Just in the afternoon, Lu Lu woke up after a good sleep. When he walked out of Mukereng, he saw the first snow of the year. It was not heavy. It was all broken rice snow. There was only some accumulation on the dead grass and soil.
, the north wind blew loudly, and the temperature dropped sharply.
Chen Xiuyu had already lit the kang stove at home.
No wonder I slept comfortably and didn't feel cold at all.
"Daughter-in-law, how long has it been snowing?"
Obviously I saw the sun when I was getting ready to go to bed in the morning, but this time, things changed too quickly. By late night, the temperature would become even lower.
Although there are so many wild geese in the breeding farm, they cannot withstand the sudden drop in temperature. If there is freezing damage, the matter will be serious.
"Just over an hour after you fell asleep, the wind started to pick up. The snow had not fallen for long, just over half an hour!" Chen Xiuyu teased the child on the kang while picking up the kidney beans in the dustpan.
Silt, it looks like I’m going to cook kidney beans for dinner tonight.
"Where's Father Zhao?" Lu Lu asked casually as he glanced at Hai Dongqing squatting on the branches of a wooden pillar in the house.
Chen Xiuyu turned her head and glanced at Lu Lu, always feeling that he was a little anxious: "Dad Zhao trained Haidongqing outside the house for two hours and then went back. He said that this Haidongqing was very smart, and it was only the first day of training.
I can barely catch food in the air.
He also said that he would let you train on your own next. He would not take rabbits when he is full. He would ask you to feed him less every day so that Hai Dongqing would always feel hungry. Then he would train according to the methods he taught.
In addition, the falconer must carry it at all times, which can increase the relationship and help each other get familiar with each other as soon as possible. He also said that it is best to put it in the bedroom at night."
The sea turtle has no nest and must learn to sleep standing on a branch.
"I know..." Lu Lu nodded slightly.
"You just woke up. You must be hungry. I'm going to get you something to eat... You should quickly put on more clothes." Chen Xiuyu said as she got off the kang and ran to the bedroom to fetch Su En for Lu Lu and help him dress him.
Then get ready to go to the kitchen to cook.
"Stop it, I'm worried about the geese and forest frogs in the farm. I have to go and take a look!"
He didn't dare to be careless, so he immediately went out, whistled to call Zhui Feng, turned over and rode on, and was ready to leave. After thinking about it, he put on his falconry gloves again and tied the rope around Hai Dongqing's ankle.
He tied it to his wrist, put it on Shanghai Dongqing's back, and rode to the breeding farm.
As Zhui Feng ran wildly, Hai Dongqing, who was on his arm, was blown by the cold wind and swayed back and forth with his feathers fluttering. A pair of white jade claws tightly grasped the falconry gloves on Lu Lu's arm.
You can feel Hai Dongqing's strong grip through his clothes. Lu Lu believes that if there were no falconry gloves made of specially thickened roe deer skin, Hai Dongqing's strength would have caused a pair of sharp claws.
It has penetrated the clothes and injured the arm.
Being able to stand firm while horses are running is also a kind of training for Haidongqing.
After running all the way, when he reached the hillside opposite the breeding farm, he saw several streaks of fire smoke rising in the direction of the breeding farm, and Lu Lu couldn't help but feel slightly relieved.
This is what will happen only if the fire dragon in the wild goose breeding farm is ignited.
Sure enough, when he arrived at the wild goose breeding farm, he saw that all the wild geese inside had been driven into the sheds of the breeding farm.
Lei Meng was leading Lin Yujuan, Zhou Fangjing and Big Nose to add coal to the fire dragon's stove to increase the temperature in the shed.
Seeing Lu Lu coming in a hurry, Lei Meng immediately knew why Lu Lu was here. He went up to meet him and said with a smile: "Remember what you told me. When I found that the weather was not right, I drove the geese away."
I entered the shed and closed it, lit the fire dragon, and hung a thermometer inside to keep it at fifteen or six degrees."
"It's good to have it done. The weather here is too cold and the temperature is not enough. The geese will easily freeze to death. In the days to come, we have to control the temperature. Of course, if the weather is good during the day, we still have to go out and let them go."
This winter, the main thing is to greet these wild geese.
As for the sika deer in the deer farm, they have long been accustomed to leaving early and returning late.
Next, we have to deal with the insulation of the beehives in the apiary. This matter is not urgent. Let them get used to the cold for a period of time. Lower temperatures are yet to come.
As for the Rana Breeding Farm, the water surface is not yet frozen, so there is not much to do. All we need to do is ensure that the water moves and the oxygen supply is sufficient. Wells have been drilled to store water, and the problem will be solved by using diesel engines to pump water.
The two then went to the forest frog breeding farm together, and saw that there were forest frogs constantly descending from the mountain, and then jumping into the overwintering pond.
As expected, the pond where the forest frog eggs were first hatched contained the largest number of forest frogs.
This made Lu Lu wonder if this thing really knew the way. If you were born there, you would go back there.
The forest frogs in the pond were densely packed and layered on top of each other.
"Tomorrow, we must seize the time to fish out these forest frogs with fishing nets and distribute them to other ponds. Otherwise, the density will be too high and the forest frogs will be most likely to die."
Looking at these forest frogs, Lu Lu was somewhat happy. After a year of protection, he had done a good job in preventing animal infringement, which allowed most of the forest frogs to come back alive.
In the year to come, these forest frogs will also be turned into money.
The catch rate is related to whether wood frogs can make money or not, but looking at the situation now, with good protection, the harvest will be very good when the time comes.
"I'll start working on this tomorrow." Raymond nodded and said.
"Also, remove some of the male forest frogs. As the forest frogs grow up, there won't be enough bugs in the mountains to eat. We need to reduce some pressure and allow the female forest frogs to grow bigger!"
Lu Lu planned to take care of this matter while fishing.
Raymond was in trouble: "How can we tell the difference between male and female?"
Lu Lu smiled and said: "Simple, these are all forest frogs of the same age. In terms of size, the female is bigger than the male. The second thing is to look at the wedding pad. The male forest frog has a big gray-black bump on the big finger of the forefoot.
There is one on each side, which is the wedding pad. Female wood frogs do not have it. Look at the belly. The belly of male frogs is usually gray-white with gray spots, while the belly of female wood frogs is red-yellow with few spots. Then look at the forelimbs, which are long and slender.
It’s a female frog, and the one with short and thick forelimbs is a male frog!”
The female frog needs to be hugged tightly, and the male frog’s forelimbs have to be short, thick and strong!
"Wait... tell me again, I can't remember it all at once!"
Lei Meng listened to Lu Lu talking about several ways to distinguish them, but upon hearing them, he was completely confused and a little dazed.
We didn’t have much contact with them, so for Raymond and others to understand these details clearly at once, it would take constant familiarity.
Lu Lu couldn't help but smile and said: "I will come over early tomorrow morning and talk to everyone... By the way, Brother Meng, when are you going to build a house!"
"I heard that the fourth brother also plans to build it. I will build it when he is finished. When there is nothing else this winter, I will also chop some wood to prepare." Raymond simply said his plan.
Lu Lu nodded slightly: "Brother Meng, I called you over. I have wronged you!"
"That's what I'm saying. If you go out and carry a stick just once, you will give me 10,000 yuan. You can say that I have everything. This can be called a mistreatment. If I were in another place, I would never be able to save so much money in my life.
...Brother, thank you for taking care of me!" Raymond said, reaching out and patting Lu Lu on the shoulder: "For the rest of my life, I am determined to follow you around. You point east and never go west."
"That's not okay. I'm asking you to help me take care of the farm. How can you completely listen to me? Let's discuss it more and decide who has the right to listen to whom. Besides, you are the eldest brother."
Lu Lu smiled at him: "Okay, I just came over to take a look. I was worried about those wild geese... Since everything is fine, I will go back!"
The two of them were chatting and laughing as they walked to the guard's house. They saw Lin Yulong coming back from patrolling the mountain with a semi-automatic on his back.
Lu Lu greeted him with a smile and asked him if he was used to it and if he needed anything. After chatting briefly for a while, he rode Zhui Feng home.
Returning to Caodianzi, Lu Lu went into the house and placed Hai Dongqing, who had been running back and forth with him, on a branch of a wooden pier and stood there. After resting for a while, he took three or four small meat sticks and carried Hai Dongqing outside the house.
The thin rope made of tendons given by Zhao Tuanqing was tied into a bundle and was more than ten meters long after being untied. After Lu Lu untied the tendon rope, he threw meat and received food to Hai Dongqing in the yard.
train.
A small stick of meat was waved in front of Hai Dongqing and then tossed up.
After trying five times in succession, Hai Dongqing had no reaction at all. He just tilted his head and followed Lu Lu's movements.
"You haven't learned this at all!"
Lu Lu reluctantly threw it again. Unexpectedly, this time, Hai Dongqing suddenly jumped up, caught the meat stick in the air, and swallowed it directly into his stomach.
As if it triggered some memories, the next few meat sticks were tossed, and he successfully caught them after two or three attempts. This also made Lu Lu suddenly full of confidence.
The snow stopped not falling much, but the weather remained hazy for the next few days.
Lu Lu called Zhang Shaofeng and others, and together they wore water-forked trousers and went to the forest frog breeding farm to guide them for several days on the separation of forest frogs into pools and the distinction between male and female. They also specially built a pond specifically to hold the picked frogs.
Male frog.
These have just come down from the mountain, and the bugs in their stomachs have to wait for a period of time to be digested and drained before they can be eaten. They cannot waste them. They have to go out to catch them.
Of course, Lu Lu also didn't neglect his training with Hai Dongqing. Every day he would go into the forest to hunt two small animals, get some brains and forcefully open their mouths to feed them.
After a few days, this sea turtle has been able to complete the training of catching objects in the air beautifully, and Lu Lu is also constantly increasing the distance of throwing meat.
Next, we entered the most important part: running the rope.
The so-called rope running is to put the meat on the arm, call Haidongqing from a place ten meters away, and let it fly back to eat according to the instructions along the thin rope connected to the eagle's claws.
Haidongqing who is familiar with rope running training can basically learn to obey the call of his master. In the wild, even if he chases prey and flies far away, Haidongqing can fly back to his master after hearing his call.
For this reason, Lu Lu had to starve it for two more days.
Only when it is extremely hungry will it remember deeply that there will be food when it flies back.
In this way, after untying the rope, it will not be gone forever during the subsequent falconry training and hunting process.
As a result, after two days of starvation, the effect became very good.
On the first day of rope running training, Lu Lu worked hard all day. When Lu Lu called him, he flew back to Lu Lu's arm for the first time and pecked a small piece of meat in his hand.
It started to go smoothly.
And this call was also the name Lu Lu gave it: Baiyu.