What Should I Have Done ?

[Guest cosmic dave]

I only have YB.s The last couple of days there has been an old stray flying with them and sitting with them til I call them in then disappearing. Anyway tonight the birds wouldn't come in when called and the stray was doing the old mating call/dance on the roof, my birds just wanted to hang around with the stray, What should I have done ?

[JohnQuinn]

Where i come from anything and everything that can in any way disrupt the doos, its gotta go, one way or another it doesn't get hanging around the loft. You've got to take action right away or you end up getting problems like your having the now.

[Guest cosmic dave]

Well to be honest (not something I proud of) lets just say it wont be hanging around any longer

[pigeonpete]

No offence dave, but still dont think you have control over those ybs yet mate,

 

 

Hope it wasnt 1 of my strays missing from sunday.

[Guest cosmic dave]

Your right Pete but they are getting better tho. I have a white Logan that goes flies on his own and he does not mess about he is straight back in !!

 

The randy stray had no ring I used some binoculars to check, if it did I would not of taken that course of action

[pigeonpete]

Your right Pete but they are getting better tho. I have a white Logan that goes flies on his own and he does not mess about he is straight back in !!

 

The randy stray had no ring I used some binoculars to check, if it did I would not of taken that course of action

 

 

Thats cool then dave,

 

Do they understand any form of whistling/calling?

how do they know its dinner time? not critisising mate just trying to help, I might not be anle to race birds, but i am good at getting ybs to learn "dinner time"

[Guest cosmic dave]

I whistle and rattle the tin. They do listen and sometimes come straight in. other times they just ignore me totally, as you know I have a real cat problem here. The cats sometime sit on the shed next door and watch, I do shoo them away but it does spook the birds. I am planing on starting to install the electric fence at the weekend.

[OLDYELLOW]

garden hose squirt it everytimes on shed roof no harm to cat

[Guest cosmic dave]

Well when the cats see me they are soon off, I think it should be easier when then electric fence is up and running the birds will be able to use the loft roof safely without the cats whipping up and getting them (I lost one like that this spring)

[ginge]

starve em for a day m8,they wont mess about then,u may be feeding them a little to much......dont let em rule u...u rule them lol,food is the only control we got on em give em to much and they show u 2 fingers lol

[Guest IB]

Don't think you should beat yourself up on this.

 

Streeters have a habit of coming down with / bringing down my birds when out exercising. My OB cocks chase & sweep after them, so nothing unusual for birds to show more interest in a strange bird (s) than you.

[Guest kevin b]

starve em for a day m8,they wont mess about then,u may be feeding them a little to much......dont let em rule u...u rule them lol,food is the only control we got on em give em to much and they show u 2 fingers lol

 

Bang on, you may think you are not treating them right by starving them for a short time but believe me it will save you heartache in the long run and obviously they are not short of grub at the minute.

 

It doesnt take long to put manners on them but you must do it soon before bad habits take hold,

 

Good luck

kevin

[ElliottLang]

Yeah, I agree with starving them, it's the only way to control them and get them to come back and it doesn't do them any harm.

 

I've got an air rifle that I use for those times when wild birds are constantly distracting my birds. I wouldn't worry about having to take a seemingly drastic course of action. I had a similar experience to you once and I left them alone, hoping they'd just come back naturally, and I ended up losing two of my favourite birds after a training flight one day. I can't be 100% but I'm pretty sure that the bloody wild pigeon they were hanging around with had something to do with it