Chapter 7: Sex, string, eagle!
I saw its originally shrunk neck suddenly stretch out, and then shake its head again and again.

After a few times, a black ball of food as big as the tip of a thumb was soon spit out from the eagle’s mouth.

This is the hair axis that Yue Feng mentioned.

Birds of prey survive in the wild by catching all kinds of prey. If they cannot digest the food in their stomachs, some fur, bones, and even foreign objects, they will vomit them out early the next morning.

When the eagle was feeding the water sparrows yesterday, it ate too fast and swallowed all the wet feathers into its stomach. Now that it has digested them all overnight, it naturally vomited them out.

It is normal for birds of prey to spit out undigested food boluses.

In the long-term practice of falcon training and raising, smart falconers have discovered that food boluses will bring out digestive juices and other substances in the eagle’s stomach and intestines.

An eagle without a shaft will have a stronger appetite in actual combat and will be more aggressive when hunting, so in the process of falcon training, there is the practice of deliberately removing the shaft from the eagle.

There are several types of axes. The most common ones are hair axes and hemp axes. When training eagles, different types such as rock sugar axes and carrot axes are also used.

Yue Feng feeds the eagle with wet sparrows, which produce feather shafts. This is also his favorite shaft for training eagles. The feathers are delicate and soft, and are not easy to hurt the eagle. After spitting out the shaft, it can also bring out more digestive fluid in the cavity, which has a better overall effect.

After spitting out the shaft, the state of the Great Green Kitten changed significantly at a speed visible to the naked eye. Outside the courtyard wall, in a place invisible to the naked eye, early-rising sparrows were chirping. The little eagle standing on Yue Feng’s hand looked around with its eyes, and the small hairs under its beak and around its eyes were scattered.

This is Shang Xing’er’s typical state. Upon seeing this, Yue Feng immediately flattened the eagle in his hand and tied the tire line that he had prepared in advance to the lowest point of the five-foot mark.

The string was hung successfully!
Yue Feng asked his mother who was cooking in the main room to take a live sparrow out of the cage, plucked the primary feathers on one of the sparrow’s wings, wet the feathers thoroughly with clean water, broke off one of its legs, and threw it in the yard.

The sparrow in the cage had been tortured for several days and was already in poor condition. Now its legs were broken and its wing feathers were gone. It was thrown in the yard in a listless state, only able to jump around in a small range and falling down from time to time.

After the preparations were done, Yue Feng came out of the house with the hawk flat on his back. The horned hawk immediately spotted the injured sparrow more than ten meters away.

Upon seeing this, Yue Feng held the kite flat in his right hand and threw it directly at the sparrow.

The kite attacked like an arrow shot from a bow. It stretched out and folded its wings, and after a few accelerations, it had firmly stepped on the sparrow.

An expert can tell whether it is effective or not with just one move. Even though it was just an ordinary simulation of becoming an eagle, Yue Feng had already seen some clues from the flying posture of the kite.

This big blue kite catches sparrows very quickly, and what’s even more rare is that it keeps flying high after leaving the hand.

The so-called big flight means flying with the wings fully spread out. This is fast but more physically demanding.

If this kind of eagle is released, it is fast, hunts fiercely and has a very high success rate.

In addition to the big flight, there is another way of flying with the wings only half extended, which is called small flight. This way of flying is more labor-saving, but the straight-line acceleration speed is much slower. Standing under the eaves, Yue Feng did not rush over immediately, but held the other end of the tire line firmly, while reeling in the line, he walked carefully towards the harrier hawk that was eating.

The harrier ate soaked white meat yesterday, but today it switched to blood food. Its appetite was obviously increased. It ripped off the large feathers on the sparrow’s wings in no time, and then tore a piece of meat from the sparrow in one bite.

A live sparrow with wet feathers was torn into pieces and swallowed in just a few bites. Even the sparrow’s hard beak, meatless legs and claws were roughly swallowed by the big blue kite.

Seven and a half taels of large blue kite, a sparrow is not enough to fill the stomach. If measured by the normal amount of food intake, at least three or four will be enough a day.

However, when training eagles, human rights and animal protection laws cannot be considered. If Yue Feng wants the eagle to grow up and go to work in the fields as quickly as possible, the entire process he currently has is basically the most efficient option.

By the time the eagle had finished eating the sparrows, Yue Feng had already straightened out and put away the more than ten-meter-long string. This string tied five feet behind was like a safety rope during falcon training, which could ensure that if the eagle was accidentally startled, the training would not be wasted.

Yue Feng was very satisfied with the operation of the mature eagle in the hospital. The performance of this Big Blue Harrier was better than Yue Feng expected.

An eagle is courageous, has plenty of stamina, and can fly very fast and accelerate without sparing any effort when hunting. These qualities are all concentrated in one eagle. Given time and once the eagle is tamed, it will surely become a powerful fighter.

Yue Feng put the eagle up again and strolled around the yard. When he was tired, he sat on a stool for a while. He didn’t go into the house to eat with his parents until it was completely dark.

After dinner, the food in the eagle’s crop had been completely pressed into the lower crop and disappeared. Yue Feng, wearing gloves, flattened the eagle for a while, then let it go and held it again for a while, switching between these two cycles on average once an hour.

According to the training plan, Yue Feng plans to take the eagle to actual combat tomorrow, so tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Yue Feng lit the oil lamp and fiddled with the eagle until 2:30 in the morning. The eagle stood on his hand with its head inserted between its wings and fell asleep. Only then did he tie the eagle up and put it on the kang to take a nap.

At about 4:30, as soon as the rooster crowed, Yue Feng jumped out of the bed, put on his clothes and shoes, and then set up the eagle stand on the back of the chair.

Less than half an hour later, the Great Blue Kitten shook its head and spit out its feather shaft as usual. Yue Feng pinched the feather shaft and took a quick look to confirm that there was no problem. He immediately mounted the hawk and strolled out of the house.

It was just daybreak and the whole village was still quiet. The work in the fields in autumn had been completed, so the villagers could not get up at this time. All the way out of the village, only a few sporadic barking of dogs could be heard.

Yue Feng carried the eagle out of the village, and while walking on the road, he kept an eye out for the birds and the like landing on the ground.

Many of the newly-born eagles would not recognize large prey, but the blue kite in Yue Feng’s hand was not such a coward. Not long after Yue Feng walked out of the village, he found that the eagle in his hand was trying hard to get at a bush pile more than 20 meters away.

An eagle’s eyesight must be far stronger than that of an ordinary person. After Yue Feng discovered that the green kite recognized its prey, it immediately stood where it was and observed it carefully.

After observing carefully for a few seconds, Yue Feng quickly found the prey in the bushes.

(End of this chapter)