155
85 posts
Dec 22, 2007
4:42 PM
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you can't win with the damn.. preditor for the pass week I'm losing a bird daily and i got birds that are not in the roll yet so you can't win F%#k that preditor
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hardtimekenl2
103 posts
Dec 22, 2007
4:53 PM
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i know where you are comeing from lost two birds thur. first time thay was out in a month. i am locked down the young bird will be three month come march .i will just have to deal with them young birds and hope for the best
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tapp
506 posts
Dec 22, 2007
4:55 PM
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155, Adjust your breeding so the young are ready to fly when the time for safe flying comes.
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Tapp
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155
86 posts
Dec 22, 2007
4:57 PM
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i lost 3 birds just today
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Skylineloft
633 posts
Dec 22, 2007
4:57 PM
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155,
Do yourself a favor and shut down.
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Ray
Breeding Quality Spinners,
"One Roller At A Time".
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tapp
507 posts
Dec 22, 2007
5:00 PM
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Man like Ray said lock down. 3 birds in a month would cure me of flying!----------
Tapp
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155
87 posts
Dec 22, 2007
5:01 PM
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i live in arizona it get hot around march so that the best time to fly but i have a kit of young birds that need flying time you know you can't not win...
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CSRA
906 posts
Dec 22, 2007
7:09 PM
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shut down don't be like me and lose 60 before i shut down
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J_Star
1526 posts
Dec 22, 2007
8:58 PM
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Shut down. Because sooner or later you will but it is better sooner so you can have something to fly in March. Otherwise, all what you will see is the hunter and the hunted and the chase. Your young will become Hawk warry and they will fly too fast and become spooked. You will not be able to break them from that bad habbit and they will become worthless.
Jay
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Ballrollers
1011 posts
Dec 22, 2007
9:10 PM
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I'm still flying seven kits each day on the weekends.....no losses yet.
Cliff
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quickspin
198 posts
Dec 22, 2007
9:12 PM
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You really need to lock down right now and fly in till April.
You will do it ones you realise that you are loosing too many birds. Some times it's too late and you lost one of your best ones.
LOCK DOWN, you will help also the other flyers around you making the BOP mouve to another place.
If the BOP got one of your birds he will be back for another one, thrust me on that.
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spanky
186 posts
Dec 22, 2007
10:52 PM
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155 PUT THEM ON LOCK DOWN STATUS. I ALL READY LOST ABOUT 70 BIRD'S, BUT GOT 3 KIT'S FOR NEXT YEAR.
SPANKY
SGVS
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gotspin7
921 posts
Dec 23, 2007
5:29 AM
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155, you have to put them up even do they are young they will be fine once you start back flying in the spring!
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Sal Ortiz
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
765 posts
Dec 23, 2007
5:39 AM
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Hey 155 move here to west texas.........
No BOPS HERE....So i wont be the lone ranger
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RUDY PAYEN
PANCHO VILLA LOFT
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
766 posts
Dec 23, 2007
5:39 AM
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Hey 155 move here to west texas.........
No BOPS HERE....So i wont be the lone ranger
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RUDY PAYEN
PANCHO VILLA LOFT
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155
88 posts
Dec 23, 2007
8:47 AM
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i lock them birds down today
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Mount Airy Lofts
336 posts
Dec 23, 2007
12:46 PM
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Been there, done that. Can't cry about losing a bird. Especially a young one that has not even rolled yet. That seems to be the name of the game now a days with the increasing number of BOP within the city limits.
Now crying over a kit of old birds that you have spent hundreds of countless hours flying, caring, and feeding I can understand.
I use to lose a kit of 20 in a 2 months period. Counting lock down time. Out of 2 full kits, I would be lucky to have 3 birds left in August. Lost whole young bird kits in one release is a common practice. Would only have culls left in the end of the year.
I don't know what is worst, living within a wildlife area where it contains pairs of resident Coopers and falcons or in the middle of the migration pathway where you may get up to a 1000 Coopers/falcons fly thru in a month time? I guess they are the same as you will still lose a lot of birds on any release.
My point is, it can be worst. I know it is as I lived it. Many other guys still live it.
Thor
P.S. I now fly in a whole lot different environment. Having to lock down only 4 times in year with 2 weeks at most. 10 birds is the average BOP lost. That is music to my ear from where I use to be at.
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No-LimitR
71 posts
Dec 23, 2007
8:47 PM
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I've been locked down since mid October and won't fly until maybe late March or April. I have a feeling I've got some resendential preds. too. In that case I can only hope for the best. Good luck to everyone else.
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gotspin7
941 posts
Dec 24, 2007
5:01 AM
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Great post Thor! It is how you see it!
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Sal Ortiz
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RUDY..ZUPPPPP
795 posts
Dec 24, 2007
6:44 AM
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Thor good point.....
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RUDY PAYEN
PANCHO VILLA LOFT
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