THISROLL
107 posts
Nov 19, 2008
6:28 AM
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just how important are kitboxes?? j/w
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Windjammer Loft
514 posts
Nov 19, 2008
6:30 AM
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Is this a trick question????? Explain yourself more.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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kopetsa
2275 posts
Nov 19, 2008
6:46 AM
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Important, however, you can still fly out of a loft, which isn't the best of ideas..
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Andrew C.
Home of the Yellows
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THISROLL
108 posts
Nov 19, 2008
6:59 AM
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haha no trick question from me lol..i mean are kitboxes just for competition?? is it require for comp?? bcas i was told i should get one but i dont have any space ..
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brudahpete
180 posts
Nov 19, 2008
7:24 AM
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A kitbox only requires 3 feet. You can fit 20 birds in a 3x3 box.
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TheGame
318 posts
Nov 19, 2008
7:27 AM
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a kitbox is nice to have so you can seperate your flyers from your breeders. You can also seperate differnt teams of birds,seperate differnt sexes and so on...
Also some people beleive that Rollers perform better after they are let out of a dark small confinement.
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quickspin
917 posts
Nov 19, 2008
7:57 AM
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Some one else is flying out of 1 loft that has breeders and flyers together. This is usually how every one starts and then start separating there kit birds with kit boxes. This helps a lot to control them and to feed them the way you want. If you have them all together the breeders need more food than the kit birds. When time to fly you have to grab each kit bird and release him by hand other than just opening the door and they all go out. You will risk breeders flying out on you or kit birds breeding with anything. You don't have control over them they have control over you.
Having them in a kit box you can have them separated by age, sex, frequency, depth. Etc.
It makes everything a lot easier when having kit boxes for different birds instead of having one loft for all the birds.
like right now I have my birds in lock down and they are separated the old birds are by sex and the younger ones by age.
Your older birds need less food that young kit birds and you might need to play with the food to make them work harder. If you have all of them together you will not be able or at-least you will have to grab each bird and feed them by it self. There are too many good answers as to why have kit boxes.
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SALAS LOFT
I.C.R.C
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quickspin
918 posts
Nov 19, 2008
7:57 AM
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Some one else is flying out of 1 loft that has breeders and flyers together. This is usually how every one starts and then start separating there kit birds with kit boxes. This helps a lot to control them and to feed them the way you want. If you have them all together the breeders need more food than the kit birds. When time to fly you have to grab each kit bird and release him by hand other than just opening the door and they all go out. You will risk breeders flying out on you or kit birds breeding with anything. You don't have control over them they have control over you.
Having them in a kit box you can have them separated by age, sex, frequency, depth. Etc.
It makes everything a lot easier when having kit boxes for different birds instead of having one loft for all the birds.
like right now I have my birds in lock down and they are separated the old birds are by sex and the younger ones by age.
Your older birds need less food that young kit birds and you might need to play with the food to make them work harder. If you have all of them together you will not be able or at-least you will have to grab each bird and feed them by it self. There are too many good answers as to why have kit boxes.
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SALAS LOFT
I.C.R.C
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brudahpete
181 posts
Nov 19, 2008
8:08 AM
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If you only have a few birds, you can get by with flying them out of the loft. Be cautious of BOP. Kitboxes really help you fine tune your kit.
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Steve S.
88 posts
Nov 19, 2008
6:26 PM
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Your question is vague....
Different families fly from various different setup
kit boxes with different results..
Some from dark small kitboxes ....
Some from open english type setups....
Training, feed, and rest is the key to your question I think .
Steve
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PR_rollers
GOLD MEMBER
1985 posts
Nov 19, 2008
7:53 PM
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Good post Quick and it was worth repeating it twice so the newbie can really absorb some of those thoughts or all..peace out,..
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Ralph
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ArlenS
119 posts
Nov 20, 2008
10:10 AM
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Great answer quickspin.
Last Edited by on Nov 20, 2008 10:10 AM
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Square
592 posts
Nov 20, 2008
2:41 PM
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This is a good one and the main thing is what you want outta your birds...When I was young I had one loft,, I would open it and whoever wanted to fly could fly...But back then I had alot of unstable birds that almost cost me the privlage of havingum, My mom had to pay for a dint caused by one of my pigeons striking the neibhors cadalac...LOL But its not mandatory to have a kit box... It's more of a control tool like some have said,, just helps you control the bird's you are flying... I've had alot of diffrent types of lofts/kitboxes but from my experence the best has been "Standing Room Only" some refeer to this as the english style kit box... keep in mind that this is only for short durations prep for comp.. Hope all works out welll and good luck...
Square..
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"Home of the Ghost Town Roller"
K.C.R.C
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mcroller
227 posts
Nov 20, 2008
4:05 PM
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read the above answer from quickspin and you will find the answer to your question
jimmi
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