Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain
Chapter 480: Taking Big Steps Can Cause Trouble
On the way back to the back door of the airport from the falconry field, Li Wenzhe didn’t say a word, and Li Xiaolei followed closely behind him, not daring to make a loud sound.
The large light yellow eagle standing on the arm at this moment had its mouth slightly open, its wings slightly drooping, and even its tail feathers sticking to the arm, trying hard to maintain its balance.
A slightly experienced falconer, seeing the eagle in his hands in this posture and state, will definitely rest on the spot, replenishing some meat and water, and let the eagle rest before moving on.
However, Li Wenzhe did not have the ethics of the older generation of falconers who cared for their hunting partners. It was a great injustice for this large pale yellow eagle to fall into Li Wenzhe’s hands.
Originally, the efforts that the Li family father and son had put into making Eagle Chuang’s face and Eagle Ao friendly were almost useless, and they could only rely on making extra efforts to increase the margin of error.
The bean-yellow eagle weighs about 2.2 jin. A normal adult eagle should weigh about 1.75 jin to 1.8 jin when it lands. Li Wenzhe deducted the food and put the hemp axis in it. After all these operations, the eagle’s weight was reduced to 1.68 jin.
If an eagle is in poor fat condition, it will lack physical strength. With poor physical strength, its success rate in hunting prey will naturally decrease. This is a chain reaction, one link after another.
When Li Wenzhe returned to the airport living area with the eagle, Yue Feng, who was standing at the edge of the playground, spotted him from a distance.
“Hey, Xiao Tao, look over there!!” Yue Feng pointed slightly in the direction of Lao Li with his chin.
Xiao Tao turned his head and took a quick look. After seeing Li Wenzhe’s attire, he curled his lips and said, “A hunting bag and leather leg holsters. Is he going out to become a falcon? Judging from the eagle’s posture, I feel like the eagle is a little weak!”
It must be said that Xiao Tao has been learning falconry training and releasing from Yue Feng for a year, and his skills have really improved.
Just now, Yue Feng only glanced at Li Wenzhe and his attention was on him. He was far away and couldn’t see clearly what the condition of the Eagle was.
But Xiao Tao had good eyesight and could tell at a glance that the eagle was in trouble.
Yue Feng turned his head and looked at Xiao Tao again after hearing this, then nodded: “Eagle Button Fat is too cruel, let’s chop it up!!”
“If a mature eagle can be released and felled, then the skill of training eagles is useless!!!” After getting Yue Feng’s confirmation, Xiao Tao curled his lips with disdain in his tone.
“Talk less!” Yue Feng warned and fell into a brief silence.
While they were talking, less than a minute later, Li Wenzhe walked up to Yue Feng with the eagle on his shoulders.
The person was right in front of him and there was no other way around, so Yue Feng greeted him with a smile.
“Hey! Uncle went out to release hawks? How was the result?”
Li Wenzhe looked down at Yue Feng and said, “It’s not on. The eagle fat is a little low!”
After saying this, Li Wenzhe showed no intention of stopping and continued walking forward.
Seeing that the other party had no intention of stopping to chat, Yue Feng stopped trying to please him and continued to raise his hands to harass the little pigeon tiger standing on his arm by touching its paws and stroking its fur.
After Li Wenzhe and Li Xiaolei walked away, Xiao Tao curled his lips and said, “If you take too big a step, you will hurt your eggs. If you can kill an eagle, you are a master!
Even so, seven people are still dissatisfied and eight are indignant!!
Judging from Purple Eagle’s current state, if we stay up for two more nights, he will probably be able to get down to earth and become an eagle! By then, maybe our progress will be faster than his!”
“It’s very damaging to the eagle to chop it. You have to pay attention to it when you become an eagle in the future. When you go out to become an eagle, you can’t chop it once or twice a day at most, depending on the eagle’s performance. Otherwise, the eagle will lose strength and chop, and it will be difficult to recover later!”
“Is it that serious? Wouldn’t it be able to stick back if you feed it some blood?”
“Indeed, the blood-stuck food is effective and can play a role in replenishing Qi to a certain extent, but it does not mean that just by replenishing fat, the Qi will also be replenished!
If the bones of an eagle that has overdrawn its strength and is about to strike down are weak, it may not be able to get down to the ground even if it puts on a little more fat!
It will take a lot of time to readjust the eagle to its original strong state.
If you keep going back and forth like this, your anger might disappear. By then, the eagle will become more and more cunning and will just be lazy instead of working properly!
Therefore, the best way is to thoroughly pry the eagle through the water, and to make the eagle’s chest clear and its energy strong.
This way the eagle will have good physical strength, eat alive and catch alive, the more you release the eagle the stronger your confidence will be, and there won’t be so many negative feedback problems!”
“Hehe, there are so many things to say here! We have been tinkering with the eagles for several days. My purple eagle is training according to the schedule. When will your little pigeon tiger recognize the bait and start swinging?”
After listening to Yue Feng’s experience sharing, Xiao Tao turned the topic to the little Pigeon Tiger in Yue Feng’s hand.
Yue Feng glanced at the little pigeon tiger squatting on his arm to relax and groom its fur and said, “The basic subjects such as recognizing the whistle and putting on the hat have been completed. When it loses a little weight, it will start recognizing the fake bait!
This little pigeon tiger is very courageous and can easily be tamed! But he loses weight slowly, which is a bit annoying. “
“At what point do you start to recognize the fake bait?”
“Around one pound and two ounces should be about right! This little eagle is still a little fat now. I’ve reduced the amount of beef I feed it every day by 70%, but the speed at which it loses weight is much slower than other eagles!
You can’t rush this, you can only do it step by step. There is no shortcut to falcon training, you have to lay a solid foundation step by step, so that you won’t fall behind easily later!”
“Alright! Anyway, I will have to call down the Ten-meter Slide to try out the Purple Eagle in my hand tomorrow! The little guy doesn’t even dodge when I touch the hair on its back!” While speaking, Xiao Tao reached out and touched the Purple Eagle standing on his arm. The other party didn’t even raise its eyelids or dodge. Instead, it squinted comfortably, and the short hair on its head became fluffy.
“If nothing goes wrong, this Purple Eagle will be able to land and become an eagle in three days. We might even have a chance to catch up!!”
“hey-hey!”
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The two brothers were obviously just joking around and no one took it seriously. After all, Li Wenzhe’s eagle training progress was much faster than theirs.
But things are sometimes so strange, good things don’t work but bad things do, which is really what the two brothers said.
Li Wenzhe returned to his residence with the eagle, took out the prepared eagle food and fed it to the pale yellow eagle.
The eagle was a little exhausted and ate voraciously. After it was full, it raised its crop and began to push the food towards its bottom crop, and its condition improved slightly.
At this point, it became clear that Lao Li lacked experience in eagle training.
If he divided the same portion of eagle food into half in the afternoon and half in the evening, and fed the eagle twice, the big eagle might be fine.
But he didn’t care about the details and fed him a day’s worth of food all at once.
The eagle was in a low fat state, and the adult eagle was weak and in serious physical condition. It suddenly ate a crop of eagle food, but only digested less than half of it. It shook its head and vomited out the remaining half near dusk.
As mentioned before, if an eagle has digestive problems, it is likely to have a foul stomach and throw away food. The same principle applies to kites and eagles.
At the beginning, Yue Feng sold the kite in his family to the Zhou family. As a result, the other party fed pork to the hawk and it died. The culprit was the stinky-bellied food.
Unexpectedly, Li Wenzhe, who claims to be an expert in falcon training, also encountered this situation.
Fortunately, although Li Wenzhe is not very skilled, he still knows basic common sense.
Seeing that the eagle had thrown away the food, I immediately gave it a large amount of water, and then stopped feeding it for half a day. I waited until the eagle had recovered some of its condition the next day, and then I fed it small meals frequently to slowly recover.
The eagle has a high reserve of physical energy, so losing food once will not kill him. As long as he deals with it properly in the follow-up, he can still recover. In this respect, Li Wenzhe was qualified and did not make any stupid moves. By the second day, the eagle’s condition had recovered to a large extent.
For fear that something might happen to the eagle, the pale yellow eagle was not tossed to death for the past two days. It was only kept on the pole in the first half of the night and put on the pole to rest in the second half of the night. Slowly the eagle recovered.
Before I knew it, three days had passed.
Yue Feng followed the same routine he used to train the big black eagle to teach the little pigeon tiger to recognize the lure. Then, after feeding it with meat tied to the lure for three days, the little pigeon tiger was able to come to the little pigeon tiger at a distance of 20 to 30 meters just by showing the bait and blowing a whistle.
Xiao Gehu was swinging the bait outdoors and started to fish in a small circle. Xiao Tao’s purple eagle had also been adjusted to the state of appearing.
As the old saying goes, when an eagle is angry, its head is like a pine cone, its eyes are like sesame seeds, its paws are covered with hair on its crotch, and its tail droops.
When a man is strolling around the playground with an eagle on his wing, and a small dove flies overhead, the eagle will anxiously follow the flight path of the prey for a long time. If the prey is not caught by its feet and held tightly in its hands, the eagle will just go out and chase it.
Seeing that the eagle was ready, the two brothers decided to make a feather hunt in the evening and go out early the next morning to help the purple eagle mature into a falcon.
Having made up his mind, Yue Feng mentioned it to Jun Ge during dinner in the evening. Ye Jianjun had never seen the scene of raising an eagle into an eagle with his own eyes. After hearing Yue Feng’s plan, Jun Ge immediately agreed.
The next morning, after having breakfast, the three brothers put on leggings and carried the eagle out of the airport gate.
The first target hunting ground is simple, it is a wasteland on the outskirts of the airport just separated by a wall.
Yue Feng and Jun Ge each carried a wooden stick, and Xiao Tao stood in the middle as the eagle handler. The three brothers moved forward side by side, wading through the rabbits in the wasteland.
A few days ago, Li Wenzhe brought his son to try out this area. The density and size of the hares were absolutely terrifying.
The three brothers chased for less than two hundred meters before they came across a fat wild rabbit weighing four or five kilograms next to a small ditch.
“Cat!!!” Yue Feng shouted.
The purple eagle standing on Xiao Tao’s arm, as soon as it spotted the hare, flew towards the hare like an arrow with a beautiful purple shadow.
The purple eagle flew at an extremely fast speed. It only flapped its wings a few times at high frequency and had already flown above the head of the running rabbit.
I saw it spread its tail and skillfully raised it to a position one and a half meters above its head, then folded its wings and tail, aimed at the rabbit running wildly on the ground and smashed down.
Break the rules and smash the piles, all in one go!
Wow wow wow~~~~
Even before they got there, they could hear the desperate cries of rabbits in the bushes from a distance. (End of this chapter)