Skylineloft
859 posts
Jan 06, 2008
9:20 PM
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Only put them with the old hens. The cock birds will beat them up.
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Ray
Breeding Quality Spinners,
"One Roller At A Time".
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Skylineloft
862 posts
Jan 06, 2008
10:16 PM
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just don't put them with the cock birds. They will kick there ass.
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Ray
Breeding Quality Spinners,
"One Roller At A Time".
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elopez
321 posts
Jan 07, 2008
12:09 AM
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I would shy away from putting young with older kit birds as the older kit birds will eat more of the feed and the young will eat less and will never eat as much as it should therefore always being too weak to fly...
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Efren Lopez
SGVS
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gotspin7
1130 posts
Jan 07, 2008
4:59 AM
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Tou, how many old birds do you have? And how many kit boxes do you have??
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Sal Ortiz
Last Edited by on Jan 07, 2008 5:00 AM
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Windjammer Loft
120 posts
Jan 07, 2008
10:29 AM
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I make it a practice NEVER to put my young birds (just winned) in the kitbox with older birds. I may at times put in a older HEN with them to show them WHERE the water is and WHERE to get their feed from.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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quickspin
241 posts
Jan 07, 2008
1:33 PM
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How small is the your kit cage? Normal kit cages are 3'x 3'x 3' and you can fit around 22 birds no problem.
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sundance
366 posts
Jan 07, 2008
7:18 PM
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Paul , I also like to put in an older hen with the young ones for a while. I will sometimes even fly her with them long enough to get them settled and trap trained as she knows the drill.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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Windjammer Loft
123 posts
Jan 07, 2008
8:57 PM
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BUTCH.......I follow that same line of thinking. Using an older hen to HELP in the training of the youngsters ...It seems like we can use ALL the help we can muster up....LOL
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Jan 07, 2008 8:59 PM
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Windjammer Loft
128 posts
Jan 08, 2008
11:35 AM
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Thats right Tou. she is the ROLE model. I would say not less then 1yr old.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Jan 08, 2008 11:37 AM
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quickspin
243 posts
Jan 08, 2008
11:59 AM
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Make sure she is one that listens when you call them not a tree sitter or that fly's to your neighbors house and stays over for a while then come back just to sleep.
Tou you need to make a bigger Kit cage or have less birds. You should have around 2-3 kit cages if you want to have different ages of birds training them.
Monkey see Monkey Do.
Most of the guys breed there pairs at the same time, why? So they all can be around the same age and train at the same time. If you have a couple of pairs 3-4 and breed them at different times each one it will take you a lot more to train them. You will start all over again every time, at the time of flying some will roll some will not and it will be really difficult to have a kit of birds flying together for the same reason. Young birds usually will not kit right a way and will take short fly's and land, making the older birds land as well.
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rollermanx0
133 posts
Jan 08, 2008
1:06 PM
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you have to be careful with this..i've learned that the germs of older birds are different than young ones and sometimes when you put youngs birds in with older birds you'll get the young ones sick, but not all the time..i would definately put then in with the hens...hens are sweethearts!
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rOLLerManx0
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mcroller
59 posts
Jan 08, 2008
3:17 PM
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I would only put them in with hen birds for sure jimmi
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