Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 196: Catch some pheasants and raise them

Tian Chuan carried the bag and did not go home directly, but changed the road and walked towards the Qinglong River embankment. The Qinglong River is also one of the places where rabbits like to haunt. Walking and shooting arrows in the snow for a while, the amount of exercise was not large, Tagawa felt a little cold, he wanted to find one or two rabbits to chase and try to see if he could catch up, and also move his body that was a little stiff because of the cold.

Before he reached the river, Tagawa saw a line of fresh rabbit footprints, just in the direction of the embankment, Tagawa followed the line of footprints, and as a result, there were still dozens of meters away from the embankment, and he saw a big rabbit jumping and jumping in the snow a little awkwardly.

Tagawa dropped the bow and bag in his hand, and chased after the rabbit. Seeing Tagawa chasing after him quickly, the rabbit also felt the danger and sped up and ran towards the river.

Tagawa used all his strength and ran towards the rabbit as fast as he could, getting closer and closer. Less than ten meters away from the rabbit, the rabbit had already come to the bottom of the embankment, but the result was tragic. There is a snow ridge blown up by the north wind under the embankment, the snow there is more than half a meter deep, because the snow falls for a short time, the snow is still soft, the big rabbit jumped into this snow ridge, it was buried in the snow, struggled several times and did not jump out, when it jumped again, it was grabbed by the neck of Tian Chuan, who was just in time, and was directly captured alive.

This rabbit is quite fat, and Tagawa is estimated to weigh more than eight pounds, which is about the same weight as his knife and stick. Tian Chuan was a little hesitant about this live rabbit, not knowing whether to kill it now, thinking that he would not be able to raise it alive, or twisting its neck. He went back and picked up the bow and bag he had just dropped, put the big rabbit in the bag, and walked north along the embankment.

When he arrived near the homemade shooting range for archery a few days ago, he noticed that there seemed to be movement behind the felt that was used as a fence for the shooting range. Tagawa put down the bag in his hand, took out a few arrows in his hand, grasped the bow with the arrows, crossed the embankment, and quietly approached there from the side of the river.

When he was more than thirty meters away, Tagawa quietly looked up and found that it was a flock of pheasants, moving on the ground without snow behind the fence. The fencing felt just blocked the northwesterly wind, where there was basically no snow and the wind was much lighter, and the temperature was estimated to be a little higher than elsewhere. Now this flock of pheasants occupies this treasure land, resting and foraging.

There were more than a dozen pheasants in this flock, led by a beautiful rooster, and the hens gathered around the rooster, clucking, a joyous scene. Tagawa hesitated for two or three days, but still resisted the desire to shoot this beautiful rooster, did not fly away from them, and slowly retreated along the same path. Grab a bag of hare loot that had just been thrown on the ground and walk towards the village.

When I got home, it was more than seven o'clock in the morning, my parents were having breakfast, and when I saw Tian Chuan's equipment, Tian Dad asked, "Where have you been this early in the morning?"

Tian Chuan pointed to the bag he had left in the yard and said, "I went to Nanwa to try out the newly made bow and arrow and shot a few rabbits just after the snow fell." ”

Tian Ma said in surprise: "Look at you playing this ball game, I didn't expect to be able to shoot / hit rabbits, it's not easy." But be careful, it's not good if you hurt someone. ”

Tian Chuan said: "In this winter, I can see more than ten miles at a glance, and I don't throw it into the distance, so I won't hurt people." As he spoke, he untied his bow, and took off his quiver and hunting knife, and took them to the workshop where these things were usually kept.

I went into the house and washed my hands, drank a big bowl of hot porridge with sticks, ate two buns, and went to the workshop to skin the rabbits. If you don't peel it out in time, it will be difficult to get it when it freezes hard. 、

He first hung up the rabbits one by one and peeled them from the head. The head is the most difficult to peel, and after peeling the head, the limbs are cut off from the wrists, and the skin on the body is torn off in one piece, leaving only the glorious and smooth rabbit body. Disemboweling the entrails, cutting off the tail, and a rabbit is done.

Tagawa was quick, and it only took forty minutes to clean up the seven rabbits. Hare skins have no use, and along with their offal, they are put into a plastic bag by Tagawa to feed blackfish and soft-shelled turtles. The rabbit meat is packed into plastic bags one by one, sealed and frozen in a freezer in an underground storage room. Now there are few hares at home, and there are still a few rabbits sent by Tian Mingjian in Jixian County in the freezer. These hares Tian Chuan planned to take them to the capital and use them to give them away. City dwellers rarely eat this kind of game, and everyone will love it.

He wanted to sell the rabbits online, but when he thought of food safety and wildlife regulations, he dispelled the idea, because it wouldn't sell for much money, and he had to take a certain amount of risk, which was not worth it. It's better to use it to give it away.

He spared the pheasants in the morning, not because he didn't want to catch them, but because he wanted to catch them alive. If you catch this group of pheasants, or find a way to get another batch of breeding chickens and lay eggs to hatch chicks, it should be more popular with members and is a good project. Before the construction of Base 3, he had no place to raise these things, but now that there is so much free land in Shuanghe, it will be very convenient to raise some pheasants.

Originally, it would have been easiest to buy hatched pheasant chicks if there was somewhere. However, Tagawa was worried that there would be no sale, so he had to fight the idea of breeding by himself first.

Here in Tianjia Village, pheasants were originally relatively rare, but somehow, in recent years, they have gradually increased, and you can often see a flock of pheasants, and some people have shot them with shotguns. But in recent years, the ban on guns has become stricter, and several muskets in the village have been collected, even air guns have been collected, and it is more difficult to hunt pheasants.

Catching pheasants is not too difficult for Tagawa, he has also been exposed to a lot of wild survival and hunting knowledge when he soaked in the bow and arrow forum in his previous life, and he has learned a lot about the hunting methods of pheasants, which are relatively common wild animals.

Although pheasants are birds, their flight ability is not strong, take off slowly, the climb distance required is very long, and they do not fly far. Only when running does not solve the problem, will it fly for a short time, or land on a tree, or land on the opposite side of the river, so that the enemy cannot catch up.

When hunters hunt pheasants, the common methods are gun hunting, lower trap hunting, lower / medicine hunting, lower clamp hunting, etc., the most commonly used is to use guns and lower traps. Of course, the gun can't catch it alive, and Tagawa will definitely not think about it. The lower sleeve is also easier to put on the neck, and he will be strangled directly, which is not acceptable to him. The clamp can clamp the chicken claw, and after taking certain measures, it can ensure that the claw is not broken, which is a feasible method. However, once one is caught, the other pheasants in the flock are frightened, and they will flee cleanly, and it will be useless to catch the whole flock.

Considering it, Mitsudagawa decided to try two less commonly used methods - net fishing and cage fishing.

Netting is relatively easy to understand. Taking advantage of the shortage of food after this heavy snowfall, the pheasants used to rest in the place where the nets were laid down, the nets were buried under the snow, the snow in the middle of the nets was shoveled, and the corn that the pheasants liked to eat was sprinkled. When the pheasants enter the net, pull the rope to open the net, enclose the flock in the middle, and the hunt is complete. This method requires someone to be on the side, and to lay in ambush, waiting for the pheasant to enter the trap, and the waiting person is more difficult. If you can use a remote chicken nest and remotely control the net action, it will be much easier, but the equipment will be much more complicated. Tagawa decided to think about it before deciding.

If a pheasant-triggered automatic response net is used, a flock catch cannot be guaranteed, and if the catch fails, the frightened chickens will not be able to catch.

Another method that Tagawa wanted to try was the cage method. The cage for catching pheasants is much simpler than catching the mess of other animals, that is, it is to use a two-meter-long wooden stick to form a circle with a diameter of more than one meter, the bottom is large and the mouth is small, the mouth is only seventy or eighty centimeters, and a slightly longer stick is planted in the middle of the circle, and a corn cob is hung on the stick. When pheasants come to eat corn, they will accidentally slip into the circle. Due to their poor flight ability, they were unable to fly out of the cage surrounded by sticks, so they were trapped inside. When caught in this way, the flock will not be frightened, and several more sets of such cages can be made in the places where the flocks are often active, and a group of pheasants can be caught in one cage, and sometimes multiple pheasants may be caught in one cage.

Of course, Tian Chuan's methods were all seen from the Internet back then, which can be described as talk on paper, and the specific implementation effect needs to be further verified.

Tian Chuan called and asked Li Erbao to bring him a bunch of nets used to enclose the fish pond in the summer, ready to be used as nets for catching pheasants. As for the sticks used to make chicken traps, there are no suitable materials for the time being, so let's talk about them later.

After a while, Li Erbao drove a farm truck and brought him a large roll of fish nets. These nets are one and a half meters wide and can be cut to any length. Tagawa planned to set the first trap at the place where the pheasants were found behind the range fence, which happened to be an open space more than six meters long and more than three meters wide in the woods above the embankment, and the pheasants were moving within two meters of the felt fence, and the existing trees and felt fences there could be used as traps.

Tagawa cut several sections of fishing nets, connected them side by side, and made a large net six meters square, and used a rope to string the edges of the net to form a large net pocket. Spread the net bag on the ground in the yard, tie a four-meter-long thin nylon rope to the net rope every one meter, and finally put the rope ends of these thin nylon ropes together, tie a dead knot, and connect a long paracord to this knot, which is the operating rope of the net.

He prepares to spread the net on the earthwork where the pheasants are active, and when the pheasants are moving in the nets, he hangs the nets and carries the flocks of pheasants in them.