Chapter 1027

The two pheasants were not large, each weighing less than 2 jin.

Therefore, Wang An pointed at the few pheasants that had landed again after taking flight and said to the two golden eagles again:

"Da Jin, Xiao Jin, go."

Da Jin and Xiao Jin shot out like arrows again without hesitation.

Looking at the two goshawks on his arm, Wang An thought for a moment and said:

"Da Cang, Xiao Cang, you two go too."

The reason Wang An hesitated was because goshawks are relatively small. After raising them for so long, Da Cang and Xiao Cang only weighed a little over one jin, and their length was only 30-something centimeters.

So Wang An was worried that Da Cang and Xiao Cang wouldn't be able to carry the pheasants while flying.

But Da Jin and Xiao Jin were different; they now weighed four or five jin, so carrying a pheasant for a short distance was absolutely no problem.

You have to know that the animal adult golden eagles like to hunt most is the blue sheep, and the largest blue sheep can weigh over a hundred jin.

Of course, the blue sheep mentioned here is not the kind of blue sheep that Wang An and the others had hunted before, because the kind of blue sheep Wang An and the others had hunted is a type of blue sheep, but it belongs to the goral category.

To be honest, Wang An didn't have a very clear understanding of Mongolian gazelles, blue sheep, argali, wild goats, and so on.

However, Wang An did know that although the Mongolian gazelle is called a sheep, it belongs to the bovine family. As for why the sheep is in the bovine family, Wang An didn't know either.

The local blue sheep is called the green mountain sheep, also called the blue sheep, but it belongs to the goral category.

And the blue sheep in other places and the local blue sheep, although both are called blue sheep, are completely two different species, and even their sizes are different.

This might be like deer, muntjacs, and roe deer.

The deer family in the Northeast includes roe deer, sika deer, red deer, and moose, but there are no muntjacs.

To be precise, there are no muntjacs in the entire northern region.

You can say a muntjac is a deer, and you can say a roe deer is a deer, but you definitely cannot say a muntjac is a roe deer.

Because these two things are completely two different species.

Just as Wang An was lost in thought, Da Jin and Xiao Jin flew back, each holding a pheasant.

Perhaps all animals have a tendency toward weakness; to put it plainly, they like to bully the weak.

Because the two that Da Jin and Xiao Jin caught before were mother pheasants, and this time they caught mother pheasants again!

You have to know that the weight of a large male pheasant must be at least 3 jin or more, and a large one can reach 5 jin, but a mother pheasant normally weighs about 2 jin, and it's a struggle to reach 3 jin.

However, whether it was a male pheasant or a mother pheasant, Wang An would absolutely not dislike them, and he still tied them up and hung them on the horse's back.

After Da Jin and Xiao Jin returned, he saw Da Cang and Xiao Cang also flying back clumsily, but because the weight of the pheasants was a bit heavy, Da Cang and Xiao Cang were flying very strenuously.

But even so, Wang An felt that eagles are truly awesome.

You have to know that the weight of the pheasants far exceeded the weight of the goshawks themselves.

Wang An looked at Da Jin and Xiao Jin, but suddenly thought of one thing, which was whether Da Jin and Xiao Jin could catch mountain sheep when winter came?

Mainly because Wang An trained Da Jin and Xiao Jin so hard, the biggest purpose was to catch mountain sheep.

After catching the pheasants, Wang An rode his horse and took the eagles to wander around for a while, letting the 4 eagles catch 2 hazel grouse and two rabbits, before riding his horse back toward home.

It must be said that if you only hunt small animals, such as pheasants, rabbits, and hazel grouse, then in terms of cost-effectiveness, raising a golden eagle is definitely the highest, no one else.

If you want to eat meat, just take the golden eagle for a spin in the nearby mountains.

Golden eagle hunting is basically a matter of one rise and one fall. As long as the prey is discovered, in the face of the golden eagle's speed, the prey basically has no possibility of escaping.

And the most critical thing is that the prey caught by the golden eagle is alive. In this way, the integrity of the prey can be maintained, and the freshness of the prey can be guaranteed.

However, although the cost-effectiveness of raising eagles for hunting is high, the most difficult part is catching and training the eagles. If these two items are also added, then raising eagles is really a bit redundant. Like the saying goes, it's not worth the effort.

When Wang An arrived home, Mu Xueqing was picking green beans. Seeing Wang An take 4 pheasants, 2 rabbits, and 2 hazel grouse off the horse's back, she said in surprise:

"You caught so many in such a short time?"

Wang An said with a smile:

"Yeah, it's all thanks to Da Jin, Xiao Jin, Da Cang, and Xiao Cang."

Mu Xueqing looked at the four eagles standing next to the eagle nest and said with some appreciation:

"Then our family's eagles really weren't raised in vain? Hahaha... Da Jin, Xiao Jin, Da Cang, Xiao Cang, come here."

As soon as Mu Xueqing's voice fell, the four eagles, two large and two small, flew directly to Mu Xueqing's side, then rubbed their heads against Mu Xueqing's thighs. Mu Xueqing touched their heads one by one, and then the four of them flew back.

I don't know if it was because of the spirit-opening powder, but these four eagles were very human-like, even more so than the parrots and mynas that people often raise in later generations.

Wang An watched this scene with a smile and began to boil water to pluck the feathers of the pheasants and hazel grouse.

Setting up the fire, while waiting for the water to boil, Wang An very deftly strangled the two rabbits and then peeled off the rabbit skin.

Actually, peeling rabbit skin is easiest when the rabbit is alive, but Wang An felt that doing so was too cruel, so he didn't do it.

Just after peeling the rabbits, the four eagles flew over impatiently, surrounding Wang An and looking at the white-stripped rabbits in his hands, occasionally raising their heads to look at Wang An's big face, just like greedy children waiting for their parents to feed them.

This scene looked quite interesting.

Wang An dipped the internal organs of the two rabbits in spirit-opening powder and fed them all to the four eagles, but the four eagles still looked like they hadn't had enough.

Therefore, Wang An simply fed a whole rabbit to the eagles.

It must be said that as the eagles grow, these four eagles are eating more and more. Fortunately, as the eagles grow up, there is no need to feed them every meal. Feeding them twice a day, or sometimes only once a day, is not a big problem.

After feeding the eagles, just as Wang An was processing the pheasant feathers, he suddenly glanced up and saw two lynxes returning from outside the courtyard.

This glance was no small matter, and it immediately shocked Wang An.

Because in the mouths of these two lynxes, they were actually each carrying a weasel.

You have to know that in the Northeast, weasels are like foxes; they are very significant. Except for those who specialize in trapping weasels, normal people will not provoke this thing.

The main reason is that this thing is particularly vengeful and involves some mysterious and strange things.

Therefore, Wang An shouted at the two lynxes:

"Damn it, what are you two catching that thing for?"

(End of chapter)