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Chapter 85 Eagle
Chapter 85 Falconry

Saying goodbye to Uncle Orion, Li Junge hummed as he walked: "Jealous! These two are the jealousy of Hong Guoguo!"

Then he said to Peregrine Falcon: "Look at your pockmarked body, I will call you pockmarked from now on!"

At noon, Li Junge stewed the pheasant caught by Peregrine Falcon.Then he took the peregrine falcon around the village and told it not to catch the chickens and ducks in the village.

That night, Uncle Orion came to Li Junge's house and brought a set of hawks.

While showing this set of hawks to Li Junge, Uncle Orion introduced how to use it to Li Junge.

Uncle Orion said: "This is a set of gadgets I left behind from raising falcons many years ago. Some of them are old objects passed down from my ancestors. Some of them are still usable now, and some of them were added later. See which ones are useful. Go ahead."

He took out a small gourd-shaped leather case and said: "This is an eagle hat, mostly made of leather, hand-sewn, it fits on the falcon's head and only exposes its mouth, covering the eyes so that it cannot see. The purpose is to keep the falcon quiet and avoid flying and hitting, hurting the flight feathers and tail, or hurting the body."

"The protection of the falcon's feathers is the most important thing. As the old saying goes, 'the sword is sharp and the ax is perfect', this is a manifestation of merit. The better the integrity of the feathers, the more beautiful the falcon's flying posture will be."

Then he took out two more leather tubes and said: "This is the ankle loop, which is used to wrap the tubular sheath of the exposed rod of the raptor's leg. The material is two kinds of wire and leather. Mine is leather. Hold the falcon's legs and protect the bright pole at the same time."

"This is called 'two openings', which are two leather strips or hand-woven ropes that tie the ankle loops. The length should not exceed the end of the tail feathers. Ruler, set up a falcon to hunt."

"This is the toad and the five feet. The toad is the connection between the two openings and the turning circle. It is shaped like a figure 8. The material is divided into cortex and thread quality. The five feet is a longer section of leather rope or hand-woven cord below the turning circle. The function is to give the raptor a larger range of motion when tethering a falcon. The end of the five feet is tied to the end of the falcon bar or the bottom of the falcon platform. .”

"The connecting metal ring between the toad and the five-foot rope is called turning circle, and it can rotate 360 ​​degrees up and down. The material is copper, steel, alloy, etc., and its function is to prevent the falcon from opening in two and the five-foot rope from being entangled."

"This is an eagle glove. Eagle gloves are professional leather falcon training gloves worn to protect hands and arms from being scratched by eagle claws.

"This is a bell, which is usually worn on the legs or tails of falcons. It is made of copper and silver. Compared with ordinary bells, this professional eagle bell has a louder sound and is lighter in weight."

"The reason for hanging the bell is that when the falcon chases its prey, it will fly and land in the woods or grass far away. People can find them by listening to the sound of the bell. Now I heard that there is an electronic tracker, and that thing is more advanced. gone."

"This is the falcon platform, which is a place for the falcon to stand and inhabit. The table is covered with professional fake turf, which is soft and breathable, so as to prevent the falcon's claws from getting polio. The height ranges from 35 to 50 centimeters. standard!"

"The racks on which the falcons inhabit are different. They are different. The falcons are called the falcon bars, and the falcons are called the falcon platforms. This is determined by the habits of the falcons. The falcons mainly inhabit treetops, and the falcons mainly inhabit alpine cliff platforms. Therefore, there is an old saying that 'the eagle does not stand on the stage, and the falcon does not stand on the pole'."

"The bars are also used to wipe the mouths of the eagles. They have to wipe their mouths after eating and trim their nails. If the eagles don't have bars, their claws will be scratched and their mouths will become dull; if the falcons don't have a table, they will always use bars. It’s easy to get foot problems.”

"That's about the same, and there are other odds and ends, such as false bait, eagle whistle, picking nests and so on."

While playing with these hawks, Li Junge was amazed that my Great China’s falcon training skills are also so complicated, extensive and profound, and he asked curiously: "Uncle Orion, you said this morning that this eagle has recognized its master, but if it recognizes its master, it will not run away." gone?"

Uncle Orion said: "Falcons recognize their masters. Some eagles are like kites, and they recognize them better than falcons. However, don't try to let them follow you like a follower like a dog. Eagles are handsome animals. If you want to be like a dog It seems that it is not an eagle, but a bird."

"Eagle raised since childhood can be very close to people, but because there is no eagle to teach, it can't do anything. Such an eagle has many behavioral obstacles, such as not being able to communicate with its own kind, not cleaning itself, and the most terrible thing is that many Neither will hunt."

"However, even if an eagle is hatched by humans, it may run away. This is one of the beauty of the eagle! It will never accept, never be a dog. The relationship between humans and eagles is nothing other than surrender. "

The Xiasi dogs nodded straightly, we are still the most loyal!Apart from being able to fly, what else is good about that little douchebag!Grandpa Orion is so rare!protest!Protest!
Uncle Orion finished speaking, and said to Li Junge: "However, your end is a bit beyond my understanding. This is the first time I have heard that falcons will give pheasants to their masters. In the past, falcons were trained to catch prey and rabbits. Its owner will snatch it from it.”

Speaking of this, Li Junge laughed again, and said, "This is character! By the way, is my falcon healthy? Is there something wrong with it doing so?"

"Not only is it healthy, you are an adult wild falcon, you can be described as handsome, but it's a pity that it's a male, it would be better if it was a female."

"Yo! Why is the female better than the male?"

"It's big, the female falcon is a circle bigger than the male falcon, so the prey that can be caught is also bigger."

Uncle Orion went on to say: "According to expert experience, the health of an eagle depends on the whiteness of the eagle, that is, the eagle's feces. The eagle excretes feces when it beats (shits), and the farther it beats, the healthier the eagle is. Of course, this is also related to There is a relationship between catching water and not catching water, catching water means feeding it with gourds or hands, and those who don’t catch water can’t catch as far as those who catch water.”

"Falcons are all hot animals. They are not afraid of the cold. In Xuantianzhai, it is several degrees below zero at night in winter, so as long as they are fat, they can be raised outside. However, Lijiagou is too hot in summer. It must be given a water basin in summer. Let it take a bath."

Li Junge said: "I didn't even think about training it as a falcon. If you want to play with me, it's fate. If you don't want to stay and leave, you don't have to force it. In this way, I want a falcon stand and a falcon glove. , it’s a wild falcon, it’s not good to use those things to hold it. By the way, this is also useful.”

After speaking, he picked up the whistle, put it in his mouth and blew it, and said, "Hey, why didn't it sound?"

Uncle Orion said: "This is an eagle whistle, people can't hear it, only eagles and dogs can hear it."

We had probably finished talking about training eagles when Li Junge thought of another thing, ran into the house and took out two green stones from the space, showed them to Uncle Orion, and asked, "Uncle Orion, do you know what kind of stones these are? "

Uncle Orion said: "I don't know, but I know that there are many stones in Yulongxi. What are these two pieces of yours? They are all big, and they have been washed so that there are holes and eyes. They are much weirder than you!"

Li Junge was surprised and said: "Hey! You really saw it. I was in Yulongxi two days ago, and I didn't see such a stone."

Uncle Orion said: "Are you going fishing? Then where did you go? Yulong River continues to go up. There is no soil on both sides. It is full of stone walls. The stream narrows. The water is too big to stand, and the boat can't stand." If you can’t go up, the stone is just under the water. Climb along the stone wall, and then go up five miles to the Yulongtan, where the stone is bigger. Sometimes when water is sent by robbers, some of the stone will be brought out You, it’s still the same problem as a child, like picking up these things to play, but the terrain there is too dangerous, I don’t recommend you to go there. Besides, those stones are too big, you can’t transport them out at all.”

Li Junge was secretly happy, thinking that now that I have space in my hands, I can't bring out such a big stone, and I must go and see it someday when I have free time.

Then he took Uncle Orion to see the wild boars he raised. Orion said that he frowned and said, "You boars are not gelding yet."

The little boars were terrified, Dad is a bad guy, he wants to cut off the key parts of his family, don't don't don't!

Uncle Orion grabbed a little boar by the tail and dragged it over, gestured at the little pig, and said, "Make a hole here, take that thing out, it will only know how to eat and grow fat."

The little boar screamed hoarsely, struggling desperately, dad, save me quickly, this bad guy is here!This is going to take my head off wow!
Li Junge quickly took Zhuwazi over to appease him, thinking that these little pigs are spiritual enough, almost like Xiasi dogs, and he was really reluctant to castrate them, so he said: "Look again, these little pigs are quite spiritual, I will pull them out some other day Go to the mountains and try it out, if you can raise it free-range, you don’t need gelding.”

I thought about bringing them into the space one day to try and see how they react.

Uncle Orion laughed loudly and said, "Why, are you still going to raise them as dogs?"

Li Junge said: "Why not? I heard that the French rely on pigs to find mushrooms."

The little boars nodded, yes, yes, we can all help Dad find mushrooms, we are useful!
Uncle Orion stroked his chin, nodded, looked at the piglets with a smile and said, "The free-range ones are better if castrated, and have a more docile temper."

The little boars yelled again, why does this villain always greet people three ways!They are very well behaved!Dad hasn't come to see us for so long, we haven't rebelled, how can we be docile!Dad can't listen to him, can't cut off the place that can't be written!
Li Junge laughed loudly, and said, "Let's see how they behave in the future. If they are not good, hehehe, that's all!" After finishing the comparison, he made a one-shot gesture.

The little pigs were so frightened that they ran into the corner and trembled.

After seeing off Uncle Orion, Li Junge sorted out his thoughts and thought about the things he had to do recently.It’s time for Xiasi dog to go to the city to get vaccinated; now that the deposit is 300 million, it’s time to go to Pan’ao Township to sign the contract for contracting the Wuxi River; Inspection; soon there will be a base for the lure competition, which can also be used to receive colleagues from Yuzhou; the fish ponds of hundreds of acres will have to be cleared to stock crucian carp; the fourth grandpa's birthday is approaching, and we have to prepare; There are still a group of children to take.

Each of these things has to be done by myself. After counting them down, the recent things are really old and young.

Can't help but lie on the bed and lament, is this too much work for the capable?The stall selling lychees is a serious business, so why are you so busy...

　Pray for Jiuzhaigou, pray for Sichuan...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)