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Re: You break up your pairs every year? Why?
DIR By: wishiwon2
Date: January 6, 2013, 6:25 pm
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> I am new to this, but what I am observing is that when the
pairs are breeding noneof them is willing to go out and fly they
are too protective of nest, mate and young. This would mean that
breeding pairs cannot be evaluated for flight.
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Yes, thats right Mark. Breeders in that process of raising young
cannot be accurately evaluated in the air. When they are nesting
and feeding young they are mentally distracted with tasks more
important biologically. To be in prime performing condition,
they shouldnt have defending a nest or young, feeding, pairing
up, etc in their minds at all. It is a big detractor for birds
in a kit to be pairing up even in the kit boxes.
Most rollermen in todays time dont fly thier breeding stock
birds once they have put them away, due to the risk of losing
them to aerial predators. I fly in relatively safe skies and I
always re-fly a selected stock bird at least once after being
bred from, there are some here that have been from stock pen to
kitbox and back multiple times. A good spinner should be able to
come back to good rolling form within a couple of weeks after
being laid off, either as breeder or a seasonl shut down.
#Post#: 12112--------------------------------------------------
Re: You break up your pairs every year? Why?
DIR By: samir
Date: January 7, 2013, 1:18 am
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I’ve read somewhere; it is questionable how domesticated animal
pigeons really are? Few years back, three young birds got lost,
six weeks later I received phone call from a retirement home
resident, couple blocks away. He managed to catch one of them
and get the phone number. The reality is that those birds are
fully equipped to mix with common pigeons and live out there.
When I started pigeons, they were placed in boxes 12x12x20
inches, hanged on the wall under the roof, and then they were
moved into a shed attic. It tuck years before first loft
happened, and then attention was given to breeds, experience and
learning, getting serious about, changing, growing from a
fancier to a breeder. I use to be happy to see eggs in the nest
when peeked in those boxes. Now my birds are mating with
purpose and I’m the one who control the process. Segregating
birds is only one of many tools the pigeon breeders are using.
#Post#: 12113--------------------------------------------------
Re: You break up your pairs every year? Why?
DIR By: windjammer loft
Date: January 7, 2013, 2:56 pm
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dontillerino
HTML http://www.rollerpigeon.com/index.php?action=profile;u=362....first<br
/>and foremost, I would listen to my "club members". If you
haven't already learned, the more you a question from mulitpal
pigeon raisers, the more different answers YOU will get. You
have to remember what works for one, doesn't necessarily mean it
will work for YOU...Lots of trial and error... And the more
answers you get, sometimes the more confussed one can be....
Roller lover... Most rollermen "won't" breed a bird until it has
proven it self in the AIR... Another thing most rollermen won't
fly a "Breeder". I was told if you can't afford to lose a
bird, don't fly it. GOOD breeders are not to be LOST....
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Re: You break up your pairs every year? Why?
DIR By: Roller lover
Date: January 9, 2013, 1:37 pm
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Thank you good suggestion
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