Chapter 10: Cooking food, call away!
The big green kite that was caught so coincidentally would be safer if it were released hanging on a string, but this behavior is like making an eagle dance with a chain.
If you want to bring out all the abilities of Daqing Yaozi as soon as possible, the ultimate answer is to cut the strings and let go.
If you want to cut the cord and open up the hawk, in fact, the familiarity between the hawk and people is basically enough at present. The only difference is to establish the conditioned reflex of calling away.
What does it mean to be far away? It is an operation where the eagle is placed in one place, the eagle holds the meat dozens of meters away, and calls the eagle back to the hand by shouting a command or whistling.
Yue Feng's original plan was to slowly cultivate affinity and familiarity in actual combat, and wait until the eagle was completely familiar with hanging the string, before he considered picking it off.
Now the training plan has to be advanced.
Yue Feng made up his mind and did not let the eagle eat the turtle dove meat all at once. Instead, he allowed the eagle to eat 30% of the meat and then hid the turtle dove.
At this moment, the big green kite has a small bulge in the crop on its chest. It has spent a lot of energy on several consecutive hunts. Standing firm on Yue Feng's hand, the little eagle began to twist its neck and press into the crop. Food.
Yue Feng held the little eagle for a while, then turned around and walked back home.
Today's outing training is over. I'll go home slowly. I'll soak up the food I fed the eagle today, try to jump punch, and call far away. I'll finish it all in two days.
When Yue Feng walked back to the village canteen with his hawk, he happened to be bumped into by several women from the village.
"Hey! Xiaofeng, where did you catch an eagle? It looks quite big!" Li Yinhua, the proprietress of the canteen, looked up and down at the eagle in Yue Feng's hand, and said hello enthusiastically. .
Yue Feng pursed his lips slightly and responded: "Aunt Li, Aunt Zhao, sister-in-law Liu, you are playing here. I picked this up on the ground and kept it for a few days to play with!"
The tongue-tied woman in the village In his previous life, Yue Feng had learned a lesson. This place was not a place to stay for a long time. With a simple chat, Yue Feng rubbed oil on his feet and left.
When Yue Feng walked away, Li Yinhua, who was still smiling just now, curled her lips and complained: "The second son of the Yue family is also a mess. Eagles eat meat. Nowadays, people can't eat meat, so they still raise eagles for fun?"
Another woman echoed: "I heard that a few days ago, Yue Feng went to work in the forest farm and was beaten back. His head was bulging, and he fainted on the kang for several days before he woke up! He couldn't have been beaten. He's lost his mind! He thinks he is Prince Baylor!"
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Face this kind of gossip behind his back, Yue Feng simply ignored it. Little did these old ladies with long hair and short knowledge know that my brother is not training the falcon just for fun, but to use this little eagle to accumulate strength and get rid of the fate of being a useless person in his previous life!
Back home with the eagle on his back, Yue Feng raised his hand and tied the little eagle to the back of the chair at home. Then he went to the outside with his satchel on his back, took out the half-live chicken that the two eagles had caught, and handed it to them. Mother preparing lunch.
"The eagle caught it! I caught three in the morning, one turtle dove and two chickens. I cut the meat of the turtle dove and fed it to the eagle. I cleaned up the two chickens and stewed potatoes for lunch! When the eagle releases them more smoothly, I will go to the foot of the mountain. We caught a flying dragon!" Yue Feng proudly told his mother about his harvest.
At first, the family's attitude towards Yue Feng's eagle raising was basically neutral. They did not encourage it, but they did not resist it either.
But after Yue Feng slowly handed over his results, his mother's reaction was obviously more approving of her son's actions.
"Ah, are they caught alive? These two chickens are quite fat!" Mother Meng Yulan said very happily, holding Yue Feng's morning spoils in her hands.
"Well, after I caught them, I replaced them with dead turtle doves! Mom, do we still have any old socks at home that can't be worn? I caught too many later, and I plan to sell them in the city!" "Yes, these years I keep the socks that are worn out and can’t be mended! I’ll find them for you later!”
"Yeah!" Yue Feng responded, took an empty bowl from the stove cupboard, carried the leftover turtle dove and walked out of the north door.
The feathers were plucked and simply cleaned up. Then Yue Feng divided the remaining turtle dove meat into seven or eight pieces. The large feathers that were plucked were all lost, and the soft down was also collected by Yue Feng.
This step, in the jargon of falconry, is called food, which is to process the food for feeding to the eagle.
If you want to control the state of the eagle as much as possible, the step of preparing food is indispensable. When losing weight, feed the baby water food, and when gaining weight, give the baby blood food. , it’s just a mouthful of food.
No matter big eagle or little eagle, what they pursue is to be fat and clear.
Full fat means that the eagle has plenty of physical strength and a clear chest means that the eagle is full of energy and has high morale to fight outside the siege.
To achieve this, the level of the Eagle Bar Style is very high, and subtle adjustments must be made based on actual combat performance. Yue Feng had been an eagle for more than ten years in his previous life, and he knew the ropes inside.
If you want to train to call far, you must have food on your hands like an eagle, and it is best to have blood food.
Yue Feng cut the meat from the turtle dove's breast into dices one by one, then hid two pieces in his palm and carried the hawk back to the yard.
Putting the eagle on the wooden shelf at the root of the south wall and hanging it on a string to ensure that there would be no accidents. After making preparations, Yue Feng put two layers of thickened gloves on his right glove, then stretched out his right arm behind his back and pinched it at the tiger's mouth. A piece of meat stood about half a meter in front of the eagle.
"Hey!!!" Yue Feng roared and showed the meat in his hand to Xiaoying.
This hey is the feeding command to establish a conditioned reflex. The little eagle didn't know what happened at first, but after seeing the meat on Yue Feng's hand clearly, the little guy jumped from the wooden frame very decisively. On the palm of Yue Feng's right hand, two large claws as sharp as daggers stepped on the meat and began to tear and eat.
While the eagle was eating the meat, Yue Feng would say "Hey" every few seconds! Hey! Shout hey a few times to let the eagle initially adapt to this command.
After the eagle finished the piece of meat, Yue Feng put the eagle back on the wooden stand again, this time increasing the distance between the person and the eagle from half a meter to two meters.
Standing still, Yue Feng magically appeared an extra piece of flesh on his hand.
Hey!
The next second, after hearing the greeting, the little eagle flew to Yue Feng's right hand again without hesitation, and continued to eat meat.
When the distance was half a meter just now, it was called a jumping punch, which means jumping from a standing position to an eagle-handle fist. The second time it was two meters away, it was even a beginner's call.
Yue Feng let Xiaoying finish the second piece of meat, and then repeated the previous steps.
This time the distance increased to eight meters. Yue Feng took another piece of meat and hid it in the palm of his hand and continued to call away.
The high-intensity lifting, food control and face-fighting in the previous few days played a decisive role at this moment. Even at a distance of eight meters, the next second after showing the meat, after a command, Daqing The harrier flew straight towards Yue Feng again.
(End of this chapter)