Major-ret
9 posts
Oct 30, 2005
10:16 AM
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First, as a newbie, thanks to all for the invaluable information that I get from you all. It has given me a direction to work towards.
I am wondering when you all refer to young birds (y/b) at what average age do they become your "older" flying stock. It sounds to me as though it could be around 2 years of comp kit flying and then you would move them to your older kit box. Is there an average age when you cull your old kit birds to make room or is there a point at which the birds just can't make comp flying standard rolls? Does anyone have a roller that they just can't part with no matter what age they are even though their performance may be lacking and they arn't quite good enough for the breeder loft. Not that I'm even close to that point but just wondering. Thanks again. Steve
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highroller
78 posts
Oct 30, 2005
4:27 PM
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Steve,
Usually birds are called young birds in the year they hatched. When the next breeding season starts you get a new crop of "young birds". Some may refer to them for the next year as yearlings and to others anything older than a "young bird" is an old bird.
Culling older birds depends on your goals and what you have in the kits now. If you are a comp. flyer you would not cull a bird by age...you would cull for performance regardless of age.
If you just enjoy having a bunch of birds around and have not culled for performance then you may dispose of older birds just to make room for new ones you're raising and performance may not even play into it.
Keeping an older bird which is lacking in performance is not something most comp. flyers would do unless it has been proven to produce good performers.
Backyard flyers and those who just like having a bunch of birds regardless of their performance might keep a poorer bird around for sentimental reasons.
So the answers to most of your questions depend on the goals you set for your birds.
Dan
Last Edited by highroller on Oct 30, 2005 4:31 PM
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