Squeakers who have had a look in the aviary

[LamarshFish]

What are all of your thoughts on squeakers who have reached the age where they venture into the aviary and have a few days of looking around out there, but then are relocated to a new loft with the expectation of being settled there? Do you guys think just a few days of views from an aviary impairs the settling process to a different loft?

Just curious about this. I have two squeakers that look like they could fledge to the floor any day now, but I don't think I can get them to my friend who lives 3 hours from me for another 10 days.

Thanks!

 

[biophiliac]

What are all of your thoughts on squeakers who have reached the age where they venture into the aviary and have a few days of looking around out there, but then are relocated to a new loft with the expectation of being settled there? Do you guys think just a few days of views from an aviary impairs the settling process to a different loft?

Just curious about this. I have two squeakers that look like they could fledge to the floor any day now, but I don't think I can get them to my friend who lives 3 hours from me for another 10 days.

Thanks!

I'm curious about this also, I have 2 hatched 6/30 scheduled to go to their permanent loft this weekend. They have been peering out thru the bob wires and will probably get to the aviary soon. They really can't see much from the aviary. I think they will be ok. I could have sent them last weekend but I wanted them to gain a bit of confidence on the floor so they wouldn't be toO intimidated in their new home. They are going to the guy who sold me my first birds so I feel ok with that. Still hard to let them go -just don't want to overpopulate the loft.

 

[LamarshFish]

I'm curious about this also, I have 2 hatched 6/30 scheduled to go to their permanent loft this weekend. They have been peering out thru the bob wires and will probably get to the aviary soon. They really can't see much from the aviary. I think they will be ok. I could have sent them last weekend but I wanted them to gain a bit of confidence on the floor so they wouldn't be toO intimidated in their new home. They are going to the guy who sold me my first birds so I feel ok with that. Still hard to let them go -just don't want to overpopulate the loft.

Well at least you know where they'll go if they don't settle well to his loft! The guy's loft I'm trying to place these squeakers is almost 200 miles away. Not far for a well trained and conditioned homer, but I'd think way too far for a squeaker.

 

[LamarshFish]

Well, one hit the floor today.

 

[biophiliac]

I look forward to those milestones.

You could cover the sides of your aviary w-cardboard just temporarily if you're really worried about it.

 

[Hokum Coco]

What are all of your thoughts on squeakers

Squeakers who have "NOT FLOWN OUTSIDE LOOSE" about the loft settle in in 2 to 3 weeks in my experience. Some fanciers even let them out earlier. Depending on how fast they trap train and adjust to the new flock and surroundings.​

 

[biophiliac]

Squeakers who have "NOT FLOWN LOOSE" about the loft settle in in 2 to 3 weeks in my experience. Some fanciers even let them out earlier. Depending on how fast they trap train and adjust to the new flock and surroundings.​

Thank you! I hoped that was the case.

 

[Hokum Coco]

Thank you! I hoped that was the case.

Oops! should have included "NOT FLOWN OUTSIDE LOOSE" about the loft settle in in 2 to 3 weeks in my experience.

 

[biophiliac]

Oops! should have included "NOT FLOWN OUTSIDE LOOSE" about the loft settle in in 2 to 3 weeks in my experience.

That is what I understood you to mean my friend.

 

[laughingdog]

With major racers I knew up north, and some homer keepers here, they've had closed lofts that.breeders and squeakers couldn't see out at all like sheds with vents along top of walls and grated or solid floors, and they've sold,/given away at three weeks or sooner depending on how fast sqeakerss feather in and seen eating n drinking in nest boxes closed off also, and some of those soon later learning to fly at new loft, somehow found way home from fifty to couple hundred miles away or more. Most homers before six months I've seen easy to resettle even if lown only around loft some for weeks. Ive seen good homer blood up north not able to be resettled like that at/after two weeks, and so some swap eggs with a foster they get, so know birds will grow up in there loft. My lil colored homer walked home to new loft across city with broken wing, to buddy that had just bought it a week or month before never letting out before it took off as let out with old birds also bought at that time, after being gone a week. It walked hiho across city to new home.. but old bird pair (year and a half male and year old female, baby was maybe three weeks just toddling around not flying yet) and had paired up (supposedly breeder kept sexes separate when caged until decided adult quality to show sell breed) at his house it open sided coop with the baby in with them that was tormented by the male as they began nesting. An older fellow however that sells old blood of white Belgium racing blood however raises in barn never letting any out as original breeder he got from brought over seas and has passed away, and birds he sells older not squeaking and already flying, have came back to him from over three states routinely, to six away (he said used to sell one to three hundred sometimes for lot of money, to fliers and days even later the birds were on his barn, so says if buying a hundred to breed for white dove release, keep n breed them because if your too "loose lofted" to release them all after a day or before six months even, before you've bred young from, you can buy them back.. and people have!). So I guess it's a gamble depending on how long they settle there, and their blood instinct, because I don't think it's always depending on them seeing/ being/flying outside loft.