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Getting Lazy-AGAIN !!
Getting Lazy-AGAIN !!
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luis
267 posts
Apr 01, 2007
11:16 PM
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Well guys back to square 1 !!My kit seems to have returned to their lazy ways.Upon release they shoot straight to the telephone pole and don't fly.I had this problem before and thought i had taken care of it to a certain deegree.At least they were flying.
Should i scrap the whole lot and start fresh w/a new group or is there any way of saving them.I'm starting to get frustrated again and i don't like it.Damn birds are getting on my last nerve!!
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ArlenS
60 posts
Apr 02, 2007
1:15 AM
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I have a similar problem at times. I improved it to some extent by boxing up the birds, carrying them further away to a more open part of the yard, and releasing them further away from the kit box and the electric lines. This made them more likely to fly up without landing on the lines or trees. After doing this a bunch of times, even when launched from the kit box, they now usually all fly. Usually is the key word. Having large trees and electric lines near the kit boxes doesn't make it any easier. I need to buy a powerful supersqirter to nail the ones that occasionally land. I read Monte Neibel had lots of electric lines and objects. Somehow he overcame this problem.
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Electric-man
199 posts
Apr 02, 2007
3:03 AM
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Be careful with the super squirter and the power lines! LOL
Kids, don't try this at home! hehehehe!
Val
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ArlenS
63 posts
Apr 02, 2007
3:12 AM
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Good point! Thanks.
Last Edited by on Apr 02, 2007 3:12 AM
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gotspin7
64 posts
Apr 02, 2007
4:46 AM
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Luis, one the thing I did when I had a similar problem I boxed up the kit and released them a block away from home, for me, Luis it seperated the birds that needed to go! and the ones that actually started back flying!
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motherlodelofts
1653 posts
Apr 02, 2007
7:34 AM
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Luis , I have a large electrical tower just off to the side and behind my loft on.
I learned along time ago that once a bird lands on it twice that it has to go , I don't even hesitate no matter what the bird is doing performance wise.
I had one year where I had a bird start landing on it as it was coming into the roll , I let it go, but then I had one, then two , and then three,then several, next thing I had the entire kit looking at it.
That was it , I culled a third of the kit and I learned to never ever , ever tolorate it.
Since that one time it has not been an issue what so ever , the one's that do land on such things including tree's would just be early landers on the loft if there wasn't anything else to land on , these are creatures of habit and they will play monkey see,monkey do.
The fact is ,you have a problem that won't be solved by any other means than elimination , and if you don't deal with it they just keep ruining other birds , been there, done that.
Scott
Last Edited by on Apr 02, 2007 7:37 AM
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Shaun
463 posts
Apr 02, 2007
9:45 AM
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Luis, last year, I bred a kit of youngsters which didn't want to fly. I tried every trick in the book, but saw a different bird every day which landed after five minutes, bringing the rest down with it. I'm sure my blood pressure reached dangerous levels at times - and this for a supposedly relaxing hobby! I reached the end of my tether and culled all but a couple, which had flown rather than land.
The next kit of youngsters was only a few weeks behind, so I had something new to work with. I changed little in terms of feed and training, yet they were so different from the earlier kit; in short, they did what was expected of them.
Regardless of what we have around us - trees, houses, power lines, etc, birds should want to fly. It seems there are times when you just have to give up on a lost cause, wipe the slate clean and start again.
Shaun
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