Seeing that Chu Jiaqiang was busy with those old men, Lu Qing and the others came over to ask Professor Wen again.

In fact, boiling the eagle is a very cruel process, both for yourself and for the eagle. People in the north are more like, especially nomads, riding horses, standing eagles in their hands, and they are also more good at boiling eagles. To put it simply, that is, not to let the falcon sleep, to stay up with it, to make it sleepy, to wear off its temper, to accept you.

This work has been around for a long time, going back a long time. In ancient times, hunting was a sideline of the people, and there were no good hunting tools at that time, so they concentrated on cultivating falcons and helping them hunt.

At that time, falconry training was very torturous, and after the hunters captured the wild eagles, they injected all their efforts, carefully fed and cared for them, made skin bonds for the eagles, made eye masks, and released and tamed them every day.

Before domestication, the eagle should be fed good food so that it can grow fat and strong as soon as possible. But at this time, the eagle fat is a kind of weak fat, and it has to be made into muscles to have strength.

At the beginning of falconry, the first thing to do is to give the eagle a fat, not only not to give it food, but also to wash its stomach. After washing the stomach, bathe the eagle in hot water to make it sweat. At night, put the eagle on a thick rope dedicated to falconry, the eagle is unstable, and there are people below who constantly beat the rope with a stick, and the rope keeps shaking, so that the eagle can not sleep, which is called "boiling the eagle". When the eagle is extremely tired, it will fall to the ground, at this time rinse the eagle's head with clean water, and then let the eagle drink tea or salt water. In this way, the eagle will lose weight in a few days, and some eagles will be so hungry that they will only have skin and bones, and they will not have any energy at all.

At this time, it began to be domesticated, and a special blindfold was worn on the head of the eagle. Don't let it see anything, and feed it some rabbits, pigeons, birds and other animal meat, so that it can eliminate the fear and hostility towards people. The next step is to train it to hunt. The eagle has sixteen tail feathers. The eagle uses these sixteen tail feathers to regulate take-off, braking, gliding, falling and catching prey.

During training, the sixteen tail hairs are wound one by one with a thread. The thread between the feathers should not be too tight or too loose, if it is too tight, it will not take off, and if it is too loose, it will fly away. Rabbits and pigeons are tied on ropes on the training grounds. When everything is ready, the eagle's blindfold is removed, and the falcon goes to catch its prey. Until you're full.

The next training is to not let it eat its prey after it catches it, and so on many times until it is finally allowed to eat. After some time. Loosen a few feathers, or even all of them.

Half a month later, the eagle was completely domesticated. When examining the results of acclimation. Put some meat in the house, and invite the eagle to eat, if the eagle can come to eat, even if it is successful, you can go outside to hunt the eagle.

When feeding eagles, they are only fed lean meat, and they cannot be full, because "eagles are full and do not hunt". There are also no prey, no blindfolds, and no shackles. The falcon uses its claws to catch wolves, sheep, foxes, rabbits and other birds.

Of course, this is all the experience of the ancients, and it is for adult falconry. Modern technology is so developed, it can save a lot of manpower, and you can also pull a big light bulb at night. Speed up the domestication of eagles.

"These are eaglets, and it's easier to make them subservient, but it's more difficult and troublesome to raise. They definitely don't eat your food at first, and they don't have to rush to boil with it, because they don't have a good temper anyway. If it's an adult eagle. It's really crazy, and its temper hasn't been worn out yet, and you may just run out of patience. Professor Wen said with a smile.

Hearing Professor Wen's explanation, Lu Qing and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Li Quan said with a smile: "I told you earlier, Xiaoying is not so tormenting, and after a day or two, he has no temper." Just pay more attention when feeding, train to catch prey, and pay attention to the training and never let a second person go in. Then blindfold it, take it out for a walk, don't take off the blindfold for two days, you just whistle in its ear, let it remember that it's you blowing, and then you can take off the blindfold and slowly teach you what you want. ”

Li Quan is also experienced in this matter, anyway, for the sake of that goshawk, he has worked hard for two months, including teaching it to listen to your commands.

"Wouldn't you have to learn to whistle?" Zhang Jianhua's face changed, whistle he had learned before, but he just couldn't blow it.

"Nonsense! Do you think it's that easy to train a falcon? Li Quan gave him a blank look.

These people said it was easy to say for a while, but it was difficult to say for a while, so that Chen Wu and others didn't know how to listen to that sentence.

"I knew it wasn't that easy, although the eaglets were easy to tame, they actually took more effort, after all, their intelligence was still quite limited, and it was more difficult to educate." Zhou Furong also added two sentences. At the beginning, he checked it out, and listened to the words of Chu Jiaqiang, Professor Wen and others, before deciding to give up boiling eagles, he really couldn't bear the hardship.

"If you really want to raise eagles, you have to take good care of them. The eagle attaches great importance to feelings, and it is true that it is arrogant, and once it recognizes the Lord, it is very loyal. "Professor Wen and others are not against everyone boiling eagles.

To put it simply, raising eagles is also a method of protection, at least the eagle has a good owner and will not starve to death in times of famine. Nowadays, many animals are facing extinction, in fact, there are also their own reasons, they themselves have difficulty adapting to the difficult environment. Therefore, for some particularly endangered animals, they often advocate being locked up and served, which is the reason.

"We know!" Lu Qing and the others nodded.

"The falconry is not completely about erasing their wildness, in that case, they will really become pets. In fact, the main thing is to let it identify with you, to a certain extent, to understand what you mean, and become your left shoulder and right arm. Fu Shenglin also said.

I also taught them a few points of knowledge that needed attention, and then sent Lu Qing and the others away.

After another half an hour, Wan Lao and the others walked back to the kitchen, and at this time the tea could be out of the pot. Let's shovel up all the tea leaves and wait for them to cool completely.

"Okay, you can divide the rest!" Wan Lao took half of it for himself. He took out his superb Tieguanyin, poured it aside like garbage, and then loaded the part of the ancient tea.

Chu Jiaqiang had no choice but to pack Wan Lao's so-called best Tieguanyin, these teas have also been understood, and the price is not too much compared to gold, and it is also calculated by grams. For Chu Jiaqiang, it doesn't matter! Anyway, I don't know much about the tea ceremony, in the words of Wan Lao, it is a cow chewing peonies. Chu Jiaqiang doesn't care, rural people drink tea like this.

When it comes to the tea ceremony, the third Zhou Furong may be a little better, he drinks tea there more often than he eats, it is called kung fu tea, which is quite famous. In his words, drinking tea when there is something to drink, drinking tea when there is nothing to do, and drinking tea has been integrated into their living habits and has become a unique culture.

The rest is divided into three people, Professor Wen and Fu Shenglin made a big effort just now, the two of them each asked for 20%, and the remaining 10% was swallowed by Zhou Furong, and it is said that he had to keep a part for the old man of his family.