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Re: WHAT KIND OF BIRDS FLY FOR LONG HOURS
DIR By: raul carreiro
Date: December 3, 2011, 1:00 pm
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Hi all, The breed that can fly the longest times in the air are
called Competion Flying Tipplers or English tipplers! The most
well known strains are Shannons, Hughes, Lovatts, Bodens. There
are many other strains of good flying Tipplers avalible through
out the world! I personaly fly Compitition Tipplers with a
strain I acquired from Nino Bujea from Canada who hold the North
American young bird record of 16.45hrs! Harry Shannon holds the
Old bird world record of 22.o5hrs set in 1995! My best time in
the 2 years I have been flying is 14.51hrs flown in June of
this year. They are flown in kits of 3 or more, but most who fly
in competition fly 3-5birds. Tipplers can be a challange as
thier training and flying requires them to fly in the dark to
achieve record long hrs. yes flown in the dark! and this
training reqiures lots of time! Its also interesting to note
that The Tippler and Roller share similar ancestry!
Here is a little info on how to train and feed the birds for
competition for those who are interested.
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For The Novice Flyer
By: Ken Burgess / England
Date: Unknown
Category: Feed-ups
Once you have settled your tipplers that you intend and hope to
enjoy their
flying performance, you will select a kit of the better
performers. I would
suggest you try for a five bird kit in that way you will have
lee way should
any go off form when you approach your intended long flying day.
I train my
birds for about five hours every other day, weather permitting.
The flying
birds are housed in flying boxes about 18" square and are fed
once a day at
the same time of the day.
During the training period, the birds are fed on good barley,
not farm
feeding barley, but good meaty malted or malting barley, dry and
clean. The
birds get 1 oz. of this during their evening feed, but after
they have
completed a training fly their ounce of barley will have the
addition of one
teaspoon of linseed. My birds have a cod liver oil capsule every
Tuesday. On
this diet, providing you have decent tipplers, your kit will fly
well and
look and feel good.
If you wish to increase your flying time without going into the
teens of
hours, mix the barley with a percentage of wheat or white dari.
My birds are
always flown on an empty crop. Many fanciers are now using
growers pellets,
the poultry type and the birds that I have seen fed this way
looked well and
have flown good/very good times. It is a matter of choice, but I
would
suggest anyone who decides to use the pellets seek advice from
flyers who
have learned the hard way.
Once you have got your kit flying as you want them to and they
respond to
the droppers/lights with no problems, it is time to prepare them
for the
day's sport. There are many feed-ups and most of the very good
flyers have
their own ideas, but the basic idea is to supply your kit with a
feed that
will give them energy and endurance properties. Your training
flights will
have got them fit and well. Always remember that no matter how
well you
train and feed your kit, they will only fly as long as their
breeding allows
them to, so get good birds to start with!
Below, I will pen a few feed-ups that I have used in the past,
with
reasonable success. All based on a Sunday release. The last
training flight
being on the Wednesday prior.
Wednesday: 1 measure (oz.) of mixed canary seed
Thursday: 1/4 Red Rape, 1/4 Hemp, 1/4 Buckwheat, 1/4 White Dari,
8 maple
peas, tonic drink
Friday: 1/4 Red Rape, 1/4 Linseed, 1/4 Mixed Canary, 1/4 Niger,
4 Maple
peas, tonic drink \
Saturday: (a.m.) 1/4 mixed canary, p.m. 1/2 mixed canary, 1/2
plain canary
Tonic drink tablespoon of Parrish's chemical food - 1 pint of
water One
measure = 4 teaspoons
Sunday: Drink of water boiled and gone cold This is a no
nonsense old
fashioned diet, the fancier who gave it to me years ago was a
top flyer,
recording 18 hours plus.
Wednesday: 1/2 measure Tares, 1/2 measure Wheat
Thursday: 1/4 Wheat, 1/4 Tares, 1/4 Red Band, 1/4 Hemp
Friday: 1/4 Wheat, 1/4 Rice, 1/4 Red Band, 1/4 Peas
Saturday: 1/4 Wheat, 1/4 Tares, 1/2 Red Band Hormoform with each
meal
( 1T/S) Tonic Wed-Friday (As above) Rue Tea Monday and Tuesday
Top Midlands Fanciers flying diet.
There are many good flying men who prefer to feed their birds
prior to
release and their results would suggest that this is good
management. It is
up to the individual which method he adopts. the main snag I see
is getting
up about 2 1/2 hours earlier as the birds need about 2 hours to
settle the
food. After the kit has flown the day in good style and dropped
when you
wanted them to, I suggest you leave them for a while before
feeding them.
Then give each bird a little canary seed and a drink of warm
water, with a
little milk added. record details of the fly weather, winds,
etc. for future
reference.
Note! Parrish's Chemical Food is an old time Iron Tonic. Tares
is Vetch. Red
Band is a mixture of whatever grains and seeds, quite popular in
the UK.
Hormoform is a mixture of wheat and a few other grains with cod
liver oil
and powdered iron all mixed together. Rue Tea is a tea made from
the herb
Rue which is a grass, I believe. Many of the old time flyers
used Rue Tea in
their feed-ups.
#Post#: 10146--------------------------------------------------
Re: WHAT KIND OF BIRDS FLY FOR LONG HOURS
DIR By: raul carreiro
Date: December 3, 2011, 1:25 pm
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Hi All some pics of my Flying Tipplers
#Post#: 10148--------------------------------------------------
Re: WHAT KIND OF BIRDS FLY FOR LONG HOURS
DIR By: raul carreiro
Date: December 3, 2011, 1:56 pm
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Hi all, heres a small video of the last moments before dark in a
Friendly competition fly that I flew in that I flew 13.45hrs.
You will note the the birds landing in the dark.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yf08mF58k
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yf08mF58k
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