Chapter 291 There is something wrong with the falcon trained by Mr. Zhao
“What’s wrong?” Xiao Tao stopped when he heard the call, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

“Forget what I told you before when I was training the eagle! The eagle hasn’t been trained yet. It’s not convenient to go into the mountains. If the eagle is startled, it will turn a good thing into a bad thing! Xiaowen, hold the dog tightly! “

Yue Feng hurriedly reminded him and whistled towards the sky while speaking.

The big black eagle that had been following overhead had become much more efficient in responding to whistles since it was “dealt with” by Yue Feng last time, no matter whether it was taking a walk over the yard or going up the mountain.

With a whistle, the big black eagle immediately landed from the sky into Yue Feng’s hand without any delay!
Yue Feng took out a hat from his pocket and put it on Big Black Hawk. Then, following his reminder, the hunting team slowed down their pace and stopped about a hundred meters away from the cellar.

“Let’s not rush over. Let’s wait until Uncle Zhao collects the falcon, then we can go over! Let’s rest here and watch for a while!”

All the people and dogs stopped where they were. Some of them sat on the ground, not afraid of the snow crust on the ground even through their thick cotton pants.

A large part of Yue Feng’s attention was focused on the performance of the rabbit-tiger when Uncle Zhao was swinging the falcon.

Overall, judging by Yue Feng’s standards, the effect of this falcon swing is pretty good.

The Rabbit Tiger can recognize the lure very well, and the flying speed of each dive attack is also good. If we must find fault with it, it is that the interval between returning and making the next attack after completing a dive attack and failing is a bit short.

The shorter the interval, the smaller the eagle’s flight radius will be, and the eagle will be able to swing the bait much faster.

The faster you swing the bait, the smaller the eagle’s flight radius will be. In extreme cases, the eagle will end up flying back and forth three to five meters away from the person.

This is a vicious cycle. Uncle Zhao doesn’t understand the connection. If he wants to swing the eagle well or even coil it up, he has to make relevant adjustments.

The four brothers looked at each other from a distance. After about ten minutes, Uncle Zhao completed today’s bait-swinging training.

He deliberately threw the lure in his hand into the sky, and then the rabbit-tiger swooped down and grabbed it, and it fell to the ground. The eagle stepped on the lure and ate the piece of meat tied to it.

After the eagle finished eating the meat on the bait, Uncle Zhao lifted the eagle up and casually put a hat on it.

Seeing this, Yue Feng dared to shout at the top of his voice.

“uncle!”

There were sparse trees around the cellar, and the area within at least a few hundred meters around was a wasteland-like area with no tall trees. Upon hearing Yue Feng’s call, Uncle Zhao turned around abruptly and looked over.

The Yue Feng brothers waved their hands and dragged their sleds to meet them.

When I got closer, I heard Uncle Zhao’s hearty laughter.

“uncle!”

“uncle!!”

“Hey!! I was wondering why I bit my chopsticks twice while eating this early in the morning. It turns out you guys are here! You must have been freezing on the way here. Come inside and warm up first!”

Yue Feng grinned and said, “We just came up from the ridge and saw you swinging the bait over here in the open field from a distance. How’s it going? How many days have you been swinging it? How long can it fly?”

“Fortunately you didn’t come over, and there’s no one on the mountain. This falcon is a little timid, and if you come over rashly, you might scare the eagle!

I followed the method you taught me last time. It’s only been three days since I started swinging the eagle. Now I can swing it for about ten minutes! I don’t know if the eagle’s physical strength has decreased a bit due to the injury!
I swung it up, but it was a little hasty. I didn’t catch it when I swooped down once. I turned back after flying out just ten or twenty meters. The bait swinging training is not as smooth as you said!”

“Hey, I just discovered the problem. Let’s go inside and talk about it. I know where the problem lies!”

“Let’s go in first!” Uncle Zhao walked in front with the eagle on his head, and soon led his brothers into the small cellar.

There was a lot of wood filled under the stove in the house. As soon as I entered the house, I felt a heat wave coming. The temperature inside and outside was at least thirty degrees different.

“Hey, uncle, you still have steamed buns in this pot!”

“Yes! When there are more things, I will change the food. If I want to eat pancakes, I will eat pancakes. If I feel like eating steamed buns after a few days, I will steam a pot of steamed buns!
We haven’t finished eating the supplies you guys brought last time, how come you came back with a full sled again this time?

Tell me, what’s wrong with my eagle? “

“I didn’t buy anything special, just some common winter vegetables, some wine, and some food!
Don’t rush to find fault with your eagle. Let me first check on its fat condition!”

As Yue Feng spoke, he walked towards the rabbit tiger squatting on the animal hide falcon stand made of wooden stakes.

Before reaching out his hand, Yue Feng blew a breath towards Tuhu’s chest. The guy was wearing a hat and his reaction was normal. He did not show the kind of reaction that would scare people by breathing out breath out of fear.

After roughly determining the eagle’s condition, Yue Feng reached out and gently parted the soft hair on the breast, and pressed his belly on the muscles on both sides of the keel of the rabbit tiger to roughly feel the eagle’s fatness. “Is it still about two pounds now?” Yue Feng asked.

“Well, as you said, I weigh myself every day. This morning it was about 1.95 jin! Isn’t this too little fat?” Uncle Zhao asked, reporting the eagle’s exact weight.

“When we got this eagle, it weighed about two and a half kilograms! Assuming it is 80% fat, it would be exactly two kilograms! This weight is okay for the current training stage, not too thin!” Yue Feng said after a rough calculation.

“Then why is the flight distance so short each time we chase back?”

“In fact, the main reason is very simple. You blow the whistle too often!”

“The whistle is too frequent?”

“Yes! In the normal method of training eagles with fake baits, the whistle is the signal to feed the eagle!

When you first swung the hawk up, you must have blew the whistle too often. Every time the hawk heard the whistle, it would instinctively turn back to attack the lure. After a few times, it became a habit!”

After hearing Yue Feng’s explanation of the problem, Uncle Zhao frowned and thought for a few seconds before nodding slightly: “Uh…it seems to be the case.

The first time I blew the whistle and an eagle came after the lure and I started to swing it, I was a little nervous, afraid that if I wasn’t careful the eagle would fly away and I would lose it, so I blew the whistle more frequently!

What should I do now? Is there any way to correct this problem?”

Yue Feng smiled and nodded: “There is a way, this is not a big problem! Besides, I have only been training for a few days, it has not become a fixed habit yet!
In this way, you can lengthen the rope that ties the lure by half a meter, and when you swing the bait, the interval between blowing the whistle will be longer.

Another point, the meat tied to the lure should be reduced in quantity as appropriate. Most of the food for the day will be fed by hand after the bait is swung!

If you use these points together, you should be able to get better!

Once the eagle gets used to it, it will slowly realize that its owner is playing a game with it, and will naturally stop being so eager to get quick results when chasing the lure!”

“Okay, I’ll make adjustments according to what you said!
By the way, do you have anything else to do this time besides delivering supplies to me?
I found a group of pigs in Qiuzigou. There were five or six big pigs and several yellow-haired ones. If you have nothing else to do, I’ll take you to hunt wild boars!”

Yue Feng’s heart skipped a beat when he heard that Uncle Zhao had discovered a herd of wild boars: “Okay, is Qiuzigou far from our cellar? If not, after lunch, we’ll go there in the afternoon to track them down and figure out how to hunt them!

I came here to ask you something. Do you know where there are still red dogs?

Uncle Zhao frowned slightly: “Red Dog Group, why are you asking this? This red dog can’t be eaten or drunk, and it’s not worth money!
Hunters with dog gangs usually try to hide as much as possible, fearing that the red dog will hurt their own hunting dogs. I have never heard of anyone deliberately looking for it!”

“Hehe, I was asked by someone to kill a red dog leader to make medicine to treat arthritis! You raise a red dog yourself, so you must know more than me, so I came to ask!”

“Cure arthritis? That’s what it’s said! I do know a place where there’s a group of red dogs, but I’m not sure if it’s still there!
When I took out these red puppies, I killed the female red puppies in that group. The pack should have dispersed or moved to another place! I haven’t been there for more than a year, so I don’t know how the pack is doing now!”

“Is it far from our cellar?”

Uncle Zhao said: “It’s in the lower reaches of Luming Valley. If we start at dawn in the morning, it will take us until noon to get there. If we don’t do anything else, it will take almost a whole day to go back and forth!

The daylight hours are short in winter, so you can’t come back on the same day! If you want to go there to look for red dogs, you have to spend the night in the wilderness! “

Hearing that it would take a whole day to go back and forth, Yue Feng felt a little scared, but since he was already here and had the information, he had to give it a try!
Favors are not so easy to earn, especially favors from really important people, which are extremely precious. Now that he has this opportunity, Yue Feng does not want to back down easily.

“How about we go back and have a look? We can spend the night in the mountains, and you have to suffer with us!”

Uncle Zhao waved his hand and said indifferently: “It’s just a night in the mountains. Make some preparations in advance and bring some things with you. It’s a small matter and not worth mentioning! !

Should we go and hunt the wild boars first, or go find the red dog first? You decide, and I’ll do whatever you want!”

“If the wild boars are close, then we should kill them first! We told our family that we would stay in the mountains for three or four days, so we should be able to make it in time!”

Uncle Zhao nodded and said, “Okay, let’s go to Qiuzigou to hunt wild boars first!
Let’s go check out the situation this afternoon and find out where the pigs spend the night. Once we find the right location, we’ll set out early tomorrow morning, bring guns with us, and try to kill all these pigs!
I’m running low on meat for Red Dog, so this is a good time to replenish my meat reserves!
Drink some hot water to warm yourself up first. I’ll dig out the venison you left last time and stew it! I haven’t seen you guys for a long time. Come drink with me at noon!”

“Row!”

After briefly discussing the follow-up plan, the old man immediately got busy.

Chapter 3, today’s 10,000-word update is complete

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