wynmore

http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&so Click on the above for a laugh

I've had my birds shut in the loft for a month now. I'm a bit wary of letting them out because I've lost about half a dozen birds in the past 5 months. I kept them in a dovecote initially but I don't think they tookvery kindly to that. The four birds I've salvaged are a mated pair and their 2 youngsters which were bred in the dovecote. I feel that a loft is a far better arrangement because I now have more control over their feeding etc. I have learnt the lesson (the hard way) that it's better to keep them hungry if you want them feeding out of your hand, in more ways than one. I still feel that they have the right to be released at some time otherwise you are keeping caged birds which was not what I had in mind when I took up this hobby in April. So I shall release them fairly soon, in the afternoon I thought before they've been fed and keep my fingers crossed. Just thought of something else..... if this avian flu comes our way we may have to keep the birds couped up all the time.

I've had my birds shut in the loft for a month now. I'm a bit wary of letting them out because I've lost about half a dozen birds in the past 5 months. I kept them in a dovecote initially but I don't think they tookvery kindly to that. The four birds I've salvaged are a mated pair and their 2 youngsters which were bred in the dovecote. I feel that a loft is a far better arrangement because I now have more control over their feeding etc. I have learnt the lesson (the hard way) that it's better to keep them hungry if you want them feeding out of your hand, in more ways than one. I still feel that they have the right to be released at some time otherwise you are keeping caged birds which was not what I had in mind when I took up this hobby in April. So I shall release them fairly soon, in the afternoon I thought before they've been fed and keep my fingers crossed.