Chapter 140 The equipment for falcon training is different from that of eagle training
After entering the house, Yue Feng closed the door, and then took out the big black eagle wrapped in the eagle coat from his satchel.
The coat has not been untied yet, and the big black eagle's entire body is wrapped in the coat. At this moment, only the head, which is as black as ink, and the spiritual eyes on the head are exposed.
"This...this is really a different species! It's not a rabbit tiger (female falcon)!" Yue Lei just took a look and made a judgment immediately.
"That's definitely not the case. How can a rabbit or a tiger have such weight? This big Black Hawk weighs almost four kilograms! If you don't believe me, weigh it with your hands. Be careful not to get bitten on your hands. This sharp mouth Quick! ”
"I'm kidding, I'm wrapped in an eagle coat, and I can still let it bite me! Ouch!!!"
Before he finished the first half of the sentence, Yue Lei couldn't help but scream in pain.
The big black hawk bitten the belly of the index finger of his left hand, causing a half-centimeter hole in the skin to be bitten, and blood came out on the spot.
"Good bite! This mouth is really sharp!!" Yue Lei didn't complain even after being bitten, his eyes became brighter and brighter as he stared at the big black hawk.
"Use some cigarette ash to stop the bleeding! The blood stains are squeaking!" Yue Feng put the eagle on the edge of the kang and turned around to stop the bleeding for his father.
After a simple bandage to stop the bleeding, Yue Feng came to the big black eagle again, thinking quickly about what to do next.
“The beak of this big black eagle is so sharp. The eagle tripper made of cotton thread before will definitely not be usable. It can be broken in two bites! It has to be split with oil-soaked tire wire and then re-assembled. Break it!" Yue Feng said in a very sure tone.
"Okay, you do it, or do you want me to do it for you?"
Yue Feng looked at his father's finger that had just stopped bleeding and curled his lips and said, "I'd better do it, your hand is injured!
If I am not mistaken, this big black eagle should be the Haidongqing passed down from the elders!
Now that I have the fate to bring it home, I have to play with it seriously! "
"Haitongqing? Although I have never seen it before, looking at the charm of this eagle, it does look like it! ! ”
Yue Lei’s judgment on his son is quite satisfactory. It’s not like he has never been bitten by an eagle or a falcon before. It was just a small bleeding spot in the sky. How could it be like just now? , the skin of the half-stretched fingertips broke easily.
"Don't untie this eagle coat in a hurry! Let me prepare the tools for playing with this thing first!
Falcon training is not the same as falcon training. Our family now needs hawk hats instead of eagle hats, and falcon stands instead of falcon stands. These things must be done as soon as possible! ”
Yue Feng reminded his father, turned around and went out of the house to find materials for falcon training to make corresponding tools.
As is true of falcon training, it is necessary to put a hat on the falcon. Falcons have complex eyes and are smart. If you don’t put a hat on the falcon, it will be easily disturbed by some unexpected factors. It is not conducive to establishing the conditioned reflex of feeding with the eagle handle.
The so-called eagle hat has existed since ancient times. You can think of it as a tailor-made hat worn on the head of an eagle. It can cover the eyes and expose the mouth without strangling the neck and head. Hair full-coverage helmet.
As for the falcon platform, this one is relatively simple. It is a platform for falcon raptors to stand on. The surface of the platform needs to be soft and not too hard to prevent the falcon from wearing out the pads of its claws when standing on it.
One more thing to mention here, eagles stand on the pole, but falcons are different. If you want to avoid problems with the talons of artificially domesticated falcons, the best way is to let the falcons stand on the pole instead of standing on the pole like the eagle. .
The main reason for this difference is that falcons are short-legged eagles, and their daily activity is much greater than that of eagles. After they are in the hands of humans, they no longer have such a large amount of activity, and the blood circulation in their talons becomes easier. Something went wrong.
At this time, if the maintenance is not in place, the falcon will be prone to problems such as avian palmitis. Once infected with avian palmitis, the eagle will be in danger.
As we talk about avian palmitis, I just want to mention the difference in the structure of the claws of falcon raptors and eagle raptors.
The talons of a big eagle have four powerful fingers, but the absolute strength of the talons of a falcon raptor of the same weight is obviously much smaller than that of a big eagle.
However, although the absolute strength of falcon raptors' claws is low, they have an extra connective tissue structure than the claws of large eagles.
This structure is like the fleshy pad in the palm of a domestic cat's paw. Older generations call it tiger's paw.
What is this tiger paw used for? Very simply, it is used to assist falcons in launching attacks.
Whether it is a peregrine falcon or a hunting falcon, when attacking its prey, it likes to dive at high altitude, and then dive to attack the target prey at a very high speed. When it reaches the prey, it will kick it quickly with its claws. Take a kick.
Yes, you read that right, falcons are used to kicking their prey with their claws.
The structure of the tiger's paw under the claws is a key part that can cause fatal damage to the prey and also ensure that the falcon raptor itself is not harmed.
The bottom of the talons of this big black eagle also has the structure of a tiger's paw, and the claws are large. The size of this tiger's paw should also be one size larger. If you randomly find an eagle bar, the big black eagle will keep standing. This tiger's paw The position is under high pressure for a long time, and if you get avian palmitis after a long time, it will be useless!
After some planning, Yue Feng initially sorted out what he needed to prepare immediately.
They are an eagle hat suitable for the big black eagle, a set of two-to-five-foot toads that are tough and strong enough not to be bitten, plus a cap for the big black eagle to rest on, which can protect the talons to a certain extent. The function of the falcon platform.
Yue Feng knows how to hit the two-to-five-foot tethered eagle by himself. It only takes a little time to do it well.
But this eagle hat put Yue Feng in a bit of trouble.
After all, Yue Feng was a senior eagle hat who lived for sixty years in his previous life. He also had enough understanding of the eagle hat styles introduced from abroad in later generations. Whether it was the British-Indian style, the Dutch style, or the Arabian style, Yue Feng had something to do with it. Research.
But the hat is easy to sew, but it is difficult to make a last of suitable size!
What is a last? You can think of it as the support model used to shape the hat when making an eagle hat.
A shoe last is used to make shoes, and an eagle hat last is also used to make eagle hats.
The difficulty in making the last for the eagle hat is that it must match the target falcon’s eye distance, head circumference, olecranon length and thickness, and other physiological structural data.
The falcon hat is precisely sized and well-made. Once it is placed on the head of the falcon, it will only feel that it cannot see clearly and will be temporarily plunged into darkness.
If the size of the eagle hat is not appropriate, there will be many problems. Problems such as beak grinding, eye grinding, and head tying may occur, which may cause serious harm to the raptor.
Do you need to use wood and cut a last piece by piece? Yue Feng thought a little dizzy for a moment.
A well-made last can be used for decades, but it cannot be made in a day or two. It requires repeated proofing, repeated trial fitting, and repeated size adjustments. If we follow the normal process, once the last and hat are adjusted to the optimal effect, this year's hunting season will probably be over.
Otherwise, change your mind? Try an eagle hat style that doesn’t require a last?
Yue Feng pondered for a long time and thought of a small piece of kraft paper left by his elders when he was rummaging through the falcon training equipment that day. Thinking of this, Yue Feng immediately left the north room and went directly to the warehouse to rummage around.
Soon, Yue Feng found this sample of a goldfish-eye-style eagle hat after rummaging through it.
This goldfish-eye style eagle hat is a style of eagle hat that has been passed down in China for hundreds of years.
After it is done, put it on the eagle, just like the head of a goldfish. The two eyes are slightly protruding, leaving enough space for the raptor wearing the eagle hat to ensure that the eyes will not be rubbed.
In addition, the back of the head of this eagle hat style has a telescopic and open drawstring. The requirements for the raptor's head circumference are not so strict. You only need to open the eagle's beak (make a hole in the eagle hat to expose the position of the beak). If the relative position of Kaishan (called Kaishan) and Hawkeye is adjusted appropriately, this hat can be used. It can be regarded as the crystallization of the wisdom of ancestors and sages.
Finding this goldfish eye screw-turn sample drawing handed down from an elder, Yue Feng solved the most difficult part of making a hat for the eagle.
You only need to find a few larger pieces of paper, use a pen to take a look at the pattern texture, and then roughly modify it a few times based on the actual raptor data. Finally, try it out, and finally fine-tune it to get the result.
The hat Yue Feng used in his previous life was made by himself. Many friends who raised eagles even bought it at a high price. However, this craft was put on hold as he got older.
With the pattern in hand, the next step is to make the leather for the eagle hat. This thing cannot be fooled, nor can it be cut from a piece of leather shoes similar to labor protection shoes.
In his previous life, Yue Feng sewed eagle hats by hand, using imported top-grade vegetable tanned leather, which is easy to dye, shape, and sew. It has many advantages, but the only disadvantage is that it is slightly expensive.
Around 1980, this kind of vegetable tanned leather was hard to find in the three-thirds of an acre of land in Fengcheng, so we had to settle for the next best thing and find a way to find better quality first-layer cowhide.
In this era, it is not easy to find these supplies. Yue Feng thought for a while and put the breakthrough point on Li Li, who worked in the supply and marketing cooperative.
The supply and marketing cooperative also sells ready-made clothes and shoes. Since they sell ready-made shoes, they must have contact with the shoe factory. If Li Li is willing to help, she might be able to help get the leather used by Yue Feng.
After making up his mind, Yue Feng picked up the sharp knife for deboning from the kitchen and went directly to the yard.
The roe deer that we shot up the mountain today have not been cleaned up except for disemboweling and bleeding them. We simply cleaned them up, took apart some of the roe deer legs, took the roe deer meat and other things into the city, and asked Li Li to find a way to make the cowhide for an eagle hat.
Thinking of it, Yue Feng immediately took action. It was related to the follow-up training of the Big Black Eagle. Now Yue Feng's enthusiasm is quite high.
After all, he was asking for help. Yue Feng unloaded a whole roe deer leg, picked up some brown bear meat from the cellar, and then rode out of the village and went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative. .
On the other side, the temperature in the supply and marketing cooperative was quite high. Li Li and another colleague were eating melon seeds behind the counter. Yue Feng opened the door of the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Brother is here! Are you cold?" Li Li recognized Yue Feng wearing a hat at a glance and hurriedly stood up to say hello.
"Sister... I went up to the mountain and shot a roe deer. I happened to go into the city and brought you a roe deer leg! By the way, didn't your colleague and leader say that they like to eat bear meat last time? I'll bring a few more portions and you can share them! "Yue Feng naturally placed the things he was carrying next to the counter.
"Ah! You brought so much meat! How much does it cost? I'll give you the money and treat it like I bought it!" Li Li's eyes lit up when she saw the meat and roe deer legs that Yue Feng brought into the city. It seemed a little fake. said politely.
"The things I went up to the mountain to hunt were free of charge! Besides, I came back here to help you in an emergency and help me!" Yue Feng went straight to the point without leaving any ink.
"What's the matter? Tell me, if it can be done, I will definitely help you find a way!"
"I need to buy some first-layer cowhide with better quality. The best specification is..."
Yue Feng briefly mentioned the thickness, specifications, and other requirements for the cowhide used to sew the eagle hat.
Before coming, Yue Feng was unsure.
After all, in this era, leather materials are in short supply, and the cooperative relationship between the supply and marketing cooperative and the shoe factory, Li Li, a salesperson, may not necessarily be able to intervene.
But after listening to this, Li Li relaxed her slightly frowned brows.
"That's it. I thought you were going to ask me to get you something! It's a piece of cake! Just tell me your request again and I'll write it down and arrange it for you!"
Yue Feng: "There are two sizes of first-layer cowhide, namely thickness...length..." Yue Feng repeated the detailed requirements.
Li Li found a piece of paper from the counter and wrote it down, then carried a piece of bear meat into the door of the office behind the counter.
"Wait for me for a few minutes. I'll go to the director to ask for leave, and then I'll take you to get the cowhide!"
In no more than five minutes, Li Li came back from behind. , holding the bicycle key and waving at Yue Feng: "Follow me!"
Yue Feng followed him out of the supply and marketing cooperative, and only on the way did he realize why Li Li was so confident after listening to Yue Feng's appeal.
Her biological father worked as the director of the logistics department in the raw material warehouse of Fengcheng Leather Shoe Factory. The leather material Yue Feng used was not large in size and the requirements were very low. It was enough to find some scraps from samples.
The next thing was simple. Li Li took Yue Yuefeng to the Fengcheng Leather Shoe Factory, and quickly got the leather she needed.
In addition to cowhide leather, I also got a thick pile of pebbled sheepskin, calfskin and other sample leathers. They were all very small corners of the leather for making. Shoes are almost equivalent to waste, but the leather of this size is absolutely abundant for Yue Feng to use to make eagle hats and hawks.
Now that Yue Feng wants to sew his own eagle hat, he will definitely not have to worry about the materials.
In less than two hours, the problem of materials for sewing the eagle hat was solved.
Yue Feng said hello with satisfaction and left, eager to return home.
After so long of preparation, the protagonist’s main Falcon is finally in place!
Regarding the gyrfalcon, I have never seen the real thing, nor have I played with it. The subsequent relevant training is derived from the training experience of the gyrfalcon. They are all raptors of the same family, and their habits are roughly different. would be too big.
The main battle of Falcon has arrived, and the subsequent updates will definitely focus on writing, but I am a little worried, fearing that the length will be too long and affect the normal progression of the plot.
When you see the big guys here, why don’t you just express your attitude? Is it like the previous one where the details of how to train and how to operate are written as completely as possible, or it is better to just mention it in one stroke and write about the main story of hunting. Other plots.
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