Chapter 89: Stinky Chest and Spit Food
“I don’t know what’s going on. It works fine in the morning, but after two or three in the afternoon, the eagle seems to stop working seriously. When it sees a bird, it will chase it even if you throw it out, but it flies slowly, obviously not at full speed! If it can’t catch it, it will then climb up the tree and call it down without any effort!”

Zhou Rui told his father exactly what problems he encountered today.

“Are both of these eagles like this?” Zhou Jianjun asked.

“Yeah, that’s about right. It’s okay early in the morning. Xiaobao and I take turns releasing the birds, and we usually catch them without missing any!”

“Is the eagle out of energy? That doesn’t seem right. When I came back yesterday, the eagle’s crop was bulging!” Zhou Jianjun frowned slightly after hearing this, wondering what the problem was.

“I feel like I have no energy left. Even flapping my wings to fly seems to be too weak! Every time I fail in pursuit, I open my mouth wide to take a few breaths, and it takes a while to recover!”

“Maybe I didn’t feed them enough last night, so the eagles are not full and naturally have no strength! Let’s fill the crops of these two eagles today!” Zhou Jianjun made a judgment based on his son’s feedback.

“Okay! I’ll feed it later. Give it as much as it eats! Until the eagle stops eating!” Zhou Rui said with a big heart.

In fact, at this time, the father and son had already gone further and further down the path of making mistakes.

In the previous two days, the eagle was fed pork and was kept about 70% full. Although its condition had obviously deteriorated, there were no serious problems.

But giving the falcon only as much as it eats and filling its crop directly disrupts the falcon’s fragile digestive balance.

After dinner that evening, Xiaobao also came to Zhou Rui’s house. The two brothers each fed their eagles, and both of them had big crops.

The well-fed eagle squatted on the eagle bar with its crop raised high, its hair all spread out, and it looked very relaxed.

However, both eagles rarely performed the normal action of twisting their necks to press food into the crop.

Normally, after eating, the food in the crop would be completely pressed from the crop to the bottom crop in two or three hours. However, today, until ten o’clock in the evening, the food in the crops of the two eagles had not moved much.

The next morning, Zhou Jianjun got up early and planned to go into the city to deliver birds to the canteen, but as soon as he came out of the east room where he slept, he smelled a foul odor.

How can I describe this stench? It’s like the smell emitted by rotten meat after being soaked in a vinegar bottle. There is a sour taste in the stench, which is very unpleasant.

Could it be the smell of the eagle’s poop? The eagle had already laid two nights ago, but there was no such strong smell.

Zhou Jianjun is a very careful person in normal times. After smelling the odor, he immediately took out a flashlight from the inner room and checked carefully.

After searching for a while, they soon found the source of the stench. Under the eagle pole where the two eagles were standing, there were large amounts of undigested meat strips emitting a strong smell.

Seeing this scene, even though Zhou Jianjun didn’t know how to train eagles, his heart skipped a beat. It was bad!

Whether it is a human or an animal, the principle is the same. Whenever they vomit something, they feel uncomfortable. These two eagles had a full crop last night, but they couldn’t digest the meat and vomited it out. Could it be that the meat was not fresh anymore?
“Xiu Ju? Get up quickly! I have something to ask you!” Zhou Jianjun turned and went into the east room. It was too early and his wife hadn’t gotten up yet.

Wang Xiuju was woken up by Zhou Jianjun in a daze. She asked with dazed eyes, “What are you doing? It’s the middle of the night and you have to wake me up early. It’s annoying!!”

“When did you cut the pork that we fed to the eagles yesterday?” Zhou Jianjun didn’t care about his wife’s complaints and asked clearly.

“I cut it at the market in Wangjiazhuang the day before yesterday. Why are you asking?” Wang Xiuju answered casually. In those days, there were no refrigerators at home, so the storage of meat was a big problem. Fortunately, it was autumn now, and the temperature at night could reach zero degrees. The fresh meat bought could be put in the cellar, and even without oil storage, it would be fine for three to five days.

“The two eagles at home vomited the meat they ate last night! I suspect there is something wrong with the meat!” Zhou Jianjun analyzed.

Wang Xiujiu, who was originally in a daze, immediately jumped up after hearing the eagle at home spit out food.

This is no joke. An Eagle cost four hundred yuan, which is more expensive than a big item like a bicycle. Nowadays, four hundred yuan plus a little more money is enough to buy the production team’s jujube red horse.

“What should we do? Nothing must happen to the eagle. We haven’t made back our investment yet!” Wang Xiujiu asked.

“First, get some fresh meat, feed it again and observe it! We can’t go up the mountain today. The eagle must be in trouble after such a long struggle!”

“Then should I get up early in the morning and cut new pork?” Wang Xiujiu asked again.

“Otherwise, I’ll kill a sand chicken to feed the eagle. Yue Feng told me that it’s best to feed the eagle alive!

The eagle vomited food today. I think it’s probably because the pork it ate was problematic. Now is not the time to calculate a few cents!”

Zhou Jianjun was indeed a man who could see clearly at the critical moment and made the decision immediately.

At this time, if he had some taming experience, fed the eagle small and frequent meals, let the eagle eat naturally, and fed it steadily for a few days, he might be able to solve the problem of the eagle vomiting food.

However, he didn’t understand that after the eagle vomited up the food, the state of its stomach and other digestive functions was already very bad. If it was not handled properly, there would be no turning back.

Zhou Jianjun took out a sand chicken from the game he was going to bring into the city, and then walked into the city with the game.

When Zhou Jianjun came back, it was already past seven o’clock and the eagle had not been fed as he requested. At this moment, it looked quite energetic, squatting on the eagle bar, motionless.

Seeing that the eagles seemed to be in good condition, Zhou Jianjun did not worry too much. He personally slaughtered a sand chicken, took out all the clean bloody chicken meat, and fed the two eagles full crop.

The second full crop went down and the two eagles were completely destroyed.

Before noon, the eagle had vomited out the food in its crop again!
After vomiting for the second time, the falcon, which was originally quite energetic, became extremely listless. In broad daylight, the hair on its head and face stood up abnormally, and with its eyelids closed, it actually squatted on the bar and fell asleep.

Some people may not have any vivid images when I describe it this way, so let me describe it in another way: Have you ever seen chickens in the countryside that have been infected with fowl plague?
The eagle at this moment has that kind of shape.

Zhou Weiguo, the second son of the Zhou family, also came over after hearing the news. The two brothers were helpless in facing the depressed Falcon.

After a while, Zhou Weiguo turned around and went out, taking the village barefoot doctor Wang Da Nao back home.

Wang Da Nao Tou’s real name is Wang Huaiqing. After reading a few books on basic medicine, he became a barefoot doctor in the village. He usually has three magic weapons: one is Analgin analgesic tablets, the second is Gentamycin, and the last one is called Oxytetracycline.

(End of this chapter)