Chapter 8 Good luck, let’s eat chicken tonight
A sub-adult chicken that is obviously half a size smaller than the adult is currently pecking at small bugs under the bushes, while pecking, it is also croaking softly. .
How could Yue Feng let go of this opportunity, hang a string on the eagle, and then hold the eagle flat and release it.
Looking at this big green kite, it was like a bolt of lightning. It flew away close to the ground in a swish. When it got close to the bushes, it slammed down hard, and the next second it immediately sounded. The shrieking sound of the sand half chicken.
One hit! !
No wonder those senior falconers have so many particular opinions about picking eagles.
Choice is greater than effort. This eagle with good congenital conditions is really easy to use whether it is training or using it!
The real first time I became an eagle in actual combat, I succeeded in one attempt on the roadside less than a mile out of the village!
Yue Feng waited patiently for seven or eight seconds, then walked slowly towards the place where the eagle landed while stroking the line.
Under the bushes, a pair of big talons of the Big Green Harrier were stomping on a Sand Chicken, and its head was plucking its hair down bit by bit. Yue Feng even walked up to it, and the eagle was not afraid of people. , after the hair on the neck of the Shaban chicken was all cleaned up, he quickly tore open the skin of the chicken and began to peck at it with big mouthfuls.
The first time he actually went to the ground to hunt successfully, Yue Feng did not rush to grab the prey, but let the big green kite eat it. After waiting for the eagle to tear off the head of the sand chicken and its entire neck and swallow it, Yue Feng took off his left glove and covered the prey at the kite's feet.
With no prey in sight, the kite naturally let go of its talons. Yue Feng grasped the two eagles with his right hand and mounted the eagle again. He grabbed the chicken with his left hand through his gloves and hid it behind his back. He turned around and headed home. Rush.
The actual hunting was successful, and today’s mission was completed. The newly matured eagle did not dare to release more. There is a step-by-step process.
The neck and whole head of a chicken is much heavier than a sparrow. Now that there is blood in the crop, if it attacks again, the eagle will most likely not do it. If If you continue to let go, you might not catch the prey, but let the eagle slip.
When I got home with my hawk, it was only 6:10. My mother had already made breakfast, but the youngest Jingjing hadn’t gotten up yet.
Yue Feng gently opened the door of the east room and shouted in a low voice: "Jingjing, get up and eat half-and-half chicken!" Almost like a conditioned reflex, Yi Gulu turned over from the kang and raised his head.
Yue Feng turned sideways to block the sight of the eagle, holding the Shaban Chicken without a head and neck in his left hand and dangled it in front of his sister's eyes.
"Look, I caught this in Chengying this morning! Get up quickly and ask my mother to cook it for you with the ashes from the bottom of the pot and eat it!"
"Ah, really Caught it! Why does this sand half chicken have no head?" Jingjing rubbed her eyes, quickly put on her clothes, and looked at the prey that Yue Feng brought back.
"The head and neck are eaten by the eagle! The rest of the chicken is yours!"
"Second brother is so good! Eat the chicken!!" The little girl's happiness is that simple, with a chicken in her hand, She jumped and went to find her mother.
Actually, a sand-and-half chicken is not that big. An adult rooster only weighs about half a catty. What Yue Feng caught this morning was a little hen that was bred that year. It was only less than four taels in size. The head and neck were removed, leaving only two ounces of pure flesh.
But even so, the little girl was quite satisfied. Her mother didn’t even pluck the chicken feathers, but threw it whole into the pond.
Soon the strange smell of burning feathers wafted into her nostrils, and the little girl stayed close to the pot until it was cooked, and her mother took out a dark meat ball from the ashes. This thing is a bit similar to roasted pigeon. Even though it was too dark to eat when you first took it out, after you peeled off the shell after the charred feathers, the red and tender meat was not affected at all. When eating, you only need to take out the entire entrails and eat the rest.
My mother neatly arranged the cooked half-roasted chicken, and then handed it to the youngest, who was almost drooling.
"Are you going to eat it?" Yue Feng looked at his sister dotingly and asked pretending to be angry.
"Huh?" Jingjing cast a clear but stupid look.
"Two chicken legs, let dad and mom try them! You eat the meat on the breasts!" Yue Feng said without doubt.
"Oh!" The little girl was a little reluctant, but she still listened to her second brother and obediently handed the two thin chicken legs to her parents.
My parents knew that Yue Feng was consciously educating his sister, so they didn’t say anything to stop them. After taking the chicken legs that the little girl broke off, they tasted them symbolically.
“The chicken tastes so good!” Jingjing tore off the shredded meat from the breast and took a bite, her beautiful eyes suddenly narrowed into crescent moons.
"When the eagle is stable, I will catch half-and-half chickens for you every day from now on! Don't stuff the bones into your mouth, they may get stuck!" Yue Feng reminded with a smile.
Hold the eagle with one hand and finish a simple breakfast.
After hearing how Yue Feng went out to become an eagle in the morning, Dad’s evaluation of the Big Green Harrier was a little higher.
For the next whole day, Yue Feng kept walking around the village with his eagle in his arms. The more familiar he became with the job of making faces, the better. When it was almost dark at around four o'clock in the afternoon, Yue Feng used the remaining The last live sparrow was consolidated into an eagle operation in the courtyard, and then it was kept until twelve o'clock in the evening, and it was rested on the kang again.
Yesterday Yingyi ate two meals of blood in the morning and evening. After vomiting out the hair shaft in the morning, his anger level improved significantly. In the morning, Yue Feng walked out with Yingyi in his arms and walked along the village road. Before reaching the river, another trace of prey was found.
A large tiger dove was walking leisurely on the roadside at this moment, no more than ten meters away from Yuefeng in a straight line.
The tiger doves here in the mountainous area may be bigger than the sand chickens. Autumn is the season for putting on autumn fat, and there is no shortage of grass seeds and other food in the fields. This guy eats It is round and round, giving people the illusion that they can hardly walk.
Yue Feng had quite a lot of experience flying hawks in his previous life, so he knew that hunting turtle doves with hawks was not a good choice. Turtle doves have very loose fur, and if you just grab a handful of fur, the real owner would have flown away long ago.
Normally, Yue Feng would definitely not let go when he was not sure. But today, the unlucky tabby was a little too courageous. Yue Feng even walked to a distance of seven or eight meters. Even now, the turtle dove still doesn’t fly, and its chubby body is still eating on the edge of the road.
This is Hong Guoguo’s temptation! My uncle can't bear it, but my aunt can't either!
Seeing this, Yue Feng decisively took action.
The big green kite struggled several times in Yue Feng's hands. After breaking free from the restraints, it hit the big tiger dove like a precisely guided black brick. .
"Cuckoo!"
The big tiger stripe, who was not afraid of people a second ago, was firmly pinned down by the big green kite at the moment, and he was captured without even making any decent struggle. .
(End of this chapter)