Why do you use nestfelts?

[Hogni]

Just interested to know whats the reason people use nestfelts.Share your thoughts and experiences.

[Guest shadow]

have used them but found tobacco stalks better or use pieces of left over carpet cheaper and just as good

[Peckedhen]

I used them in the past thinking they kept the eggs and ybs warm as clay nestbowls don't hold much warmth. This year, I've put a handful of Easibed in the bottom, straw and tobacco stalks - the birds seem just as happy and the ybs are thriving.

[Tony C]

The surface of the clay nestbowls they make now are very slippery, the nestfelts help keep the nest intact.

[chickadee]

I think the nest felts stop them from slipping and growing up with splayed legs, although I have used wood shavings on bottom of bowl then let them build their own nest with tobacco stalks, lavender stalks (nice smell) and heather.

[leighton1984]

I like to use  nestfelts as they is no heaters in my loft .

and i have had one or two in the past with splayed legs they make sure all the nest do's not move.

and they do not cost a lot

[Guest IB]

Started with my personal choice of nest bowl, plastic with an open mesh bottom, that lets air circulate round the nest, eggs and youngsters, so a nest felt is a must.

 

Birds build on top of it, they bring in pine hedge cuttings and other stuff from the garden.

[Lennut Tar]

Just interested to know whats the reason people use nestfelts.Share your thoughts and experiences.

 

Hogni !!!! For what I have seen, it was either Kirkland or Tasker ?????  ;D ;D ;D etc, that recommended them to be used in the early part of the breeding season, when the weather is much colder for the majority of flyers in there general vicinty etc. Helps keep the early bred babies much warmer in their opinion."Now"   :P One could dispute ?????? whether they know what they are talking about  : : : etc. But I'm quite happy to go along with their logic   ;) .

Enjoy.

 

[THE PRIEST]

I use them on single reared young birds to prevent splayed legs.

michael.

[THE FIFER]

Just interested to know whats the reason people use nestfelts.Share your thoughts and experiences.

 

 

 

Why would you put a cushion on a hard seat  

 

 

[chickadee]

 

 

 

Why would you put a cushion on a hard seat  

 

 

well there's a good way of putting it.

[Peckedhen]

 

Succinct as ever Fifer.

[Hogni]

Well the reason i ask is that last year i tried them for the first time and  i have never had more trouble, i always used to use only plastic nest bowles and straw and i never had any real problems, now i am back to that and i don´t think i will ever use nestfelts again.

 

I have looked at all the replies and i must say that even though i have never used felts i don´t know what a youngster with spleyed legs looks like and  i know for a fact that the birds don´t need them to keep the eggs and young alive and well, i have been breeding in january and february over the years and the frost here in Iceland has gone down to -16 to -20 degrees and the eggs and young are fine.

[kev]

Some birds will build huge nests from straw or anything else you give them, but others will never build a thing even if you put the nest materials in the nest they tend to throw it around the box.

The only reason i use them is if you have a pair that dont build a nest and you have a single bird nest the likley outcome will be the youngster will spray its legs, then you have a wasted nest. nest felts for me every time or cardbord bowls jmo.

kevin

[Lennut Tar]

Well the reason i ask is that last year i tried them for the first time and  i have never had more trouble, i always used to use only plastic nest bowles and straw and i never had any real problems, now i am back to that and i don´t think i will ever use nestfelts again.

 

I have looked at all the replies and i must say that even though i have never used felts i don´t know what a youngster with spleyed legs looks like and  i know for a fact that the birds don´t need them to keep the eggs and young alive and well, i have been breeding in january and february over the years and the frost here in Iceland has gone down to -16 to -20 degrees and the eggs and young are fine.

 

Hogni !!!!!! If you have a good system in place   ;) at your place, with your youngsters when breeding etc, "Stick with it" as far as I'm concerned & you may not have, the problems which many others have at times "Re nest felts". Now !!!!!!. I'm a sand & pine needles man myself (Cheap & nasty)  : : : But each to their own  : : :. Besides ????? No -16 to -20 degrees here for me today I'm afraid   :D It's 38 degrees Celsius.

Enjoy.