George Ruiz
14 posts
Sep 01, 2004
9:22 PM
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Do you guys lockdown (your birds) at certain times of the year?
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K.Naylor
15 posts
Sep 02, 2004
9:02 AM
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I do not, but alot do lock them down. The main reason is "Air Sharks" or weather. If they didn't they wouldn't have anything to fly. I have a good friend that lives in the Bay Area that locks them up from Oct.-March.
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Siddiqir
95 posts
Sep 02, 2004
10:11 AM
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I do locked up the birds becuase of short winter days. I like to fly birds in evening after get back from work however being sunset at 4:30pm during winter season it is impossible to fly them. Thanks, -Rauf
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highroller
30 posts
Sep 02, 2004
1:41 PM
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I lock down the best rollers from late September/early October...when ever the hawks get bad until about April. I fly my culls during that time and see if any develope the roll. Most get eaten by January. If the hawks are very skilled or numerous I won't fly anything for fear of attracting and keeping the hawks around to nest in the spring. I just received notice of the NBRC fall fly for my region in the end of October. If I continued to fly my good birds to keep them in shape for that fly I would not have anything decent to put up by that time. I hate locking down good birds but I want something to fly next spring, and something to choose future stock birds from.
Dan
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
215 posts
Sep 02, 2004
9:06 PM
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George, I don't lock down at all unless I get a routine hammering by a falcon, at which time I will shut the older teams down for a week or so. I shut the older team off to molt, but that is about the only break they will get.
Brian.
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