Tony Chavarria
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1231 posts
Mar 17, 2007
1:14 PM
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Why do you think some of my pairs have gotten to fighting over who is going to set on the nest? (to the point of breaking and knocking eggs and babies from the nest) This is a relatively new phenomenon in my loft starting this past breeding season.
What has seemed to help allot is that I took the non-setting parent out and put it back during normal switching time; either morning/sunset. The fighting seems to stop when the squabs reached about 2 weeks of age.
It started with 2 pairs of jaconette fosters and then later 2 Ruby pairs did it. Any thoughts?
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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fhtfire
840 posts
Mar 17, 2007
2:07 PM
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Tony,
I had that happen to me with a couple of my pairs last year and that was the first time that it ever happened. I came to the conclusion that it was stress from raising to many rounds. Last year I was hurting for birds because of my two overflys...and I do not breed from a whole lot of pairs.....then I bred a couple round for some local fliers. Last year I started in Jan....and stopped breeding in October...I usually stop breeding at about Late July early August.
They were not stressed or run down...they did not appear to be anyway...they were healthy with no disease running through my loft...and the always took care of the babies...but I had a couple pairs that did just what you said. It was two pairs...one pair of Rubys and one pair of Mort (Jac). They would fight each other and break eggs or they would fight and the cock would not let the hen sit at all...
I did just what you were doing...I would throw the cock in the kit box at night....but then I said...Hell...they are problably a little stressed out....so I pulled them apart for about a month and let them both rest....then put them back together.....let them raise one more round and then they got to rest from like Oct-Jan....they have not done it again since and they are on there second round.
I honestly think that it is just stress...not stress like....padded room....but just a little wigged out...like when the kids are out of school for the summer and the wig you out...LOL!! Just what I came up with.
rock and ROLL
Paul
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sac_spinners
81 posts
Mar 17, 2007
4:21 PM
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Tony are you talking about the hen and the @#@@ fighting? i never had that happen to me before, when the hen comes to the nest the @@#@ just leaves and its the hens turn, but i have had other @@#@ come in to another pairs nest and try to take over it thats about it....
Chor
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Hector Coya
142 posts
Mar 17, 2007
9:30 PM
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They usualy try to push each other off the nest about a day before they hatch ,i think they here the baby cracking the egg and it gets them exited.
Hector C
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W@yne
308 posts
Mar 17, 2007
11:57 PM
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Tony
I would just use the problem pairs for the eggs alone if they are a valuable asset to your stock loft and put the eggs under a more established foster pairs of birds .It must be so frustrating and very time consuming when this happens. Do they do this on every round? These pairs seem very keen and probably make great feeders if you could get them through the sitting problem. Tony a few weeks rest is worth a try.
Regards
W@yne uk
Last Edited by on Mar 17, 2007 11:58 PM
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