bibendium Posted February 19, 2012 Report Posted February 19, 2012 8 Pairs @ stock first round 10 yb already seperated , hope to get another 2 rounds.
fred x Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 One Pair, That fly out, I had to let them out as I have no room for stock, I have a lot of their blood on my loft now. It not like before I retired from work, and moved to a small bungalow, I had 16 pair of stock birds, bred 80 to 100 young birds per season! Now after a gap of 7 years from pigeons I started again in a small way, with a small 12ft x 8ft old bird loft, & 6ft x 4ft young bird loft.Gift young birds from friends to start me off, Life is much easy now with out the work load of cleaning out the pigeons, flying 12 cocks 12 hens, breeding 20 young birds, & a doz nest boxes. At 74 it just the job. I'm a member of the BICC & NFC. I wish all PC members all the best in the coming race season. "Watch this space" LOL!!
Guest LBuddle Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 how many stock birds do you keep ,and how many rounds do you take from each pair each year ?? 8 Pair's of Stock here we have 2 rounds off some and 3 rounds off others.
Fly_caster Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 One Pair, That fly out, I had to let them out as I have no room for stock, I have a lot of their blood on my loft now. It not like before I retired from work, and moved to a small bungalow, I had 16 pair of stock birds, bred 80 to 100 young birds per season! Now after a gap of 7 years from pigeons I started again in a small way, with a small 12ft x 8ft old bird loft, & 6ft x 4ft young bird loft.Gift young birds from friends to start me off, Life is much easy now with out the work load of cleaning out the pigeons, flying 12 cocks 12 hens, breeding 20 young birds, & a doz nest boxes. At 74 it just the job. I'm a member of the BICC & NFC. I wish all PC members all the best in the coming race season. "Watch this space" LOL!! Good luck with that project Fred X - sounds like you are the man with the plan !!! Keep us updated. ATB, Steve
ALF Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 This year i will have 8 pair of stock doos culled a couple of pair at the back end and another cock today and took 3 spare hens out the stock loft that have all bred at least 1 winner but i am pairing 1 of them to a wildy cock that has done ok....All going well 2 rounds and then take it from there but they are always allowed to rear a full round at the back end that i use for other things
andy Burgess Posted February 20, 2012 Author Report Posted February 20, 2012 i am aiming for 2 rounds ,that will be enough to fill the 2 sections .another thought was to leave the stock together ,and if we have big losses with the few old birds and after training youngsters ,to raise some later bred ??
ALF Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 i am aiming for 2 rounds ,that will be enough to fill the 2 sections .another thought was to leave the stock together ,and if we have big losses with the few old birds and after training youngsters ,to raise some later bred ?? i only parted my stock doos around xmas they are left together nearly all year and i put some of the hens back in today but no nest pans or anything like yet And still on 100% barley in the whole place and really pleased with the way the hens are handling just now makes a change as they are usually heavy as hell
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