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muroll
7 posts
May 03, 2010
8:59 PM
how much time should you give young birds to start kiting, before your patience run out!
Tony Chavarria
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4021 posts
May 04, 2010
4:43 AM
Hey Muroll, a young team can go many days before they get it together. But eventually they will. Patience in abundance is needed for the roller hobby as not much happens very fast. As long as the birds are properly housed and cared for, you just need to let nature take its course. Saying that, 1 to 2 weeks at most (flying them 5 to 6 days weekly - 45 to 90 minutes each time ((let me revise this for young birds: 15 to 30 minutes)). Good luck!
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Tony Chavarria


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Last Edited by on May 04, 2010 10:50 AM
JDA
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812 posts
May 04, 2010
6:06 AM
muroll... My young Ruby birds last year after a long shutdown due to bop,Started flying all over the sky not even two together for about 3 or 4 days. I thought man these birds just have no memory,But then like turning on a light switch right back, You could through a blanket over the whole kit, Tight kit flying.So hang in there don,t short yourself by culling to early.JDA
wishiwon2
328 posts
May 04, 2010
10:39 AM
Mine arent Rubys, but they take an avg of 10 days of actual flying to kit. That doesnt count the days they sat on the kit loft without flying. I allow them to do that (sit on loft) for a couple days then I start releasing them further and further away from the kitbox until they fly around a few laps. Once they've started to do that, they generally want to fly for 5-10-20 minutes. After about 10 of these 'flights', mine kit together.

I woldnt be too concerned about a squeaker not kitting unless it begins to pull others out with it. Or unless it becomes habitual over extended period of time, which is unusual. They will most often go land somewhere instead (tree, power lines, other houses etc) and refuse to fly at all.

PS Ill add this, there comes an age or maturity where although they're still young birds, they wont learn to fly correct and kit. That is why it is important to get them flying as soon as they are strong enough to do so. Young birds held over from one season to the next or without flying enough to form a habit of kitting, often wont ever learn to kit well.
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Jon

If it were easy, everybody would do it

Last Edited by on May 04, 2010 10:42 AM
donnie james
1003 posts
May 04, 2010
6:57 PM
hay muroll,
in my young birds it take a a couple of weeks to start kitting so you might give them some time to let them start kitting
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Donny James
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rookie from ct
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271 posts
May 04, 2010
7:43 PM
Kitting is the last thing that I cull for tree sitters go first,early lander next they will come together and kit if you give them the time and remember patients. Dennis
muroll
8 posts
May 05, 2010
7:52 PM
thanks for all your information. it is good to have a sight to go to get info when you need it.


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