methods to control y/birds

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any method to control y/birds,feeding etc all answers welcome

[Guest WINGS 04]

get the feeding right and they will do what you want them

[Roland]

Move around slowly ALWAYS and talk soft to them.

Ex missis - a ladies voice is softer (Mostly and far better) would just walk into the garden, and with them pretty high circling, could just call them, they trapped like one!!

[Guest strapper]

feeding...keep them a little hungry ..but not starving...use peanuts..this will tame them to coming round you more .

use some small seeds to trap them,this wont fill them .

[fletch]

with young bird my dad said when 2 or more have walked away and gone for a drink they have had enough, i always give them another 30seconds then take feeding truffs away, with weat in, they will pick at what has dropped on to the floor, also give them a fe handfuls of small seeds in the morning if you lose them out in the evening

[chichichi]

we feed light feed in morning,, then good feed in evening,, so they get an open loft from 10 to 4pm.. then in for good feed

 

best of luck

 

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[wilkins]

use a bell or like me a small old plastic tablet container with half a dozen peas in it , so they here the same sound each time they are fed

[OLDYELLOW]

i whistle same whistle each time i feed then when they decice to take to the air and get a little losted they rember the whistle means there getting fed so respond in the air and locate the sound , also usefull at trapping  

[pjc]

Move around slowly ALWAYS and talk soft to them.

Ex missis - a ladies voice is softer (Mostly and far better) would just walk into the garden, and with them pretty high circling, could just call them, they trapped like one!!

 

Sorry Rolland, totaly disagree with you here, if you tiptoe arround the youngsters as soon as they are out and theres a bang or strange noise they get spoofed. More noise the better, let the kids in with them etc etc when they are out or on raced day they don't get spoofed by anything going on arround the loft.

[superstar]

 

Sorry Rolland, totaly disagree with you here, if you tiptoe arround the youngsters as soon as they are out and theres a bang or strange noise they get spoofed. More noise the better, let the kids in with them etc etc when they are out or on raced day they don't get spoofed by anything going on arround the loft.

 

Have to agree with PJC on this, get them used to their normal enviroment, let life go on as normal and soon nothing will bother them if the feeding is right. Have set times for letting out and feeding, in fact everything you do with them should be done by the clock. Creatures of habbit so strick routine, start chopping and changing and you've beat yourself!

 

 

[Guest]

Food and in particular peanuts is the way to control. Start by leaving a small pot of peanuts (refilled once/twice a day) on the floor to help them get a taste for them. Then start putting the same full pot in once a day, they should all make a dive for it! Sit in with them while they empty the pot. Gradually hold a few in open hand while you carry this out everyday, letting them feed from hand, they will learn quick! Gradually reduce the pot so they have to take them from you, and only ever give a max of the same as the pot full, so they always wanting more.