Chapter 657: He who has milk is mother

Fish, whether fed to dogs, cats, or livestock like pigs, must always be fed raw. They can be fed whole or chopped up.

But remember, never try to be clever and cook them before feeding.

Once cooked, you must pick out the bones or mash the whole fish; otherwise, once the meat and bones separate, they can easily injure the esophagus and digestive tract of the livestock.

The small fish in Wang An's hand weighed only about seven or eight taels, but it looked much larger than the golden eagle chick.

As soon as he entered the room, Wang An set his flashlight aside, picked up the skinning knife from the outer room, and with two strokes, filleted two pieces of meat from the wriggling fish.

To be honest, this scene looked a bit cruel, mainly because after Wang An filleted the two pieces of meat, the fish was still damn well alive! After scooping out the fish guts, he turned, opened the outer door, and threw the fish, now reduced to just a head and skeleton, into the yard.

As for fish guts, the only parts people like to eat are the roe and the air bladder; although the liver is edible, basically no one eats that stuff.

Of course, both the roe and the air bladder, along with the fish intestines and meat, were used to feed the golden eagle chick.

Amidst the chick's eager cries with its big mouth wide open, Wang An tore off a piece of roe and stuffed it directly into its mouth.

It must be said that the saying "he who has milk is mother" probably applies to the vast majority of animals.

The golden eagle chick didn't care at all what was feeding it meat; it just swallowed it with great effort.

Having eaten the meat, the golden eagle chick finally shut its damn mouth—or more accurately, it finally stopped squawking.

And Wang An instantly felt that the whole world had quieted down.

He didn't know if this was the first bite of meat the golden eagle chick had ever eaten since birth, but watching it swallow, it was seriously quite a struggle.

Seeing this, Mu Xueqing immediately complained to Wang An:

"You should have made it smaller before feeding it. Look, it's almost choking to death."

Upon hearing this, Wang An glanced at Mu Xueqing's large breasts and said with a chuckle, "How do I make it smaller? Do I have to chew it up for it?"

Mu Xueqing was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up as she said:

"That's right! Look, it's so small. You should chew it up before feeding it."

Hearing this, Wang An subconsciously looked at the bloody fish guts in his hand and couldn't help but scold:

"Go to sleep. Why don't you chew it?"

Mu Xueqing also suddenly realized the impossibility of this, rolled her eyes at Wang An, snorted, and continued to watch the golden eagle chick with a grimace.

It was mainly because the scene of the golden eagle chick swallowing was truly anxiety-inducing.

The roe was stuck halfway down the chick's throat, not moving at all, stretching its neck until it looked quite thick.

Seeing this, Mu Xueqing's little face was almost scrunched up tight.

Wang An was also frowning, unable to understand why this was happening.

Because that piece of roe wasn't big at all, only about the size of a fingertip, and logically, it should have been well within the golden eagle chick's swallowing capacity.

After pondering for a moment, Wang An suddenly remembered the scene in "Grand View of Animals" where an adult eagle feeds its chick—a scene that made viewers nervous and sweat for the chick.

Because when an eagle feeds its chick, a whole lizard is stuffed into the chick's mouth, and it takes the chick one or two hours each time to swallow it.

At the time, Wang An highly suspected that the eagle was trying to choke its own chick to death; otherwise, why not tear the lizard apart before feeding? However, what Wang An didn't expect was that even if a lizard tail was still dangling from the chick's mouth and couldn't be swallowed, the chick would still be perfectly fine.

So, Wang An said to Mu Xueqing:

"Don't worry, wifey, nothing will happen. When eagles feed their chicks lizards, they feed them whole. A piece of roe this small is nothing."

Mu Xueqing glanced at Wang An but didn't speak, continuing to watch the golden eagle chick nervously.

Fortunately, Wang An was indeed right, because after the golden eagle chick rested for a while, it started swallowing hard again.

Through its efforts, the golden eagle chick finally swallowed that piece of roe completely.

But after swallowing it, the golden eagle chick opened its big mouth and started squawking again.

To shut the golden eagle chick up, Wang An quickly tore off another piece of roe and stuffed it directly into its mouth.

And this time, the golden eagle chick swallowed the roe without any effort at all.

It was clear that the piece of roe Wang An fed the golden eagle chick earlier must have been its first time swallowing on its own; as for the ginseng soup, that was force-fed and didn't count.

Just like that, until Wang An finished feeding all the roe and half of the fish guts, the golden eagle chick finally stopped eating.

It must be said that this golden eagle chick was actually the same size as a newly hatched gosling, but its appetite was seriously not small.

Because for a fish weighing seven or eight taels, the guts and roe alone weighed nearly three taels, meaning this golden eagle chick ate over one tael of food to get full.

Only when the golden eagle chick wouldn't eat anymore no matter how he fed it did Mu Xueqing say in surprise:

"This little thing is so small but eats so much. When it grows up, won't it need one or two jin of meat per meal?"

Wang An smiled and said, "Yeah, it'll need at least that much. But once it grows up, feeding it once a day is enough."

Wang An had seen this on that piece of silk cloth.

All eagles, including golden eagles—because a golden eagle is actually an eagle, just the largest one, which is why it has the special name "diao"—are sometimes called eagle-diao.

The silk cloth said that young eagles should be fed at least twice a day, preferably three to four times.

Half-grown eagles, meaning eagles after molting, should be fed three times a day.

Adult eagles should only be fed once a day, preferably at noon.

However, the silk cloth also said that there must be an accurate time, meaning scheduled feeding to form a habit.

Anyway, Wang An didn't understand it, mainly because he had never raised one, so he just followed what the silk cloth said—that definitely couldn't be wrong!

Upon hearing this, Mu Xueqing subconsciously said, "One or two jin a day—let's count it as one and a half jin. Pork is now 70 cents a jin, so that's at least 1 yuan. Oh my god!"

By the end, Mu Xueqing exclaimed.

Wang An looked at Mu Xueqing, whose large breasts were trembling without her realizing it, and subconsciously laughed out loud!

He turned to go to the outer room to wash his hands several times with soap until the fishy smell faded, then turned back to return to the room, get on the kang, and continue sleeping while holding the naked Mu Xueqing.

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