pat66
147 posts
May 19, 2008
8:53 AM
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----------Any suggestions about wing clapping? I think it was Pensom that said to get rid of wing clappers,I have 3-4 cocks that do it constantely
Pat
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Santandercol
2526 posts
May 19, 2008
9:10 AM
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I think it is partly too much feed and they are feeling sexy.My homers do that after they have landed on the wire and lollygagging around the yard trying to woo the hens they take off with their crop all puffed up and clap their wings the first few wingbeats.My rollers will do that if they're too well fed and coming in to land and don't quite land and take off again.Definately a mating thing,and the way to cut back on that urge is to cut back on the feed.
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Kel.
Rum-30 Lofts
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bertie
260 posts
May 19, 2008
9:37 AM
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I sure hope that's not true about getting rid of the wing clappers! All of my birds do it, I can tell when one of my young birds are going to roll because just before they roll they clap their wings.
I thought all rollers did that! I only have the 6 right now that I can fly, so I don't know about the next 11 coming out of the nest.
Bert
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nicksiders
2801 posts
May 19, 2008
9:53 AM
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I don't like wing clappers; it is usually a cock bird and he has other things going on in his mind then I want him to have
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pat66
148 posts
May 19, 2008
10:06 AM
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WE will find out soon! my encyclopedia on rollers-a.k.a.3757 will post about it soon ---I hope
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Pat
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flo
119 posts
May 19, 2008
12:41 PM
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Well I have some wing clappers too. Problem is I only have 8 total flyers doing short flights because they are still young and squeking. I have fed them just enough to keep them hungry. Still they are wing clapping. Possibly they are feeling happy or they must feel the "freedom of flying"? They aren't matured yet and the very first flights they started clapping.
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FLO
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JMUrbon
465 posts
May 19, 2008
2:20 PM
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Cut the feed back on them. Most wing clappers if they are not young birds are looking for a mate. Cocky cock birds are very difficult to deal with. If they are hungry enough they wont think of anything but food. You may want to fly them with only other cock birds also. JMHO Joe Urbon
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George R.
703 posts
May 19, 2008
8:47 PM
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All Birds that Clap are eliminated at my loft...I also keep track of the parents and if they produce 2 clappers , they are also purged from my Flock....
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pat66
149 posts
May 20, 2008
4:07 AM
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George,
If they are young birds would you give them time or eliminate them A.S.A.P?
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Pat
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
2529 posts
May 20, 2008
4:18 AM
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Hey Pat, if they are young birds, just get them in shape and let them be birds for a couple months. Fly them, train them to trap to your cal,etc.
When the team begins to show signs of putting the roll together and if all these 3 cocks want to do is clap and say look at me, its time to remove them from your program as they will hurt the development of the others.
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FRENCHROLL
82 posts
May 20, 2008
7:54 AM
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had I known the things back then that I know now!!
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