Handlin Your Squabs

[Diamond dave]

Do you or don't you?

Is there any benefit to handling the squabs on a daily basis or would you rather leave the nest well alone?

Then what age do you start handling them regularly?

 

D.D.

[andy Burgess]

apart from ringing and the occasional check ,i hardly bother .

[Guest Tooshy Boy]

I TEND TO LEAVE THEM ONCE THEY ARE ON THE FLOOR YOU CAN GET THEM TAME WITH THE RED BAND .

[lenton1163]

last year was my first year in the sport and i only reared from 6 pairs i handled the young from the 1 nest every day for at least 10 min the other 5 nests i did not mess unless i had to and it made a big diffrence when i walked up to my sputnick on my yb loft the young from that nest would fly of there perch and into the sputnick as soon as they saw me and was hand tame from the moment they left the nest the other young from the other nests never became tame so in my experience witch is not much is that once you gain that bond with the young it is never lost i still have 1 cock in my old bird team and he is totally tame jmo

[JohnQuinn]

I know Mick McCormick goes into the boxes and runs his hands over the squabs every day and they don't move a muscle when he picks them up as fully grown birds. Treat to watch

[andy Burgess]

last year was my first year in the sport and i only reared from 6 pairs i handled the young from the 1 nest every day for at least 10 min the other 5 nests i did not mess unless i had to and it made a big diffrence when i walked up to my sputnick on my yb loft the young from that nest would fly of there perch and into the sputnick as soon as they saw me and was hand tame from the moment they left the nest the other young from the other nests never became tame so in my experience witch is not much is that once you gain that bond with the young it is never lost i still have 1 cock in my old bird team and he is totally tame jmo

 

 

I know Mick McCormick goes into the boxes and runs his hands over the squabs every day and they don't move a muscle when he picks them up as fully grown birds. Treat to watchhttp://forum.pigeonbasics.org/public/style_emoticons/default/emoticon-0157-sun.gif

maybe a lesson there for us to take note of ??

[greenlands]

Once they are rung,every time I go into the loft and that will be four or five times a day if not more. :animatedpigeons:

[just ask me]

i very rarely handle them as in pick them up i dont see the point but when i put feed in feeders for the parents i play with each young bird in the nest

[lenton1163]

i very rarely handle them as in pick them up i dont see the point but when i put feed in feeders for the parents i play with each young bird in the nest

are they tame as they get older