Single Breeding

[Guest redlad24]

my racing pigeons have laid a lot quicker than the stock so wont be able to float much of the first rnd, so any racers im going to breed out of il be floating eggs around so the majority of them will only be breeding 1 yb, whats the best thing to do to stop their legs spraddling, would leaving in a dummy egg for a while do??

[OLDYELLOW]

Think you've answered your own post a pot egg or similar sized potatoe

[hotrod]

my racing pigeons have laid a lot quicker than the stock so wont be able to float much of the first rnd, so any racers im going to breed out of il be floating eggs around so the majority of them will only be breeding 1 yb, whats the best thing to do to stop their legs spraddling, would leaving in a dummy egg for a while do??

give them nesting materials and u wont get splayed legs ,i always single rear from my race team and most from the stock birds as well .and never have any probs .oh and i dont leave a dummy egg in nest either .

[Daisymay]

give them nesting materials and u wont get splayed legs ,i always single rear from my race team and most from the stock birds as well .and never have any probs .oh and i dont leave a dummy egg in nest either .

 

 

[JohnQuinn]

Hotrod hit the nail on the head, you only get splayed legs from a nest with No or Very little nesting materials in it, its because the squab has no grip on the nest pan so it lays on its keel spreading its legs.

[hotrod]

Hotrod hit the nail on the head, you only get splayed legs from a nest with No or Very little nesting materials in it, its because the squab has no grip on the nest pan so it lays on its keel spreading its legs.

am naw just an ugly .

[JohnQuinn]

am naw just an ugly .

 

Yer no even that handsome to be just ugly

[hotrod]

Yer no even that handsome to be just ugly

thats it your naw winning any mere raffles ive had enough .

[JohnQuinn]

thats it your naw winning any mere raffles ive had enough .

 

Crawin disnae work, MANY have tried

[Guest redlad24]

thanks guys, most of them are good with straw and tobacco stalks so il just have to do a few more

[Guest stb-]

LET EM BUILD THERE OWN NEST WITH GOOD STRAW , ANY THAT DONT BUILD A GOOD NEST WID BE DISPATCHED SO THEY WID HAVE NO LEGS TO SPLAY

[Guest IB]

I've only ever had the one and it wasn't just down to poor nesting materials, poor nest yes, but it was more both parents' poor sitting technique - big gangly yearlings on their first ever youngster. Proved that when I swapped over youngsters and one with splay leg recovered while its replacement stopped foster parents sitting down on it by 'jumping up under them' pushing them up and forcing them to adopt a better sitting posture. Was also given 'dummy egg' tip at that time, and used it since.

 

Other thing to watch out for is angel wing. You'll know it when you see it, seems for a time the bird's wing muscles can't support the weight of the growing primaries, and that part of wing lies away from the body. Just fold the wing so primaries lie under the secondaries, it only needs doing for a couple of days, dummy egg (some suggest using a potato) also provides support to prevent this.

[Guest chad3646]

LET EM BUILD THERE OWN NEST WITH GOOD STRAW , ANY THAT DONT BUILD A GOOD NEST WID BE DISPATCHED SO THEY WID HAVE NO LEGS TO SPLAY

 

 

are you going to dispatch all your yearlings