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Quiff Wichard
21-01-15, 11:25 AM
Made me laugh anyway . Even though it's a sad thing for the male chicks
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Littlepeahead
21-01-15, 12:11 PM
Here's your choice:
1) Live in a tiny cage your whole life being expected to lay an egg a day
2) Live in a cramped barn until you are a few weeks old then get ducked in a bath of water through which an electrical current will be run to stun you before they chop your head off
3) Have someone look at your bum when you are a day old, and if they discover you are male, they bung you in the deep freeze to be used as ferret or snake food
It's not a great life being a chicken is it?
Quiff Wichard
21-01-15, 12:40 PM
Nope .... and we eat it ! And encourage it .... well some of us do ..
Jayneflakes
21-01-15, 12:54 PM
Here's your choice:
3) Have someone look at your bum when you are a day old, and if they discover you are male, they bung you in the deep freeze to be used as ferret or snake food
It's not a great life being a chicken is it?
You forgot Falconry food. Our Alby has two chicks per day and we buy a box of 200 at a time. I feel guilty now. :(
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Quiff Wichard
22-01-15, 12:45 PM
ALBY don't look very guilty
Xena was raised on day old chick meat too! ew
http://www.reptilecentre.com/frozen-chicks-25-pack-3545g_p4023052.htm#.VMDzFixJ2uA
Why would he. He is also out of his natural habitat. Being spoon fed instead of having to hunt...
Sorry but wild animals should be wild....
chris8886
22-01-15, 05:53 PM
Why would he. He is also out of his natural habitat. Being spoon fed instead of having to hunt...
Sorry but wild animals should be wild....
but if they're born in captivity, it is highly unlikely that they would survive in the wild as they would probably not know how to hunt properly for themselves. so then they would just die of starvation. I understand where you're coming from, but when there are animals born like this in captivity it is best that they stay in captivity. if we're talking about birds of prey that is.
I'd eat the owl.
Much more meat on it.
chris8886
22-01-15, 06:05 PM
I'd eat the owl.
Much more meat on it.
not really there isn't, they're pretty much all feathers. my mates one weighs in at less than a pound when it's on it's flying weight (if I remember correctly).
I'll stick to hedgehogs then.
They're much easier to catch anyway:)
chris8886
22-01-15, 06:21 PM
I'll stick to hedgehogs then.
They're much easier to catch anyway:)
quite right, they are, lol.
Littlepeahead
22-01-15, 07:57 PM
If that hawk doesn't catch anything when we go out on Saturday I'll be most disappointed. I expect a rabbit at least.
chris8886
22-01-15, 11:21 PM
If that hawk doesn't catch anything when we go out on Saturday I'll be most disappointed. I expect a rabbit at least.
well make sure you tell grant that and he shall bring the better hunting pair then, rather than the pair that fly better from tree to tree and down to the glove.
try and let him know asap, so he can try and prepare them (getting them to their hunting weights etc.) properly, so they'll perform at their best.
(getting them to their hunting weights etc.)
is that like balancing a wheel? little clip on weights on each leg so they can fly straight?
Saw a thing on QI about this it was well...... quite interesting.
Apparently it's a very hard to learn skill and the best chicken sexers earn mega bucks.
Amadeus
23-01-15, 11:44 AM
Saw a thing on QI about this it was well...... quite interesting.
Apparently it's a very hard to learn skill and the best chicken sexers earn mega bucks.
Surely you could tell them that you can do it, by the time they find out you're just guessing randomly, you've made a stack of money?
is that like balancing a wheel? little clip on weights on each leg so they can fly straight?
I chuckled :cool:
Surely you could tell them that you can do it, by the time they find out you're just guessing randomly, you've made a stack of money?
I've been doing that with my job for years so I can't see why not.
chris8886
23-01-15, 08:22 PM
is that like balancing a wheel? little clip on weights on each leg so they can fly straight?
no, lol. with birds of prey, their weight differs every day. it depends on how much food the eat the day before and if you are flying them or whether they are in an aviary. too much food and they won't fly back to glove or will at least be very slow in their response (because if they are not hungry, so why would they fly?) and just an ounce too heavy or too light can make all the difference!
Jayneflakes
24-01-15, 06:13 PM
We don't need to worry about flight weight for Alby because she is disabled.
One of her wings was broken when she was a chick and it had healed when we got her, but the healing was not perfect and her wing does not work properly.
So she is a fat bird who sits on the sofa all day, occasionally drops a really noxious fart and complains for food when she is hungry. This makes her the perfect pet for me! :thumbsup:
We don't need to worry about flight weight for Alby because she is disabled.
One of her wings was broken when she was a chick and it had healed when we got her, but the healing was not perfect and her wing does not work properly.
So she is a fat bird who sits on the sofa all day, occasionally drops a really noxious fart and complains for food when she is hungry. This makes her the perfect pet for me! :thumbsup:
I definitely dated her once.
chris8886
24-01-15, 09:49 PM
We don't need to worry about flight weight for Alby because she is disabled.
One of her wings was broken when she was a chick and it had healed when we got her, but the healing was not perfect and her wing does not work properly.
So she is a fat bird who sits on the sofa all day, occasionally drops a really noxious fart and complains for food when she is hungry. This makes her the perfect pet for me! :thumbsup:
poor bird! so is she an imprint then?
Littlepeahead
24-01-15, 11:05 PM
http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/24/8cc18f46364b0e312dd3343959ccedb4.jpg
Yummy snack!
Jayne will enjoy my 'Photo a day thread' posting today.
missyburd
26-01-15, 06:15 PM
You forgot Falconry food. Our Alby has two chicks per day and we buy a box of 200 at a time. I feel guilty now. :(
#shudder# i remember the days when I had to unpack boxes of 200 when I worked at a petshop, to split them into more saleable bags of 10...separating contorted frozen chicks ain't easy, I can't imagine sexing them as newborns is either :pale:
Jayneflakes
26-01-15, 06:59 PM
poor bird! so is she an imprint then?
She came from a breeder who was rather out of date sadly, he was using not only the wrong size hatchling basket, but it was made of wire mesh and it was this that broke her wing as she was trampled by her siblings. She could not have been than a couple of days out of the egg when it happened. She is imprinted, but this just means that we are mummy. In particular, she is really bonded to my wifey and loves her like no other. Every breeding season now she gets so possessive of wifey that not even I can go near her in Alby's room.
Yes, you read that right. Room! Alby did not enjoy an outside aviary and got lonely rather quickly, having been hand reared. This resulted in her spending a lot of time inside and eventually we gave her a space in our ground floor flat next to the back door. During the summer she can go out as she pleases when we are about. Being a non flyer means that she is the most free captive bred owl, we do not have to worry about her flying away and starving and if we are outside, she will come to look for Wifey.
Jayne will enjoy my 'Photo a day thread' posting today.
What a beautiful animal.
I was lucky enough to work in a school that had an ecologist staff member who was involved in the captive breeding of rare birds of prey. As a result I was able to hand rear a pair of Merlins, got to play with a Peregrine called Buffy and was adored by a hybrid Gyr - Saker who would fly across the class room every morning to play with me.
Willow (are you seeing a theme here?) was a magnificent bird and would sit on my shoulder as I worked in the lab. One morning she was playing and swooped on me, landing hard on my shoulder. The talons went into my shoulder and I had blood running down my back. Trying not to scream or wave my arms about was worth it because that bird just liked my company. Her owner rescued me, once he stopped laughing and she continued to play with me every day until she was too big to come to the classroom. I have a photo somewhere if anyone would like to see her?
chris8886
26-01-15, 08:06 PM
She came from a breeder who was rather out of date sadly, he was using not only the wrong size hatchling basket, but it was made of wire mesh and it was this that broke her wing as she was trampled by her siblings. She could not have been than a couple of days out of the egg when it happened. She is imprinted, but this just means that we are mummy. In particular, she is really bonded to my wifey and loves her like no other. Every breeding season now she gets so possessive of wifey that not even I can go near her in Alby's room.
Yes, you read that right. Room! Alby did not enjoy an outside aviary and got lonely rather quickly, having been hand reared. This resulted in her spending a lot of time inside and eventually we gave her a space in our ground floor flat next to the back door. During the summer she can go out as she pleases when we are about. Being a non flyer means that she is the most free captive bred owl, we do not have to worry about her flying away and starving and if we are outside, she will come to look for Wifey.
so she must scream pretty much all the time then in that case? tis why I like my owls to be parent reared (so they don't scream all the time and taken when it is then time of course).
Jayneflakes
27-01-15, 01:21 AM
so she must scream pretty much all the time then in that case? tis why I like my owls to be parent reared (so they don't scream all the time and taken when it is then time of course).
Ha haha, no not at all.
Currently she is sat on our bedroom door and is very peaceful. She has just woken up and is giving wifey the look that says cuddle time.
When we had her checked out by the vet for her wing, he could not believe how gentle she is or how placid her nature. He was all gloved up expecting to be pecked and bitten and what she did was jump on his hand from the carry box and wait to be tickled behind the ear.
The most noise she makes is when she is really hungry and then she give one sharp call. The rest of the time it is small twitters which are unbelievably sweet. We do get the occasional wiffle when she is grooming too.
Having seen how other Barn Owls are even with trusted owners, I have come to the conclusion that we are so lucky with out little girl. She is beautiful, gentle and when sits on her perch while we work on the bikes, all of our neighbours stop to say hello to her.
When it is breeding season, she will be very possessive over wifey! :love:
Oh, she has gone back to sleep again, she sleeps more than the cat and both of them are currently fast asleep in our bedroom! Wifey wont let me buy the pets a pea green boat and set them off together in the Bristol channel! :smt103
BernardBikerchick
28-01-15, 12:37 PM
me pick me i want to do it !!!
missyburd
28-01-15, 09:14 PM
I have a photo somewhere if anyone would like to see her?
Yuss please :) Hand rearing Merlins, amazing! I'm yet to handle a Merlin, my bird ringing has led to me ring a Red Kite chick, a Hen Harrier chick, a Sparrowhawk and Barn Owls (!) but plenty more bird species to go at! :)
Jayneflakes
28-01-15, 10:28 PM
Yuss please :) Hand rearing Merlins, amazing! I'm yet to handle a Merlin, my bird ringing has led to me ring a Red Kite chick, a Hen Harrier chick, a Sparrowhawk and Barn Owls (!) but plenty more bird species to go at! :)
OK, you asked. Be prepared for a cute over load!
This is a bundle of sleeping baby Merlins.
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Grown up they look like this.
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Meet Willow the Gyr-Saker Falcon hybrid
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There you go, I miss those days, back when I was young, thin and had a working body! :rolleyes:
missyburd
29-01-15, 01:54 PM
Gorgeous pics Jayne! Thanks for sharing :)
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