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How Many Years?
How Many Years?
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nicksiders
528 posts
Apr 18, 2006
3:01 PM
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How many years can a kit bird be performing at a competition level?
I have birds that are three years old who can still get with it..........when does this stop?
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MCCORMICKLOFTS
474 posts
Apr 18, 2006
5:07 PM
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There are a whole lotta depends with a deal like that. Some families are short-term rollers in two ways. Some come in like gangbusters and eventually turn into lawn darts as the years progress. Others are good for a year or two then get really stiff and hard to make roll with any kind of frequency.
Ideally a person would prefer their birds come in and develop over a year or so, then stay reliable, frequent performers for years on end.
I have a few four year olds that can still boogie like when they were only 2 years old. They aren't quite as frequent as they were in their first 18 months, but that is to be expected.
Jay Starley is known for flying some pretty old birds. I think it was a year or two ago he won with a kit of 6-8 year old birds. Some of them were hens he bred from that went barren so he re-flew them and apparently they were still good enough for his A-team.
I believe KGB flys some pretty old birds from time to time.
I think the major reason you don't see or hear of seriously old birds in a person's comp kit is due to predators and the fact that if a bird IS good enough for a comp kit for that long, it ends up in the breeding loft within a few years in an attempt to breed more like it.
Brian.
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Alohazona
138 posts
Apr 19, 2006
10:07 AM
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This years W/C regional champ here in Hawaii,was flying birds,98',99',and00',they were of the old line Jaconette family.....Aloha,Todd
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