Pinwheel
119 posts
Dec 26, 2009
10:28 AM
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How much estimated air time do your birds get(hours) before you either stock them, are ready for competition, or performing they way you like. Does any one faithfully record this type of information.
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Flying in someone else's backyard: Portable Kits
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Pinwheel
120 posts
Dec 26, 2009
10:59 AM
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I can say for the new birds that I am finally starting to fly portable, that of the two birds that are starting to flip, do so with a total of 20-25 mins of flight time over 4 releases. These are just single flips for 8 week olds.
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Flying in someone else's backyard: Portable Kits
Last Edited by on Dec 26, 2009 11:01 AM
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donnie james
852 posts
Dec 26, 2009
1:28 PM
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pinwheel before i stock them i fly them for 18 months by then they should have the stile and the roll i'm looking for and i like the birds to fly 20-30 minutes every time i fly them.................
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Donny James
"Fly The Best And Cull The Rest"
"Saying One Thing;Doing Its Another"
"Keep Your Head Planted In The Sky And Wings Spanned Wide"
1996 Piedmont Roller Club Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Portsmouth Roller Club Participation Award System Recipient 1994 '96 '97 And 2000
2001 Limestone,Ohio Sportsman's Club Lifetime Member Recipient
2002Portsmouth Roller Club Certified Judge
2004Portsmouth Roller Club Lifetime Member Recipient
"Miss Portsmouth"NBRC/90/J311 Rusty Dun Check Self Hen First Bird To Get Certified In Portsmouth Roller Club History With A Score Of 53 Judge By Joe Roe The 1993 World Cup Winner And John Bender The 1994 World Cup Winner
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nicksiders
GOLD MEMBER
3981 posts
Dec 26, 2009
1:30 PM
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Only in their second fly season do I really begin to evaluate them.
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Just My Take On Things
Nick Siders
Last Edited by on Dec 26, 2009 2:59 PM
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Bill C
458 posts
Dec 26, 2009
2:56 PM
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I do like Nick does. I like them to fly for over a year to really consider them for the A team, even though I have some yearligs doing just fine, The young rollers (being 4 months to 6 months) can roll good and will work in an A team but are just less reliable under stress and minipulation which older birds have been through many times and can endure with such procedures to tweak a kit and therefore are more reliable. They are less likely to go out or come down early and such things. The stock birds are chosen from the A team where they have been flying for over a year and into three years. I always full one or two a year. This year I pulled 6 after the W/C fly in spring.
Everyones kit birds are a result of their stock loft and how they chose those birds to breed from. I like the late developing rollers and have and always will enjoy the birds comming into the roll in the following year. Its just what I like. Others like them to develop early so they can compete with them the same year in the fall.
I raise 60-80 birds a year and have 50 sto 60 birds held over each year to chose from so the early birds never roll with as good of self control as the hold over birds do for me.
I think most all of us keep records on our birds and just by looking at the band number gives you the year and the higher number gives you the later hatched birds if you band by lowest number first and highest number last. Stocking birds are when you think that one might do better than what I have in the stock loft already. Some work out and some dont but you have to breed them to find out. Bill C
Last Edited by on Dec 26, 2009 2:58 PM
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wishiwon2
264 posts
Dec 31, 2009
8:37 PM
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I dont track that kind of thing. I do keep track of when my young first begin to roll and I note significant changes along their developement, both good and bad. I try to keep a monthly or so record of how each youngster is developing, noting quality, depth, frequency, mistakes (bumps) and any habits they may have developed.
I fly young birds everyday, til they show signs of progress in developing rolling behavior, then they fly 2 rest 1. As they mature physically I adjust their flight frequency up or down to keep them in performance condition. During autumn I fly a bit less. I fly all winter long and the each kit gets flown about 4 days out of the week.
I wrote down some averages for days flown, avg length of flight etc and came up with; my first round youngsters have about 150 hours airtime in their first year. I estimate my holdover teams get about 1/3 that time per year.
Any birds I choose to stock have been flown through at least 2 moults. I record when I promote or demote and individual from a team, cull it or move it to stock loft. Not sure if thats the kind of information you asked about or not ...
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Jon
If it were easy, everybody would do it
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gotspin7
2618 posts
Jan 01, 2010
8:03 AM
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Jon, I really enjoy reading your posts bro. Keep it up! Hope you have a blessed 2010.
I dont track that kind of thing. I do keep track of when my young first begin to roll and I note significant changes along their developement, both good and bad. I try to keep a monthly or so record of how each youngster is developing, noting quality, depth, frequency, mistakes (bumps) and any habits they may have developed.
I fly young birds everyday, til they show signs of progress in developing rolling behavior, then they fly 2 rest 1. As they mature physically I adjust their flight frequency up or down to keep them in performance condition. During autumn I fly a bit less. I fly all winter long and the each kit gets flown about 4 days out of the week.
I wrote down some averages for days flown, avg length of flight etc and came up with; my first round youngsters have about 150 hours airtime in their first year. I estimate my holdover teams get about 1/3 that time per year.
Any birds I choose to stock have been flown through at least 2 moults. I record when I promote or demote and individual from a team, cull it or move it to stock loft. Not sure if thats the kind of information you asked about or not ...
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Salvador Ortiz
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