Reborn in the 1980s: I made my fortune hunting wild game in Changbai Mountain

Little Eagle Liu smiled slightly and touched the top of White Eagle's head.

"Last year, this pair of eagles laid four eggs, but they didn't hatch!
It’s almost time for them to go into heat again this year. I’ve taken great care of them this year, and hopefully we’ll have cubs this year!”

Hearing this, Yue Feng's heart moved slightly and he began to ponder it secretly.

Eagles normally mate and lay eggs, so the hatching success rate should be quite high.

However, there are exceptions. For example, the first egg is likely to be an unfertilized lie egg, which cannot be hatched.

Or, during the incubation process, the parent bird is frightened and leaves the nest, dropping the eggs and causing the incubation to end unexpectedly. There are many possible reasons.

A few seconds later, Yue Feng looked up and asked, "Uncle, did you use a flashlight to shine on the eggs that didn't hatch last year? Is there any blood?"

Xiaoying Liu scratched his head: "I took a photo, and there seems to be bloodshot, but it's not too obvious!"

When he heard the blood, Yue Feng knew that the quality of the eggs laid by the breeding birds after fertilization would most likely be fine.

As long as the temperature is suitable and the fertilized egg is initially incubated, initial blood will appear inside the egg.

As time goes by, a formed tissue embryo will appear, and when the time comes, the chick will hatch.

Yue Feng nodded: "If I'm not mistaken, your eagle must have been frightened while incubating the eggs, and the eggs have fallen!"

"Yes! You are right!
For the sake of this pair of white eagles, I even cleaned up the main room in the north house to use as a breeding house for them. But one day last year, a big civet cat sneaked into the north house from somewhere, and the two eagles were frightened. They stayed on the beams and dared not return to the nest.

The next day I discovered that after I chased the civet cat away, the eagle continued to incubate, but in the end, nothing hatched.”

Hearing this, Yue Feng sighed: "Alas, what a pity!
This albino brood is a rare thing. It's a big prize to come across one. You can form a pair, and they are mating and in heat. The probability is within the probability, it's not easy!"

Hearing Yue Feng's words, Xiaoying Liu said proudly: "I won't argue with you on this point!

Let me put it this way, for these two little white eagles, I even sold the side rooms of my ancestral home!
This male has been in my hands for the fifth year. It was caught by an eagle friend by accident. I spent one thousand two hundred dollars to buy this little eagle!

At that time, it was just an albino cat covered with fur. After I bought it, I ate and slept with it, and I made it more obedient than a puppy!
This female one was discovered accidentally by a friend in Tianjin in the winter of the year before last and was told to me!
When I got the news, I settled the eagle at home that day, packed my luggage, and took a train from home to Tianjin.

I stayed and ate at a friend's house, and searched for more than a hundred kilometers around it for more than a month before I finally found it and figured out a way to catch it.

God is willing to fulfill my wish. This is just a female eagle, which is just right to pair with the male eagle in my hand!
Maybe because they both had white feathers, the two eagles fell in love with each other. I just followed the normal process of tying them up and took care of them for half a month. After the eagles were familiar with them, I tentatively let them go to play by themselves.

As a result, after just a few days, the two eagles were able to eat together and eat the same sparrow!
They became a pair later in the spring!
People in the circle call me Master Liu to my face, but I know that many people call me an idiot behind my back!

But I don't care! In my life, I have no other hobbies but eagles!
My biggest wish in this life is to be able to hatch offspring from this pair of albino pheasants, and use them as breeding birds, so that I can have more offspring, or even breed a line like pigeons!"

After hearing what Xiaoying Liu said, everyone in Yuefeng was shocked by the old man's pursuit and persistence.

Judging the old man's behavior by worldly standards, it may seem a bit silly.

After all, this mutated white dumpling cannot be eaten or drunk, it only has a certain status among certain groups of people!

But in the eyes of Yue Feng, who is also an eagle lover, this is the purest love.

"Awesome sir! I admire your spirit!" Yue Feng gave Xiaoying Liu a thumbs up.

"I have invested a lot of money to ensure the successful breeding this year! Come on, I will show you around the eagle house in the north room!"

"Okay, let me broaden my horizons with you!" Yue Feng agreed readily and stood up quickly.

The old man led the way with two white eagles in one hand, and then everyone followed him to the main room in the north house.

There are three main rooms, the middle one was connected, leaving only the beams.

The doors and windows were sealed with wire mesh inside and outside. The house was kept very clean and tidy. Clean fine river sand was prepared near the bottom of the south window for the eagle to take a sand bath.

As for clean water and nesting houses, everything is available!
Such a large cage area is basically enough for two little eagles to fly back and forth in the house.

"On that shelf on the north side is the nest of two eagles. I have learned from last year's lessons. This year, no matter whether it is a tabby cat or a weasel, nothing can get in!" said Little Eagle Liu, pointing to the eagle's nest on the shelf on the side of the beam.

Yue Feng looked around carefully, and most of the details were fine, except for one thing that Yue Feng felt was a little inappropriate.

"Uncle, your eagle house is good in every way. It's obvious that you put a lot of thought into it. But there is just one thing that I feel is a little lacking. I don't know whether I should say it or not!" Yue Feng hesitated to speak.

Little Eagle Liu waved his hand: "What should I say? You have experience in breeding Saker Falcons after all. If you feel something is not right, just tell me.

If there is anything that can be optimized, I will do it immediately without any delay! ”

Feeling the old man's attitude, Yue Feng slowly pointed to the pomegranate tree outside the window of the northern room on the easternmost side and said, "If I were you, I would move this pomegranate tree! The crown of this old pomegranate tree is a bit too big and it blocks the sunlight in the cage in the morning!

Eagle reproduction is directly related to light and climate rhythm! If light is not enough, the reproduction time will be pushed back!
To be honest, before I came to Yanjing, the two eagles in my family had already started their mating flight and nesting to incubate eggs! I estimate that in more than half a month, the eaglets will hatch!

According to the rules, the latitude of the original breeding ground of eagles like Duozi is further south than the location of the gyrfalcon closer to the pole, so it should be earlier! "

"Hmm? That makes sense!" After listening to Yue Feng's suggestion, Xiaoying Liu pondered for a few seconds and immediately nodded repeatedly.

After saying this, the old man put the two eagles into the cage, closed the cage door, and immediately turned around and walked towards the side room.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" Jin Long was a little confused by the old man's actions.

The old man didn't say anything, and quickly took out a sharp axe from the house.

"I thought this cage was a little off, it turns out the pomegranate tree is blocking the light! I don't really care about this thing, since it's in the way, I'll just chop it down!"

The old man acted decisively. In front of everyone, he took the axe and quickly chopped down the pomegranate tree, which was at least several decades old.

Seeing the old man knock down the pomegranate tree, the young men hurriedly lent a hand and quickly dragged the tree crown out of the yard.

Now, without the obstruction of the pomegranate tree, the light in the eagle house has obviously increased a lot. "Hey, Master Xiao Yue, your suggestion is absolutely great! Without the pomegranate tree, the light is indeed much better! Look at the window, how much light and shadow shine in!"

The old man put down the axe and showed no regret at all for destroying an old pomegranate tree. Instead, he was extremely excited.

Yue Feng grinned and said, "There are so many of us here. In fact, it won't take much time to move this pomegranate tree if we help! Judging from the thickness of the trunk, this pomegranate tree must be several decades old! It would be a pity to cut it down!"

Uncle Liu curled his lips and said, "Nothing is perfect in life. In the eyes of people who cherish pomegranate trees, they are more valuable than eagles! But in my eyes, as long as they get in the way, they are worthless!
Take another look, is there anything else that can be improved? As long as it makes sense, I won’t frown even if you take down the roof!"

The old man’s open-minded attitude taught Yue Feng a lesson: “There is nothing else that needs to be adjusted for the time being!
I have one more thing I want to remind you of.

How have you prepared food for the eagles in the past few years?"

Little Eagle Liu replied: "These two eagles have always eaten live food. All year round, I take the eagles out early in the morning and catch the day's food while strolling around!

The two eagles were caught very skillfully. Once an ordinary bird landed on the ground, it would basically have no chance of escaping once it was recognized!
This young man eats two birds a day. The female eagle has a slightly larger appetite, so she eats about three sparrows a day!"

"When you catch food, you also complete your daily activity, right? And you put it in the cage after you come back?"

"Yes, that's basically it! The eagle is in my hands all year round. I don't stop releasing the eagle even when the caged eagle is molting!
If you want the eagle to be healthy, you must keep up with the amount of activity. Otherwise, it will become weak and you won’t see any difference in a short period of time. If you keep it in the ground for a year or two, the eagle will be useless!”

"Then, have you ever thought about providing food for the cubs after they hatch?"

"That's easy. I'll leave one or two good-looking pine nuts and use them to make food for the chicks!"

Yue Feng waved his hand: "I don't think it's appropriate!"

"What's wrong? Tell me what's wrong!"

"My own pair of eagles are basically free-range during the breeding season. There is a mountain behind the village. The male and female eagles will take turns to go out to hunt for food to feed their chicks. I basically just check the details of the food to make sure there are no rotten meat, sores, infectious diseases or the like!

Our home is in a village at the foot of Changbai Mountain, so we can do this.

But if you live in this city and use similar methods, there will be considerable risks!"

"Risk? What risk?"

“The risk of total annihilation due to poisoning!

In a few days, there will be plenty of sparrow chicks landing on the ground!

But have you ever thought that every household has rats, and many families regularly use rat poison! The rats that are poisoned to death will also be thrown into the garbage dump as domestic garbage.

If the sparrow chicks that fell to the ground ate rat poison and became chronically poisoned, and were then caught by Pine Nut and fed to the young eagles, both the adult eagle and the eaglet would be in danger!
Or, let’s take a more extreme case, if someone has bad intentions and poisons the food with rat poison…”

As soon as Yue Feng finished speaking, cold sweat broke out on Xiaoying Liu's back.

Although this possibility is relatively small, it does not mean that it is impossible.

Only those who have done breeding themselves know how difficult the journey is.

All your efforts may be wasted just because of one negligence.

If it was something else, the worst that could happen was that he would have to start over again, but this mutated white-gray-backed falcon was not much less rare than the mutated black spear in Yue Feng's hand.

If something like this happened, the old man would probably want to hang himself. There is no margin for error, so it is never too careful.

"Then tell me, how do we prevent this kind of thing from happening?" After thinking for five seconds, Uncle Liu asked in a deep voice.

Yue Feng grinned: "It's easy to say! If you plan to continue feeding live birds, you should keep the birds in cages for three to five days after catching them, and continue to observe them to ensure that there are no problems before feeding them to the eagle.

If you don’t want to feed live birds, you can also raise a few pairs of mice to breed baby mice to feed eagles. Clean mice are actually very good food for eagles! ”

Yue Feng actually still has some reservations about the topic of eagle food.

If we look at the video documentaries on scientific raptor breeding and management in later generations, the best food is actually day-old chickens.

Day-old chickens that have just hatched from eggs should be immediately drowned and frozen in the refrigerator without any water or food. When needed, they can be thawed and fed. This kind of food is theoretically the safest.

The nutrition of day-old chickens is very comprehensive. It can be said that the chicks have the same content as the eggs. There is no risk of toxin exposure or microbial infection. Whether it is eaten by adult eagles or eaglets, there will be no problem.

Of course, at the current point in time, it is still somewhat of a luxury to feed eagles with day-old chickens. After all, today's chicks are still mainly hatched using traditional methods, and refrigerators are not yet fully popularized, making it difficult to operate.

Xiaoying Liu rubbed his face and said with some fear: "Xiao Yue, your reminder really helped the old man a lot! I dare not think about what I would do if something like that really happened!"

"Hey, I'm just talking nonsense, it's for your reference only!"

"God has been very kind to me today, meeting you! I don't have anything good to give you guys, so I'll give you each a pair of eagle shackles that I made myself!"

Hearing Xiaoyingban'er's words, Jinlong grinned.

"Master, Xiaofeng has also made some hawk-tying outfits for us! Otherwise, let's take out our own and see whose outfit is more authentic!"

Hearing this, Little Eagle Liu said confidently: "If you want to talk about this, I am not convinced by anyone in the entire Bird Market! Let's compete!"

The group returned to the east wing, and Xiaoying Liu took out the foot tripping shoes he had made with cotton thread from a separate bag on the wall.

Xiaoying Liu makes a living by catching and selling hawks in spring and autumn, and also by making falconry equipment. He is well-known in the market for his skill in making hawk tripwires.

However, just as he took out his work, he saw Jinlong take out a black and red car tripod from his pocket.

Neat, meticulous, finely woven, and beautifully shaped!

Compared with the little car, the little eagle that Xiaoying Liu was so proud of, completely lost its luster. (End of this chapter)