NeilA wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 6:53 pm
I used to wean at 20days
days or take them away with the hens at 18 even never had a issue just no need to for me to do that as i don’t breed from my racers
I have 8 pair of stock 5 are multiple fed pigeons 1 I bought in February one in April Mike found me from Shaun McDonough and my new cock I got last week of out of a double fed winner who had a 3rd bicc snd 4th nfc or the other way around so that my 8 nothing special but 5 I know are reliable
So I carry 4 feeders to slip my best widowhood cock eggs under
The 2nd round of eggs I give away or throw then let them go down again as I hate birds sitting eggs with big ybs in the box I need it clean and sprayed then go again just my way
I don't mind them having a second nest bowl in the bigger best boxes. I keep changing the newspaper in the boxes so they stay clean enough. I don't worry about germs, it's how they get a strong immune system.
I put the other bowl in this box a couple of days ago as the pair are mating again. Last night there was one baby in each bowl looking happy as anything!
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NeilA wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 1:59 am
Never thought for a min that it’s bad for them Murray I just can’t stand it myself particularly when they try to get in the bowl of the new eggs
I had a little one last month that was as funny as a bit of string. When it's mother laid in the other bowl it started sitting the eggs! Instinct.
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Fair enough too, Neil.
I've never seen it before and it was hilarious watching this tiny thing carefully pushing the eggs under it. It shows that much of their behavior is instinctive, born in them.
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Murray wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:36 pm
Here the pad must be within the walls of the loft. Having the pad on the board outside the loft is not legal. So some have a walk in so the pigeons walk over the pad then go in the bob wires.
I reckon my pigeons are as quick or quicker landing on the sputnik and tipping straight in onto the pad. You are right, it's training, routine. In Bendigo I could get 30 young birds in through the sputnik in 30 seconds every day of the week.
One of the most enjoyable things I can imagine is taking them about 35 kilometres for a toss, racing them home and dropping them in the toft in the time it takes to say it!
And then on Sunday afternoon, if it's sunny, they can have a bath and lie on the lawn
Our rule was changed to they can’t clock if the traps closed as stall traps don’t confine birds
I know guys gone to the extreme and have 10-20 pads on large fold up boards outside that can be folded up
I only have 2 for the cocks 1 for babies
No bath outside here mate to many sparrow hawks and go much rain I bath in a little aviary for there safety
Murray wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 8:52 am
Fair enough too, Neil.
I've never seen it before and it was hilarious watching this tiny thing carefully pushing the eggs under it. It shows that much of their behavior is instinctive, born in them.
