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I have plans on locking a pair of rollers down and doing the best I can to recover from a great loss of birds. At present I can't even afford to fly the one feeder pair of the two pair of birds I have left. One good pair to breed, and one feeder pair. I also have three good looking young birds at 7 -9 weeks. Never flown or seen air except in breeder loft. I have one squab at about 16 days. I will be getting pumpers soon enough. Question: I have locked these few young down and will not fly my one good pair. Let's say I bred or bought youngsters(came up with youngsters to train or even yearlings). All I have read says start trap training and flying ASAP starting 4-6 weeks. What can I/ should I do if a (A) the young I bred I could not get in the air ASAP(cause they are in lockdown) or (B) the young I aquired I have not trap trained personally? Also with the feed program I have, how will I know these older youngsters are not 1. gonna just be outright lazy or 2. crash and burn on their first flight around the yard? What is the method of thinking as to what to do once I get to 11 birds(at a minimum) to which I want to get in the air by spring?
Last Edited by chachi on Sep 09, 2004 7:40 PM
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Sep 10, 2004
9:05 AM
I would say start training what ever you have right now and just keep on adding new birds to them and see how things go. Most of the time different age birds in the kit create more problems
I have just got into Rollers on the west coast of Scotland, I have 3 late bred hens and one cock (which i plan to expand on soon) 2 of the late bred hens i have had for a few weeks and they have been flying ok. The other 2 arrived in the post last week so they are penned in at the moment. The 2 that are flying, if i keep them in all day and let them out in the evening (un fed), they have taken to flying up onto the roof of the house and only coming down for the food. They were flying for 30 minutes no problem before. Should i be feeding them in the morning before i go to work to take some of the hunger of them? They get a table spoon full of 4/5 wheat and 1/5 young bird mix in the evening.
