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Re: Flying Young birds
Sounds like a good comp bird to me. My last comp kit rolled an average of over three times a minute each bird. They would fly for thirty to forty five minutes every time out. but they came into roll later. I started this line with a really frequent bird and have bred in the depth while still keeping the frequency.
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Re: Flying Young birds
Put the whites and Harters up again today and they flew for five minutes or so and then started landing. They should be flying with the kit with the grown birds by next week.
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Re: Flying Young birds
Went back right at dark and the one white was on the kit box when I was driving up. Everything else was in the kit box except Minime and he is MIA still. I did see him just before dark but cant climb that good anymore. I will go back in the morning and try to get him back.
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Re: Flying Young birds
It's always an adventure,eh sip,flying mobile.
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Re: Flying Young birds
I put up three kits of young birds got ten to twenty minutes out of each kit. The whites flew the time and I have two whites tumbling now. No depth yet but single, double, and triple flips. Had two black Barred birds fly with the kit for fifteen minutes. I dont get a lot of blacks and these are doing well. Today was the first time everything has flown for any length of time. I have twenty three young birds in the kit box making up four kits. I also have a full kit of Fehrholt cоcks, Husband cоcks, and Barred cоcks. All four of my whites are cоcks. I only have one Fehrholt, two Barred, and two Husband hens. They are all in the same kit. It is the year of the cоck in Florida.
I also got Minime back two days after I lost "her", I think, hope. 
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Sippi,
Do you hand toss each bird when you are flying the four kits in that box of 23?And do you wait till you've flown them all before you feed them?I'm assuming yes to both ?s but just want to make sure. 
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Re: Flying Young birds
You guessed it right Kel. I like to hand toss the young birds so I can feel them and see if they are eating enough or not enough. Makes them tamer too. Also they dont get used to flushing when the door is opened. I can open the door to feed them or scrape the floor and such without birds bolting.
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Thanks,I'll put that on my memory stick.
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Re: Flying Young birds
I was flying birds yesterday. It is the time of year that we have evening thunderstorms pop up out of nowhere. I put up most of the Orientals in one kit due to time and after about ten minutes they disappeared. I dont know if they went up or away. After ten or fifteen minutes and no birds I put up a kit of Galati's. They never sky out or stray too far. Another five to ten minutes and most of the kit came back in and joined the Galatis. I dont know where they came from, they just appeared. Shortly all that were in view came in and trapped. Four or five were missing. I turned out the Birms and they set up and went to doing thier usual. One OR came in to them while they were flying. He came down and trapped. All the Birms trapped except two squeaks. The squeaks were feeling good and took short flights mean while OR's dropped out of the sky like doneks diving to the loft one at a time. I have no clue where they were for all this time. If they were skyed out they were out of my sight.
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I went to a new spot with the young birds and wasnt thinking. I released them all and forgot I had put Minime in the kit box. Birds went everywhere and the kit took off for about a mile swing like they will do sometimes in a new spot. Long story short I have young birds scattered everywhere. I just came home to wait on dark cause the yankee fleas were eating me alive. I had one Harter, two Whites, and one Fehrholt MIA when I left. Going back in a little while to see who has come back. 
