Black Eagle becomes when eating its offal.

Yue Feng fed the big black eagle piece by piece, and the big black eagle accepted all of it, as if its crop was a bottomless pit, until it had eaten almost the entire deer heart and its crop was bulging high.

The big black eagle, after having eaten its fill, looks more like a general, with a bulging crop on his chest, giving him the appearance of a big general with a thick waist and a belly.

Yue Feng casually placed it on the branch of a small tree. It squatted there obediently, watching the other members of the team busy with their work. It no longer barked or flew around, just kept quiet.

Soon, the other people had finished their work, and all the prey were gathered together.

“Brother! We’re going to make a fortune this time! We killed five deer in one trip! This big male deer must weigh nearly 300 kilograms! These female deer must weigh nearly 150 kilograms!” Xiao Tao said excitedly.

Yue Feng turned his head and glanced at the blind doe that Xiaowen led over. It seemed to smell blood and stood restlessly, constantly moving its steps in a small area.

“If we can take this blind doe back, let’s take it back! The price of selling it alive will be much higher than selling it after being slaughtered!” Yue Feng had tasted the sweetness last time, so he knew the taste of it better.

“This… this doe should be pregnant according to the date!” At this time, Mr. Zhao next to him said with certainty. “Pregnant? How can we tell?”

Yue Feng was a little confused when he heard this. He was okay at hunting, but he only had a vague understanding of many of the habits of these wild animals. For example, Yue Feng did not know when the sika deer would return to the herd (to go into estrus) and how many months after conception they would give birth.

“I took a special look at the doe whose internal organs I just eviscerated. It already had a cub in its belly. I estimate that it was born in September and is only the size of a small mouse!
This blind deer has a very docile personality. If it can eat and drink, I suggest you go home and find a place to raise it! Whether you kill the deer for the fetus when the month comes, or raise the fawn at home after it is born, it is better than taking it home now and selling it immediately!”

After hearing what Uncle Zhao said, Yue Feng’s thoughts started to move.

In mountainous rural areas, ordinary farmers do not have many channels to earn money except for working in the production team and getting some grain.

Going up the mountain to pick mushrooms and mountain products involves considerable risk, but the purchase price is kept very low by purchasing points and supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels, so you can’t sell them for much money.

In later generations, the artificial breeding of sika deer has become a systematic industry. Even in captivity, the various functions of this thing have not decreased significantly. It can be said that it is full of treasures.

At this point in time, except for a few state-owned deer farms, there are no farmers in most mountainous areas who raise these animals.

The vast majority of deer products in the country are still sourced from wild deer caught during hunting, and large-scale, organized farming of sika deer has not yet emerged.

Raising deer in the village at the foot of the mountain has a natural advantage in terms of feed. Except for when they have no time to farm, most rural people have plenty of time to cut the grass and plant-based feed that sika deer like to eat. Once a scale is formed, the income of the villagers can be greatly increased. This can be regarded as an additional new way to make money besides farming.

In his previous life, Yue Feng was so muddle-headed that he didn’t dare to think about these things. But now it’s different. He has initially earned the start-up capital. If he wants to complete industrial accumulation and upgrading in the future, he certainly can’t just rely on the income from hunting in the mountains. If he can own his own deer farm and let his parents bring people to start breeding on the family deer farm, life will definitely be better.

“Well, if I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have killed the half-grown fawn!”

After Yue Feng heard what Grandpa Zhao said, a lot of thoughts suddenly came to his mind. He even began to regret the half-grown fawn that was pinned down by the dog not long ago but was still alive.

Uncle Zhao shook his head and said, “If you want to keep breeding deer in human hands, this kind of half-grown wild deer fawn is not suitable. They are aggressive and naturally hostile to humans. Even if you build a fence to keep them, they will be frightened every day, and they will not eat well and grow well, and they will escape if they get the chance.

It’s just like when I start raising red puppies that never open their eyes, and when they grow up they become more dependent on their parents!

Newly born fawns, raised in an environment where people live, will be much less wild! Select the ones with good personalities and breed them for a few generations. Gradually, the herd will expand and they will become less wild! The Oroqen people have been raising deer for generations, so it’s not a rare skill! ”

“Okay, then I’ll listen to you! Let’s take this doe home and let my mother try to see if she can keep it alive!”

Uncle Zhao nodded, took out the kettle from his bag, then pinched a little salt in his palm, poured a handful of water, and rubbed it around the deer’s mouth.

The blind doe tasted the saltiness of the water and began to lick it obediently. In just a few gulps, she had licked up all the clean water.

“If they dare to drink water, they can be kept alive! Then they can eat the corn stubble. Once they get used to it, they will know how to eat even if they can’t see!” said Uncle Zhao, who is very experienced.

I went up the mountain and caught four big deer and one half-grown fawn. This harvest is definitely worth bragging about.

Everybody was very happy. They untied the sled and put it in order, tied what needed to be tied, led what needed to be led. There were five people and five deer. With the people and the dog pulling the sled to share the pressure, it was relatively easy to get back.

What needs to be said is that with the Big Black Hawk, a falcon that could be considered a bug at that time, the hunting efficiency of the hunting team was improved tremendously.

After winning the battle, the people had no time to eat on the mountain. After organizing the prey, they returned to the cellar. In the words of Uncle Zhao, they wanted to get home early, eat and rest, because if the female leopard came again at night, they would have to stay up all night to fight a tough battle.

The group of five people returned with a full load, dragging the prey, the dog and the little doe.

After more than two hours of travel, Yue Feng and his four companions returned to Uncle Zhao’s cellar.

They were busy from morning until after one in the afternoon. They were already starving and didn’t care about the value of the venison. They skinned and boned the smallest half-grown venison, cut it into pieces, and put half of the venison directly into the steel pot for cooking meat.

We must not let our own people suffer any loss. We have hunted so much venison this time, so we will pick the smallest one to put into the pot first to test whether it is salty or not!

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