“Let’s deal with it this way for now. My father-in-law said that the village should be able to have electricity this year!
If there is electricity by then, I will ask someone to buy a large freezer, which will be convenient for storing meat and other things!” Yue Feng continued.

“Freezer?”

The old man was unfamiliar with this word and had no idea what it was.

“I can’t really explain what it is, it’s probably a big box that uses electricity to make ice cubes!
It can be cooled by plugging it in, and the temperature can be kept below zero in the summer, so the meat won’t go bad! “Yue Feng explained.

“Okay, okay, an old man doesn’t know what a freezer is. You don’t have to worry too much about the dogs’ food. As long as I have a gun, I’ll go out for a walk every now and then, and I can feed a few dogs without any problem!

Well, I have already arranged the sable’s cage. I have been taking care of it according to the method you told me in the past few days. You can take a walk around and have a look. This thing is precious and it’s a bit too sudden to move it. Don’t let it cause any trouble!”

“Let’s go! Let’s take a look!” Yue Feng nodded, and walked with the old man to the cage to check it out.

It must be said that this specially built cage area is much better than the warehouse at home.

The area is large and the ventilation effect is good. Even if minks are raised in the warehouse and the room is cleaned in time every day, the smell of excrement can still be smelled.

In the current cage, the old man kept it clean. The sable quickly poked its head out when it heard Yue Feng knocking on the cage door.

Yue Feng casually took out a piece of chicken neck from the food box beside him and held it in his hand. After the albino sable poked its head out for a few seconds, it came up bravely and picked up the meat in Yue Feng’s hand with its front paws.

Seeing the little guy’s performance, Yue Feng felt relieved.

The winter with the lowest temperatures has passed, and there is no need to worry about insulation in this season.

The most feared thing for these little things is the rash change of breeding environment which may cause stress and emotional fluctuations.

Now looking at its movements and expression while eating, there seems to be no major problem.

The sable cages now are two sizes larger than when they were at home. Each sable has its own door and yard, with ample space to move around and sunlight.

As long as you get through the stage of changing the environment, there shouldn’t be any major problems later.

At this moment, Uncle Zhao next to him suddenly said:
“Look at this white mink. I feel like its stomach is a lot smaller than when it was at home!”

Not to mention that Yue Feng didn’t pay much attention. He turned his head slightly, glanced a few times, and frowned slightly.

“My belly does seem to be a little smaller! Could it be that she’s giving birth?”

Yue Feng muttered something and moved to the inner room observation window on the other side of the cage.

Seeing Yue Feng change his position, the albino sable, which was quite relaxed a second ago, suddenly became nervous. He stopped eating the chicken neck in his holdings, turned around and went back to his own nest.

Yue Feng reached out and opened the observation window to take a look. Three chubby pink babies were curled up in the nest.

“Oh shit! The white mink gave birth to cubs!!” Yue Feng said in a low voice, suppressing the excitement in his heart.

“Give birth? How many?”

“There are three in this nest! They are like little mice, just a few of them!” Yue Feng said, pointing to the observation port.

“Don’t keep looking once you’ve seen it clearly! Don’t stress the female mink. Many female minks will eat their cubs when they’re stressed!” Uncle Zhao reminded.

“Oh my! The time period for sables to give birth should be similar. The white mink has given birth, so the other sables should be ready soon! Let’s take a look around!”

While greeting, Yue Feng tiptoed around the observation holes in the cages one by one.

Less than ten days after the mink cages were brought up the mountain, six female minks had given birth to cubs.

Yue Feng roughly counted the number of newborn minks. The smallest litter had two, most had three, and the largest litter had five.

Including the albino sable litter, there are 19 pups in total!!

They were all in the state of being the size of little mice, with their eyes still unopened, nestling comfortably in the mother mink’s arms.

If Yue Feng hadn’t fed these minks himself on a regular basis and had gradually made them familiar with them and not so afraid of people, they would probably be frightened at this moment.

One-third of the female minks in the farm gave birth to kittens, which is good news.

This means that the first shot of Yuefeng Special Breeding has been successfully fired, and it only needs continued maintenance to expand its scale quickly.

Once you reach a certain breeding base, you can then make a lot of money steadily.

Yue Feng checked all the sables’ cages, then reminded Uncle Zhao of some details of daily maintenance. At around ten o’clock in the morning, he said goodbye and left the farm with the dogs.

The sable is nursing the cubs, so the food they provide will need to be improved appropriately.

We need to start the eaglet hunting season as soon as possible.

Even if the caught birds are not sent to the second canteen to make money, they are used as food for the sables, which is considered appropriate.

On the way down the mountain into the village, Yue Feng rode his motorcycle for another stroll in the grove and caught another pine eagle with six new tail feathers.

In a day and a half, eight eaglets had been caught in the net.

With such a large number of eagles, the speed was slightly faster than Yue Feng expected. After returning home with the little pine eagle, Yue Feng used the eagle coat to tie the other three eagles that were tied to the eagle pole in the morning.

He stuffed his hunting bag with the items and rode his motorcycle straight to the big market in the neighboring Xinghua Village.

While having breakfast at home in the morning, Xiao Tao and his friends had agreed that they would each bring a young eagle to the market to test their skills. Now Yue Feng is also bringing along the new recruits who have just come off the net, in an effort to speed up the eagle training program.

Pine nuts are small in size and easier to handle. It is not difficult for one person to flatten two with both hands.

When they arrived at the market, Yue Feng quickly found the Little Eagle Chuanglian trio squatting next to the chess stall under the old locust tree.

In this era, it is rare to see people riding military backpacks or sidecar tricycles. Along the way, people would often look at Yue Feng to see who he is. Those who recognized him would greet him, leaving Yue Feng busy with greetings.

After finding the main group, Yue Feng gave one of the newly captured eaglets to each person without hesitation.

Four people, eight birds, wrapped in eagle coats, holding one in each left and right hand. This posture, coupled with the motorcycle behind them, looks extremely conspicuous at the fair.

“Hang this little eagle on the handlebars first. You guys keep an eye on it while I go look for something!”

Yue Feng hung the pine nut in his left hand on the handlebar and strolled towards the other end of the market.

As we walked, we observed from time to time, and soon we stopped in front of a small stall where rolling pins were being made on site.

A rolling pin can be said to be a daily tool that every household has, but most ordinary people may not know how this thing is made.

It is very simple to say. An old-fashioned simple woodworking lathe that rotates by manpower is used to fix the selected wood segment, and then the lathe is rotated by stepping on the pedal. The craftsman holds a wooden knife in his hand and moves it steadily to cut on the wooden stick.

After several times of cutting by the craftsmen, the scars and deformations on the surface of the original material are rounded, and then polished several times with sandpaper of different mesh sizes to form the prototype of a rolling pin.

After going through processes such as fine grinding, oiling, and assembly, it becomes a rolling pin that every household can use.

The reason why I am talking about all this is not to waste words, nor is it that Yue Feng wants to buy a rolling pin, but that he wants to find a rolling pin lathe master to make a batch of professional tools for releasing young eagles.

“Uncle! Do you have any other work to do? I would like to trouble you to make a batch of stick cores that are thick at one end and thin at the other end for me. Can you help me with this?”

Yue Feng walked up to the master who was making rolling pins on site, greeted him, and asked politely.

“A stick core that is thick at one end and thin at the other? How thick, thin, and long? What kind of wood is used? How many in a batch?”

Hearing Yue Feng’s question, the master who was sitting on a mat and smoking looked up and asked.

“It’s about 15 centimeters long, with a big end diameter of 5 centimeters and a small end diameter of centimeters. The edges are chamfered and the outside is polished and oiled. Let’s make of them for the first batch!

If it’s wood, just use the Chinese toon wood you use to make rolling pins! This thing doesn’t require strength, as long as it doesn’t crack. The lighter the better!”

Yue Feng mentioned the approximate data size requirements. The more he spoke, the more the master next to him frowned. When Yue Feng reported the number of thirty, his brows eased a little.

“I can do it, but are you sure you want this thing? This is not an ordinary rolling pin. If you don’t want it after it’s done, my batch of materials will be wasted! Why do you want to make this thing?”

“It’s fine if you can do it. These are the cores of the falcon’s nests! Thirty of them. How much are they? Please give me a price!”

Yue Feng showed the clean-haired pine nut in his flattened left hand to his master. After the master was sure that Yue Feng was not joking, his expression finally became a little normal.

“This thing is thick at one end and thin at the other, and it needs to be polished and oiled. It’s a little difficult to make. I’ll charge you 25 cents per piece. Thirty pieces, that’s 7.50 yuan!”

“Okay, how long will it take to finish it? Can you please make a sample for me to take a look at first? If I have any questions, I will ask you in person!”

“You can make it right away! The length is 15 centimeters, right? Then I can start cutting the materials!”

“Ok!”

Soon, the rolling pin craftsman got busy, selecting toon wood of suitable thickness from the pile of materials behind him, then sawing off a piece and clamping it on the woodworking lathe.

After a series of turning operations, the core of the nest-picking stick with one end thick and the other end soon took shape.

Yue Feng roughly measured the thickness and length, and compared it with the nest he remembered for hawk nesting to make sure nothing was missing. He shortened the total length by one centimeter, and that was how it was finalized.

Although the master says it is difficult, it is actually done very quickly. Toona sinensis is a soft wood, light in weight, and easy to turn. The only technical requirement is a certain taper to facilitate the later winding and de-wireing.

But this thing doesn’t need to be too sophisticated, just level it appropriately and make sure the transition is smooth.

With the middle-aged master working at full speed, thirty rod cores were ready in less than two hours.

Yue Feng paid the bill, put the stick core in his pocket, and strolled towards the west end of the market again.

Soon, he found another stall selling peeled mountain vines.

This vine is very common in the mountains. After being cut with a sickle, dried and peeled, it can be used to weave common daily utensils, such as small baskets, winnowing baskets, colanders and other daily utensils.

To make the nest, the peeled mountain vine core was also needed. Yue Feng spent five yuan to buy a big circle of it, held it in his hand and walked back.

As a qualified eagle handler, Yue Feng is not only good at making hats, but also at making nests for releasing young eagles. Now that the main things are done, it is time to witness the miracle. (End of this chapter)