widowhood cocks

[jim]

do the widowhood cocks have to rear young to race sucesfully

as i have a couple of slow laying hens i have tried dummy eggs to no avail

jim

[OLDYELLOW]

do the widowhood cocks have to rear young to race sucesfully

as i have a couple of slow laying hens i have tried dummy eggs to no avail

jim

 

Had good results with cocks not rearing but paired , its the weather i think stopping quite alot of birds laying , it tends to be a pain pairing yearlings   but i do think the ones that have reared are better as have a bond with there box which helps motivation later on    alls not losted tho keep trying a pot egg and can always try a big yb later from another nest if they take to it

[bullcock]

Ive raced the roundabout system for around 10 years now and always reared young birds , but 2 seasons ago I raced them "dry" which means they didn't rear" and we had a very successful season we tryed it again last year but for some reason we won well for the first 4 races then they fell away and the losses were higher than normal ??? I can't put my finger on what happened, but htis year we are rearing again as per the normal system.

[OLDYELLOW]

Ive raced the roundabout system for around 10 years now and always reared young birds , but 2 seasons ago I raced them "dry" which means they didn't rear" and we had a very successful season we tryed it again last year but for some reason we won well for the first 4 races then they fell away and the losses were higher than normal ??? I can't put my finger on what happened, but htis year we are rearing again as per the normal system.

 

Peter Thorpe races roundabout dry

[bullcock]

yes it works well , ive even had a spare cock in the widowhood end and it performed as good as the birds with nest boxes and hens to fly to, it was flying to a perch.

[jim]

thank you for your comments it gives me hope

 

thanks

jim

[Guest Owen]

 

the main thing about Widowhood Cocks is that they fly to their box as much as to their hen. They don't have to rear to fly well. In fact the overuse of hens in a widowhood loft is a sure way of spoiling the cocks. A friend of mine has won a National with a cock that had not reared.

[dwh]

we got a poser got two cocks paird together do we leave them in same box or split them for racing sorry off topic but any ideas?

[Guest stb-]

we got a poser got two cocks paird together do we leave them in same box or split them for racing sorry off topic but any ideas?

 

YOU MEAN A POOFTA,   are you natural  

[dwh]

 

YOU MEAN A POOFTA,   are you natural  

 

YEAH ,WE FLY R/ABOUT

[jim]

leave well alone i won my first channell race with father and son paird together they were 1st & 2nd club by 20 minutes  cocks 5 mins apart

402 miles

 

good luck

  

[Guest stb-]

 

YEAH ,WE FLY R/ABOUT

Would just keep them in the boxes but in a diiferent section

 

if you leave them the gether they will be at it all day .  

 

ps could lead the younger cocks astray ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

 

[Tony C]

If your flying roundabout I would try pairing them up with hens. If they do pair to hens they'll more than likely pair back up with eachother once the hens have been taken away. At least this way the hens would have gone through a nesting cycle.

[T_T]

My cocks flew to their box last year never seeing a hen and didn't dissapoint me and I didn't really know what I was doing with them.  This year I am racing the same but I have been fortunate to get some info on it so hopes are higher.

[jim]

put the cocks on pot eggs

no young under till te main race

[just ask me]

keep to topic please

[David048]

as per most of the above comments, the cocks should race to their boxes - take all the perches out

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

as per most of the above comments, the cocks should race to their boxes - take all the perches out

 

take all perches out but for motivation you could put one perch in on a fri