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Oldfart
733 posts
Jul 11, 2008
1:16 PM
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Question, but first a qualifier. I have only one family, that started from two pair of birds. This is my first full season of breeding. This season,I was able to start early enough to have full kit box's and my young birds are coming along nicely. My question and problem is this, my first breeding season started off late and then the B.O.P. tore into them forcing me into a lock down. Simply, they were not flown out in a proper manner. My holdover birds were slow to kit, slow to roll, and a few were to deep when they finally came into the roll. All of this I blame not on the birds but on how they were trained (or the lack of) last year. I have two very tight, very fast, 30' plus birds, both cock's and both, brothers although not nest mates. None of this years birds from the original pair have bumped, none of last years siblings, have bumped, but these two sometimes bump (lightly) when approching the kit box roof.
Question, is it training, or a fault, would you breed from them? They are calm in hand and in the kit box or loft.
Thanks, Thom
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lil_jess
123 posts
Jul 11, 2008
2:20 PM
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oldfart I'm not anywhere close to being expert, but a listener...I have been told that it's just training faults...Try feeding them two ups...I have a hen that is one of my best now does that a few years ago...Fed her up and she makes me happy...No cull check on her for the cull list...and she end up being my breeders...
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Oldfart
734 posts
Jul 11, 2008
3:05 PM
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Thank you, lil jess, I've learned just enough from life to understand, there are no experts, any where. All we can hope to do is our best!
Thom
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