Chapter 142: Get ready to eat
When Yue Feng came to the yard with the eagle, the big black eagle as black as ink faced the sun, everyone had a relatively clear understanding of its majesty. Know.
This perfect creature does not seem to be a living creature. Even the smallest feather exudes a metallic beauty similar to that of a higher life.
There is a color called colorful black, and the big black eagle at the moment is like this.
Except for the eagle hat with goldfish eyes on his head, the expression is unclear, standing on the human hand is majestic, and the aura of an apex predator comes through the sharp talons and sharp beak. Coming at you.
Brothers Xiaowen and Xiaowu circled the big black eagle and looked at it several times. They didn't say anything for a long time. Yue Feng looked at the brothers with a smile and asked: "What are you two looking at?"
"This eagle is like home. All eagles are different! Tsk, I don’t know what it is capable of! I heard from Xiaotao that you are going to train it to hunt. When should we start?" Xiaowen asked.
Yue Feng casually touched the eagle's back and felt the big black eagle let out a reflexive sigh when someone touched it. The originally relaxed feathers around its body immediately tightened.
Yue Feng didn't care about the big black hawk's breath, and touched the back of its claws with his salty hand and continued: "Isn't this already training!
Training a falcon is not training. Eagle, this is a water grinder, don’t rush it! Let it starve for a few days, and then think about the next thing after eating!”
"If this thing is brought to the big market to show off, it will definitely cause a sensation! It's big, handsome, and has such long claws!" Xiao Wu also said with admiration.
"Although the training falcon is also popular, there is no need to go to the big show! This thing can't be explained in a sentence or two. Let's play with it for a few days and let it relax before we talk!"
"Only water?"
Yue Feng nodded: "Yes, only water. This eagle is tougher than I thought. It's been almost a day since I got home, and I haven't even shot a single one yet!"
“Holy shit!”
"It's not like there's something wrong or injured, right? It's been a day and I haven't beaten any of them. How is that possible! Such a big eagle!"
Yue Feng touched the stubby part of the big black eagle again. Tail: "Normally, the harder the eagle's body is, the more stable its temperament, the less streaks it will have! I've been giving water, and as long as it can't dry its chest, the eagle won't have any problems!"
Here While the brothers were chatting, the big black eagle stuck out its tail, and with a click, a large lump of black and white cake fell on the ground.
There are obvious differences between falcon raptors and eagles. When they are in the chick stage, they are in a spraying state. However, after reaching adulthood, falcons are no longer squirting, but It's RBI.
That is, there is no ability to spray out, but it falls directly under the buttocks.
"I just said that, isn't this a poop! Judging from the color and condition of the feces, this eagle is fine and in very good condition!"
Yue Feng casually broke a small branch from the broom. He leaned over and pooped the big black eagle's feces, and then said with satisfaction.
“This isn’t quite right, is it? Our eagles, whether they are large eagles or kites, can spray strips quite far away! How can such a big black eagle hit its heels with its daddy? No strength! Brother, are you sure Ying is okay?" Xiaowu asked again after seeing this.
“It’s okay, this sea turtle’s scientific name is Gyrfalcon. All falcon-like raptors pull daddies like this. The big eagle cuts strips and the falcon strips them!
Look at the inside of this daddy. The ingredients are black and white, plus scattered uric acid! It’s very healthy, and judging from the texture, this eagle is not too dehydrated! Wait a minute, I’ll go get the scale!”
Yue Feng held the eagle in his hand and said hello, then turned around and went to the warehouse to get the scale.
Training the eagle, Yue Feng is very measured, but training the falcon requires more control over the state of the raptor, so Yue Feng does not dare to make such a rough estimate.
If you want to raise falcon raptors well, daily weighing is essential.
When the eagle first arrived home yesterday, the weight on the scale was four kilograms and one tael and two cents. After deducting the weight of the eagle's coat, the net weight of the big black eagle was about four kilograms and three cents.
Today, Yue Feng waited for the big black eagle to pull the daddy and immediately weighed the eagle. The total weight of the gold fish eye eagle hat and the complete set of two-piece, swivel, five-foot toad and other eagle equipment was four pounds per About two or seven dollars.
The weight of the whole body of the Big Black Eagle's equipment is about one to two to five cents.
After this calculation, the big black eagle only drank a small amount of water for a whole day, and its overall weight only dropped a pitiful penny.
Exactly cost-effective, I lost 5g in weight!
Of course, there is a certain error in the accuracy of weighing the eagle using a manual scale, but even with the error, the weight is solid enough.
The harder the animal's body, the stronger the body's ability to withstand various extreme environments. For example, an adult tiger can go without eating for seven to ten days after eating once. The body's metabolism and energy conversion and utilization rate is high enough.
And this big black eagle is worthy of being the top falcon offered to ancient emperors. It didn't eat anything for a day and only drank a little water, and it actually didn't lose weight at all.
"Shit, if you lose weight at this rate, it will be choked enough to go to the ground in a month! No, I have to think of something. I have to put a hat on it to shine at night!!" Yue Feng said to Ying. After weighing himself, he couldn't help but shake his head.
Lighting the lanterns is like keeping up the eagle at night, but the big eagle does not wear a hat, while the training falcon, especially the new falcon that has just come off the net, is best to wear a hat.
Although the eagle has a arrogant temper, it has limited intelligence. After getting used to the presence of people, even if the lifting process is simple and rough, it will not leave too many obvious stress-related sequelae.
The falcon will not work. This guy is much smarter than the eagle. If it is still very afraid of people, force it to experience the various physical contact and other reactions of the eagle. Not only will it not be easy to kill the wildness, but it will It is easy to leave stress sequelae on falcons.
However, whether training an eagle or a falcon, the first step must be to lose as much weight as possible while ensuring the health of the raptor.
Only when the physical energy reserves of the raptors are almost squeezed, will they feel enough hunger. At this time, the Eagle Handle Pose can establish a positive conditioned reflex and obtain positive feedback by supplying food.
After making up his mind, Yue Feng said hello to his father Yue Lei, and the two began to prepare to fly the big Black Hawk 24 hours a day in two shifts.
The next five days were almost the same as when we packed up the iron-backed red eagle. The only difference was that the big black eagle carried on the person's arm wore a hat from beginning to end.
After 120 hours of continuous lifting, the weight of the big black eagle dropped by about one tael on average every day. The weight of the big black eagle, which weighed about four kilograms, was successfully reduced to three kilograms and five taels.
After only drinking some water and not eating anything for six consecutive days, the big black hawk responded quickly.
Although it can't see anything with its eagle hat, its hunger makes it quite sensitive to any sound and vibration. When it is really hungry, it will lower its head to chew the two pieces tied to its legs. The tire string eagle tripper, which was soaked in oil and made by Yue Feng himself, was frighteningly strong while maintaining a certain degree of flexibility. The sharp eagle's beak bit it back and forth, but it still couldn't damage it at all.
Seeing that the eagle began to bite the tripod, Yue Feng knew that the heat was almost ready. After dinner that day, he personally prepared the first meal of meat for the eagle.
This meat is cut from the breast meat of the half-and-half chicken. It is only clean meat, without any muscle, bone, fat, etc. Yue Feng used a kitchen knife to cut it into small pieces along the texture of the muscles. The bright red muscles were not washed in advance. After soaking, there will be faint blood drops coming out of the meat slices from time to time.
In the past few days, Yue Feng fed the eagle water. He used clean cotton cloth dipped in water to wipe the eagle's beak. The water droplets would sink into the eagle's beak, so that the big black eagle would swallow the water with its beak. After a long period of subsequent water feeding, the eagle no longer resisted. As long as it noticed water at the tip of its beak, it would drink.
The method of giving food to the eagle today is similar.
Yue Feng picked up a piece of fresh meat with chopsticks and dipped it in the water, then rubbed the tip of the eagle's beak.
The big black eagle clicked its mouth habitually, and soon tasted blood.
Birds of prey are born to eat meat and are very sensitive to the fishy smell of blood. After a week of being lifted up and cooked as a hawk day and night, their stomachs were already hungry and their intestines were rumbling. Suddenly aware of the smell of blood, he immediately clicked his lips and continued to try to drink the blood water.
However, the blood was just a pretext, how could it continue to drink like this? When Yue Feng took a look at the big black eagle's beak, he directly stuffed the thin slice of meat into the pointed gap of the eagle's beak.
The big black eagle noticed the presence of a foreign object in its mouth, and the tip of its tongue touched the smell of blood, and its first reaction was to bite.
As a result, a quarter of the meat piece was bitten by the big black hawk.
With such a sharp mouth, it is easy to bite the belly of a person's finger, not to mention the thin slices of meat. It can be bitten in one bite.
The big eagle clicked its mouth, knowing that what was in its mouth was pieces of meat, so it swallowed it quickly.
Seeing the first bite of meat go into his stomach, Yue Feng's tense nerves finally relaxed.
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, so feeding a big black eagle in the dark while wearing a hat is similar to feeding a big eagle, but the level of difficulty is at least one level higher.
A few days ago, when the weight of the big black eagle had not dropped so low, Yue Feng also tried it, but he only bit off a piece of meat, shook his head and spit it out, and did not swallow it at all.
But it doesn’t matter now. As long as you eat the first piece of meat, the rest will be easy.
Yue Feng repeated his old trick, moistening the fresh meat with water, and transferred the water to the meat. The big black eagle once again grabbed the piece of red meat.
Yue Feng let go and allowed the big black eagle to take the whole piece of meat into his mouth.
The big black eagle tried to raise its talons and lowered its head to assist in tearing the meat, but Yue Feng held the two pieces tightly. In desperation, it could only choose to raise its head repeatedly and swallow the almost complete piece of thin meat. .
After eating this piece of meat, Yue Feng passed the test of feeding the big black eagle's hooded child.
Next, Yue Feng repeated his old trick, feeding the falcon piece after piece of water-soaked red meat. Every time he fed the meat, Yue Feng began to whistle consciously.
This whistle is a signal to call the eagle back. From a scientific point of view, by providing food, the whistle is established - the conditioned reflex of food. When the eagle is trained in the future, it can listen to it. The hawk's whistle greeted.
After one meal, Yue Feng fed him one or two pieces of half-and-half chicken breast meat and finished it hastily. Now the main direction is to reduce the weight of the eagle. As for this starter, on the one hand, it is to maintain the health of the raptor, on the other hand , mainly to prepare for the lower axis.
The day’s training progress: Wearing a hat to eat successfully, the big black eagle’s conditioned reflex for whistling eating was initially established. When the last two pieces of meat were eaten, the whistle was heard, and it had gradually learned to move around. Try to find some meat to eat.
In the next two days, Yue Feng and the old man continued to lift the big black eagle in two shifts without changing the eagle. Because the food was eaten and the meat was eaten, the weight of the big black eagle dropped. It slowed down, but within two days, my weight dropped to about three and a half pounds.
According to Yue Feng’s experience in training falcons in his previous life, for a falcon with a healthy weight, the lower fat can be reduced to about 80% of the weight of the round fat. That is, for an eagle weighing three kilograms, the weight loss can be reduced to almost two or four kilograms. About two.
If calculated according to this ratio, the weight of the big black eagle, which is round and round, weighs just over four pounds, and should be reduced to three pounds, two or three liang.
But Yue Feng didn't dare to get so fat directly. Instead, he observed the big black eagle's reaction to food and the feeding whistle every day.
On the eighth day, when the weight of the big black eagle dropped to three and a half kilograms, and when he heard the feeding whistle, he started to look around eagerly, shaking his head, Yue Feng knew that the heat should be almost there.
So, the next subject begins.
Take off your hat and start eating!
I saw that Yue Feng continued to put the feeding time after dinner. Only oil lamps were lit in the room. In the dim environment, he could see the surrounding things clearly.
Yue Feng prepared the meat for the evening feeding in advance. At the same time, he also prepared an extra rough hat with the same color as the one he was currently wearing.
Yue Feng whistled and called the eagle. Upon hearing the greeting, the big black eagle immediately looked around for food. Yue Feng leaned over slightly, bit the fixed strip behind the big eagle's head with his mouth and gently pulled it loose. The constricted part of the back of the eagle's head.
The next second, Yue Feng pinched the tassel on the top of the eagle hat and took it off for the first time after wearing it for many days.
For a moment, their eyes faced each other, big eyes staring at small eyes.
Yue Feng stabilized his hands and remained motionless. After the big black eagle briefly adapted to the surrounding light environment, when he saw Yue Feng again, the feathers on his body clung tightly to each other again, and he entered a state of nervousness.
One person and one eagle stared at each other like this for about five minutes, and the fear in the big eagle's eyes calmed down a bit.
The person in front of me who captured him didn't seem to have any malicious intention to attack me.
At this time, Yue Feng slowly moved his left hand, picked up a thin piece of bloody meat with chopsticks, and handed it to the big black eagle.
Blow the whistle! A signal to eat!
The conditioned reflex of wearing the hat and blowing the whistle to feed food has long been established. When the big black eagle heard the whistle, he immediately relaxed a little and took the piece of meat into his mouth in one bite.
In my eating habit, I still wanted to step on the meat with my paws and tear it into pieces, but Yue Feng still held the two pieces tightly in his hands. He wanted to lift his feet, but I'm sorry, I couldn't.
(End of this chapter)