Chapter 523 Feeding the Baby Birds (1)
Young birds get hungry very quickly, and Lido needs to be fed basically every two hours. Correspondingly, her body size increases very quickly.
After tasting the ice stickleback liver on their first feeding, the two young birds no longer had an eye for carp meat.
When feeding them for the second time, Lido fed them carp meat as usual. However, the two little guys who had opened their mouths waiting to be fed immediately closed their mouths after smelling the carp meat and refused to open their mouths no matter what.
Lido had originally thought that they should not be spoiled, and would eat when they were too hungry to bear it anymore. However, what Lido did not expect was that they were really stubborn. They would not open their mouths even when the carp meat was placed in front of them. Even when they were too hungry to bear it and opened their mouths to beg for food, even if the carp meat was stuffed into their mouths, they would spit it out and then continue to open their mouths to beg for food.
This time they were hungry for a long time, and the two young birds chirped for a long time. Later, their voices became hoarse and they could not sing anymore, but they still refused to eat the carp meat.
Now Lido had no choice but to give up feeding them carp meat and get some marbled beef strips to feed them.
Fortunately, the two young birds were not so picky that they didn't even care about the marbled beef. They were even so hungry that they couldn't wait to peck at the marbled beef strips as soon as they were placed in front of them. They ate more than ten strips in a row before they stopped eating and fell asleep.
Lido breathed a sigh of relief. It was her mistake. She shouldn't have raised the two little guys' tastes so high from the beginning, although her original intention was to test what level of food they could adapt to.
However, it would be fine if they could eat marbled beef, but if they only ate the icefish liver, Lido would just want to stew the two little guys in a pot of soup.
Who can afford to feed monsters if they only eat monster meat? It is better to stop the loss in time.
Lido didn't dare to feed them monster meat-level food for a while, for fear that their taste would become more picky.
Humph, there aren't many monsters on the magical continent to begin with. Given the size of their parents, they will only get bigger when they grow up. How much food will they need to eat to be full?
Now Lido provides them with food, but they are still young and don't know how to be picky. When they grow up and need to hunt for food themselves, we will see how picky they are! When there are not so many monsters for them to hunt, they will still have to eat ordinary wild beast meat, right?
When they were young, Lido provided them with food because she saw their value as flying magical beasts in the future. When they grow up and can fly and hunt, don't expect Lido to provide them with food anymore. If they don't hunt for Lido in return, it means they are ignorant!
Although I thought so in my heart, the two little guys still need Lido's careful care for a long time.
Later, Lido kept buying marbled beef to feed them. The two baby birds would eat at least three pounds of marbled beef a day, and their appetites grew bigger day by day.
After being fed like this for more than half a month, the two baby birds had grown to the size of a plucked turkey, weighing at least ten or twenty pounds. Their eyes opened ten days after hatching, and the hair on their bodies had grown a lot more sparsely, looking messy and rough. They were still so ugly and an eyesore!
Although the weather is cold now, the two baby birds should still be warm nestling in the feathers of the bald eagle and the fish eagle. However, the snow season is coming soon, and Lido is considering moving them to another place.
Another thing is that the two baby birds are still young and their intelligence has not yet developed. Letting them stay in the nest made of their parents' feathers will make them feel more secure, but Lido's goal is to cultivate their closeness and dependence on herself and make them obey her commands, so she must completely isolate them from their impression of their parents before they have the ability to think.
Now the two little guys are still very close to Lido. After opening their eyes, they only see Lido, and it is Lido who has always been feeding them, so they naturally regard Lido as their own bird.
In addition to feeding them and cleaning the feces in the bird's nest every day, Lido would tease them with her fingers every day, touch their heads, and poke their petals. In short, they would not fall asleep until they saw Lido.
But being so close now doesn't mean they will still be so close to Lido when they grow up and realize that Lido is not the same species as them.
Not to mention that if they had been living in a nest made of feathers from bald eagles and fish eagles, would they realize that it was a legacy of their parents? Or even realize that Lido was the enemy who killed their father and mother?
Therefore, it is imperative to isolate the two little guys from the scent of the bald eagle and the fish eagle as soon as possible.
Liduo planned to move back to Qingyan City during the snow season. She prepared a large basket, put a layer of waterproof cloth inside, then a thin cotton mattress, and then another layer of waterproof cloth, and then put a large bird's nest woven with rattan in it.
The bottom and sides of the bird's nest are filled with a thick layer of cotton. Under the cotton are two pieces of fire lintel, a companion mineral of the fire crystal magic mine, each the size of an egg.
The value of fire lintelite cannot be compared with that of fire crystal, but it is also quite precious. It can release heat continuously and stably and can be used for one to two years. Rich people often carry one or two pieces with them when going out during the snow season. It can help maintain body temperature and eliminate the need to wear such bulky clothes.
Liduo didn’t know about this good thing before. She relied on her own physique to get through the snowy season. It was not until she joined the Qingyan City Legion that she learned about this good thing. The patrol and guard teams during the snowy season cannot do without this good thing.
Before leaving the legion, Lido left a few for Doli and brought back a few. When she went home, she left two for Lesa and Ishizawa respectively. Now there are only these two left. Now using them to keep the two young birds warm is considered to be making full use of them. It doesn't matter whether Lido uses them or not.
This big basket is the shelter that Lido prepared for the two baby birds during the snow season. It should allow them to safely survive the snow season.
Both the big basket and the bird's nest inside are more than enough to hold two baby birds, with plenty of room for them to grow to 50 kilograms.
At that time, we will separate their nests, one bird per nest. When they grow to about 100 kilograms, their feathers should have all grown out. I think they will be less afraid of the cold, and their physical fitness will be much improved. At that time, even if we dismantle the big basket and only leave the bird nests, there should be no problem.
Soon, the two little guys moved to a new home, lived in a new bird's nest, and moved into the small courtyard of Qingyan City with Liduo.
Here in the meteorite crater, Lido has blocked the spring channel at the bottom of the pool back to its original size. Of course, this is just a show, but the concealing effect is not too bad.
The feathers of the bald eagle and the fish eagle were also packed up and sold to the Blacksmith Association at a low price by Lido. After all, a lot of energy had been lost and they were not well preserved, so they could not be compared with when they were just plucked, but Lido was still satisfied with the harvest.
On the third day after Liduo moved into the courtyard, it started snowing. Liduo then settled down in Qingyan City, practicing and feeding her two baby birds, waiting for the snow season to pass.
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