Chapter 37: Hatching the Golden Eagle
In the future, Li Xueying lived in the ranch, and the room where Qin Xiuwu placed the incubator became his bedroom. Staying by the incubator every day has become the only thing Li Xueying does here.
Although everyone knows that they don't have to stay there every day, Li Xueying still hasn't relaxed.
Qin Xiuwu didn't care about him, he had been busy planting forage these days, dividing the sowing range of various forage grasses.
He had a headache when he watched the sparrows that fluttered in the ranch from time to time and flew up with the tendency to cover the sky and the sun. The insects of the new year have not yet been born, and the sparrow eats the most grass seeds he buys.
He didn't care about one or two points, but there were so many sparrows in the pasture, and the amount eaten was not 12,000 yuan.
He had no choice but to run to ask Li Xueying. Li Xueying is an expert in eagles, and he also has a certain amount of research on various birds, so he must have a good way to hunt sparrows.
As a result, Qin Xiuwu said this question, and the other party directly shook his head and said, "I don't have much of a good way, you can try to wait for the golden eagle to hatch and let them catch it." ”
Qin Xiuwu can believe it, this guy is simply fascinated by research, even the sparrows want to protect, and they don't see that this place has become a disaster.
In fact, it is not true that Qin Xiuwu does not have a way to catch sparrows.
There have always been four pests in China, and the original four pests were flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows. The central authorities issued the "Instructions on Eliminating the Four Evils and Stressing Hygiene," calling for cracking down on the four pests, and proposing to complete the task of eradicating flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows within 10 years or less.
Among the old four evils, the easiest to deal with is the sparrow, and as a result, it is treated as a key performance object of work. It also implemented a comprehensive tactic of "bombing, beating, poisoning, and digging" to deal a annihilating blow to the sparrows. According to statistics, a total of 2.17 billion sparrows were annihilated in one year.
Then the food chain was destroyed, and the next year there was a plague of insects, almost cutting out the grain production.
However, Qin Xiuwu was not afraid that this situation would happen in the pasture, he was here that the ecological balance was broken, and the sparrows gathered in groups, and too many of them became pests.
It's just that if you bomb now, the number of people in the ranch is too small to implement this tactic. As for the use of poisons, which may endanger the safety of livestock, it is also not feasible.
In this way, there are only two ways left, and these two methods still require a lot of manpower, but now Qin Xiuwu is sowing grass seeds, and the people in the pasture have to be busy, who will have time to do this kind of thing, and in the end, Qin Xiuwu can only helplessly stop dealing with sparrows.
At this time, after Li Xueying's hard work, the first little falcon was born. With the birth of the first little falcon, other little falcon golden eagles were also born.
This not only made Qin Xiuwu smile from ear to ear, but Li Xueying was even happier.
After the nourishment of the earth essence, only one of the more than two dozen falcon eggs did not hatch, and all the golden eagle eggs hatched. Such a high hatchability rate is nothing short of a miracle.
By the end of the day, a total of twenty-eight small falcons and six small golden eagles were hatched.
Thirty-four little ones who had not yet opened their eyes were chirping there, and it was delightful to watch.
But the happiest thing is not the two of them, but the golden eagle. It risked its life to steal the eggs of golden eagles and falcons, not for this moment.
Thinking that it was the king of the sky, but it was beaten down by Ah Huang, the earth dog, what a humiliation. But it couldn't beat it, and when the sky was showing off its might and bullying Ah Huang that he couldn't fly, Ah Huang put on the posture of the dog king, and took more than 1,000 little brothers to despise it. Who knows the pain in its heart. Fortunately, now it is also a person with a little brother, and when the time comes, with this group of little brothers circling and flying in the sky, it must be mad to make Ah Huang angry.
Li Xueying looked at the chirping little falcon so happily that she couldn't close her mouth, took out a piece of high-quality beef from the refrigerator, carefully cut it into strips, and prepared to feed the falcon.
But Qin Xiuwu stopped him, and he brought a plate of the same beef to feed the falcon. Such a move made Li Xueying scratch his head. Why don't you use the same beef, this is what he has carefully prepared for a long time, and the best beef is perfect for feeding the falcons. Why do you have to use him?
Of course, Qin Xiuwu wouldn't tell him that his beef was mixed with earth essence.
Li Xueying is a high-level intellectual, and he has his own views on martial arts, and he is not as easy to fool as herdsmen. What if he suspects that there is something wrong with the secret elixir, which is a drug of great research value. When the time comes, with his fanaticism for science, it is strange that he does not want to do everything possible to obtain the essence of the earth.
The feeding of the little falcon is not so easy, Li Xueying told Qin Xiuwu that the young birds of the golden eagle and the falcon have a very bad habit. When young birds are hungry due to lack of food, larger young birds often attack smaller young birds. If food is not available for a long time, the larger young birds will even kill or even eat the smaller young birds.
Therefore, the young birds raised in captivity need to be supervised by special personnel to prevent each other from attacking each other because of hunger.
Qin Xiuwu didn't know about this matter, if Li Xueying hadn't told him, it was really possible that the little falcon would have been injured and died because of indiscriminate feeding.
Seeing Qin Xiuwu coming, Li Xueying, who was feeding the little falcon, exclaimed, "Tsk, I really don't know what to say, these little falcons are very healthy, and I haven't noticed the phenomenon of them attacking each other so far." This has never been seen in my decades of research. ”
Qin Xiuwu complimented, "This must be your feeding well, if you don't take care of them, how can they grow so well." ”
Li Xueying shook his head, "How can it be as simple as you say, this is the nature of animals." I think there must be a role for the golden eagle in this. ”
Indeed, feeding these little falcons is what the golden eagle does every day, and it is more enthusiastic about this than anyone else. Every day, as long as it saw Qin Xiuwu, the first thing it did was to run over to ask for fresh beef, and then come up here to feed these little falcons and golden eagles.
But how many of them went into its stomach is hard to say. Of course, this can't be said that the golden eagle is a little lazy, and the little ones eat an amazing amount of food when they are growing up, and there are thirty-four more than that, and it takes more than an hour to feed them once. If the golden eagle runs out to hunt, it will not be able to provide food for so many little ones, no matter how good it is.
And the golden eagle, as a spirit animal, is still very likely to control the children's nature a little.
However, if Qin Xiuwu can guess the biggest reason for this, it must be the effect of the essence of the earth. Qin Xiuwu liked these little falcon golden eagles very much, and he increased the amount of earth essence in these beef.
The earth essence has the effect of nourishing and producing, and these little falcons and small golden eagles are nourished and spawned by an excess of the earth essence, and they grow much faster than ordinary similar species. Staying here and having enough food, who will have nothing to do to attack their own kind.
"Although the golden eagle is useful, the most important thing is your careful feeding. I want to ask if you called the police and wanted to arrest me when you came. But now that you see that the little ones are so healthy, the police won't trouble me. ”
"Haha, that's just fake cops."
What the? Qin Xiuwu couldn't believe his ears. Fake police, you came to the door with fake police.
A cunning glint flashed in Li Xueying's eyes. "Of course, leaking the privacy of customers without permission will cause irreparable damage to the reputation of the Asian Eagle Foundation, and it will also lose potential customers of the website. Even if I wanted to call the police, my students wouldn't agree.
But for the sake of the Saker eggs, I had to come again. I had to buy fake police uniforms** and let a few of my students pretend to be police officers and run into the tribe to arrest you. The purpose is only to collect the Saker eggs and give them to me to hatch.
Who knew that you would run to Mongolia and let this plan fall through. But don't worry, I didn't plan to do anything to you in the first place, and I left you in the wilderness for two days at most. ”
Qin Xiuwu is so angry, don't say it if you can't speak, this is called not doing anything to you. Do you know what you scared me out of by acting as a fake policeman? As a flat-headed ordinary person, how will you be frightened when you suddenly encounter this kind of thing? What will the neighbors say? What will the family think?
That is, this misunderstanding was opened, and Li Xueying is now doing things for him again. Otherwise, I really want to beat him up.
Zhao Yueqian came out to play a round and said, "Brother Qin, come over and feed it, now the little falcon is about to open its eyes, you have to come over and pay attention frequently." The first person an animal sees when it opens its eyes is often regarded as its parent, and this is the best opportunity to get close to the little falcon. You can't miss it. ”
Zhao Yueqian is Li Xueying's beautiful student. She came from a family of falconers, and her father was a well-known local falconer. The falconry technique has been passed down from her ancestors to her in the twelfth generation. Although the era of hunting is long gone, the hunting of eagles is also prohibited in China. But Zhao Yueqian's blood still seems to have a love for the eagle, which makes her embark on the road of protecting the eagle.
Because of this hobby, she is Li Xueying's most important student.
Qin Xiuwu nodded in agreement. He didn't take this matter to heart, and he was ready to hand over the command of this group of little guys to the golden eagle. As long as he can command the golden eagle, he doesn't need to let all these little guys obey his command alone.
Even Qin Xiuwu is ready to push the Golden Eagle to the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, and in the future, if the Golden Eagle steals the falcon eggs hatched from the falcon eggs, he is also ready to hand them over to command.