rroller
3 posts
Sep 15, 2004
12:29 PM
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I have 2 birds in my kit that are 3 months old and they just flip around so much they exhaust themselves and land. Do I give these 2 birds time to mature or cull them now?
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K.Naylor
25 posts
Sep 15, 2004
2:43 PM
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Continue to fly them, maybe feed them a little extra. They should come out of it after they mature a bit.
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fhtfire
53 posts
Sep 15, 2004
3:12 PM
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I agree with Kevin. Feed them up and keep flying them. If they land early..chase them back up...or chase them back up with a flag when they start to land. If they fly low..I always throw a football up at them when they are right over me...it seems to get them back up.
I too have some birds that do the constant roll five feet...fly five then roll then fly. They only do it for about a week then they get a handle on it...after I feed them up
Paul
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AD3
29 posts
Sep 15, 2004
3:19 PM
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Hello rroller. I had the a similar problem with two birds that were given to me. I had very high expecations of this family which in turn gave them so many chances to shape up. They started flying great but once they started to roll they got extrememly frequent. One of them would do about 5 - 10 feet very fast while the other would only flip a couple times. The problem, as you stated, was that they were doing it every other second. Making impossible for them to keep up or evolve into a small kit.
They began landing on nearby poles and wires soon. I was told by one fancier that this was my fault (this didn't come as a surpise as he was the one who gave them to me) and that I was overfeeding them. This was a bunch of B.S.
These birds had no quick solution. I had no time to waste and culled them both and a couple others. Turns out that these two made some of my other birds develop bad habits. I have had 1 birds I bred myself which started the same. I kept him in for a week or so, feed him up and he shaped up within one week. You should try this; it may work or not. Some bird's impulse to roll is just too overwhelming and there is no amount of feed, rest time, etc. that you can give them tomake them become an outstanding performer.
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Mother lode lofts
185 posts
Sep 15, 2004
9:16 PM
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Keep flying them, they'll either get a handle on it or they won't , I'ts still to early to tell, feed em up !!!!!
Scott
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J_Star
6 posts
Sep 16, 2004
8:17 AM
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They are still young birds. Be paitiant and they will develop. Please don't cull too hastily. What are you feeding your birds? And don't forget the birds are molting now and that by itself change some behavior of the birds. My advise to you is just be paitiant.
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rroller
4 posts
Sep 21, 2004
10:43 AM
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Thanks to all who posted and gave me
great advice. Those 2 birds that were
rolling so much, they're starting to
fly with the kit.
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