Nermin
1 post
Sep 22, 2004
4:13 AM
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Hello my name is Nermin and I am new to this hobby so some help would be greatly appreciated. I have couple birds right now that I bought at local market ( bad idea) and they seem to be rollers but some of them don't roll at all. It's hard to get them off the freaking roof , and when I do they fly for 2-5 min. and that is it. I have a loft that is 12 ft. long and 5ft high. SO WHAT I NEED IS A MENTOR THAT WILL HELP ME OUT AS MUCH AS HE IS WILLING. Any help is greatly appreciated . I live in Knoxville TN an there is not many (if any) people that could-will help.. Thank you very much
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
174 posts
Sep 22, 2004
4:53 AM
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Nermin, send me your phone # to Support@Roller-Pigeon.com. Let's talk. FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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J_Star
19 posts
Sep 22, 2004
5:20 AM
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Nermin,
Take a look and read "Should I stock" post and read my comments under J_Star. That might give you some ideas.
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Thor
31 posts
Sep 22, 2004
9:32 PM
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Hi Nermin,
It sounds like joining a local club will do you alot of good. Most local clubs hard to find if you don't ask the right people. Visit the NBRC site and look up Area Events http://nbrconline.com/tennessee.htm
Fly those birds hard and they should show you what they are made of. What are you feeding them and how much? It may be that you are over feeding them and causing them to become lazy. I had the same problem when I first started out. There are several good books out there that give you the basics... non that will beat out a Mentor tho.
Good luck and welcome to the hobby,
Thor
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Nermin
2 posts
Sep 30, 2004
1:30 AM
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Thank you guys , and I am sorry for not responding earlier because I was busy building the loft and just got it finished. I made it off plywood and than I got the chicken wire around it (nice):) I didn't feed them today at all and I let them out about 4:00 pm and ohhh my God INCREDIBLE just amazing I had 4 of them get up so high in the air that I could barely see them and when they lowered down a little bit they putted on the best show WOWWWWW AMAZING
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ChrisG
4 posts
Apr 23, 2006
1:20 PM
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Nermin...I'm a TOTAL BEGINNER too...live in Bowling Green KY. Got 2 pair baldhead rollers at a BIG country auction near Scottsville, about a month ago. On way home stopped in Westmoreland, Generation Sales feed store, bought them a small loft (that I could afford?). Got on the internet and got Foy's and Siegel's catalogs.....that's it. Now I'm trying to figure out this trap door thing next. Which to order? ...how to train to use it?? Geeshhh ... we've got a ways to go, haven't we????
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C.J.
133 posts
Apr 24, 2006
7:12 AM
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Nermin if you have birds that aren't rolling at all don't allow them to breed with the birds that are rolling well. This will only add to your frustrations. make the good rollers breed together. Then make the non rollers breed. use the non rollers as fosters. As fosters I mean as the good pairs lay their eggs replace the fosters eggs with the good rollers eggs. If you take the firstegg from the selected pairs that you want young from and put them in a safe place. Then when both eggs are laid place them under the foster pigeons the eggs will hatch around the same time. This should limit any major size difference in the young.
C.J.
Last Edited by C.J. on Apr 24, 2006 7:13 AM
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C.J.
134 posts
Apr 24, 2006
7:15 AM
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Nermin did you use chicken wire as a wall where the birds will be kept at night? I have had raccons chew through the cheap stuff and kill birds.It wasn't pretty.
C.J.
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siddiqir
206 posts
Apr 24, 2006
9:33 AM
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There could be couple of things wrong with birds you have.
1) Performance birds but got lazy - No air time
3) Feeding too much
4) Feeding too little
5) Birds may have worms
You have couple of options...
1) Play around with same birds as you mentioned some of them roll and that tell me birds are OK you need to work on them. Do you have milo or wheat? This is very good way of learning thing...as you will make some non working birds to work for you.
2) There are some very good birds currently offered at NBRC aution website...get some and take from there. Here is a link
http://nbrconline.com/2006_%20nbrc_auction.htm
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